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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Bigot
A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion
We are all Bigots on this bus. Do you stand for anything or do you stand for nothing. To be a non Bigot is to Stand for Nothing because there is nothing you will not compromise.
It evolved into this. The answer to frustration.
When you have problems, it is easier to blame someone else for them. The White Southerners were about to become the bottom of the barrel. They didn't want this, so they needed someone else to stand on top of.
That someone else was the Negroes, or blacks.
Their rights could be easily removed, and they could be terrorized, killed, etc. without any legal interference.
This gave the whites a feeling of superiority and control. Something they had to have to get rid of what otherwise would be hopelessness. They were allowed to continue this, because it kept them under control. (which is part of the secret of how we are being used, controlled, TODAY)
This same thing happens in societies all over the world, from the ancient past right up to TODAY ! We are all suckers for the same game.
Nope. I think everyone should have guns (well, except for Demoncrats).
Everyone should have the right to protect themselves from harm. Anyone that chooses to own a firearm should take very seriously the responsibility that comes with it.
I've never met anyone like the ones you claim are using the ANV battleflag.
I suppose you can cite a credible reference for this claim. Lincoln promoted the idea of deportation for former slaves. He refused to meet with delegates from the Southern states before the war, so where you get the idea that he repeatedly offered reparations is a puzzle. To whom did he offer reparations?
One conversation between Lincoln and the CSA's vice-president during the war contains Lincoln's use of a parable that he made up. Lincoln said, in response to Stephens's question "how would freedmen provide for themselves and their families" that a farmer with a herd of pigs could plant potatoes and leave them in the ground for the pigs to feed upon once the ground froze. Stephens asked Lincoln, "So you're saying it would be 'root, pig or perish?'"
AMEN
Slavery by one group over another is not new. Then it was racially motivated against black men. Today it is the power for political control directed against all men.
Slavery is slavery and our government has put us in bondage in every aspect of our lives. Freedom of the individual no longer exists and at some point soon hopefully we will have had enough.
What was it Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty or give me death?"
BUMP! Everyone has the God-given right to defend themselves, their families, property and sacred honor.
Because not everything you hear about "history" is actual true. Why don't you find some elderly people in the south and find out how things were and how they weren't...
Really, though, it isn't strictly a Southern phenomenon, the insistence on preserving the true history of what southerners call "the tragic era". There are lots of Northerners as well as descendants of postwar immigrants who understand the huge turning point that era actually was.
The people I've seen who display the naval jack (that rectangular version of the ANV battleflag) in celebration of such violent incidents as the Greensboro shootings aren't even cognizant of the history of the South. They've been strongly discouraged by Southerners from misusing Confederate symbols in their dimwitted terrorist activities, and those activities have mostly tapered off in the South.
Thanks for making your views clearer. I'm so used to seeing the NAACP/Rainbow/PUSH position promoted here on FR at the expense of Southern people, that my reaction is a knee-jerk at times. No offense intended to you, sir.
Edd
What actually happened after the Cherokee Nation issued a declaration of intent to join the CSA, is that a contingent of Cherokee traditionalists who still harbored ill feelings toward the Cherokee who had signed the New Echota treaty, insisted on backing the US. They were called "Pins" because of their lapel insignia made with straight pins. The Cherokee Nation became a war zone in the struggle between the two factions.
After the war, the entire Cherokee nation was punished for the support for the Confederacy shown by some Cherokee. There are now three bands of Cherokee recognized by the BIA. Two of them are descendants (in large part) of Confederate Cherokee. The United Keetoowah Band is the band which was once called "Pins".
It's fascinating stuff. The issues are still alive in the two bands in Oklahoma today and the US invaded the Cherokee nation's seat of government again during Clinton's second term over some of those issues. The aftermath of the war is still working itself out in various ways among many different segments of the Southern people.
Contrary to the socialist media's depiction of the South, The three dominant races of the South have always coexisted with more mutual respect and interrelation than in any other section of the US. That has always been true and probably always will be true.
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