The Woman was just TIRED (m)

Rosa Park died yesterday -- at 92. She was my grandmother's age when she passed...which makes me wonder if 92 is a secret club for all the beautiful women in the world.



She is ya know....beautiful. But I am sure that is probably the last thing she would want to be remembered for.

I remember reading about Ms. Parks when I was in about 6th grade. I thought THEN what a brave woman... I admit I probably don't know enough about the woman today --although I have always thought she was remarkable. Today I find her VERY courageous...because what she did was not for anything but honor and respect of people, it wasn't about the media or selfish attention that plagues all the newsstories today....it was about justice, equality and fairness when it wasn't popular to demand them. Courage is being afraid to do something, knowing the consequences could be dire, yet doing it anyway.

Look up Courage in the dictionary and you will find Rosa Parks on Dec. 1, 1955.

She was 42 when she refused to give up her seat. She had been working all day as a seamstress and was just flat ass tired. She was sitting in the designated "colored" seats, minding her own business, obeying the laws of the time....probably thinking about what work lied ahead when she returned home... She was asked to get up and let a white man take her seat... I don't know what she was thinking. It could have simply been that she was tired after a long day...but I'm guessing she was TIRED beyond that. Tired of the way the world viewed her. Tired that they didn't see a beautiful, strong or capable woman...but that they saw a BLACK woman. She WAS the secretary of the NAACP -- which is a pretty amazing thing -- and had a supportive husband who years earlier challenged her to return to school and get a highschool degree (which she did)..she was determined and smart. She was simply not going to stand for it anymore. In a primitive sense...IT JUST DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO HER. Slavery was suppose to have ended nearly 100 years earlier! When the busdriver told her she was going to be arrested she calmly replied, "you may go and do so." And thus ensued a movement, which started quietly, yet brought about a booming change.

Gracious. Proud. Courageous.

So, it's time to pass the torch -- hopefully the people who will continue to run with it will do it without unneccesary personal agendas or media fanfair...

yes, it's time to rest, Ms. Parks....

wherever it is you may choose.