Incidentally, did you know that Rosa Parks eventually turned into a full-on revolutionary supporter of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers?
https://rosaparksbiography.org/bio/mrs-parks-and-black-power/
Referring to Malcolm X as her personal hero, Rosa Parks and Malcolm X met on a couple of occasions — the first in November 1963 because Malcolm, awed by Parks’s courage, wanted to meet her. Their longest conversation occurred just a week before his assassination when Malcolm X returned to the city to give the keynote at an event by the Afro-American Broadcasting Company, where Rosa Parks also received an award.
Parks was part of a “militant group of blacks” according to the Pittsburgh Courier at the Democratic Party convention in 1968 that refused to endorse any candidate for president. She spoke at the Solidarity Day rally of the Poor People’s movement, attended the 1968 Black Power conference in Philadelphia and the 1972 Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana (where she was photographed by LeRoy Henderson looking at the book tables). She began wearing African-inspired clothing, turned out for numerous Black history lectures, and promoted after-school programs teaching black history and culture. She actively worked for black candidates in the city and across the country and took part in a variety of groups and mobilizations challenging US involvement in Vietnam. In the 1979-1980 school year, she visited the Black Panther Party School in Oakland. Students performed a play they had written in her honor. The school’s director Ericka Huggins recalled Parks’ delight at the visit and how “touched” students and teachers were that Parks “came all the way.”
But, as usual, her legacy has been completely whitewashed by shitty liberals.
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I’ve seen some suggestions that MBS himself may have created the rumour of the King’s death, in order to flush out any plotters that might attempt to prevent his succession.
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Here’s a fun recent-history thread:
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Another in the genre of “people who almost get it”.
This is an Oz academic and former senior bureaucrat, somewhat leftish and generally affiliated with the ALP, criticising the corruption of the Coalition government:
See the bit of this at 3:20.
the wild conspiracy theory from former Liberal minister Bronwyn Bishop, who told Sky’s Paul Murray that the virus is a Chinese biological weapon, aimed at itself and the wider world:
BRONWYN BISHOP: … it is to get rid of non-productive Chinese in the Chinese community who are non productive and therefore, in the words of George Bernard Shaw, should be eliminated so they don’t have to be fed.
BRONWYN BISHOP: Secondly …
NICOLAS REECE: Woah!
BRONWYN BISHOP: … it is to either export the virus into the United States and other parts of the world or at least fear of the virus. And thirdly, to test whether or not it is possible for this sort of action to send the western world into recession.
For Bronwyn Bishop the cold war never ended.
Until relatively recently, Bronwyn Bishop was one of the more influential parliamentarians in Oz.
Remember when the Wuhan quarantine was evidence of evil Chinese authoritarianism?
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Just saw my first local facemask wearer.
By a guy who was driving his car, alone.
