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In honor of Black History month...
We will soon start hearing and seeing oft repeated stories of MLK and others.. But here are some stories of the average Black American who used their 2nd Amendment rights to protect themselves from the racist Democrats in the KKK.
The same Democrats who now want to take away their guns.
We will soon start hearing and seeing oft repeated stories of MLK and others.. But here are some stories of the average Black American who used their 2nd Amendment rights to protect themselves from the racist Democrats in the KKK.
The same Democrats who now want to take away their guns.
When black Americans used the Second Amendment to fight the Ku Klux Klan | Rare
Martin Luther King, Jr. preached nonviolence. Robert F. Williams didnt have that option.
As the head of the North Carolina NAACP during the civil rights era, World War II veteran Williams stockpiled weapons and trained his black neighbors to fight the Ku Klux Klan.
For Williams, it was literally do or die.
If government is supposed protect citizens and their liberties, what do you do when government either refuses or passively encourages violence through inaction?
Hip-hip journalist Davey D explains, At the time, the Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local law enforcement refused to provide protection to the black community while supporting and enabling perpetrators of violence in (Williams) hometown of Monroe, North Carolina.
In those days, local government or law enforcement were often indistinguishable to the black community from the KKK. Just how many men hiding beneath those white sheets were also on the county council or in the police department?
In 1946, the black community of Monroe, under Williams leadership, had had enough. The New York Times reported that Williams formed the Black Guard, after seeing Klan members make a black woman dance at gunpoint like a puppet.
Davey Ds hiphopandpolitics.com gives us another terrible snapshot of what gave rise to Williams militia:
Bennie Montgomery, a fellow vet and friend of Williams, killed a white man in self-defense. The white man had assaulted him and tried to slit his throat because he asked for his wages at noon instead of at the end of the day. The Ku Klux Klan wanted to come to town for revenge but authorities shipped Montgomery out of town, convicted him and executed him in the gas chamber. When Montgomerys body was shipped back to his family the Klan said his body belonged to them. They said they was going to come and take the body drag it up and down the streets and then hang and burn it.
Williams and fellow vets made a defense plan at the local barbershop. When the Klan motorcade pulled up in front of the Harris Funeral Home, 40 black men leveled their rifles, taking aim at the line of cars. Not a shot was fired; the Klansmen simply weighed their chances and drove away.
The primary purpose of the Second Amendment has never been simply to hunt or even just to protect ones property. It was for Americans to protect themselves against tyrannical government.
For gun control advocates, saying citizens must arm themselves against government might sound extreme or perhaps like something that should be relegated to the 18th century.
But relatively speaking, Jim Crow didnt end that long ago.
Robert Williams mightve understood the true purpose of the Second Amendment better than any American of the last half-century.
Williams told a critical NAACP convention in 1959, Tom Paine, Washington, Jefferson, and Patrick Henry were all honorable men who are supposed to represent the true spirit of America. These noble men advocated violence as a vehicle of liberation
Williams added, We as men should stand up as men and protect our women and children. I am a man, and I will walk upright as a man should. I will not crawl.
Crawl, he did not. Biographer Timothy B. Tyson noted of Williams, Threatened with death, he walked down the street carrying a pistol, which would be a normal white, Southern thing to do.