Posted on 01/13/2017 7:02:41 AM PST by Freemeorkillme
http://truenewsusa.blogspot.com.br/2017/01/roy-innis-dead-at-82-may-he-rip.html
RIP Mr Innin.
What I liked about Roy Innis is that - at least from what I saw of him in the 90s and 00s was that he honestly just wanted everyone to be treated fairly. Even after two of his sons were killed by men using guns he still wanted U.S. citizens to have access to firearms to defend themselves.
The name Roy Innis instantly brings up a golden moment from the early 90s, Jerry Rivers and the degradation of daytime TV; Citing Wikipedia:
“Although public perceptions in the show’s first season were leading to this dubious title, the episode that solidified Geraldo as “Trash TV” was the November 3, 1988, episode involving white supremacists, anti-racist skinheads, black activists, and Jewish activists. A confrontation between John Metzger (the son of Tom Metzger) and Roy Innis (in which Metzger goaded Innis by referring to him as “Uncle Tom”) led to Innis walking over to Metzger and forcefully grabbing him by the neck, and subsequently a full-scale brawl with chairs hurled and punches thrown. Audience members, several stage hands and Rivera himself got involved, throwing a few punches at a white supremacist. In the process, Rivera was struck in the face by a chair and wound up with a broken nose.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldo_(TV_series)
Good times.
Thoughts and prayers for his family
“Good times.”
Movin’ on up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8PTUa6oNk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Cegid0GjQ
Why is it the good people.
Should have been Sharpton.
Criminal justice and National Rifle Association
Innis was long active in criminal justice matters, including the debate over gun control and the Second Amendment. After losing two sons to criminals with guns, he became an advocate for the rights of law-abiding citizens to self-defense.[6] A Life Member of the National Rifle Association, he also served on its governing board. Innis also chaired the NRA’s Urban Affairs Committee and was a member of the NRA Ethics Committee, and continued to speak publicly in the US and around the world in favor of individual civilian ownership of firearms, gun issues, and individual rights.
Innis lost two of his sons to criminal gun violence. His eldest son, Roy Innis, Jr., was killed at the age of 13 in 1968. His next oldest son Alexander, 26, was shot and slain in 1982. Innis told Newsday in 1993 “My sons were not killed by the KKK or David Duke. They were murdered by young, black thugs. I use the murder of my sons by black hoodlums to shift the problems from excuses like the KKK to the dope pushers on the streets.”
Controversy
Innis was noted for two on-air fights in the middle of TV talk shows in 1988. The first in the midst of an argument about the Tawana Brawley case during a taping of the The Morton Downey, Jr. Show, Innis shoved Al Sharpton to the floor. Also that year, Innis was in a scuffle on Geraldo with white supremacist John Metzger. The skirmish started after Metzger, son of White Aryan Resistance founder Tom Metzger, called Innis an “Uncle Tom”, and Innis grabbed the seated Metzger’s throat, appearing to choke him.
Source: Wikipedia
Rest in peace, Mr. Innis.
Roy Innis was a man in full. He had integrity.
Regards,
OMG.
I remember that.
Too funny...
And who could forget when he choked that racist on live tv.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5rCInKxSaQ
Somehow we had that episode on a home recorded VHS tape when I was a kid. I remember breaking it down frame by frame and watching all of the individual scuffles inside the battle. The white supremacists who were being interviewed were pretty much pussies who got beat pretty bad. Jerry got a couple good shots in before getting hit with the chair. Roy was pretty tough too. But I vividly remember a huge white supremacist audience member with enormous arms, casually walking across the stage and destroying a skinny little white guy.
I must have watched that tape 100 times over the years.
It is also the first thing I think of when I hear the name Roy Innis.
A true man. Not a black man, not a man of color, just a man. He, like all who swim against the tide, was referred to as an Uncle Tom or worse by those who were not worthy to stand in his shadow.
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