'Israeli Rosa Parks' receives death threats

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Tanya Rosenbilt, the Israeli woman who refused to move to the back of the bus when told to do so by an ultra-Orthodox male passenger last month, said Wednesday that she had received several death threats.

Rosenbilt, hailed as the "Israeli Rosa Parks," filed a complaint to the Yarkon District police after she had received threats through the phone, email, and Facebook.

Tanya Rosenblit

Rosenbilt made headlines last month when she refused to let an ultra-Orthodox man dictate where she can sit on a public bus traveling from Ashdod to Jerusalem. When she refused to move to the back of the bus, the man held the door openand would allow it to move for approximately 30 minutes.

When other passengers began to complain about the delay, the driver called the police. The policeman who arrived on the scene spoke with the man and then also asked Rosenblit to move to the back of the bus. When she refused, the man who had been holding the door alighted and the bus continued on its way.

Rosenbilt was speaking during a discussion of the interministerial team charged with examining the problem of the exclusion of women in Israel, headed by Minister Limor Livnat.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-rosa-parks-receives-death-threats-after-refusing-to-move-to-back-of-ultra-orthodox-bus-1.405463

[slim 1,525]

Racist.

[bigdog 376]

My wife is a good shot with a AK47 and a BB gun.

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

This incident had nothing to do with her "race."

[slim 1,525]

This incident had nothing to do with her "race."

Nor did Rosa Parks'.

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Nor did Rosa Parks'.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Nor did Rosa Parks'.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Nor did Rosa Parks'.

Do tell, what did Rosa Parks' incident have to do with if not race?

[Dan and Judy 614]

Nor did Rosa Parks'.

scathing comeback!

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Nor did Rosa Parks'.

Would you like a do over, Slim?

[slim 1,525]

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. She was tired and didn't want to get up. That's it. She didn't sit there and say, "I will not get up because I'm a black woman." She said, "I'm already sitting here and I'll be darned if I get up and move."

That has nothing to do with race. Like most other "incidents" such as hers, it was made into a race issue by folks who would benefit from it being a race issue.

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. She was tired and didn't want to get up. That's it. She didn't sit there and say, "I will not get up because I'm a black woman." She said, "I'm already sitting here and I'll be darned if I get up and move."

That has nothing to do with race. Like most other "incidents" such as hers, it was made into a race issue by folks who would benefit from it being a race issue.

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She was sitting on a segregated bus in the front row of the so-called "colored section," and was asked to move further back to make room for a white man so that he would not have to sit in the back with the black people. What level of this incident is not about race ?

Mrs. Parks worked as a seamstress at a Montgomery department store in 1955. On December 1st of that year she boarded a city bus and sat in a row at the front of the colored section. The whites only section in the front of the bus filled up and a white man was left standing. The bus driver demanded that Mrs. Parks and three other patrons in the colored section give up their seats so the white man could sit. The other three people moved but Mrs. Parks had been pushed around enough and refused to yield her seat. She was arrested when the bus driver contacted the police and filed charges against her. Four days later she was found guilty of disorderly conduct and the Montgomery Bus Boycott began.

Over a year later the city was served with papers declaring segregation of bus service unconstitutional.

http://montgomery.troy.edu/rosaparks/museum/rosaparks.html

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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.

- Rosa Parks with James Haskins, Rosa Parks: My Story.

[slim 1,525]

She was sitting on a segregated bus in the front row of the so-called "colored section," and was asked to move further back to make room for a white man so that he would not have to sit in the back with the black people. What level of this incident is not about race ?

Her decision not to move. She didn't make it based on her race. She made it based on her unwillingness to move.

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Her decision not to move. She didn't make it based on her race. She made it based on her unwillingness to move.

Why was she ordered to move ?

[slim 1,525]

Why was she ordered to move ?

Because of her race.