Fuck Rosa Parks

You know, someone has to say it and it most certainly should be me. Fuck Rosa Parks. I am fucking sick of this shit. This woman is being honored like she's a fucking Messiah and it absolutely makes me sick. She died almost a week ago and shes still getting heavy news coverage. Bush even joined in on some reef laying fun. And for what? What did this so-called American hero do that was so great that deserves all of this praise and news coverage? Why is it such a huge deal that Rosa Parks died? William Rehnquist didn't even get this much news coverage. The last person to get this much time was the fucking Pope.

Here's what people don't want to realize. Rosa Parks did jack shit. Everyone calls her a "civil rights pioneer" and "the mother of the civil rights movement." I say bullshit, and it is bullshit. Rosa Parks did absolutely nothing that wasn't already done before here. First off, a true legend and civil rights pioneer, Jackie Robinson, did the exact same thing in 1944. He was tried and acquitted in a military court. Three years later, he was the first black guy to play Major League Baseball. That is a fucking pioneer.

Another thing people need to realize is that Rosa Parks did absolutely shit after 1956. She didn't speak out. She didn't even participate in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. All she did to "fight" was to fight the charges against her. That's it. She did absolutely nothing for civil rights from 1956-2005. This is what aggravates me most about this woman.

She has this wonderful opportunity to do so much for the black community. Yet she did nothing. She refused to get up, the media picked up the story and hammered it into the ground, and she became an "icon." That gave her a huge amount of power, and she could have done so much. I don't think you people realize she literally did nothing else in her life worth anything but refuse to get up. After this happened, she quit and went to be a hostess at a hotel, then a seamstress for a white family, and then in the 60's some congressman gave her a job and she kept that until she retired. That's it.

So now that I've laid this out, you have to ask yourself if she really did anything worth this news coverage. It wasn't even her actions that started the civil rights movement. Here's something you don't know. The same was true is 1955 as it is today; the NCAAP is and was the most powerful black organization in the country. Guess who worked for the NCAAP as a secretary at the time of the bus incident? Ding, ding, ding. Rosa Parks.

It wasn't necessarily Rosa Parks that made a difference. It was really the NCAAP. They only used Rosa Parks situation. They fucked with one of their employees and they took it personally. She didn't speak out, she didn't fight, she didn't hold rallies, she didn't do a fucking thing for her people. After the bus incident, she had the opportunity to make a huge difference, and she chose not to. I say fuck Rosa Parks primarily because of this. She's being honored for doing absolutely nothing when she had the chance to actually make a difference for her people when they really needed it. Instead, she ran away right after and found a new job. She did nothing else in her life, yet she's honored. I say she's a disgrace and a fucking disappointment to the black community.

So you see this farce of a civil rights icon being honored, but I think it's important to look at a true civil rights icon. The motherfucking man, Jackie Robinson.

After leaving UCLA his senior year, Robinson enlisted in the US Army during World War II. He trained with the segregated U.S. 761st Tank Battalion. Initially refused entry to Officer Candidate School, he fought for it and eventually was accepted, graduating as a second lieutenant. While training at Fort Hood, Texas, Robinson refused to go to the back of a bus. He was court-martialed for insubordination, and therefore never shipped out to Europe with his unit. He received an honorable discharge in 1944, after being acquitted of all charges at the court-martial.

What a man. First off, he had to fight to get into the military school. After that, he did exactly what Rosa Parks did, 11 years earlier. He then missed out on going to war for what he trained for, did it all for nothing, and then received an honorable discharge. Three years later he was playing baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers. The first black man to play professional baseball. This is a civil rights icon. This is a pioneer.

Rosa Parks can't hold a fucking candle to Jackie Robinson. She did nothing. Not only did she do nothing, but she could have done so much more with the fame she had. Instead, she used it to get a pretty fucking good paying job for a congressman. She did do something great and brave, but she is not this ultimate icon and pioneer that the media is playing her off as. Nowhere even close. She just refused to get up, which was a brave thing. But 50 years later, it isn't anywhere near worthy of this sort of coverage.

That's just what the media does though. Notice how you only care if people die when it's either a large number of people or someone you know? It could be a family member or someone you knew from high school. Or it could be 9/11. No one cares about the 5 troops that died in Iraq on any given day. No one cares about the woman who is being raped as I type this. No one cares about the murders that are being committed as I type this. Because you don't know them. Everyone knows Rosa, and that's why the media is slamming this.

Regardless, it's undeserved fame and it fucking pisses me off beyond belief. Mostly because she had a chance and was given the power to do so much in life, and she did nothing for her people. Now we're stuck with the likes of Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton, who use their race as a power card. What a great alternative to who Rosa Parks could have been.