Language like "take your rightful place behind us" uncalled for. I'm sure the person wasn't really being serious but he should have known that wasn't cool.
That said, people who are comparing this to Rosa Parks are insane. That was a situation in which blacks were forced to live in a constant state of inferiority to whites throughout their everyday life. They couldn't even ride the bus without being FORCED to put themselves lower than white people. And this was enforced by law.
To say that this is the SAME THING as being ASKED, while you are at an event demonstrating in favor of black rights, to step aside so that the people prominently displayed in photos of the event will not be a bunch of white folks, is madness. This is not oppression.
Could the woman with the loudspeaker have been a little nicer and more polite? Maybe. Were the people using language of the oppressors out of line? Definitely. Is this in any way equivalent to Jim Crowe segregation? Good God, no!!
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