was the father of civil rights, rosa parks is considered its mother. she clarified for the nation the symbol of equality in one simple act. when parks died in 2005 bob mackenzie had this look back at her life. >> reporter: a tiny whisp of a woman but with backbone that would not quit. even as a frail old lady, she still had the presence of a woman who turned an incident into a historic moment. 10 years ago rosa parks came to the bay area to speak at san francisco state. she talked with ktvu's rob roth about that day now 50 years ago when she got on a bus in montgomery alabama after a hard day's work as a seamstress. she and three other black people sat down in the middle of bus where blacks could sit, but would have to leave if a white person wanted the seat. >> it had always bothered me and i think others too. but since they considered it the law it was not very easy to defie their rules. >> reporter: a few stops later a white man got on and could not find a seat. >> he wanted to know if i was going to stand up i told him i was not. he said if you don'

rosa parks refused to sit in the back of the bus. nugent refused to sit in the back of a classroom or anyplace where he might learn stuff. that's next. >> john: ted nugent is in the news again. the motor city rocker, one of the mitt romney's most prominent celebrity supporters in the recent election is of course an outspoken amendment for the second amendment except for the well regulated part. the right wing who rocker who loves to compare people, decided to top himself in an interview with world net daily when he said "there will come a time when the gun owners of america the law-abiding gun owners of america will be the rosa parks and we'll sit down on the front seat of the bus case closed." really, ted? are you sure you want to compare yourself and what you've done to rosa parks and what she did? allow me to make the comparison for you. rosa parks is one of our greatest equal rights activists in the u.s. congress declared her the first lady of civil rights. ted nugent likes to wear confederate flag t-shirts and uses the "n" word

rosa parks fought for that. >> you didn't have a name and i got you. >> i bought roses at a park. >> sleep is the number one thing i think about, but i want to be able to experience sleep. do you know what i mean? i look forward to sleep, but when you fall uh slipe you aren't experiencing it because you are unconscious. there has to be a way to allow you to watch yourself sleep. >> greg we know you discovered that. it is called percocet. >> that allows you to lie there for hours and say this is great, but it is not sleeping. >> so if i film myself sleeping perhaps that would be a solution. drugs are our space program. we no longer go to mars. we have to go to these tiny little planets. >> called? >> called pills. this is what matters to everybody on this planet. we should be encouraging this. >> if pills are planet then lauren's desk is an as straw logical chart. it has the whole milky way scattered across. >> he is still yakking. >> he needs to stay up five or six days and he was like a genius. he balances his heroin with his coke. and apparently he could do it. >> we have this drug

the stage for a new era of social justice because on december first one nine hundred fifty five rosa parks was arrested for refusing to sit at the back of the bus in the section designated for blacks despite what we've learned about rosa parks in our history books that she was some only woman that decided randomly one day she had enough it's important to realize that revolutions don't happen overnight this was merely the turning point of an ongoing struggle one that had been building for years rosa parks just happen to be the catalyst of a movement on the verge of breaking on the day of the mcgovern bus boycott dr king's stepped up to lead the charge for the next three hundred eighty two days those in the movement were heavily targeted with violence threats and arrests until finally in one nine hundred fifty six the us supreme court ruled against racial segregation on public transportation refusing to bask in the small victory king was relentless in his leadership and continued to fight for equal rights against all odds he said injustice everywhere i'm sorry anywhere is a threat to justice

telling worldnet daily, "there will come a time when the gun owners of america -- will be the rosa parks and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus. case closed. [cheers and applause] case closed. if rosa parks had had a gun, she wouldn't have been sitting in the back of that bus, she could have carjacked it. [ laughter ] of course, the nuge has long been an inspiration for the civil rights movement. in the words of the old negro spiritual, "free at last, free at last, wango tango! i'm free at last." we'll be right back. [cheers and applause][cheers an] >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. thank you for rejoining our broadcast already in progress. nation, longtime viewers know i love my sponsors like i love my children-- if my children gave me money. whraf laugh. [ laughter ] that's why i leap, like a mother tigress, to their defense if anyone attacks them. i am especially protective of the coca-cola company's whole family of products. although in this family fanta's kinda the black sheep. [ laughter ] why can't you be more like the neighbor's kid, he's a "doctor." [cheers and app

