Cindy Sheehan Is No Rosa Parks
Seeing how “parroting” is part of the liberal pattern for disseminating information, let it suffice to say I am quite tired of hearing Cindy Sheehan being referred to as the “Rosa Parks” of the anti-war movement.
What Mrs. Parks did was noble and took the textbook definition of courage. What Mrs. Sheehan is doing is prolonging her 15 minutes of fame in the name of her fallen war hero son.
“In 1955 Parks was forty-two years old, and she had taken to protesting segregation in her own quiet way – for instance, by walking up the stairs of a building rather than riding in an elevator marked “blacks only.” She was well respected in the black community for her work with the Montgomery Voters League as well as the NAACP. The Voters League was a group that helped black citizens pass the various tests that had been set up to make it difficult for them to register as voters.”
Mrs. Sheehan was granted an interview with the President of the United States. Some foreign dignitaries have to book a meeting months in advance. I’d guess that Mrs. Sheehan was bumped to the front of any line, showing her the respect she then deserved. However, just because SHE now expects the President to drop everything just to see her shows an arrogance and selfishness that typifies liberal behavior.
Also, should she meet with the George W. Bush, will she accept a private meeting, or will she demand a public display where her originality-challenged supporters will be chanting decades old slogans tweaked so they at least rhyme, even though they may make no sense?
“As well as avoiding black-only elevators, Parks often avoided traveling by bus, preferring to walk home from work when she was not too tired to do so. The buses were a constant irritation to all black passengers. The front four rows were reserved for whites (and remained empty even when there were not enough white passengers to fill them). The back section, which was always very crowded, was for black passengers. In between were some rows that were really part of the black section, but served as an overflow area for white passengers. If the white section was full, black passengers in the middle section had to vacate their seats–a whole row had to be vacated, even if only one white passenger required a seat.”
Cindy Sheehan has suffered no inconvenience that isn’t of her own initiation. In fact, with all the supporters and sympathetic media on hand, there will be no creature comfort Cindy Sheehan will be denied.
“This is what happened on the evening of December l, 1955: Parks took the bus because she was feeling particularly tired after a long day in the department store where she worked as a seamstress. She was sitting in the middle section, glad to be off her feet at last, when a white man boarded the bus and demanded that her row be cleared because the white section was full. The others in the row obediently moved to the back of the bus, but Parks just didn’t feel like standing for the rest of the journey, and she quietly refused to move.
At this, the white bus driver threatened to call the police unless Parks gave her up her seat, but she calmly replied, “Go ahead and call them.” By the time the police arrived, the driver was very angry, and when asked whether he wanted Parks to be arrested or let off with a warning, he insisted on arrest. So this respectable, middle-aged woman was taken to the police station, where she was fingerprinted and jailed. She was allowed to make one phone call. She called an NAACP lawyer, who arranged for her to be released on bail.”
Unless she does something totally irrational, Cindy Sheehan is probably the last person in America that will be arrested. And again, if she is it’ll be because she really wants to be. Fits in with that “Look at ME!” mindset. Rosa Parks was making a political statement that was complete with physical risks. Cindy Sheehan will be afforded, should she subject herself to arrest (Mrs. Parks had no choice), the nicest private cell in the block.
Because of Mrs. Parks’ arrest, a very costly boycott of the bus company ensued and lasted for 382 days. Unless there is an infusion of capital for the usual liberal free-loaders, the Cindy Sheehan-Crawford sit-in may last another couple of weeks, tops.
“Parks was fined for failing to obey a city ordinance, but on the advice of her lawyers she refused to pay the fine so that they could challenge the segregation law in court. The following year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Montgomery segregation law illegal, and the boycott was at last called off. Yet Parks had started far more than a bus boycott.”
The Glass Ceiling
I’ve said many times how little liberals respect black people as they constantly use blacks whenever they can to legitimize their little hissyfits turned causes.
Placing Cindy Sheehan in the same league with Rosa Parks is an insult to the hundreds, if not thousands of blacks who have died before and after segregation. Mrs. Parks took an action and made a symbolic statement without the watchful and adoring eye of the media. If one wants to throw around the word “courage”, let’s do it:
Mrs. Parks could have been killed for what she did. Cindy Sheehan has movie stars adoring her.
Cindy Sheehan is no Rosa Parks. There is no comparison.
