MLK Day As Seen Through The Lens Of 2016

[MajGenl.Meade]

Oh, so that's the feeble comparison is it? Ten white passengers plus 3 who'd just boarded were delayed a few minutes in getting home? And all because Rosa Parks would not give up her seat in what had been a "Colored Only" section when she got on the bus. (Good for her - she moved over but that wasn't good enough that day)

That's compared to a major traffic disruption by an illegal demonstration on a pubic highway...

[oldr_n_wsr]

I guess you would have been very unhappy to have been on that bus with Rosa Parks that day, because her refusal to give up her seat to a white person meant that none of the passengers were getting where they needed to be until the police came and hauled her ass off to jail.

Apples and oranges.

[Scooter]

So you would have been ok to have been delayed a half hour (or whatever amount of time) if you were taking the bus, but not if you were driving your car.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Refusing to sit somwhere on a bus is different than blocking a major roadway.
The people getting on the bus could have sat elsewhere and the bus driver could have driven his route regardless of where she sat. Or, the people could have gotten off and waited for the next bus or walked.
The people in the blockage could go nowhere.

Then we have the amount of people being inconvenienced. Tens vs thousands.

[Scooter]

The people getting on the bus could have sat elsewhere and the bus driver could have driven his route regardless of where she sat.

No, actually they couldn't, because it was against the law to do so.

Or, the people could have gotten off and waited for the next bus or walked.

And so still would have been just as delayed getting where they were going.

Then we have the amount of people being inconvenienced. Tens vs thousands.

The scale makes no difference if you are the one being inconvenienced.

And your refusal to answer my question has answered it anyway.

[oldr_n_wsr]

So you would have been ok to have been delayed a half hour (or whatever amount of time) if you were taking the bus, but not if you were driving your car.

If this is your question then the answer is: I would have been pissed either way but more pissed on the road in my car than on the bus.
The bus I could leave, the road (and my car) I could not.

[Sue U]

Of course, this too was an unlawful assembly endangering public safety on a highway bridge:



... at least according to the Alabama State Police.

[Scooter]

There you go again, Sue, trying to confuse the issue with facts.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Technically, according to the Governor of Alabama - that gentle man, Geo. Wallace (not!)

[wesw]

well I think it is shameful that frisco doesn t allow black people to use the bay bridge, I d protest too.....

[rubato]

It is very revealing who identifies with the inconvenienced motorists and who identifies with the protesters.




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rubato

[dales]

well I think it is shameful that frisco doesn t allow black people to use the bay bridge, I d protest too.....

Calling San Francisco "frisco' shows a lack of class and education.

[wesw]

[Long Run]

Calling San Francisco "frisco' shows a lack of class and education.

There are people who use that term, even on this board, just so someone will post this.