I was going to write some grand post about empowering and moving forward and being a voice of change--but then I thought about it. It wasn't what she would want.
The thing is--if you studied Rosa Parks, read any interviews or watched her speeches then you know she wasn't about this. That she was just a tired woman who didn't want to give up her seat that day--that there was no forethought's or planning or message behind her gesture. She was just one individual making a choice in that one moment of time. She didn't know how it would change everything.
In a way Rosa Parks is the most defining example of true social activism--that it isn't what you give speeches about or make posters for or the pin you wear on your jacket but rather the choices you make in the small moments of your life and whether you stand behind your beliefs or even just stand up for yourself. I wonder how many people can be that brave to face down the world.
I know she was.
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