Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., got some pushback online this weekend for her comments evoking the memory of Rosa Parks on the anniversary of her famous arrest.
A tweet Friday from the “Squad” member, along with a quote from Parks, commenting on his famous refusal to give up his bus seat on Dec. 1, 1955 and his subsequent arrest fueled the Civil Rights movement.
FILE: US Rep. talked to Cori Bush (D-MO) to members of the press after President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address to a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol on February 07, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
“People always say I don’t give up my seat because I’m tired, but that’s not true…No, the only tired I am, is tired to give up,” read the quote.
“68 years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat,” Bush tweeted. “We must continue to refuse to give up, in our fight for liberation.”
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The comments were met with criticism from many who knew contemporary America and the America of the 1950s.
Many people ask what rights Bush is not there. Others argued that the Bush era would be better served dealing with “today’s problems for all of your constituents.”
“With respect, you are not Rosa Parks,” another X written by the user. Another user simply dismissed his comments as “quality gibberish.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to Bush’s office for a response.
An African-American seamstress and local activist, Parks was 42 years old when she refused to give up her seat to a White passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama public bus on December 1, 1955.
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At the time, Black bus riders were required to sit in the back of the bus and give up their seats to White riders if the front seats were filled, according to Montgomery’s local ordinance.
American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks poses as she works as a seamstress, shortly after the start of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, February 1956. (Photo by Don Cravens/Getty Images)
Rosa Parks’ quiet but heroic act of defiance landed her in jail and was eventually released on a $100 bond. The firestorm of action and attention that followed her one-woman protest changed American history.
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The US Supreme Court deemed Montgomery’s segregationist policies unconstitutional on Nov. 13, 1956.
Kerry J. Byrne of Fox News contributed to this report.
