25 October 2005

There are many topics that I've been putting together in my head for posting, but the memorialization of an incredible woman takes precedent.
Despite Cedric The Entertainer's disingenuous words in Barbershop, Rosa Parks was the catalyst for a movement that altered the hearts, minds and history of an entire country forever.
She may not have been the only person fed up with Jim Crow laws and the general mindset of 1955/56, but she was the one responsible for initialising a cascading shift of thought that led to a bus boycott and eventually a Supreme Court decision!
Rosa Parks was a strong, black woman who deserves the respect and reverence that she has accrued over these long years of struggle.
92 years old...and what a legacy. Rest in peace.

"It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right." -- Henry David Thoreau

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

AMEN, my dog brotha..

1/11/05 07:29  
Blogger Lost Tortoise said...

Pump yo fist, young brother!
Free Huey!

1/11/05 08:33  

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