Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Dies at 92

I wonder how she felt when she saw the segregation in New Orleans. It's a never ending upstream battle for sure.

Hopefully the New Orleans scenes and publicity surrounding Rosa Park's death can stir up some proper awareness of lingering civil rights issues. The eulogies and retrospective may make her a real person again instead of a cariacture from the past. Well... that's my off the cuff impression of the relevance of a person like Rosa Parks in today's day and age and I'm no civil rights scholar... just some dude walking down the street.

On a similar thread of thought (civil rights), I was really disappointed to find out that the Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro, NC continues to be derailed by one issue or another. That would be where the 1960's Woolworth's lunch counter sit-ins took place to spark the large scale civil rights movement.

I lived in Greensboro, NC for the summer of 1996 and I walked past a run down old Woolworth's that looked basically condemned. There was still a lunch counter in there though and that was about all you could spot through the dirty cloudy glass. There was either a sign on the window or outside the building that identified it as the site of the 1960's lunch counter sit-in, but that was about it.

It was really surprising to see so little reverence paid to such a place, especially considering that the city seems to be proud to mention its place in history in their visitor's information pieces. I just did some research online and found that there have been repeated plans to turn that site into a museum ever since the Woolworth's there closed down in 1993, but it's 12 years later now and there's no museum yet.

I found a small pic online of the Woolworth's taken in 1994 after its closing. It was in far worse shape when I saw it in 96.

Hmmm.... So the lady that would not ride in the back of the bus just "got off the bus."

I am so going to hell.

Have a nice day!

Ron

May she rest in peace. I'm amazed that in this day and age that racism and civil rights violations still exist. On a related note, George Lucas Donates $1M for MLK Memorial, http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireSt...TC-RSSFeeds0312.

They still exist probably for many of the same reasons sexism exists. If we could figure all of it out, we'd have the cure to many of the world's ills.

It's a sad day. May she never be forgotten.

I still can't believe any man would take the seat from a woman, white or black. How would you like to meet that white man? I would and it would not be pretty.

We really live in a great area but it wasn't always so. I have lost relatives to the police and the sheriffs. They used to regularly take mexicans behind service stations or some place shielded to beat on them while handcuffed. I met my neighbor's father, an ex san jose cop, and he bragged to me how he used to beat on mexicans for the hell of it. I am american-mexican, born in San Jose. He was an ignorant bigot and I wasn't going to change him.

I have visited many places and really been told I am not welcome. From El Toro, Ca to Texas, I have been asked to leave. I speak excellent english, have a masters from UCLA, dress appropriately (I think), and still it happens.

Lastly, I have a black roommate and you should see what attention we draw anywhere we go. I feel so sorry for him because his only thing he is judged on is the color of his skin. And this is in the bay area, the most liberal place I know.

I know there are great people out there. I have met them. But there is a small minority that think people of color want something different. They are wrong. All we all want is to be welcomed, respected and given a chance to make a fool of ourselves. All of us do it, regardless of color.

that is really sad, joe. i'm just shaking my head to that kind of "logic". i realize racism still exists, but to me, we're all the same -- human, and we should all be treated with respect and given the same opportunities. i'm a bit biased as i was born and raised in the Bay Area -- it's definitely rubbed off.

even more tragic and inane is racism within a race -- gangs are largely killing each other -- blacks against blacks, mexicans against mexicans. and then you've got people all over the world, like in the middle east, who are killing each other in the name of religion. how sad.