Rosa Parks, born on the 4th of February in 1913, was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. U.S. Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation in Montgomery, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat for a white person.
According to historian Dr. Casey Nichols, following this arrest, Parks immediately contacted local NAACP president E.D. Nixon and informed him of her arrest. Within hours, the Women’s Political Council (WPC), formed in 1946 to address the grievances of black bus patrons in Montgomery, sprang into action, printing flyers, phoning potential supporters, and organizing carpools.
The boycott succeeded in 1957 after the Supreme Court declared bus segregation unconstitutional. Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the movement, and she became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation.
After the boycott's conclusion, Parks moved to Detroit, Michigan and began working as an assistant to Detroit Congressman John Conyers. She has received numerous honors, including over 40 honorary degrees, the Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, and two NAACP image awards. In 2002, Parks produced a biographical film titled “The Rosa Parks Story.”
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I don't love the comparisons between yourself and their other friends. It seems unnecessary.
To be honest, I wouldn't mention that you type their name in on Reddit or that you have knowledge of their current situation. I'd leave it more open-ended.
And one last thing, "you were wrong when you said I don’t care about you" could be rephrased to simply state that you care about them very much. It sounds like they said something hurtful to you, and it makes sense to want to respond/refute it specifically, but I'd assume if they're a good person, they said it in anger. And if that's the case, I would leave out what they said in this message.
This is all without specific knowledge of your and their relationship other than some recent posts I've read, so I can't comment on whether this is the right time to message them and you should be the judge of that.
The main reason I’m sending this is because they sound really stressed and cracked out, because of this person who’s threatening them and shit and trying to run them off the property they have permission to park on. She even pistol-whipped them. I’m hella concerned, aaaand I only know about this because I “stalk” their Reddit account (the stalking thing being how they referred to it).
And the comparisons to their other friends, I wrote because it illustrates something I have a hard time neatly putting into words.
Earlier version had a comparison to the dude who started this whole thing, who gets to be their friend because he has social skills and isn’t weird and annoying, even though he basically thinks they’re a slut (I screamed at him because he said something to me about them leading guys on for attention, and he told them about this, leaving out what started it, making me sound like a fucking lunatic), but I thought that was too hostile.
It's your message, and you know them better than me! Follow your instincts. Those were just my takeaways. If they were aware of you looking at their reddit account before and they were fully or mostly okay with it, then maybe it's okay to mention it.
And yeah, I get the "shorthand for deeper, complex feelings" thing. I would just ask myself, what is the main goal of this note? Is it to get them out of a dangerous situation by giving them an outside perspective? Or is it to try and mend the relationship? Can you fit both goals into one short message?