After all, A might believe B- but that doesn't mean all those who believe B agree with A about anything else.
Prominent examples:
Robert Welch, the founder of the John Birch Society, opposed the Vietnam War. Dick Cheney claims to support same-sex marriage
Let me show you some
other people I'd like to have as colleagues:
Euromutt (1000+ posts) Mon Oct-12-09 09:06 PM
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85. What happens if a black woman owns a gun?
Fannie Lou Hamer (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Lou_Hamer ) attributed the fact that no racist redneck ever tried to burn a cross on her lawn (or worse) to the fact that she let it be known that she kept "a shotgun in every corner of the room." It's a bit curious to assert that one of the leading lights of the civil rights movement was out to "demonize minorities, distort the issue of crime in America, express contempt for women gaining access to power, and distract Americans from the real issues of democracy."
And when Eleanor Roosevelt went to the South to support the civil rights movement, she made damn sure she kept a loaded revolver on the car seat beside her in case some Klansmen ever tried anything.
friendly_iconoclast (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-13-09 12:32 AM
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89. Then you get Harriet Tubman. Or Zora Neale Hurston
Edited on Tue Oct-13-09 12:37 AM by friendly_iconoclast
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/305.html Abolitionist's rifle engulfs N.J. artist in fray
By John Yocca, staff writer, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2000
Her every step a perilous one, famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman could afford no slip-ups as she shuttled slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Timing was tight, indecision an enemy. When escaped slaves in her care hesitated on the frightening march to liberation, Tubman, a determined and gritty former slave herself, coaxed them northward with a loaded gun.
A century-and-a-half later, New Jersey artist Mike Alewitz chose that Image of Tubman -- a lantern in one hand, a rifle in the other -- as the centerpiece for one of five sprawling ceramic murals he fashioned for the state of Maryland, Tubman's birthplace.
For Alewitz, the depiction is appropriate, both historically accurate And symbolic of the danger Tubman faced as she led more than 300 slaves out of captivity. But the artist's creation has been less than well received by The nonprofit group that was to display the work on an exterior wall in Baltimore this month....
Zora Neale Hurston:
"We, too, consider machine gun bullets good laxatives for heathens who get constipated with toxic ideas about a country of their own.”New York Times, December 3, 2001
Tales of the Devil, Heaven and Ole Massa, Too
By JANET MASLIN
...Driving her own car through the rural South and
toting a gun, Zora Neale Hurston embarked in 1927 on a two-year effort to collect samples of African-American folklore. She was a Barnard College student of anthropology at the time....
friendly_iconoclast (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-13-09 04:14 AM
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93. Here's a specific instance of Burbicks' falsification of history. From Buzzflash, yet.
http://blog.buzzflash.com/interviews/041 Gun rights ideology undermined social movements that were saying that political power and economic power needed to be extended to women and people of color in the United States.
Oh, really?
Seems Ms. Burbick 'forgot' several important instances of women and/or people of color exercising
their Second Amendment rights.
I give you:
Eleanor Roosevelt. Used to drive around the South with a handgun at her side, and she knew how to use it:
Robert F. Williams, author of "Negroes With Guns" and host of "Radio Free Dixie". Also the subject of
a biography with the same title.
The Deacons For Defense And Justice. Who organized armed self-defense for civil rights activists.
The Lumbee tribe, of North Carolina. Who drove off the KKK at the Battle of Hayes Pond.
The Black Panthers. Whose practice of 'open carry' with loaded firearms scared the shit out of the
white establishment of California (and J. Edgar Hoover), and led that well known progressive
Ronald Reagan to sign the Mulford Act banning that practice in California.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=144160&mesg_id=144226