Hell nobody cares.We have elected a commie lover to the highest office in the land twice.

You dare not question a black Demi-god.

Whatever other things Rosa Parks did in her life does not negate her justifiable defiance when she held her seat on the bus. She will always be symbolic of the advancement of the civil rights of black Americans.

If I want to see a real symbol of the civil rights movement for black Americans - I can go visit Arlington National Cemetery and visit the grave of Medger Evers.

Stupid me. I always thought Rosa Parks was a young woman who got frustrated one day and refused to give up her seat on a bus. Now I realize this was something taught and probably staged.

Does anyone do the right thing simply because it´s the right thing anymore?

A teenager named Claudette Colvin did the same thing 9 months before Mrs. Parks. But the Montgomery Improvement Association decided to make Mrs. Parks their test case. Miss Colvin was not a genteel woman like Mrs. Parks. She had a son out of wedlock and some teen attitude. It´s only recently that her story has been told.

Seriously, who cares? No one should be treated the way african americans were.

Imagine going off to war and then coming back to nthe US and told you can´t vote. Your kids have to go to sub standard schools.

This author is concerned with the Communist Party 50-60 years ago? Really? Don´t look at the firehoses used on Civil Rights protesters, the church bombings, lynchings.

Like #5, I have always lived under the misconception that Ms. Parks was just some "innocent" who one day, on a bus, mustered the courage to demand her rights. Part of that is true and certainly to be admired. The untold story is that she was also affiliated with the Communist Party and attended activist training sessions on Alinsky like tactics. But then, I have always been a sucker for the "other side of the story".

Um, #7, up until the early 70´s a lot of white kids also went off to war ( drafted ) and came home to be told they couldn´t vote.

I can´t fault Rosa Parks for looking into communism when blacks in those days faced such fearful oppression. Communism would certainly look like a step up.

#9, yeah, and we changed the voting age, too.

#7 - the people behind those firehoses, bombings, etc are Democrats amd whose political decendants (including many former civil rights leaders such as as Rep John Lewis) now parade around the country as if they were always in favor civil rights for black Americans.

But seriously, who really cares in the Age of Obama.

What is this, 1949? Who cares whether Rosa Parks (or anyone else) went to communist meetings back when. Ms. Parks is dead. So is Communism. One made a small contribution to curing the world´s ills. The other made a huge contribution to causing them.

In the words of the late Gomer Pyle, surprise, surprise, surprise!

I don´t want people entering our nation illegally and stealing benefits from taxpayers. But I don´t ever fault people who are desperate to make life better for themselves and their children.

I also cut a bit of slack for blacks who, in the days of segregation and vicious racism, looked left for help. We don´t ask Jews to "get over" the holocaust; we shouldn´t expect blacks to "get over" their history, either. I just wish they would make the connection to the modern Democrat plantation of government induced (and reproducing) poverty, as well as the holocaust of aborted black babies.

And #6 is correct - the story of Claudette Colvin has finally been told in an award-winning book for children, no less. "Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose.

Ramona (the Pest)

#2...that´s my mindset, particularly when those doing the questioning seek to tie my folks to communism, a scourge not created by Black folks, but certainly peddled to them in this country and in Africa by the writers, parents of the writers, and friends and parents of the friends at American Thinker, etc...want to know about peddling communism during the 50´s and 60´s among African Americans or more recently during the late 60´s and 70´s? Ask demi-god David Horowitz and his ilk who were actively involved and now are allegedly the conservative scholars of note...

I understood at the time that she was an "old woman" who, after a day of hard work simply wanted to rest her feet and decided that the nearest seat was the place to do it. In other words, she wasn´t a black activist, but rather someone who sat down from physical need and then took the principle that she had a right to rest in the nearest seat.

MLK was also associated with the Communist Party, according to the Herbert Hoover files.

Whether she was justified in looking to the Communist Party for help is a separate issue from this new information that she was a black activist plant, and the public was deliberately misled about the story.

#16 I´m sorry there are still so many bigots in this country. Semper Fi