Kilmar coming back
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Anonymous
Claudette Colvin. Before Rosa Parks there was a young black teenager named Claudette Colvin that refused to get off a bus. She was also pregnant and not as presentable as Rosa Parks. So they made Rosa Parks the poster child for the movement. The Civil Rights movement run by the likes of MLK deliberately passed on Claudette Colvin to make Rosa Parks their standard bearer. Claudette Colvin was brave at a time when bravery was extremely dangerous. And they couldn't use her because she undermined their argument. Kilmar undermines your armguent much more than Claudette did and you cling to him like he is the only person whose rights have been infringed. It's not that Kilmar is no Rosa Parks, he isn't even a Claudette Colvin. If the breach and abuse is as systematic and widespread as you seem to think, then find yourself a Rosa Parks, or at the very least a Claudette Colvin. Wasn't there some young korean girl that was being chased by the full force of the US Government until a court told them to knock it off? It doesn't have to be a dude, they don't have to be hispanic. It doesn't have to be a guy that had a restraining order for domestic abuse and alleged ties to MS-13. |
Anonymous
If you're going to hijack the black civil rights experience in order to make some snide point, you should at least get your facts straight. First of all, "the likes of MLK" didn't deliberately pass on Claudette. The Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, of which Rosa Parks was a secretary, did that. Claudette was well-known to that chapter because she was member of NAACP's Youth Council. You are correct that Claudette wasn't chosen to be the public face of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, but the fact that she was dark-skinned and outspoken were bigger strikes against her than being unmarried and pregnant. Also passed over in favor of the fair-skinned and reserved Rosa with "good hair" were Susie McDonald, Mary Louise Smith, and Aurelia Browder, all of whom sat in the whites-only before Rosa did. Rosa's protest, like Jeanetta Reese's, were as staged as a Broadway production when they happened on December 1, 1955. King, who was affiliated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, wasn't brought into the boycott until five days after Rosa's sit down. Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, an English professor at Alabama State, convinced her organization, the Women's Political Council, that a one-day boycott should be their protest. (Aurelia was a student of Robinson. News of Rosa's arrest really set Robinson off.) The Montgomery Improvement Association caught wind of the idea but wanted the boycott to last much longer than twenty-four hours. MIA asked Robinson to spearhead it, but she declined. King was the MIA's third choice. As for Claudette, Susie, Mary Louise, and Aurelia, the NAACP did them a solid. NAACP's attorneys filed a lawsuit with them as named plaintiffs. On December 17, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the city's appeal after it lost at trial, thus ending segregation on Montgomery city transportation and the boycott. All of this is to say that black folks know that white people demand that black victims be perfect to be taken seriously -- and even then, it's no guarantee. I guess that's the whole point for your comment: Go find a cute little Asian girl. We'll pretend to listen to her. If that's what you're getting at -- and yeah, it is -- that doesn't say very much about your character (which I'm allowed to judge, remember?) |
Anonymous
That's a lot of words to say you basically agree with me but you're upset that cute little Korean Columbia student is a better front man for your cause than a wife beater with a questionable past. And I don't think it says anything about my character. I do think it says something about YOUR character that attack the character of people that say things you don't even disagree with but you dislike hearing. |