Apple recognises Rosa Parks

[LethalWolfe]

What makes her so great?

Here, lemme help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks



And a tidbit for those not ignorant of Mrs. Parks.

Parks detailed her motivation in this moment in her autobiography, My Story:
People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Lethal

 

[Lacero]

I see it like this:

Rosa Parks is like the black female equivalent of Ghandi.

They both took on injustice. They both did it when they were in their latter years. They were in no positions of real power or wealth. They changed a nation.

 

[Chip NoVaMac]

I see it like this:

Rosa Parks is like the black female equivalent of Ghandi.

They both took on injustice. They both did it when they were in their latter years. They were in no positions of real power or wealth. They changed a nation.

We need more of that today.

 

[840quadra]

Granted I don't have the clip with her in my Avatar, but I do respect her, and everything she did.

It feels good to see this on the main apple site!

 

[x86isslow]

What makes her so great? She refused to give up her seat on a bus?

Please! Give me a break! I thought Mac users thought different? I guess not.

I am not a racist is any way, but Rosa Parks is nothing special.

Sorry I should have been politically correct.

The problem with history these days is that its taught separately for each narrative. Most people learn white men's history, and they want to learn something else, they have to take an Afro-Am course or a Women's History course.

Rosa Parks didn't just refuse to give up her seat. She had been arrested several times previous to the famous incident. She was far more instrumental in changing Montgomery than any of the male leaders of the Civil Rights movement who generally get credit for a lot of things that happened in that struggle.

From wikipedia: In December 1943, Parks became active in the American Civil Rights Movement and worked as secretary for the Montgomery, Alabama branch of the NAACP. Of her position she said, "I was the only woman there, and they needed a secretary, and I was too timid to say no."

Rosa Parks was more than someone special, she was a forgotten piece of history.

 

[Lacero]

How does Apple decide how long to keep up the tribute page? This always fascinates me.

 

[yippy]

I believe that in the entire "Think Different" campaign, that one of the Rosa Parks posters was the only one in color. Kinda cool fact.

It is great to see a "Think Different" ad again, well done Apple.

 

[wordmunger]

Frisco,

Rosa Parks planned her actions as a specific protest to unfair treatment of blacks. The humility she displayed in subsequent interviews, saying she was "tired," etc., was part of her nature, but also was part of the plan to win whites over to the side of right in the debate.

It would have been much less effective (and probably forgotten) if she had done it any other way. She understood the type of action that was necessary to change people's minds in the civil rights movement, and then she DID IT. That's why Rosa Parks is important.

 

[camomac]

Apple does this for everyone really important who dies.

Like George Harrison.

just like this...