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In reply to the discussion: Occupy the NRA [View all]friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)15. +1. I'm sure Sharpton would prefer *these* inconvenient truths were ignored:
http://www.onthemedia.org/2010/aug/27/tabula-rosa/transcript/
TIM TYSON: I think for some reason we are unwilling to honor people who are politically active. We want to honor people who just have had enough and sort of spontaneously won't take it any more. But somehow if they get categorized as active citizens, which would be a positive way of saying it, as troublemakers which is the way we often [CHUCKLES] think about such persons then somehow it becomes self-serving, part of a movement which we're less comfortable with. And I think that's just an American popular cultural narrative that we pick up very quickly. And indeed, it started very quickly after the bus boycott. And they talked about her tired feet. That gets mentioned a lot more often than it should. She may have been a little bit tired, but that had nothing to do with the decision that she made. BOB GARFIELD: In that same Washington Post obituary there was, it seemed, a palpable sense of disappointment that the myth is, in fact, a myth. Why are we so reluctant to let it go? TIM TYSON: There's a sense in which Mrs. Parks is very important to our post-civil rights racial narrative, because we really want a kind of sugar-coated civil rights movement that's about purity and interracial non-violence. And so we don't really want to meet the real Rosa Parks. We don't, for example, want to know that in the late 1960s, Rosa Parks became a black nationalist and a great admirer of Malcolm X. I met Rosa Parks at the funeral of Robert F. Williams, who had fought the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina with a machine gun in the late 1950s and then fled to Cuba, and had been a kind of international revolutionary icon of black power. Ms. Parks delivered the eulogy at his funeral. She talks in her autobiography and says that she never believed in non-violence and that she was incapable of that herself, and that she kept guns in her home to protect her family. But we want a little old lady with tired feet. You may have noticed we don't have a lot of pacifist white heroes. We prefer our black people meek and mild, I think.
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Odd, MLK was denied a gun permit when his house was bombed...NT....
virginia mountainman
Jan 2013
#1
Fortunately the truth is better documented than the agenda driven fictions
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2013
#11
+1. I'm sure Sharpton would prefer *these* inconvenient truths were ignored:
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#15
Another DUer told me he was told that if guns have to be controlled, pool noodles should be too.
Squinch
Jan 2013
#18
Do they really think that they will just walk in the front door and take over? N/T
GreenStormCloud
Jan 2013
#14
Went to a couple of Occupy events in Austin. So, now they are dealing with NRA?
Eleanors38
Jan 2013
#19