Outcry after anti-mask Calif. politician compares herself to Rosa Parks

A white California lawmaker compared her refusal to wear a mask to racial justice protester Rosa Parks being forced to sit at the back of a bus during the era of racial segregation.

Anti-mask politician Jessica Alexander, a member of the Temecula City Council, came under fire for the comments she reportedly made during a debate on continuing with virtual meetings.

And she invoked the image of Rosa Parks, a Black woman who in 1955 refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, for a white man.

“Look at Rosa Parks … She finally took a stand and moved to the front, because she knew that that wasn’t lawful,” she said, according to video of the meeting posted to YouTube.