Saturday, August 21, 2010

Later For Rosa Parks • Teach Your Children To Respect Cynthia McKinney

3 comments:

nicki nicki tembo said...

Absolutely! The sistah got my vote in the 2008 presidential race.

John Ali said...

Yes sir! I voted for her in the 2008 Presidential (s)election. I knew she wasn't going to be selected, but I did anyway, haha

makheru bradley said...

The High Priest of Fragmentation, His Majesty Dr. Bacon-Bey is back on his game.

McKinney co-sponsored issuing a commemorative postage stamp of Rosa Parks

EXCERPTS OF RESOLUTION:

Whereas in 1955, Rosa Parks's quiet, courageous act changed the United States and its view of African Americans, and redirected the course of history;

Whereas at that time, in Montgomery, Alabama, as in other cities in the Deep South, the treatment of African Americans on public buses had long been a source of resentment within the African American community;

Whereas White busdrivers, who were invested with police powers, frequently harassed African Americans;

Whereas on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks took her seat in the front of the 'Colored' section of a Montgomery bus, but was asked, along with 3 other African Americans, to relinquish her seat to a White passenger;

Whereas although the 3 other African American passengers relinquished their seats, Rosa Parks refused to do so, and was arrested for that refusal;

Whereas because Rosa Parks's act of disobedience launched the Montgomery bus boycott, which lasted for 381 days and propelled the civil rights movement into the national consciousness, she is widely known as the mother of the civil rights movement; and

Now, therefore, be it Resolved that it is the sense of Congress that the United States Postal Service should issue a commemorative postage stamp honoring the late Rosa Parks.