Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has passed away and is now riding the bus to heaven, and this time she gets to sit in the front seat. She was 92. Gotdamn….

Shirley Kaigler, Parks’ lawyer, said she died while taking a nap early on Monday evening surrounded by a small group of friends and family members.

“She just fell asleep and didn’t wake up,” Kaigler said. Seeing as how she was battling dementia, maybe she just forgot to wake up.

The cause of death was not immediately known, but we know one thing for sure, the bus driver didn’t do it.

Kaigler said Parks was at home in an apartment complex overlooking the Detroit River and the border with Ontario, Canada, when she died.

In case you’ve been living under a rock or are just dumb as hell, here’s a small history lesson: Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 landed her in jail and sparked a bus boycott that is considered the start of the modern civil rights movement. She will forever be known as the strong and defiant lady who said “Fuck ya’ll, my feet hurt”. Dr. Scholls doesn’t care about black people.

Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She was taught by her mother, who was a school teacher, and then attended segregated schools. Parks went to the all-black Alabama State College.

In 1932, she married Raymond Parks and they both worked for their local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Parks became the local NAACP secretary in the 1943 and advisor of the NAACP Youth Council in 1949.

On December 1, 1955, Parks was riding home from work on the bus. The bus driver told her to give her seat to some white dude and she said HELLNAW, as any sane black woman would. She was arrested, found guilty of disorderly conduct, and fined $14. It was the clank-clank heard around the world. Dr Martin Luther King heard of this bullshit and started a “EFF WHITEY” rally in protest. In 1957, Parks lost her job got the fuck outta dodge because the Krazy Kracka Klan was making threats.

In 1965, Parks joined the staff of Congressman John Conyers and worked for him until 1988. In 1980, she received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize. In 1999 she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor. And right now, in 2005, Andre 3000 is relieved as hell that he doesn’t have to give up any money, but he’s sorry Miss Jackson.

Rest in peace, Rosa.

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