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REMEMBERING ROSA PARKS
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
10/30/2005
Remarks at St. Paul A.M.E. Church
Birmingham, Alabama
Sunday, October 30, 2005
FOR OUR SISTER BELOVED ROSA, WE MUST ADORE, ADMIRE AND LOVE HER AND NOT ROMANTICIZE HER MISSION. HERS WAS AN ACT OF DEFIANCE, CHALLENGING THE PREVAILING RIGHT-WING POLITICAL, LEGAL AND RELIGIOUS ORDER. SHE CHALLENGED STATES RIGHTS UNARMED IN THE HEART OF THE CONFEDERACY.
HER MISSION WAS TO EVEN THE PLAYING FIELD, TO AFFORD ALL AMERICANS EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW, TO GAIN AND DEFEND CIVIL RIGHTS. SHE SOUGHT THE ONE BIG TENT AMERICA.
MANY OF HER FORMER ADVERSARIES HAVE CHANGED STRIPES OR PARTIES BUT NOT THEIR VIOLENT ANTI-CIVIL RIGHTS, ANTI-LABOR, ANTI-GENDER EQUALITY AND ANTI-POOR AGENDA.
TO BE ON HER FREEDOM TRAIN REQUIRES THE COURAGE AND THE VISION TO DEFY UNJUST LAWS, TO TAKE THE RISK AND LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES.
AFTER 58 YEARS OF LEGAL RACIST SEGREGATIONIST APARTHEID LAW, UPON CONTINUOUS CHALLENGES BY THE NAACP, LED BY THURGOOD MARSHALL, CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY, CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON, DR. JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN, DR. KENNETH CLARK, THE COURT REVERSED ITSELF FROM THE 1896 APARTHEID DECISION WHICH SUCCEEDED SLAVERY.
MAY 17, 1954, WAS THE BIGGEST VICTORY YET KNOWN SINCE THE ABOLISHMENT OF SLAVERY IN 1865. BUT IT HAD NO IMMEDIATE ON-THE-GROUND-EFFECT. STATES CONTINUED TO DEFY THE LAW AND VILIFY THE COURT AS LEGISLATING AND ENGINEERING CHANGE AND NOT BEING "STRICT CONSTRUCTIONISTS."
RACIAL SEGREGATION REMAINED IN OUR SCHOOLS, TRANSPORTATION, TRAINS, PUBLIC HOUSING, WORK PLACE, VOTING. WE LIVED WITHOUT THE UMBRELLA OF PROTECTION OF THE LAW.
EMMETT TILL WAS LYNCHED, AUGUST 28, 1955, (EIGHT YEARS TO THE DAY BEFORE THE 1963 MARCH ON WASHINGTON). THE LYNCH MOB WAS NOT PROSECUTED AND THE FBI DID NOT INVESTIGATE.
HIS MOTHER BROUGHT HIS BLOODIED, WATER MARKED BODY BACK TO CHICAGO. 100,000 PEOPLE DEMONSTRATED, PASSED HIS BODY.... AFTERWARDS THEY WERE NEVER THE SAME.
JET MAGAZINE AND THE BLACK PRESS TOLD HIS STORY. THERE WAS AN EMOTIONAL UP-RISING.
equal protection under the law , a decent place to sit??? This is a really racist man I'd have to say
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
10/30/2005
Remarks at St. Paul A.M.E. Church
Birmingham, Alabama
Sunday, October 30, 2005
FOR OUR SISTER BELOVED ROSA, WE MUST ADORE, ADMIRE AND LOVE HER AND NOT ROMANTICIZE HER MISSION. HERS WAS AN ACT OF DEFIANCE, CHALLENGING THE PREVAILING RIGHT-WING POLITICAL, LEGAL AND RELIGIOUS ORDER. SHE CHALLENGED STATES RIGHTS UNARMED IN THE HEART OF THE CONFEDERACY.
HER MISSION WAS TO EVEN THE PLAYING FIELD, TO AFFORD ALL AMERICANS EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW, TO GAIN AND DEFEND CIVIL RIGHTS. SHE SOUGHT THE ONE BIG TENT AMERICA.
MANY OF HER FORMER ADVERSARIES HAVE CHANGED STRIPES OR PARTIES BUT NOT THEIR VIOLENT ANTI-CIVIL RIGHTS, ANTI-LABOR, ANTI-GENDER EQUALITY AND ANTI-POOR AGENDA.
TO BE ON HER FREEDOM TRAIN REQUIRES THE COURAGE AND THE VISION TO DEFY UNJUST LAWS, TO TAKE THE RISK AND LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES.
AFTER 58 YEARS OF LEGAL RACIST SEGREGATIONIST APARTHEID LAW, UPON CONTINUOUS CHALLENGES BY THE NAACP, LED BY THURGOOD MARSHALL, CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY, CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON, DR. JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN, DR. KENNETH CLARK, THE COURT REVERSED ITSELF FROM THE 1896 APARTHEID DECISION WHICH SUCCEEDED SLAVERY.
MAY 17, 1954, WAS THE BIGGEST VICTORY YET KNOWN SINCE THE ABOLISHMENT OF SLAVERY IN 1865. BUT IT HAD NO IMMEDIATE ON-THE-GROUND-EFFECT. STATES CONTINUED TO DEFY THE LAW AND VILIFY THE COURT AS LEGISLATING AND ENGINEERING CHANGE AND NOT BEING "STRICT CONSTRUCTIONISTS."
RACIAL SEGREGATION REMAINED IN OUR SCHOOLS, TRANSPORTATION, TRAINS, PUBLIC HOUSING, WORK PLACE, VOTING. WE LIVED WITHOUT THE UMBRELLA OF PROTECTION OF THE LAW.
EMMETT TILL WAS LYNCHED, AUGUST 28, 1955, (EIGHT YEARS TO THE DAY BEFORE THE 1963 MARCH ON WASHINGTON). THE LYNCH MOB WAS NOT PROSECUTED AND THE FBI DID NOT INVESTIGATE.
HIS MOTHER BROUGHT HIS BLOODIED, WATER MARKED BODY BACK TO CHICAGO. 100,000 PEOPLE DEMONSTRATED, PASSED HIS BODY.... AFTERWARDS THEY WERE NEVER THE SAME.
JET MAGAZINE AND THE BLACK PRESS TOLD HIS STORY. THERE WAS AN EMOTIONAL UP-RISING.
equal protection under the law , a decent place to sit??? This is a really racist man I'd have to say
