![]() Even many who know she wasn’t a simple seamstress still miscast her as a face of respectability politics - distorting her political beliefs, the suffering she endured, and the radicalism of the civil rights movement. Her courageous stand on a Montgomery bus in December 1955 is now American legend, yet her political voice and radicalism are still largely unrecognized. ![]() Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born 110 years ago today. They say we must be segregated from them by the color line, yet they pull the strings and we perform to their satisfaction or suffer the consequence if we get out of line.” To me it seems that we are puppets on the string in the white man’s hand. ![]() There is always a line of some kind - color line hanging rope tightrope. “Treading the tight-rope of Jim Crow from birth to death. ![]()
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