Hillary Clinton’s attempt to wrap herself in the legacy of Rosa Parks didn’t end well Tuesday.
“History often gets made on ordinary days by seemingly ordinary people — December 1, 1955 was one of them. Thank you, Rosa Parks,” Clinton wrote when posting a modified version of her campaign logo to Facebook.
She was referring to the moment when Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
The reaction to the graphic was immediately negative.
Lester Asamoah accused Clinton of “basically pimping Rosa Parks’ legacy in her logo for black votes”.
https://twitter.com/LesterAS1/status/671797363686711301
“I’m digusted,” one Twitter user wrote.
https://twitter.com/PhillyTheBoss/status/671807556507951104
“You could’ve at least let Rosa sit at the front of the logo,” @imfromraleigh wrote.
https://twitter.com/imfromraleigh/status/671801550000492544
A leader of the Black Lives Matter protesters — St. Louis Teach for America executive Brittany Packnett — wrote, “Rosa and her legacy are both above this. Nah. I’m not feeling it for *any* candidate.”
https://twitter.com/MsPackyetti/status/671792050250084352
Kristin Mc Hugh deemed the logo an “an obscenity of cultural incompetence.”
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