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She was someone who changed America for the better. She will be missed.


there are many great civil rights leaders who did many great things. there are those who faced dogs and the police with powerful fire hoses. those who faced death threats and beatings.

this women didn't get up from her seat because she was tired. that's it. she's not a hero, she was just feeling lazy and stubborn.



There's liberal, and then there's senseless.

Those remarks fall in the latter.


i love how we can spend hours upon hours questioning the motives of political leaders on every little thing, how there are threads devoted to bitching about celebrities just want fame for donating time and money to charity, but an old woman who even said she was tired and didn't feel like moving is beyond reproach.

she didn't go and march and fight the dogs and hoses. she didn't rally a cause.
all the woman did was say she was too tired and didn't feel like standing up. and then she got stubborn and reacted out of pride.
that's it.



Just because she was not aware, in the moment, what role she would play in history does not mean that we're permitted to denigrate that role as it is now seen in the light of that history.

And she did rally a cause, even if it was completely unintentional. That does not belittle her actions.

Lincoln didn't participate in beginnings of the Civil War to free the slaves either. But he ended up doing that. Martin Luther King Jr. knew Lincoln's role in the history of civil rights even if Lincoln didn't in that moment.

We all wear a green carnation.