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Feb 10
presta: motherjones: Happy Black History Month! It’s unbelievable to me that people – in the media! in academic settings! – still refer to Parks being a tired old lady in anything other than the existential sense. She trained at the Highlander Folk School with red-blooded communists, my friend, and she was an activist! Don’t insult her intelligence and don’t, in the words of Cornel West, try to “sanitize, sterilize, and deodorize” the radical roots of civil rights! That ain’t history.

presta:

motherjones:

Happy Black History Month!

It’s unbelievable to me that people – in the media! in academic settings! – still refer to Parks being a tired old lady in anything other than the existential sense. She trained at the Highlander Folk School with red-blooded communists, my friend, and she was an activist!

Don’t insult her intelligence and don’t, in the words of Cornel West, try to “sanitize, sterilize, and deodorize” the radical roots of civil rights! That ain’t history.
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    I have always appreciated Paul Loeb’s piece on the real story and lessons of Rosa Parks.
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