Re: [ot] RIP Rosa Parks...

Stuart Grey wrote: 
Sue wrote:

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:36:38 -0700, Offbreed
<offbreed_106@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Stuart Grey wrote:

Offbreed wrote:


$24 fine today.



Again, not much.


It is if you are not making much, and I think we can assume someone riding the bus did not.

I'd be surprised if someone making minimum wage clears $24 a day, after taxes and normal expenses, even if she was a cheapskate.



She was a woman and she was black. That's all Stuart needs to know in
order for him to determine that what she did was no big deal. 


Lets see... what DID she do.

Some white guy expected her to get up and give him her seat on the bus due to some stupid Jim Crow law that said that she could sit in the middle of the bus as long as a white person didn't need the seat.

She didn't move.

Now, Audie Murphy charged Nazi machine gun nests, fought off a company of German infantry, and was the most decorated soldier in WW II.

Did Audie Murphy lie in state in the Capital? No.

Did Rosa Parks lie in state in the Capital? Yes. Only 28 people have lied in state in the capital before her.



Id reckon every politician ever to enter the state capital has lied , on the way their , while they were there and on the way home again ,politicians lie heaps and often, how do you figure only 28 people lied there ?

No way in hell is not giving up her seat on par with charging a nazi machine gun nests. or single handedly repulsing an advance by an armor reinforced infantry company. Sue's conclusion over my judgement call is that I must be a racist! And a sexist! A woman not giving up her seat is every bit as brave and couragous and heroic as the most decorated war vet in WW II.

From this I conclude, Sue is better off making smart ass quips and should avoid serious discussion. Not because Sue is a woman, but because Sue has no rational judgement if she thinks that repeatedly risking life and limb is on par with risking a $2 or even a $24 dollar fine and fingerprinting.

Even
one of the two would have allowed him to reach this conclusion.
Sue


Racist! SEXist! That's what the mindless cry when they find themselves supporting an idiot's position.

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