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Its sorta disgusting how none of you mentioned the death of Rosa Parks. Yea, the one who got it done on the bus... Seriously though, she was a big idol and figure for those who are pro-black rights.
So, tell me what you think about her. Do you think that what she did helped out black rights in the United States? Or do you think she's just one out of another couple million of hopless dissident voices in the world? (If you do you are a jerk big time)

I think she did a great thing. GJ Rosa Parks.

i say its important and not important.
1. she didnt invent anything to be a real hero
2. at that time any smart black person could just stand up for there rights.
3. martin luthor king jr. is a better idol than her becuace of his speeches.
4. she lived for a long time.
5. she just went to jail for breaking a simple crime back then, its like i went to jail for breaking the law of smuggling immigrants and then later in the future, they have rights as americans.

Rosa Parks was undoubtably one of the major forces behind the civil rights movement. There's no question that she helped African Americans gain their rights.

She was more of an inspiration than a hero.

She had no intentions of making a difference, she was just tired and wanted to sit down after a bad day at work.

I don't think she got up that morning and planned the thing out. I was spontaneous if you ask me. Thats why in my mind she's not as big of a hero as Dr.Matrin Luther King Jr. It still took guts to do what she did so I admire her for that.

i would do the same thing if i was freaking tired, not moving at all.

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oh yea! i also called that a whoops when you didnt really do nothing and you are in the headlines the next minite.

I think I agree with that to a certain point.


Yea, I'm sure she just got so sick of being treated so badly because of her skin, so she stood up for herself.

She was probably really pissed that she couldn't sit when she was tired and sat down.
Can you be a hero for that? No.

But you can be a hero for having the guts to do it and inspiring a whole bunch of other people to stand up for themselves. That's why she is a hero.

Living in Windsor. (Detroit's Neighbour city.) we have had news from her. She wasn't that tired, she wanted to stand up for her rights. She actually said this, and was quoted on it in my school paper about her.

I heard about it on the news and I agree it is sad and she was an american idol and all. However, I don't bother to announce it to the rest of SEN.

She was one of the very first african americans to stand up (or remain seated rather) against racial prejudice.

It doesn't matter what you would do in her situation. Things would have been different back then than they are today. She was famous for doing what not many people have ever done. She was a minority that fought the overwhelming majority of a nation and was recognized for it. Now she dies and all people can do is talk about how she wasn't important. If you don't think so, at least be respectful.

At that time were africans really the minority? If you have one farmer with a wife and 2 children say they could have around 30 slaves. If they're all like that it couldn't have been a minority by much.

But back then, they were treated like around 1/2 of a human. And only around 1/100 Americans owned that many slaves.

I honestly didn't know she died. It actually pisses me off, because I've been reading the news over again, and it looks like she got a tiny blurb in TIME. I mean, seriously, the media nowadays is too preoccupied with tabloid celebrity junk and glamour.

Ya a lot of ppl get mad about things and try to
do somthing about it but they arent called hero
s and i do think that it was spontaneous and
happen just cuz she was tired

I agree with this. When it started, she was simply tired of the laws and resisted them. She had no intention of causing headlines or starting any kind of movement. But in living by example, she inspired others to do what they felt was right regardless of consequence. She was remarkable for being the first to do a certain thing. She was a catalyst.

Meh. Just another dead person.

To me it was as simple as she didn't want to move and said so.
Not her fault everyone went nuts about it.

I think what Rosa Parks did was a good thing, started a movement in the civil rights but, I think she is over rated. She didn't do anything spectacular. She was just at the right placr at the right time. Could've happened to any person on any bus, just happened to be her.

Apple is using her for Adertisments! She didn't stay in her seat to do ads! She did it because she wanted to be a meanie!

I bet you wouldn't sit down if you were tired knowing that you could go to jail for it.

It took guts to stand up for something that wasn't right but it isn't that special.

Go back to africa.

For the record.

Rosa Parks only truly became, and this is fact, not opinion, the fuse for the civil rights movement because the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) choose her to be their symbol for the mistreatment that government allowed to exist, due to actions in the past that we should all know about: slavery. At the time, Rosa was working for the NAACP Montgomery Chapter as one of the few women; she was their secretary.

Now, with that said, consider this. What truly was the motive behind the Civil Rights movement? It was a political one. First and foremost was the freedom of African-Americans, but the means to the end was through politics.

Can't live with it, can't have a society without it.

The relevance to Rosa Parks. Although she was a fantastic person who survived more hardships than most of us will ever even bother to worry about, we have to keep in mind that her role as the catalyst, like most of history and its leading figures, was not planned out. And thus, we can only remember her as a person who decided to stand up for herself. It was purely out of self-interest, like the majority of any action humans commit due to the very nature of how our brains are wired. She was tired and fed up with how she was treated. And that is what she did.

Further information about her life and her deeds can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks#Early_life. Just remember, when talking about huge figure in history, you have to think critically of their role in the overall scheme of how this turned out and how things were at the time. Of course, as with anything that is said, be ready for criticism, pessimism, and stupidity.

She died. It's a way of life. People die, it's normal. I don't see the big deal.

She had credit for standing up for darker-skinned people in the south, but she doesn't need credit for dying.

I agree, people make way too big a deal out of 'important' figures dying.