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Negroes with Guns
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| 12/28/2001
| Dr. Michael S. Brown
Posted on 12/31/2001 10:15:58 PM PST by SteveH
'Negroes With Guns'
Dr. Michael S. Brown
Dec. 28, 2001
The year was 1957. Monroe, N.C., was a rigidly segregated town where all levels of white society and government were dedicated to preserving the racial status quo. Blacks who dared to speak out were subject to brutal, sadistic violence.
It was common practice for convoys of Ku Klux Klan members to drive through black neighborhoods shooting in all directions. A black physician who owned a nice brick house on a main road was a frequent target of racist anger.
In the summer of 1957, a Klan motorcade sent to attack the house was met by a disciplined volley of rifle fire from a group of black veterans and NRA members led by civil rights activist Robert F. Williams.
Using military-surplus rifles from behind sandbag fortifications, the small band of freedom fighters drove off the larger force of Klansmen with no casualties reported on either side.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial
KEYWORDS: banglist; braad; scary
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To: onyx
To be honest, I didn't see anything wrong with them. They were less inflammatory than my drunken rant.
To: Dan from Michigan
so what were the first 10 comments deleted for?
To: rockfish59
I have no idea. I saw about 6 of the 10 and nothing was wrong with them from what I read.
To: Dan from Michigan
Where's your drunken rant? I want to read it!!!!!
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posted on
12/31/2001 11:27:56 PM PST
by
onyx
To: Dan from Michigan
Plan on Running for Condits job??...L~
To: Dan from Michigan
you're drunk?
for shame!
lol!
To: Dan from Michigan
If # 11 is your drunken rant, keep drinking. Reads well, IMHO! (I'm completely sober!)
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posted on
12/31/2001 11:29:51 PM PST
by
onyx
To: onyx
Post 11.
To: Dan from Michigan
Read them, too... didn't see any problem with them... mebbe 'twas a mistake?
To: austinTparty
No idea, and it's not worth arguing with the moderator over. I am laughing about mine staying up though, although the Klan is an easy target and rightly so(BTW - IN THEIR FACE with CCW).
BTW - Happy New Year to you and yours!
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To: Ace2U
Comment #33 Removed by Moderator
To: Ace2U; dan from michigan
as are those who wave Confederate battle flags with feeling of nostalgia for the days of bondage and misery for large blocks of their fellow human beings. i agree with your post with this exception...
there are some (and i'm in the west, not south) who fly the battle flag as an act
of solidarity with the meaning behind the 10th amendment, not racism.
i think your blanket condemnation of the flag is somewhat off center.
and yes, i understand this is a volatile issue to some.
happy new year.
To: Ace2U
The origin of the Klan appears to be completly foreign to you. (ie: you are an idiot) At the conclusion of the War Between the states (Civil War) all whites in the former Confederate states lost the right to vote. To keep it simple for you, the Whites could not elect sheriffs so they lost all law enforcement. A good sample of this is in the movie GONE WITH THE WIND. Inhabitants of "Shanty Town" (Blacks) attack Scarlit. Husband, Father, Friends arm thenselves an rid the community of this vermin. Just like your example of Black action in the 1920's. "Be careful not to muddy the water, you may have to drink it"!
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posted on
01/01/2002 12:23:22 AM PST
by
Blake#1
To: Blake#1
At the conclusion of the War Between the states (Civil War) all whites in the former Confederate states lost the right to vote. They could NOT vote UNTIL they laid their arms down and (gag on this), PLEDGED ALLEGIENCE TO THE FLAG
To: glock rocks
Believe it or not, there are Black people who wave it too, because they are the descendents of Black soldiers (Free Men, if I'm not mistaken) who served in the Confederate Army). It was a strange and sad war, and a lot of the country's ills can be traced back to it.
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posted on
01/01/2002 12:39:31 AM PST
by
Don Joe
To: Bad~Rodeo
This jerks showing his age....Negroes LOL~ The title of the article was taken from the title of a book published in 1962:
....described the battle in his 1962 book, "Negroes With Guns,"
In 1962, Negro was not Politically Incorrect. It was capitalized and was the Spanish word for.....Black.
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posted on
01/01/2002 12:42:53 AM PST
by
Polybius
To: Bad~Rodeo
Wrong! Northern vengence had no sympathy for the former Confederates. It took the election of 1872 to get the Union Army (the new sheriff) out of the former Confederate states. You may think that any white with a southern accent is automatically a bigot. Why would these people form vigilates if they had their own police? If you can still pay attention, Whites with a northern accent may, may, in the future do the same thing these post war southerners had to do.
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posted on
01/01/2002 12:45:21 AM PST
by
Blake#1
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