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Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Rosa Parks Still One Feisty Lady

   How sad to hear this news ... Rosa Parks, "the mother of the civil rights movement" has dementia. The grand old lady is 91 years old. She has been in the news again lately because of the lawsuit she brought against the hip-hop duo Outkast, for using her name as a song's name. She feels the song violated her publicity rights, and defamed her. The song really has nothing to do with her, other than to exploit her name. The only vague connection is barely to be discerned in the chorus "stop the fuss, everyone move to the back of the bus." I have to wonder why exactly it is that these "gentlemen" can not display the grace and courtesy to acquiesce to her asking that they change the song's title. I am sure they are looking on all this as a great source of publicity for their song and, thereby, their wallets, but... come on guys. Rosa Parks is part of the reason why you have the freedoms that you do. Grant her a little dignity and respect.Think up another name for your song.

1 Comments:

At 2:00 AM, September 23, 2004, Andy Dabydeen said...

Absolutely no respect. The members of Outkast could benefit from living in the world that Rosa Parks did.

 

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