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Topic: Rosa Parks is over Rated

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Opinion #1
Debater: Jtaylor1
Her legacy was a legend.
Rosa Parks' legacy was famous and she refused to give up her seat which she was boycotted from any bus stop and they had to ban African-americans from riding. In Jesus' commandment, it states "thou shall love one another." Anyway, The KKK (Ku Klux Klan) was fed up, so they had to kill a negro to show their fellow christians to hate anyone who's different. In conclusion, Rosa Parks is not overrated, if anyone would challenge this topic, God will huff a kitten.
Opinion #2
Debater: paraquat99
Icon worship is a distraction from historical facts defining figures.
Of course, the "legendary" Ms. Parks was NOT the first black-American to get arrested for riding in the white's only section of a Southern legally segregated bus. Several years prior to her 1955 arrest, a black women in Alabama did the same thing. Problem was she was pregnant and unmarried, which was taboo at the time, so the Birmingham NAACP couldn't use her as the "poster child" to bring separate but unequal hypocrisy to national prominence. Ms. Parks however was a prominent member of the NAACP and aquaintance of MLK, so her act of civil disobidence was pre-arranged so as to spur the economic boycott of the for-profit, segregated busline. This circumvented the stagnant march towards integration and civil rights via legislation in the Southern states, and sparked the civil rights movement of the 1960s. In other words, Ms. Parks helped to show the power of money meant more, usually, than race. Were her actions legendary? No. Original? No. Brave? Probably. Calculated? Absolutely!
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