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While in Michigan, President Obama boarded the bus and sat in the very same seat where Rose Parks made history. This is the amazing photo that came of itPresident Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum following an event in Dearborn, Mich., April 18, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)as private as possible when you're the President, that is.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)AnneD
(15,774 posts)was found in the junkyard and almost got sold for scrape.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)He's wondering what it must have been like for your choice of seat on a bus to be an issue just because some white idiot gets on the bus and decides he wants it.
James48
(4,436 posts)Yet the right wants to take us backwards.
Never, never, never, never again.
Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on the city's bus system. Behind Parks is Nicholas C. Chriss, a UPI reporter covering the event.
United Press photo. Location of Original: New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection.
Library of Congress- photo taken December 21, 1956
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)was Rosa Parks' predecessor. She didn't get the same attention, perhaps because she was only 15 y.o. at the time, but I found this article fascinating, terrifying, and yet uplifting.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/03/01/a-forgotten-contribution.html
nmbluesky
(2,561 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)much more appropriate, with an impeccable background. That's how it had to be back then, and if I'm honest, some of that still holds true today. We've seen some of that with Trayvon Martin, where if you're gonna be murdered by a caucasian, you better be the perfect victim, with a spotless record. It's sad, but it's true.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)looking at where we are today, I can honestly say that we've made a lot of progress. The look on his face is that of a child in awe. The imagery is not lost on me. It gives me chills.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)(and some pretend democrats) that are treating him like he should be at the back of the bus.
cachukis
(2,239 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)bigtree's post included this powerful quote from the President:
I just sat in there for a moment and pondered the courage and tenacity that is part of our very recent history but is also part of that long line of folks who sometimes are nameless, oftentimes didnt make the history books, but who constantly insisted on their dignity, their share of the American dream.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)spanone
(135,833 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)Tax Man
(104 posts)riverwalker
(8,694 posts)amazing. Speaks volumes. Thank you.
Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)I am proud he is my President.
He exudes class in the face of decidedly classless behavior by those on the right.