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Previously on "A small piece of history, with a big impact on society"
Interesting little document that shows how tyranny rests on the shoulders of petty little people with petty little minds and petty little jobs who just enforce petty little regulations without questioning the sense of what they're doing.
Interesting little document that shows how tyranny rests on the shoulders of petty little people with petty little minds and petty little jobs who just enforce petty little regulations without questioning the sense of what they're doing.
IIRC there was another similar case a few months before Rosa Parks, but as the black woman involved was a drug addicted prostitute, the civil rights movement decided her case wasn't the one that they wanted to publicise. Which says something about prejudice.
Interesting little document that shows how tyranny rests on the shoulders of petty little people with petty little minds and petty little jobs who just enforce petty little regulations without questioning the sense of what they're doing.
Backed up by billions of taxpayer funds, and huge armies and police forces etc, which is of course the real tyranny - the unquestioning obedience.
I remember seeing similar for real in South Africa many years ago where buses had whites only and blacks only sections, where the post office had separate entrances, etc. Disgusting...
Interesting little document that shows how tyranny rests on the shoulders of petty little people with petty little minds and petty little jobs who just enforce petty little regulations without questioning the sense of what they're doing.
The arrest wasn't even correct as she wasn't in the white part of the bus
She was in the front row of colored seats. However the number of colored seats depended on the number of white people on the bus and would shrink as the white section increased once all the "white" rows had been filled... Hence 1 additional white person on the bus meant Rosa was now in the wrong section...
Supposedly she had been planning the protest for a while.
The arrest wasn't even correct as she wasn't in the white part of the bus
Parks was charged with a violation of Chapter 6, Section 11 segregation law of the Montgomery City code,[24] although technically she had not taken a white-only seat; she had been in a colored section.[25] Edgar Nixon, president of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP and leader of the Pullman Porters Union, and her friend Clifford Durr bailed Parks out of jail the next evening.[26]
Last edited by northernladuk; 2 December 2013, 23:25.
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