Rosa Parks Is a Woman I Am Proud Of
One a winter evening a woman got on a bus heading home after a long hard day at work. She sits down, taking a deep breath as though exhaling the day to leave behind. She is tired; tired on many different levels. All of a sudden a man wants her to move so that he can sit there. What? Why would a woman let a man sit in her seat? Is he old? Is he sick? Is he impaired in any way? Yes, he is impaired as a racist white man who believes that a black woman should bow to him and his superiority complex. Ok, not quite, but people today can speculate on the thoughts of the white man of the past. This lovely woman, who told that man no and started an entire thing, is none other than Miss Rosa Parks. As a woman myself, I am deeply proud of her. I don’t have any black in me, but I don’t need to in order to be proud of her and her stance for people. That’s right; her stance was not just on women or blacks, but for everyone to be equal across the board. It helped, it didn’t fix it all the way, but she sure helped. Women are still paid less, women currently make $0.72 to every $1.00 a man does. That is the average.
Miss Parks made her stance on December 1, 1955, and by this point in time everyone either had a TV set or a radio in their home, and if they didn’t, they had access to one. What Miss Parks did hit the radio, TV, and . Less than ten years later, Malcom X was assassinated, and it was broadcasted. Look at Martin Luther King Jr., when he was assassinated in 1968, it was like a shot heard across the country thanks to the media. Let’s not forget JFK, his assassination was broadcasted live on TV. If you watch the video of his motorcade you will see him go down and all his security panic and start crouching. That is what media did; it allowed the world to watch the assignation of our president. That sounds terrible, the media is terrible, and it’s true. But it’s not all bad. It helps us, but we need to be careful. We may get the news faster, but for some reason that “news” could be wrong, twisted, or a complete lie.
Because of these methods, marches were held, and these marches had huge turnouts because they were able to spread the word so quickly. People all of the country could pray for them, show up to help, send help, whatever they could because they were able to follow the story on the television, from let’s say, California. Media may have shown or delivered some really bad news, like the assignations, but it also delivered information as to where to meet for a march, or updates on all of it, and more.
