Cackling Ghetto Banshees

brazenbitch:

Rosa Parks was never a passive grandma who decided one day to refuse to sit in the back of the bus.

She was a badass anti-whiteness radical who worked for years prior to the boycott as a secratary for the NAACP of Montgomery (1943) to investigate interracial sexualized violence of black women used by white supremacists in the south as a means to sustain racial hierarchy.

By the age of ten, Rosa was as defiant as her grandfather (who would carry around a double barreled gun regularly ). “I saw Franklin,” she announced to her grandmother one summer day, referring to a notorious white bully. “He threatened to hit me,” she said. “I picked up a brick and dared him to hit me.” ”It had been passed down in our genes,” Rosa recalls later, “that a proud African American can simply not accept bad treatment from anybody.”