Mr. Ian Bayne, a candidate for the 11th congressional district in Illinois sent out this email to his supporters today and called Phil Robertson, star of the A&E series “Duck Dynasty,” the ‘Rosa Parks’ of our generation. Ian Bayne wrote in his email that:“In December 1955, Rosa Parks took a stand against an unjust societal persecution of black people, and in December 2013, Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christians, said Ian Bayne. This politician then went further in that email and said that Rosa Parks was famous for refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white person, as was the rule of her day, provided inspiration for a movement of equality of black people and white people in America. What Parks did was courageous, and what Mr. Robertson did was courageous too.”.
This statement above from Ian Bayne is a direct attack on the enduring legacies of Rosa Parks, the American heroine that started a political movement by refusing to give up her seat in a public bus to a white man which then gave birth to a new America of racial equality and justice before her own laws. Rosa Parks stood openly for racial equality and racial integration in America. Phil Robertson stands for sexual segregation, sexual discrimination and anti-gay comments that are based on individual's sexual orientation or preference in life. The legacies of Rosa Parks brought people from all the races, languages, nationalities, cultures, sexual orientations, religions and genders together as one family. The comments of Phil Robertson are offensive to gays and divisive in nature to people from all the walks of life. The legacies of Rosa Parks build the American society as one strong entity, but the comments of Phil Robertson divide the American society along sexual orientation lines. The legacies of Rosa Parks and the comments of Phil Robertson are like any two parallel lines that can never meet at any point when both lines are extended side by side into the eternity future.
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