CAN I urge C J Meek to read and familiarise himself with the life and times of Rosa Parks, ‘Where’s our Rosa Parks?’ (SA July 14). Rosa Parks, like thousands of other black Americans and black African Americans, went through what can only be described as a living hell to get equal rights.
The so-called ‘white indigenous’ population of this country are not experiencing anything like the conditions that black people were when Rosa Parks started her bus boycott in Montgomery in July 1955.
For instance, can you tell us when a white lady was arrested and thrown off a bus because she committed the ‘crime’ of sitting at the front and not the back of a bus?
On a recent anti-racist demonstration I attended in London, I spoke to a group of black people from Swaziland who said Rosa Parks continued to inspire them.
Rosa Parks was a wonderful and gallant woman whose name and memory should not be besmirched in the way C J Meek did in his letter. Shame on you. Thankfully my perception of life is not the same as that of C J Meek.
Martin Webb, Swindon Road, Swindon
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