martin luther king didn't make rosa parks possible. if she had done what she did for refusing to give up her seat on that last, martin luther king would've simply been an articulate, well meaning baptist minister. it's because of rosa parks that were talking about him today. she opened up the possibility for him to display those qualities that he had been to rise to the occasion. >> host: she also said russia was sitting on the best refusing to give up her seat, she was thinking about emmett till, the 14th of black way from chicago who went to mississippi in 1855 and because he was a better way women, was brutally murdered. to think his death changed or start anything in the civil rights movement? >> guest: a lot of things to. it is his death, the brown v. board of education decision. it was the killing of civil rights for yours. it is people like robert johns, the young high school student who got a walkout on the segregated school because of protesting against the inferior education in 1851. many people we don't even know their names

birtd day at rosa parks. chinese new years celebration is also that day at 1030 and wanted to congratulate the winners of the richmond district spelling bee that included elementary schools in the richmond district. thank you. >> i would like to wish everybody because the next meeting is february 12 i happy chinese new year. >> okay. yes commissioner mendoza. >> really quickly i want just to share with everyone the wonderful experience during the mlk celebration. they do an annual event at the theater which is always sold out and always amazing and filled with youth who express yourself in ways that you can't imagine unless you experience it so i encourage you all to support youth speaks and the great work they're doing. i want to congratulate ucsf mission bay campus for their 10 year anniversary which was exciting to have and then lastly i think we already acknowledged this but i wanted to thank mayor lee for the proposal he's putting forward to not pull the trigger for this and the first time since the city

. >> i am checking my calendar and i know that rosa parks, my daughter's school is celebrating rosa parks day on that day monday, so if there are dropouts, people that can't make it i will be there anyway. i would love to participate. >> and you have a special reader coming based on that anniversary. i will tell you later. >> just one more thank you to commissioner maufas for her leadership. it was a collaboration that she put together and event that happened nationally but fell off the radar in san francisco. it was happening in pockets. because of the great support last year it's got a lot of people -- people want to come back. it's crazy how fast the year kind of comes, so i really appreciate that, and somebody earlier mentioned marcos book store which we encourage people to get their books from that book store and considering donating to the school. a bunch of people are going out to el dorado, so it is a large effort that involves a lot of corporations and community members so we appreciate you all being involved and your support. thank you. >> thank you very much and thanks also to

make rosa parks possible. if she hadn't done what she did by refusing to give up her seat on that montgomery bus, martin luther king would have been an articulate, well meaning baptist minister. he opened up, she open the possibility for him to display the qualities that they had and to rise to the location. >> host: she also said as you know while she was sitting on the bus refusing to give up her seat she was thinking about the material of a new young black boy from chicago who went to mississippi and because he looked at a woman he was brutally murdered. do you think that his death changed or sparked anything in the civil rights movement? >> guest: a lot of things did. it was his death, it was the brown v. board of education decision. as people like barbara johns, the high school student that led a walkout of the segregated school because of protesting in the interior education. that's in 1951 we don't even know their names anymore even with rosa parks and montgomery. there were two other teenagers who did

time. >> yeah. >> i think about rosa parks and dr.dership for 16 years as our chair. i think of myrlie evers-williams. if one person understands the power of the vote, it's myrlie evers. she became the naacp chairperson by a one-vote margin and led the organization to their restoration. had she not be there, it would be a different organization today. >> thank you. >> it's how we think of this moment for president obama. in many ways, the re-election, the narrative i heard, the first election was about president obama. the second election was about all the people who they attempted to suppress their voting. so that return was as much about us, right, about them, about the community as it was about president obama himself. >> certainly in the first campaign you heard president obama saying over and over again, it's not about me, it's about us. reinforcing this idea that i think is encompassed in the phrase of the long civil rights movement. people don't pop out of nowhere. that work, there's the bedrock work that gets us to the shining

rocker ted nugent compared gun owners to rosa parks.orld net daily," quote, there will come a time when the gun owners of america, the law-abiding gun owners of america will be the rosa parks and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus. case closed. i wonder if he's off his rocker, pun intended. >>> but then you have yesterday, the judge report showed pictures of hitler and stalin next to a link on the white house considering executive action on gun control. i mean, these are, like, way out there. >> they're totally out ray jous. i don't want to talk about folks who are not serious about this business. we have short term and long term issues that we need to deal with. i've been talking with other mayors and elected officials about the need for a national commission on domestic terism, violence and crime in america. similar to our response at a certain level to the 9/11 tragedy. we had a 9/11 commission we are still utilizing. it's to make sure that we're safe in our air travel that came out of the 9/11 commission. we created the d

because of rosa parks we talk about him today. she opened up the possibility to open those qualities to rise to the equation. >> host: while she refused to give up her seat she was thinking of the 14 year-old black boy from chicago who went to mississippi because he whistled at a white woman was brutally murdered. to that change your spark anything with the civil rights movement? >> his death, brown vs. board of education decision killing of civil-rights workers, the young high-school student who led a walkout to protest against fifth inferior education. 1951. many people we don't even know there names or other teenagers who did the same thing. so the resistance largely among young people. >> definitely when you talk about south africa, we all remember nelson mandela who was in a prison cell. for others to revived a movement in the early '70s and the late '60s. >> host: talking about children, james did something that got a lot of criticism for him and dr. king. >> guest: king was at a crucial point* in birmingham with millions of

