I think the NRA should take the opportunity to educate her on the history of gun control in America and suggest that she may want to join the Klan in ideological unity.
You’re right.
Most people have heard of Medgar Evers. Most people do not know that Mr. Evers believed in his right to own and carry arms. Myrlie Evers, Mr. Evers widow, said the following: “now we had guns in every room of our house. I slept with a small revolver next to me on the nightstand. He slept with a rifle next to him. We had one in the hall, we had one in the front room. We often talked about it, and he said: “Yes, I will use it if it’s necessary to protect myself, to protect my family, to protect my friends.” Voices of Freedom, Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer, Bantam Books, 1990, p.152
Even fewer people know about the Deacons for Defense and Justice. The Deacons for Defense and Justice, was a group of African American men who were mostly veterans of World War II and the Korean War, who joined together and organized the group in Jonesboro, Louisiana, on July 10, 1964. They were founded to defend the black community and civil rights workers. These were armed black men who armed themselves in self-defense against the white elites who were trying to keep them “in their place”.
The Deacons for Defense and Justice mostly protected civil rights workers from CORE who were registering black voters in Louisiana and Mississippi. This protection also extended to the black neighborhoods where CORE was housing the civil rights workers and to the black churches where CORE was holding voting rights seminars. Armed Deacons escorted the civil rights workers to and from meetings and patrolled black neighborhoods.
By 1965 the Deacons had between fifty and sixty chapters spread across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. In Bogalusa, Louisiana the group had about 900 members.
James Farmer, who was then the head of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), was scheduled to go to Bogalusa. He received a warning from the FBI that the Klan was making death threats against him.
The Deacons must have heard about the threats too because they met Mr. Farmer at the airport. They escorted Mr. Farmer and provided tight security for him during his visit. Mr. Farmer even stayed at the home of the chapter president.
Not only were the Deacons willing to use force to repel an attack, they were armed for the job. This capability and willingness to use force to defend themselves and others provided an effective deterrent to the Klan terrorists. Mr. Farmer wrote about his stay with the Deacons in his autobiography, “ . . .unless a bomb were tossed . . . the Klan could only reach me if they were prepared to swap their lives for mine.”
Floyd McKissick, of CORE, and Martin Luther King, of SCLC, had the Deacons protect the marchers on the “March Against Fear” in 1966. This march, from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi, was organized after James Meredith was shot while trying to make the 220-mile walk by himself. When the marchers reached Greenwood, Mississippi, Stokely Carmichael gave his famous Black Power speech.
Dr. King and Mr. McKissick had the Deacons for Defense and Justice scout ahead of the marchers looking for snipers, and ambushes. They also had them guard the marchers at night as armed guards against raiders.
Today’s race hustlers and political hacks who not only defend the racist and elitist anti-civil rights laws but work to pass them, are spitting on the work of people who were giants compared to them. The hustlers and hacks can’t lick the boots of men like Martin Luther King, James Farmer, Roy Innis, Medgar Evers and James Meredith, never mind walk in their shoes.
Civil rights groups like the NRA (the nation’s oldest civil rights group) have their work cut out for them and need the support of every freedom loving person to roll back these anti-civil rights laws and to hold the racists and elitists at bay.
Yes, both the Klan AND American Socialists are for disarming people.
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I think the NRA should take Sheila down to the range and put a Glock 19 in her hands and let her take out some of that anger on a target. Any woman with her level of anger would take to guns like a duck to water.