http://microscopiq.com/2005/11/the-real-rosa/ art • games • change Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:58:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://microscopiq.com/2005/11/the-real-rosa/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Jason Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:24:02 +0000 http://microscopiq.com/?p=122#comment-43 Saying she's overrated is one way to look at it, but I think it is more complicated than that. Personally, I find it interesting to simply have a deeper understanding of who Rosa really was vs. what the media and activist groups chose to play up. I don't think that diminishes her accomplishments, but rather allows us to see her less on a pedestal and more as a real flesh and blood person who accomplished amazing things in her life. What we miss in hero worship is the many other people who also sacrificed for the cause, and perhaps that's what you allude to. But saying that Rosa was not alone is not the same as saying what she did wasn't important. Saying she’s overrated is one way to look at it, but I think it is more complicated than that. Personally, I find it interesting to simply have a deeper understanding of who Rosa really was vs. what the media and activist groups chose to play up. I don’t think that diminishes her accomplishments, but rather allows us to see her less on a pedestal and more as a real flesh and blood person who accomplished amazing things in her life. What we miss in hero worship is the many other people who also sacrificed for the cause, and perhaps that’s what you allude to. But saying that Rosa was not alone is not the same as saying what she did wasn’t important.

]]> http://microscopiq.com/2005/11/the-real-rosa/comment-page-1/#comment-42 AX Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:02:24 +0000 http://microscopiq.com/?p=122#comment-42 Aka: SHE WAS OVERRATED Aka: SHE WAS OVERRATED

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