Richmond Buses Set Aside a Seat for Rosa Parks
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Wednesday, the first seat of each GRTC Transit System bus was set aside as a tribute to [Rosa Parks] the woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.
As part of Black History Month, each bus will also display a sign to honor Parks, who died in 2005.
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(Posted on February 20, 2008)
Bus Depot to Be Named for Parks
Cindy Swirko and Megan Rolland, Gainesville (Florida) Sun, February 18, 208
The new downtown Regional Transit Bus depot will be named for Rosa Parks, the City Commission voted last Monday night.
“It will be a permanent legacy,” said the Rev. Milford Lewis Griner.
“It means that Gainesville has joined a number of cities across the country that have honored Ms. Parks.”
The bus transfer station at 700 SE 3rd St. opened last September to alleviate congestion caused by the busses at the previous transfer station in the Downtown Community Plaza.
Griner, who is the chairman of the Rosa Parks Quiet Courage Committee, said the name will be a great reminder to young people in Gainesville about the actions of Rosa Parks, a great civil rights icon.
He and Armando Grundy, who unsuccessfully ran for City Commission in January, suggested the renaming to Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan at the downtown celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Griner presented the idea on Monday to the commission and they approved it unanimously.
Griner’s committee holds an awards ceremony every December to honor the day in 1955 when Parks refused to leave her seat on the bus.
He intends for the event this year to serve as the official naming ceremony for the bus depot.
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Comments
So where’s the bus seat for Sarah Kraeger? Isn’t this incredibly insensitive timing considering her ordeal? Of course it is, but ‘dog bites man’ isn’t noteworthy news.
Posted by jms at 5:17 PM on February 20
Can we name a few buses after the white woman that was viciously beaten by a pack of black thugs?
Posted by Obscuratus at 6:25 PM on February 20
Oh please.
I’m surpised they just didn’t come out and say the seat was left empty and denied to WHITE passengers only.
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“….about the actions of Rosa Parks, a great civil rights icon.”
Excuse me, I’m about to be sick.
Can March 1st get here any sooner?
Posted by at 6:33 PM on February 20
The black racists should set aside a seat to commenorate the black on white beating of an innocent white girl in Maryland recently by a bunch of racist african human trash.
Posted by Elrey Jones at 6:41 PM on February 20
And the humorous absurdities never cease. Hilarious.
Posted by at 7:30 PM on February 20
I don’t have a problem with memorial seat for Ms. Parks, as long as they’re in the back of the bus.
Posted by Flamethrower at 7:58 PM on February 20
More appropriate would be a designated toilet seat in the bus
restroom.
Posted by at 8:07 PM on February 20
Once again a false prophet gets recognition for a staged incident.How much can we take,when will we stand up and say it’s enough.
Posted by J.White at 8:23 PM on February 20
Rosa Parks was PAID to stage this event. Even more important than that fact was who paid her (the NAACP and various communist organizations).
It was hardly a spontaneous event.
Posted by at 8:24 PM on February 20
I live in Richmond but I don’t think I will forever. The problems caused by the large black population have tainted this city forever.
Posted by at 8:35 PM on February 20
I wouldn’t come down too hard on the African population in Richmond for setting aside a seat for sweet Rosa.
Far from being a symbolic gesture, it’s just that the public schools are so bad there that they think the bus boycott of Montgomery was in Virginia.
Ya gotta play cards with the hand you’re dealt!
Posted by Annoyed In Illinois at 9:08 PM on February 20
oh yeah rosa parks…that black communist woman who will be honored forever by the ignorant blacks of America just like the other phoney…..MLK who was a nothing…and praised to the high heavens…
Posted by lydia at 9:55 PM on February 20
In a related story, prostitutes in Richmond will set aside one hour of the days business in honor of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King.
Posted by CSinAL at 10:35 PM on February 20
The perfect example of White denile of the facts. Rosa was a total set-up of the white socialists.
The white socialists are going down much quicker than they ever thought.
Posted by stringtheory at 3:08 AM on February 21
There is a half size picture of this agitator in the US Consulate in Amsterdam. I guess this is fitting as the US seems to be controlled by whiney self serving minorities these days.
Posted by at 3:45 AM on February 21
Reminds me of an article in a Czech weekly “Young World” written at the beginning of 80’s, still deep in Commie times.
A reporter has visited North Korea and wrote about a peculiar custom there. In each bus, the first double-seat has been reserved for the Comrade Kim Ir Sen. It was draped in a white sheet, a framed portrait of the said Comrade was placed in the middle and some flowers were strewn around, so that “The Comrade is riding with us every day” as the reporter has been told. There was also a photo of this empty “still-life” in the otherwise crowded bus.
