THOSE WERE THE DAYS...

A most excellent column by Deroy Murdock in National Review, read it here. Mr. Murdock reminds us that unfortunately, there is no one out there that can currently fill Rosa Parks shoes (or bus seat as it were.) Said Murdock: "Detroit buried a giant on Wednesday. How sad that Rosa Parks is survived by pygmies."

Some of the smallest of the small:

• U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D., Ga.) who opposed the use of picture ID cards for voters. It's too "Jim Crow" and all that there stuff.
• Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan, moonbat extraodinare, "who called for called for a separate-but-equal black cabinet, including black departments of Defense, Education, and Health and Human Services."
• U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D., Tex.), one of the most intellectually vacant members of Congress, who said “All racial groups should be represented,” among the World Meteorological Organization’s names for tropical cyclones. Lee worried that 2003’s hurricane designations, including Larry, Sam, and Wanda, did not include more “black-sounding” monikers, such as LaToya and Shemika."
• Rev. Jesse Jackson, defiler of The Dream, "leader of a parade of corporate shakedown schemes, love-ins with Latin thugs, such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, and a quixotic mission to dragoon NASCAR into hiring one or two black speed racers."

The Bible says we will cry no more after we reach heaven. I hope that's true - otherwise Rosa's eyes must filled with bitter tears when she looks at the squandered legacy she left behind.
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[hat tip: Neal Boortz]