>> rosa parks. >> yes. you're right. you're right. >> wow. congratulations. okay.on't be, but the other three will. >> he is using the in-laws' family bible in a small ceremony on monday. then in the public one on monday he's stacking the lincoln and martin luther king jr. bibles. >> let's go back across to kath. we have kim kardashian with us, and it's her birthday from los angeles. who was the first president to be sworn in by a woman? president lyndon johnson, john kennedy, bill clinton, or george w. bush? >> bill clinton? [ buzzer ] >> you're a winner too. >> yes, you are. >> all right, kim kardashian gets my book. so the correct answer here, president lyndon johnson. >> lyndon johnson. you might remember that famous, famous picture on air force one after president kennedy was assassinated. he was sworn in by a dallas judge, sarah hughes. >> okay. well, thank you so much. that was -- we learned a lot, and kathie lee is going to come back across the street now, and we're going to talk to a woman who knows a thing or two about money. our good friend suze orman is

is because of rosa parks that we are talking about him today. he opened up -- she opened up the possibility for him to display those qualities that he had and to rise to the occasion. >> host: she also said as you well know that while she was sitting on the bus refusing to give seat she was thinking about emmett till, the young 14-year-old but what from chicago who went to mississippi in 1955 and because he looked at a white woman he was brutally murdered. do you think that changed or sparked anything in the civil rights movement? >> guest: a lot of things did. there was his death. there was the brown versus board of education decision. there was the killing of the civil rights workers. it was people like barbara jones, the young high school student who led a walkout of the segregated schools to protest against the inferior education. that's in 1951. many people we don't even know their names oregon before rosa parks in montgomery. there were two other teenagers who did the same thing. so this resistance largely among young people. >> host: alwa

but, if rosa parks had been allowed to sit in the front of the bus, we wouldn't have cared enough to desegregate our schools. [ laughter ] now, as a supporter of gay rights, some of you might feel bad that they are going to lose this struggle that they so deservedly won. perhaps, you have a gay friend or relative or you want to leave that choice open to yourself. [ laughter ] well, if you really want to help the gays, ostracize them at work, mock them at school. make them feel like they have no place in our society. [ laughter ] because according to paul clement, we can't give them rights until we wrong them. and that's the word. we'll be right back. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] hey, welcome back, america. [cheers and applause] nation, america has made great strides when it comes to race relations. just today i watched almost an entire tyler perry movie before i realized it was one of those michael jordan hanes commercials. [ laughter ] still, we're closer to that mountaintop. [ laughter ] but some people just won't let racism go. like former secretary of state colin p

how could you draw a parallel between firearms and rosa parks?> you wonder why he wasn't willing to sit in the back of the bus that was carrying young men to the draft back in vietnam. >> that have anything to do with the fact that he lost control of his bowels? >> and apparently that kept him from being able to wield a gun. that aside and ted nugent being a ridiculous individual, and by the way, people who are second amendment advocates should understand letting ted nugent talk is probably as dumb as having wayne lapierre be the spokesman for your cause or maybe -- >> alex jones. >> these guys actually do harm to the cause of people who want reasonable gun control but who are also very pro-second amendment. these guys talking is not helpful. >> right. david, then ra's wayne lapierre has made it clear that the only answer to the proliferation of firearms in america is more firearms, and we know about his pathetic press conference and reaction to newtown, but is it not the case, and you know this because you spent a lot of time on the hill, is it

think about bob moses, rosa parks, e.d. mixon, all of these people had garvey connections. so there's a picture of african-american politics that is much more complicated than we want to acknowledge and i think we have come to terms with our pass and the disgrace of slavery by constructing a narrative that is about how slavery ends and about how freedom is ultimately realized so that the civil rights movement becomes the crucial end point, and episodes, people, movements that don't fit into that, are very problematic, and i think there's also scholars across the political spectrum who have an investment in denying it, and that's -- i've been struck by that. i have had a lot of pushback of anything i've written. more about that but what i discovered is that the movement is still alive. there's a garvey chapter in philadelphia. i organized the conference about three years ago on the unia scholarly conference of small number of scholars who were going to present their work but at the last minute i advertised in a local newspaper and 150 garveyites showed up. we were all astoni

