5 Feet of Fury

Rosa Parks: the original Astroturfer!

Blah blah blah… yawn…

Funny thing about this: The whole thing happens so fast, and the perpetrator’s angle of view is so acute, that it looks like he never even saw what was on the poster. As McCaskill herself — to her great credit — notes in the second clip below, this was almost certainly a case of overreaction to the “no signs allowed” policy at the town hall rather than some targeted attack on a civil-rights icon. But this is where our national “debate” is right now, so behold racism in action.

Here’s a “larger truth” for you:

Rosa Parks was not a “humble seamstress” who spontaneously decided to defy the rules one day.

She was the Secretary of her local chapter of the NAACP and had been trained in civil disobedience.

(Of course, up until recently, only “obscure right wing” sites dared to point out these facts. Unable to deny them any longer, leftists like those at Common Dreams have recently been forced to accept them, and then try to twist them into yet another narrative.)