Interview: Rosa Parks on Human Trafficking

Each week, I will be bringing you a new interview with a formerly-active activist or abolitionist, that is, someone now deceased.  I'll be talking to the men and women who paved the way for the abolitionists of today and getting their thoughts on the problems and solutions of modern-day slavery.  How do I contact not just the dead, but the famous and dead?  Every good blogger must have her secrets!

This week... Rosa Parks

How's the afterlife treating you?

Oh wonderful.  Up here everyone gets a seat.

For those non-biography readers out there, how about you tell me a little about yourself.

I was an African-American civil rights activist and leader, sometimes called the Mother of the American civil rights movement.  I famously refused to give up my seat on a bus to a white man, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott and becoming a symbol of the civil rights movement.

What do you think is the biggest problem in the modern-day abolitionist movement?

We first have to recognize that every person is a citizen of the world, and that every person is entitled to the same rights because of that.  Not until we recognize this basic humanity and basic equality can we fight something so large as the specter of slavery.

If you were alive, what would you do to fight slavery?

I would organize a boycott of different industries which rely on slave labor and slave-made goods.  People listen when you hit them in the pocket book.

Any last thoughts for our readers?

Oukast was right- I am the type of people who made the club get crunk!