Rosa Parks

JRMILLER · Post by **JRMILLER** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:07 pm

My wife made a comment to me last night, that I am like Rosa Parks in that I want to do something that taboo in our culture, but I am willing to stick my neck out and do it anyway. I consider that a high compliment, we are making progress.

Rosa had a much more difficult hill to climb that I do, but it's still a hill and I am honored to be thought of that way.

Departed Member · Post by **Departed Member** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:42 pm

Come on, then! Who's "Rosa Parks"? Never heard of the lady, I'm afraid!

Post by **Bob** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:47 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

I think it's important to realize that Rosa Parks did not act alone, nor was she the first person to engage in civil disobedience over bus segregation laws. She WAS the chosen test case by the leaders of the civil rights movement --- the person whom they would fully back with funds, lawyers and mass protests when she DID get arrested. She was seen as the best person for that purpose, in the pursuit of overturning an unjust law.

The civil rights movement was well organized and highly disciplined. This is described in more detail in the Wikipedia article.

Departed Member · Post by **Departed Member** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:11 pm

Ah! So, this is a political issue, right? Rather difficult for those of us in the UK to comprehend, I'm afraid. It would have been interesting to have sought Ziggy's views coming, as he claimed, from South Africa, as the (similar?) situation there was much more recent.

sapphire · Post by **sapphire** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:25 pm

Now, now, Merlin.......

JRMILLER receieved some words of praise from his wife. She compared him to a pioneer in a great social movement.

I don't know if you recall when JR joined the community, but his wife was adamantly against his skirt wearing. Now she is being supportive.

All of us in support of skirt wearing by men should be celebrating with JR this positive step forward in his life and his relationship.

Departed Member · Post by **Departed Member** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:36 am

sapphire wrote: I don't know if you recall when JR joined the community, but his wife was adamantly against his skirt wearing. Now she is being supportive.

All of us in support of skirt wearing by men should be celebrating with JR this positive step forward in his life and his relationship.

I do indeed! JR is most fortunate - it is the analogy that was obscure!

AMM · Post by **AMM** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:57 pm

merlin wrote:Ah! So, this is a political issue, right?

50 years ago Rosa Parks would have been a controversial political figure, and would have indeed fallen under the SkirtCafe "no politics" rule. I recall that when I was a child (the 1960's), Martin Luther King, Jr. was seen by many as a threat to American democracy.

Since then, society has moved on and found new things to bash heads in over, what they struggled for is now seen as obvious by all but the lunatic fringe, and her image has been transformed from Dangerous Subversive to canonized saint.

For this reason, mention of Rosa Parks no longer counts as "political discussion," any more than quotes from M.L.K.Jr.