What a wonder, that Rosa Parks. Did training
for civil disobedience , and then she went and got on that bus, to start
something.
I never heard that part of the story, until listening to NPR the other day, when African-American leaders were talking over the past 10 years or so, and progress with civil rights. All in agreement that there was none.
And then, that wonder again at the choreography in life. That Martin Luther King Jr. was a pastor of a church, in that city. That he and many others had been thinking on and praying on coming up with solutions to the widespread wrong being perpetrated without limits.
In fact, MLK Jr. was poised for that very moment, when the plan went ahead. When Rosa Parks put on her hat and pulled on her coat and took up her handbag, and went to step on that bus.
As they said on the radio program, that Rosa Parks, she had some gangsta in her.
I never heard that part of the story, until listening to NPR the other day, when African-American leaders were talking over the past 10 years or so, and progress with civil rights. All in agreement that there was none.
And then, that wonder again at the choreography in life. That Martin Luther King Jr. was a pastor of a church, in that city. That he and many others had been thinking on and praying on coming up with solutions to the widespread wrong being perpetrated without limits.
In fact, MLK Jr. was poised for that very moment, when the plan went ahead. When Rosa Parks put on her hat and pulled on her coat and took up her handbag, and went to step on that bus.
As they said on the radio program, that Rosa Parks, she had some gangsta in her.
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