So Rosa Parks wasn't the "first" -- but because there was an organization behind her, and she allowed herself to get arrested for the purpose of changing the injustice, she is "deified".

Bill Gates is pretty much proving, with most MS stuff, it's not being first, it's being early and organized.

Any and all who were arrested for the stupid Jim Crow laws deserve thanks and white dominated gov't apologies. But it's fine for Rosa to be a hero.

Similarly it's fine for the Chinese student who stood in front of the tanks. More unknown are the two or three other Chinese students who had tried standing in front of tanks and been run over.

I hope to see Barbershop when it finally gets to Slovakia (next year maybe?); at least on DVD. The BBC Talking Movies review was fine.

It is too bad PC censorship doesn't allow more honesty among white folks in movies; maybe a few more honest black movies will allow some daring non-hollywood types to experiment. But this reminds me of the three black guys sitting around in the Spike Lee movie about Malcolm X -- where the blacks end up burning down the local white pizza place.

Can't help but think about Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe; and how after the white built stuff is destroyed the blacks are not gonna rebuild it or any replacements in the next few years. Like they didn't/ don't in Watts. How sad.