before his second term ended, no one else would get aboard.
Posted on 12/01/2012 2:42:18 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Today is the anniversary of Rosa Parks’ refusal to sit in the back of the bus in Montgomery, Ala. And this photograph of President Obama sitting on that exact same bus 57 years later is a poignant reminder of just how much America has changed in half a century.
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He’s just like a pimp, another street hustler trying to make
“the community” forget that slavery ever ended so his can mistreat them, abuse them, make them work for him, and never even think about giving him any backtalk.
symbolism over substance
Everything that goes through their heads is a fantasy, promoted by a combination of wierd PC history and the media.
Yes, he’s an elite product of expensive schools and a very comfortable upbringing. He has to fake his street cred with the homies, and they lap it right up.
I think that’s why I have a lingering sadness about the election. I feel like I’ve been torn out of the country I’ve known for all my life and dropped into one that’s totally alien.
I wish he was looking at a train coming down the tracks he was parked on.
“Rosa Parks represents individual initiative and responsibility and ethical behavior without the need for the support of big government.”
What most folks don’t know is that Rosa Parks did not spontaneously choose that seat on the bus of her own free will. She was chosen and carefully groomed by others for that “moment” in history.
To read the _real_ story about Ms. Parks, you need to do this:
- Open a google search page, then enter this text:
“a curious state of madness descended on the country on October 24”
She was about as bona fide as that guy sitting in the bus at the beginning of this thread.
Photo reminds me of the pictures of BillyJeff at Normandy back in 1994. Making a cross of rocks he “found†on the beach. All set up and staged for the idiot voters. Of which this nation has millions and millions. If the founders were alive today, they would be spinning in their graves. (that’s a pun for you literalist out there)
Which is why it is so fitting that a made for TV president honors her.
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