Rosa Parks Day
1st December 2015
On this date in 1955 Rosa Parks allowed herself to be arrested rather than move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, putting the first crack in the wall of institutional racism and segregation erected by the Democrats after Reconstruction.
One of the great ironies of history is how the legacy of the Democratic Party’s responsibility for Jim Crow in the south has been flushed down the memory hole by the Crust.
It ranks right up there with the irony of black people becoming Muslim, totally ignoring the key role Muslim traffickers played in the Atlantic slave trade.
Ah, well — those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, or so I’m told.