. >> and this whole chapter in the book is about ordinary people saying, like rosa parks saying i'm not getting up today. i'm tired and that is ordinary people taking a stand. >> yes. >> and it's about people. >> you're doing there in a dance piece with your amazing core youngrafy. >> with a number of a -- core youngrafy. >> and i am doing it with two coordinated geniuses. we have two certified geniuses working on this and corey harris, an amazing blues musician. worked with martin scorsese. >> yes. >> amazing and the other mcarthur award winner, the great award in new york theatre. >> yes. >> and laura love. >> so you have an extraordinary group of people who are all geniusus, huge collaborators? >> yes. >> the peace is playing where and when? >> it's playing at the center of the arts. >> okay. >> lamb theatre and used to be novilleas. >> and tonight's the last night to catch it. everyone, run, don't walk and get down there. >> and yes, that is at 8 club tonight. >> what is next for you? you never stop. we have never be a world of piece against each of us, awakening to our example. >>

will come a time when the law-abiding gun owners of america will be the rosa parks and we'll sit down on the bus, case closed and this morning on cnn, the chair of the gun appreciation day suggested slavery wouldn't have occurred if guns had been available to everyone in america at the time. let's listen to this mularkey. >> i think martin luther king would agree with me, if he were alive today, that if african-americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country's founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history. >> what a dumb, dumb nut. joy, you've got to respond. this is not a nut but a dumb nut. slaves didn't come to america as citizens, came in shackles, in the bottom of a ship somewhere if they were lucky to be alive when they got here. the idea they would be armed by anyone. he's obviously patternizing here, trying to act like he cares about the fate of black people and some sort of number he was playing here. who would believe this new larky. >> why is it that every time the far right makes an argument that's insane, they

when i leave here this morning, i will be going to rosa parks senior center. we just spent $2 million of federal monies to redo that whole senior center and allow that to be one of the sites that will post the technology advances you are experimenting with today. our own residents at every location of our senior centers are going to enjoy the technology advances that we have as a society. this is why we work in a great city like san francisco. we want everybody connected. we want to make sure the san francisco connected program reaches all of our seniors, all of the people with disabilities. there is no reason why people ocean not be connected up, and therefore -- no reason why people should not be connected up, there for everybody gets to enjoy the fantastic technology that we have. this is what makes a great city. this is why i enjoy working with you and being the mayor of our great san francisco city. thank you, ann. congratulations on your third summit. thank you very much. [applause] if brian roberts is in the room, thank you for writing that print. it is

thankfully she will soon have company when rosa parks completes her journey. we look around and a member of the men and women who helped define our nation. they like us face obstacles and they like us worked hard to move this country forward. here abraham lincoln surface single term in congress. john quincy adams, the only former president to return to serve in the house spoke out against slavery. today we also remember an event that took place outside of this building. the passage of the historic civil rights laws. we are honored to have witnessed a colleague, congressman john lewis was a speaker at that historic march. >> [applause] >>shows the courage and sacrifice that has made our nation great. please stand and take about so we all can recognize a. you >> [applause] >> behind us the painting we have chosen for this luncheon is niagara falls. painted in 1856. never fails to inspire a tremendous offer the natural beauty of our great country. then and now the mighty fall symbolizes the grandeur, power and possibility of america. i want to thank my former sen

on martin luther king day as the saying goes rosa parks road to that martin luther king could march andack obama could run, and so we would all fly. it was so magnificent for him to take the spirit of dr. king the civil rights movement, take the american story and including everybody in it from our newest americans to our oldest citizens, and when he said our social safety net does not make us weak you could hear the oh throughout the whole crowd. >> jennifer: where were you christine? >> i was up to the president's right. we had a great view of the president and it was really really exciting. we were sitting right near artist john legend and cindy lopper both of who are very active in the community. we were all just cheering practically every line so we were a bit of a rowdy bunch but we were very very excited to be there, and looking out and seeing all of those people it was really really special and wonderful. >> jennifer: yeah, bill, i completely agree with everything, and the thing that struck me bill was that he really spoke clearly about income inequality you don't hear president

