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moronpaul:

On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake’s order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Parks’ action was not the first of its kind to impact the civil rights issue. Others had taken similar steps, including Lizzie Jennings in 1854, Homer Plessy in 1892, Irene Morgan in 1946, Sarah Louise Keys in 1955, and Claudette Colvin on the same bus system nine months before Parks, but Parks’ civil disobedience had the effect of sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Parks’ act of defiance became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement and Parks became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including boycott leader Martin Luther King, Jr., helping to launch him to national prominence in the civil rights movement.

In 2008,when Ron Paul’s newsletters came to light, he was questioned about his racism on CNN. Paul claimed that Rosa Parks was one of his heroes, and that voting against her Congressional Gold Medal was to save the tax payers money. In fact, he would’ve chipped in a hundred bucks instead.. But he didn’t, and unfortunately, there are a few problems with his story.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/01/17/438618/-Ron-Paul-and-the-Rosa-Parks-Medal

Ron Paul is a racist? *gasp* Colour me shocked.

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