Even then the official opinion was that the North Koreans are really overdoing it with the Personality Cult.
Posted by EW at 4:23 AM on February 21
Some White person needs to sit in Rosa Parks’ seat as a protest and see what happens to them.
Posted by Drifter at 6:21 AM on February 21
Waiting for the first news story that there was a fight/melee/shooting/gang war at the Rosa Parks Bus Depot.
Posted by St. Louis CofCC Blogmeister at 9:10 AM on February 21
There should also be an honorary show-seat symbolizing whites who were probably killed on the bus during this very same era, for whites to see, except that, whites try and avoid riding the bus if possible. They’re too filled with evil racism.
Posted by Silence and I at 9:24 AM on February 21
I can remember back in the Nineties when Jack Kemp, in a typical speech, would make more positive references to Rosa Parks than to Ronald Reagan. Hey, I’ve got it. Why don’t we commemorate Jack Kemp in all city buses?
Posted by Seeker at 1:24 PM on February 21
A few days ago I heard a blackman on tv b——ing that February was Black History Month but it was unjust because February is the shortest month. I was impressed——-had no idea he would know that.
Posted by eurotexan at 1:36 PM on February 21
How about a seat in honor of Claudette Colvin, too? From Jared Taylor’s 2005 article, “The Rosa Parks Madness,” on the AmRen homepage:
“Parks’s best known predecessor was Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old high school student who refused to give up her seat on March 2, 1955. She was arrested and taken off the bus kicking and screaming. Police say she was screaming obscenities; she later claimed she was screaming that her constitutional rights were being violated. Not even Miss Colvin’s case was the spontaneous act for which Parks is now generally remembered. The girl had been active in the NAACP Youth Council, and had even discussed strategy with Rosa Parks herself.”
You can — and SHOULD — read the rest here:
http://www.amren.com/features/parks/parks.htm
Posted by The Incredible Shrinking White Man at 5:40 PM on February 21
“Some White person needs to sit in Rosa Parks’ seat as a protest and see what happens to them.”
Posted by Drifter at 6:21 AM on February 21
Someone did that! These Rosa Parks honorary seat uhmm, honors, were taking place all across the country. In one city someone did just that, I do believe.
Posted by Dinosaur Hatchling at 6:09 PM on February 21
What about for all those white metro bus passengers viciously beaten at random by black racist mobs in Baltimore last month? How about some reserved seats for them?
Once again, rehashing endlessly something from half a century ago, long resolved, while ignoring far worse racial outrages perpetrated against whites TODAY.
Posted by at 9:18 PM on February 21
As a high school and college student in the mid-1970s to early 1980s, I rode public transit, as parking around the university was a nightmare. At that time, most passengers were White and my parents were not particularly concerned about crime. I did not feel threatened or intimidated, but having recently visited that area, I wouldn’t take public transportation for the US Mint. My question to anyone who has the answer is: Following Lincoln’s assassination, why did none of the subsequent Presidents understand the seriousness of the racial divide and take appropriate steps to fulfill their predecessor’s recolonization ideas? This has had me baffled for most of my life. The prescient and outspoken Teddy Roosevelt felt the black presence on U.S. soil “most unfortunate”, as did Truman, and frankly, most White people. This was a dreadful situation that could have—and SHOULD HAVE—been addressed and attended to in the 19th century. Why wasn’t it?
Posted by Southern Lady at 12:52 AM on February 22
It’s Leap Year, folks, so we get one *extra* day of Black History.
One of the little Robert Poole middle schoolers finally copped to the fact that she was “involved” in the beating of Sarah Kreager (?) in Baltimore. Somehow, the video tapes confirmed that school girls hassled Sarah Kraeger to move, and she complied, two times. The third time, Kraeger refused. That was when the beating commenced.
Posted by at 7:19 PM on February 22
Strikes me as there is always some minority protesting a some white organization or cause. I guess these minorities think they and they only have the right to organize. If they don’t understand the cause (which most aren,t smart enough to understand) then the cause is automatically racial in nature. Anybody wanna bet on Al & Jesse showing up?
Posted by at 3:45 PM on February 24
In downtown Nashville, Eighth Avenue (Spruce St. long ago) has recently been renamed “Rosa Parks Boulevard”. One of those pork-barrel-type unknown-to-the-public “reforms”. Hideous bummer now hearing daily on the radio traffic reports this inappropriate insulting name change.
Posted by Cousin Charlie from TN at 5:53 AM on February 27