think of rosa parks they all had garvey connections. there is a picture of african-american in politics that is much more complicated than we want to acknowledge. we have come to terms with our past by constructing a narrative about house slavery ends and freedom is ultimately realized so the civil-rights movement becomes the crucial and point*. and episodes, a people's movements that don't fit into better very problematic. also the scholars across the political spectrum who have an investment to deny it to. i had a lot of push back of anything i have written written, that part of what i discovered, the movement is still alive, there is a chapter in philadelphia, i organized a conference three years ago, a scholarly conference on nuia but at the last minute i advertise it in the local newspaper and 150 garvey-ites showed up. >> host: what is the garvey-ites political focus? >> guest: nuia, there are some chapters, the one in philadelphia, some in the united states, some elsewhere in the world. also people who are kind of nationalist in

kings, the rosa parks, to make it possible for us to have an open america. it took those that fought for gender equality and gay and l z lesbian rights and labor rights to open up america, it takes those of us now to continue to fight. we have gone through a turbulent time, we've gone through turbulent history. but we've not arrived yet. when you fly, you don't get off the plane when you get out of turbulence, you get off once you've reached your destination. until we get to the destination of this country, this nation living up to its creed, it will not be time for us to dislodge those that do what is necessary to keep this nation moving forward, both in office and those that are out of office and in the streets of this nation raising issues. that's what king day is about. that's what the victory of b arksz barack obama is a victory of. thanks for watching. a special live edition of "hardball" starts right now. >>> well, welcome, good evening, i'm chris matthews live from the news room in washington wra i've been all day. it's been a day of history, pageant

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soon, a statue of rosa parks would join that tribute of dr. king inside the capital.reflect on the civil rights movement. the president explicitly evokes their sacrifices in his inaugural address. >> we, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths, that allover us are crea of us equal, is the star that guides us still, just as it guided our fore bearers through seneca falls and selma and stonewall, just as it guided all of those men and women, sung and unsung who left footprints along this great mall to hear a preacher say that we could not walk alone, to hear a king proclaim that our individual freedom is inextrekblely bound to the freedom offer soul on earth. >> the freedom of every soul. the heart of the civil rights movement. earlier today, civil rights leader and georgia congressman joan lewis talked about this historic day. >> as johnson would say, it's like history and fate coming together for this president, this african american to be inaugurated for a second time on martin luther king, jr. day, it says something about the distance we've come, t

will come a time when the gun owners of america, the law-abiding gun owners of america will be the rosa parks, and we will sit down in the front of the bus, case closed. and this morning on cnn the chairman or chair of the gun appreciation day suggested slavery wouldn't have occurred if guns had been available to everyone in america at the time. let's listen to this malarkey. >> i think martin luther king would agree with me if he were alive today that if african-americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country's founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history. >> what a dumb, dumb nut. joy, you got to start on this. this is not only a nut, but a dumb nut. slaves didn't come to america as citizens. they came in shackles -- >> as property. >> in the bottom of a ship. they're lucky to be alive if they got here. the idea they would be armed by anyone -- you take it on. he's obviously patronizing, trying to act like he cares about the fate of black people. who would believe this malarkey? >> and, chris, why is it every time the far right

. >> and comparing themselves to rosa parks. >> it's so offensive on so many levels.he idea that something like the assault weapons ban is going to compromise the second amendment, you think these guys need better legal counsel. you have assault weapons bans in a number of states. they've been challenged. they have all been upheld as constitutional. in fact, when we had the 1994 act that was passed, the nra did not want to challenge that inside the supreme court because they were scared of an adverse ruling. so you wonder about of this kind of vaunted nra is i think becoming no longer a vaunted nra. it's becoming somewhat more of a paper tiger than a caged tiger because these statements and this communications strategy is not winning any friends. it's losing lots of friends and that's why i think you even hear a lot of pro-nra members saying the kinds of things that the white house are talking about makts a lot of sense and it all shows up in the polling. the poll something overwhelmingly for doing the things that the vice president is talking about. >> but, dr. peter

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ted nugent said yesterday, "there will come a time when the gun owners of america will be the rosa parks and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus, case closed." somehow, according to this twisted logic, questioning the necessity of bushmaster rifles and high capacity magazines has become a violation of basic civil rights on par with the racist era of jim crow, and anyone who suggests that it is indeed time to ask whether 30-round clips makes society safer is deemed a traitor to his party. >> mark the date. it isn't going to be long before moderate republicans start going on television to push the notion that guns are hurting republicans with independent voters and women. the moderate, spineless, linguine-spined republicans it isn't going to be long as this controversy heats up. you know, they wilt. >> this outcry is no longer about a difference of opinions regarding what we need to do to keep the nation's children safe. it has become, instead, a rally to amass and protect an arsenal of battlefield grade weapons, ones that may be needed to fend off a government intent on institut