Rosa Parks -- RIP
Planet Visitor II
And God said -- "Sit right here next to me, in the front of the Bus, Rosa,
I'm driving you alone on the freeway."
Planet Visitor II
http://home.earthlink.net/~onetimeuse/dict.html
"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others." --
Rosa Parks
Donna Evleth
> From: "Planet Visitor II" <nappy...@earthlink.net>
> Newsgroups: alt.activism.death-penalty
> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 02:19:26 -0600
> Subject: Rosa Parks -- RIP
>
> Rosa Parks is dead at the age of 92 -- See-
>
> http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usparks1025,0,4093452.story?
> coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines
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> And God said -- "Sit right here next to me, in the front of the Bus, Rosa,
> I'm driving you alone on the freeway."
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>
> Planet Visitor II
I have exhumed you briefly from my killfile because I found the above so
beautiful that it brought tears to my eyes. I remember those segregated
buses, having all too often, as a teenager from California, sat in the wrong
section in segregated Houston, Texas. This touched me deeply.
However, don't grab and run. This does not mean I will ever defend you in
your feud against Desmond. Or Desmond in his feud against you.
All the same, I savor the moment of your posting something beautiful. Thank
you.
Donna Evleth
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Euro
"Donna Evleth" <dev...@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
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> I remember those segregated
> buses, having all too often, as a teenager from California, sat in the
wrong
> section in segregated Houston, Texas. This touched me deeply.
It does seem unconceivable and somewhat scandalous to me that those images
of racial segregation could be tolerated and condoned until _that_ recently
in US history. Rosa Parks's death is a reminder of this, as well as of how
non violent resistance could enable to get the Supreme Court to declare
racial segregation anti-constitutional (but frankly speaking, could anyone
doubt, back in the 50s, that it _was_?) and to launch a movement for civil
rights.
This momentum is well over now, and for all what has been achieved for the
Blacks in the US in great part thanks to Rosa Parks, there still remains a
lot to do, though.
Euro
Planet Visitor II
her passing certainly moved me. You might have missed it, in having
me killfiled, but we also lost a great jazz singer a few days ago... Shirley
Horn. Not that well known, but to my mind one of the top three female jazz
singers of all time. See --
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.activism.death-penalty/msg/b40030373ee5bf4b
I would rank her as equal to Sarah Vaughn and Ella Fitzgerald. I like my
jazz three-o-clock in the morning bourbon over ice, smoky and soft, and
those three were the very best at that. Which is why I do not include
Aretha Franklin, even knowing she is rated the best by some.
When I read of Shirley Horn dying, I immediately thought of the song she
sang which has become my favorite from her, and which stuck in my
mind, which I mentioned in my comment, with the lyrics, in case you are
unfamiliar with the lyrics -- "Here's to Life."
Planet Visitor II
http://home.earthlink.net/~onetimeuse/dict.html
Here's to life... here's to it all....
> Donna Evleth
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