Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Bless You, Rosa Parks


Every few centuries a handful of people make a change in our lives, our ways of thinking, our world. Some are driven from birth to grab the world by the shoulders and shake it into change. Some decide to use their voice and argue the world into change. On December 1st, 1955, one tired woman simply sat down on a city bus and our world changed forever. Today, Rosa Parks left this earth, and I know that in Heaven she is gathered among the angels and the saints who left this planet a better place than they found it when they first arrived.

I was born a little over a year after Ms. Parks sat down on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, but I can remember, even as a young child (maybe three or four years old), how my grandmother told me a the story of the woman who wouldn't give up her seat to a white man and go to the back of the bus as was expected of her in that day and time. I forget exactly under what circumstances my grandmother has decided to tell me the story, but I do remember her sitting me on her lap to tell me about Ms. Parks. I remember she said that she though the woman was an angel sent to earth to teach us all a lesson about love and what was right.

Rosa Parks, we will miss you here, but we are eternally grateful for your courage that turned a simple act of defiance (even though you only wanted to get home!) into a lesson for us all.

2 comments:

  1. Yes, she's one in a million, someone whom I'll always admire and respect: the great Rosa Parks.

    Hey, thanks for that little "review" of my blog. I really appreciate it. Thank you very much. I'm touched. :)

    By the way, how about writing something about these sisters called Prussian Blue? I've read something about them somewhere and it made my stomach heave. Are they that popular and being well supported in America? Quite scary...

    Thanks!

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  2. I hadn't thought of writing Prussian Blue since they definitely are NOT classic rock, but now that you mention it, it might be worth doing. I tend to stray from classic rock now and again. I've heard their music is just not good. Their political views are horrid!

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