tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post7058516522154526129..comments2024-03-17T20:04:18.872-05:00Comments on Indomitable | The online home of Chauncey DeVega: CNN Discovers "Mr. Charlie" and the Black Agency of Sister Rosa ParksLady Zora, Chauncey DeVega, and Gordon Gartrellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138154899923808806noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-58142788652383596162012-12-05T03:49:01.462-06:002012-12-05T03:49:01.462-06:00@older. like the sister who stood up at the ALEC m...@older. like the sister who stood up at the ALEC meeting?<br /><br />@BS. would we be better off if freedom came later and even harder?<br /><br />@Razor Were they stronger or were the temptations and lucre not as powerful as what many are subjected to today?<br /><br />@Bruto. All our standards have fallen. Or am I just being cynical?<br /><br />@Anon. Why the fear of discussing the Highlander School? Common red scare mess still hanging over us?<br />chaunceydevegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09652406326490873337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-85275917808541937082012-12-04T18:20:01.005-06:002012-12-04T18:20:01.005-06:00Going hand and hand with Black Agency is the large...Going hand and hand with Black Agency is the largely ignored American intellectual history that Parks extended through her activism. Reinhold Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society explicitly predicted in 1932 that a movement of non-violent resistance would be what secured civil rights for African-Americans. Myles Horton was inspired by Niebuhr and founded the Highlander School, where Parks and others discussed strategies that would be most effective as civil rights actions. Parks, King, and others deepened and transformed both Niebuhr's early hypothesis and Horton's training. <br /><br />Sitting down on that bus marked an intellectual statement by a movement, not a fortuitous collapse due to physical fatigue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-90387395666501280052012-12-04T10:04:38.088-06:002012-12-04T10:04:38.088-06:00"Here, Black agency matters. Black agency als..."Here, Black agency matters. Black agency also scares and upsets people on both sides of the colorline."<br /><br />Ah, the triumph of the Civil Rights era. The illusion of inclusion gave us the confusion of a delusion that turned our agency into complacency. <br />nomadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16196543910280589478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-44911991646604467292012-12-04T04:22:29.607-06:002012-12-04T04:22:29.607-06:00"I believe, has lulled the vast majority of B..."I believe, has lulled the vast majority of Blacks to slowly slumber towards giving up the fight"<br /><br />Someone much smarter than myself said: "Look at the people closest to you. How they live and what they do will describe you.<br /><br />Who you place around you matter. <br /><br /><br />Bruto Altonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-17974067167149660872012-12-03T22:18:02.903-06:002012-12-03T22:18:02.903-06:00CD, certainly Rosa Parks and others' brand of ...CD, certainly Rosa Parks and others' brand of Black Agency is in decline and on life support. I believe that it was in part the circumstances of the times, but also the ethos of the times.<br /><br />As Olderwoman states...They did not stand alone...and were nurtured by family and community. There was a sense of shared destiny and collective experience. Today, we are a very fractured community at best. We are not just seperated by our new addresses, we are seperated by class and class consciousness. The people we consider great are even different.<br /><br />Yesterday, Thurgood Marshall, Paul Robeson and Martin Luther King were great. Today, they would be considered fools. Fools for passing up the filthy lucre, personal comfort and fame over their concern for other black folk, here and abroad. <br /><br />We Black folk have been in the shameful process of losing our souls and religion, literally, for the last thirty years or so. First our leaders, then we as a people followed suit. We began to worship the same gods as our oppressors, not realizing that it was their False God of White Power/Privilege. With the help of television religious pimps and hustlers became more prominent than genuine religious leaders. Worse, like cancers they were replicated in communities all over America. They stand for nothing and promote runaway capitalist greed. Razornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-26013342024128054182012-12-02T22:33:41.964-06:002012-12-02T22:33:41.964-06:00Is the personal steel of her (and others') bra...Is the personal steel of her (and others') brand of Black Agency in decline, dead, and gone? Or if circumstances demand it, is our society still capable of producing elder gods and goddesses such as Sister Parks? – ChaunceyD<br /><br />CDV, the question you’ve put forth reminds me of a statement a co-worker of mine says affectionately to me in the midst of others about twice a week: “They don’t makem like Blakk Sage anymore.” This is an appropriate segue into how I feel about Madam Parks and the frequent statement mentioned above to me by my co-worker is much more aptly applied to Madam Rosa Parks because the good Lord just don’t make people like her anymore. This is my first reasoning as to why another Rosa Parks is extraordinarily unlikely.<br /><br />Here is my second reasoning as to why that another Rosa Parks is far removed from the immediate horizon. I believe that Black Americans have been hood-winked into believing that we are no longer in battles that consist of intentionally planned social strife, economic warfare and psychic warfare as well. Blacks have also been conditioned to believe that everything was made correct through the mere struggles and civil unrest of the past, especially the 1960’s civil rights era. This notion, I believe, has lulled the vast majority of Blacks to slowly slumber towards giving up the fight and the struggle because the system relentlessly gives the appearance through various conduits (TV, Internet, print news, books, movies, selection of Obama) that it is no longer necessary to do so. <br />Black Sagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353802835713213965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-27809292585342425272012-12-02T19:55:57.282-06:002012-12-02T19:55:57.282-06:00Rosa Parks was a great woman, and a hero, but so w...Rosa Parks was a great woman, and a hero, but so were a lot of other people. They did not stand alone. They were nurtured in families and communities that taught them to stand up and knew they were part of a broader movement. The Women's Political Club of Montgomery and other intentional groups organized the bus boycott. Parks played her role and so did the people around her. Parks stayed committed and active to her death. So have a lot of other people. <br /><br />From outside the movement, I still see individual heroes and groups of people doing what they can, and I also see structural and political factors that have made it harder to make gains. The intense repression in Black urban areas after the 1960s and especially after the 1980s is not irrelevant. Nor are the political shifts that made White working class voters the swing vote between 1968 and 2008. <br /><br />olderwomanhttp://sociologicalconfessions.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com