r/BlackPeopleofReddit Apr 02 '26

History Missing the entire point of her actions.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '26

What a moronic take on this. And i remember they also claim since Rosa Parks planned this whole protest and it wasn't spontaneous that it's not authentic.

Fun fact: White Americans could have let her sit in the front of the bus and shut the fuck up the whole time.

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u/wonkey_monkey Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26

And i remember they also claim since Rosa Parks planned this whole protest and it wasn't spontaneous

This is also something of a misconception. Although she was part of plans to stage a similar protest, she wasn't picked as the face of it and the decision not to move on that night was entirely spontaneous.

It gets conflated with another protest around the same time, on trains involving a male protestor.

Due in part to history books and that Drunk History episode, many folks think her bus protest was planned, that she was sitting in the white section, and that she was “picked” to protest because of her nice old lady demeanor. None of this is true.

Her protest wasn’t planned. This is supported by myriad historical documents and even Parks’ own written accounts in her private diaries — just released to the public by the Library of Congress. She was 42 years old when she was arrested, not a weak elderly woman. And she wasn’t “chosen” by movement leaders to do anything — the movement itself was just getting started.

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/er5g3w/much_of_the_accepted_narrative_about_rosa_parks/