Rosa Parks takes the bus

[Cyrus]

First "celebrity death" I have really stopped and thought about in a long time.

What a fantasticly simple person.

[Arnfinn Madsen]

I had seriously never heard about her before today [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img], weird if she is so famous in the US.

umm, fantastically.

and yeah, she's a pretty big deal in america, but I guess I could see not knowing about her... I havent memorized heroes of the irish civil war.

[Beer and Pizza]

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umm, fantastically.

and yeah, she's a pretty big deal in america, but I guess I could see not knowing about her... I havent memorized heroes of the irish civil war.

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She is well known because she was used to integrate the buses, but she didn't do much of anything.

It was arranged ahead of time that she would refuse to leave her seat, and they knew no harm would come to her. She was just the lucky person picked to be the "symbol" of the bus boycott.

That puts her in the same category as Norma McCorvey (the Roe in Row v. Wade) who was used to advance the anti-abortion issue.

come on, you cant save this comment for some other time?

the woman died for gods sake.

yes, Im sure that "the coloreds" gaining equality is in the same arena as abortion legality in your mind, but for the sake of the rest of us, stfu

[Beer and Pizza]

There is nothing negative about my comment. I was just stating the facts. She was used as a pawn for a movement. Nothing wrong with that. I wouldn't mind being famous for being a "test case" for something without having to do anything. Nice gig if you can get it.

Our friends across the pond may not understand her role if we don't tell them. They will understand what being famous without doing anything means... since they have Charles, William, Harry..... [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[AngryCola]

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Exactly. She was 92 years old. Was this somehow unexpected?

[mackthefork]

I honestly think Arnfinn is in a small minority.

Mack