How moving and fitting — and how American — to see Rosa Parks’ coffin in a place of honor in the Capitol rotunda. The seamstress whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus sparked the civil rights movement received the same honored place as presidents Lincoln and Kennedy and other national icons.
It’s an inspiring reminder that ordinary citizens can be great leaders in this country.
“She was a citizen in the best sense of the word,” said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. “She caused things to happen in our society that made us a better, more caring, more just society.”
Posted by Randy Scholfield
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Notice the sound of silence on Rosa’s heroism from the right.
They’re still not sure she wasn’t a communist, like they said at the time . . .
Galahad, you really think you’re clever, don’t you? Just because no one comments, you immediately assume that people on the “right” have a hidden agenda. Perhaps no one has commented because they all have RESPECT for Rosa Parks and for all she has done for this society!
Rosa Parks was a very courageous woman — at the time of her protest, she was simply a tired woman who didn’t feel compelled to give up her seat because some able bodied white man said so! Good for her! Rosa Parks was a very gracious woman who kept her composure during the very worst of circumstances.As a white person who primarily grew up AFTER Jim Crowe, I can only imagine what it must have been like for African Americans to live with such prejudice back in then… It must have been horrible…..I wonder if it felt anything like it does now to be a conservative Christian on this blog site…