Rosa Parks Would not take the bus today...

On the afternoon of December 1, 1955, 42-year-old African American Rosa Parks, returning home from her job as an assistant tailor at a Montgomery, Alabama, department store, boarded bus 2857 on the Cleveland Avenue line. When told to give up her seat for a white man, she refused and was arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation laws. Her act of civil disobedience precipitated the 13-month Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was led by Martin Luther King, Jr.,.

Below is just one of literally hundreds of videos depicting what it is like to take public transportation today.  Even the school bus isn't safe anymore.  What would Rosa say? Obama apparently sat on a bus today to honor Rosa Parks...but would he actually allow his daughters to ride these buses? Why is there no condemnation?  Imagine if any of the below incidents happened white on black.  The entire NYC Metro would be shut down. 

 

Bitter Irony.....

No throne of gold has ever been as honourable as the bus seat that #RosaParks defended. pic.twitter.com/sGVS5OQF24
— Matthew Ward (@HistoryNeedsYou) December 1, 2013

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