How brave would you have been?

[jcgirl]

Today is a day of celebration and rememberance.

On this day in 1955, a courageous, young woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. Its a day to think back and realize how far or how little we have achieved in the last 45 yrs. Now tell me, if you had been in Rosa Park's position on Dec 1st 1955....how brave would you have been?

 

[Ambrosious]

She was just being lazy.

 

[Shylady]

ambrosious that will get you flamed for sure.....
jc i know i wouldn't be that brave at all

 

[Ambrosious]

Post a flippant response. They will flame. I don't care...flame away. I can't wait til some joker calls me racist.

 

[Shylady]

grin ambrosious now why did i think you would say that?

 

[Cheyenne]

She was just being lazy.

But how lazy would be the guy who wanted her seat instead of her?

(I should know this, just for the sack of argument, assume it was a white guy.)

 

[Ksss]

I don't think I would have been nearly as brave as Rosa Park's was. Being a minority myself, we all bleed the same color blood, we all have the same neccesary organs to live and breath, the only difference is our outside wrapping paper is different.

 

[Southernhelle]

haha, ambrosious..my masturbating roommate and Rosa Parks have something in common, eh?

heh..

 

[Ambrosious]

I would reply, but I'm just being lazy.

 

[Easy Boy]

I just can't be flippant about this.

She was just being lazy.

Try 'tired'. She worked as a maid, for white people, of course. Had a bad day, and just wanted to rest her legs. Even said so, when challenged by the driver. And she wasn't taking a seat away from anyone else. There were empty seats in the front of the bus, but not in the 'colored' section at the rear.

And no, I don't think I'd have been so brave. Kudos to Rosa Parks, and to all the bus boycotters in Montgomery. They spent over a year car-pooling, walking, and being threatened. It was a badly-needed wakeup call for the rest of us.

 

[DriveSouth]

"Thank you Miss Rosa, you are the spark.
You started our freedom movement, thank you sister Rosa Parks." -

The Neville Brothers

 

[jcgirl]

I just don't know

Thanks guys for your honesty. I dont think I would be courageous enough either.

 

[Bushido71XS]

I probably would've gotten my ass beat, then strung up somewhere. Given the time and place the incident took place.

 

[TN_Vixen]

really sad that anyone can find anything flippant about such an unbelievably courageous act.

 

[Cheri]

Did anyone see Spike Lee's documentary 4 Little Girls on HBO? It really helped me understand how courageous civil rights protesters were. I mean come on, there were tons of children marching in Montogomery. Now that is a courageous act for the kids but also their parents as well.

 

[Chuckus]

how brave would you have been?

I would have been strung up by my toe nails probably and then drug thru the town.........