An arresting development indeed, and may make West a kind of Rosa Parks. It certainly ups the visibility of the movement which is good, it was not smart to have arrested him. Knowing West he probably wouldn't accept this designation and it may not be the best one-in theory the Occupy Wall Street Rosa Parks was a Californian woman who due to the protests, some banks chose to let her keep her home. What someone like West does is increase the OWS profile.
Along with West there were 18 others arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court building after refusing to vacate. For story and video please see
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/16/national/main20121158.shtml
If you want another reason to like West, he recently got into a tv spat with Herman Cain telling him to "get off the symbolic crackpipe."
The protest out on the Supreme Court steps was important West says as we should not let this day of commemoration of Martin Luther King's day go by without someone going to jail. He said this with 3 cops there with himon the steps. After he was done with his speech they put him in handcuffs. Another guy who had been asking West some questions and doing some commentary himself was put in handcuffs next. It must be said that West did say the goal was to get arrested so in a way you could say the cops obliged him. His friend and interviewer declared in answer to the question what he is doing next declared: "I'm going to Disney World!"
As West said during his speech the decisions of the Supreme Court too often support the problems that Occupy Wall Street is confronting. He also said that this is for the men and women of the police force too as they are part of the working class too which is true as well.
Many police are facing problems like so many government workers in this age of Austerity and Scott Walker with cutbacks to the police department and attempts to cut back their collective bargaining rights. Dr. West's efforts can only magnify the issue with his visible position and for that we salute him.
"Rosa Parks was a Californian woman who due to the protests, some banks chose to let her keep her home."
ReplyDeleteRosa Parks is a central figure in the Civil Rights movement. She is the woman who refused to give up her seat to a white customer on a Montgomery, Alabama bus 1955 that led to the Supreme Court ruling segregation Unconstitutional. Ms. Parks passed away October 24,2005 in Detroit, Michigan.
Get the key facts straight. An error of this magnitude completely undermines any credibility you may have with the folks in tin foil hats.
I can see why you call yourself the peanuts gallery. Though unfortunately for you the only person who has made an error of any "magnitude" is you. What you gave is not even worth a busted penny.
ReplyDeleteI know very well who Rosa Parks is, no need to give me a 3rd grade social studies lecture. You don't get the idea of an analogy do you? For example if there were a revolution in a country, I might say that the first leader of the new regime is the "George Washington of this new regime." What would you say to that, give me a history lesson of who George Washington was?
Apparently you like to make other people look foolish. Unfortunately the only one who looks foolish is you. Maybe you need a refresher cause in simple reader comprehension before you try it again.