Following a firestorm of critcism, the Republican National Committee backtracked Monday after publishing a tweet that suggested Rosa Parks ended racism.

The RNC wrote a tweet honoring Parks on Sunday, which was the anniversary of her arrest for refusing to move to the back of a segregated bus in 1955, as Politico reports.

The RNC tweeted a photo of Rosa Parks with the message: "Today we remember Rosa Parks' bold stand and her role in ending racism."

People immediately jumped on the message, responding with sarcastic tweets along with the hashtag "#RacismEndedWhen" and lambasting the GOP for suggesting that racism had ended.

"I'm sure I have been racially profiled recently. Are you sure?" one person questioned; another message read, "Bunch of white dudes say racism is over."

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee also released a sarcastic message aimed at the GOP.

The DCCC tweeted: "#RacismEndedWhen Republicans stopped Congress from fixing the Voting Rights Act... cause who needs that anymore?"

Later on Sunday, the RNC released a tweet saying they should have used different phrasing.

"Previous tweet should have read 'Today we remember Rosa Parks' bold stand and her role in fighting to end racism,'" tweeted the RNC. 

Meanwhile, others spent the weekend praising the memory of Parks, who died in 2005 at the age of 92, as the New York Daily News notes.  

"In a single moment 58 years ago today, Rosa Parks helped change this country," President Obama's office tweeted, posting a photo of the president sitting in the famous seat that Parks refused to give up to white passengers.

Obama visited the bus at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. in April 2012.

"I just sat in there for a moment and pondered the courage and tenacity that is part of our very recent history," President Obama said in 2012.