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In reply to the discussion: Gun-Control Lobby Targets Obama, Demands Reform [View all]friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)34. "Progressivism in this country has always been at the forefront on Gun Control and Prohibition."
Yeah, about that...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x144160#144226
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/39
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=447729&mesg_id=448196
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=337407&mesg_id=337407
SteveM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-30-10 05:22 PM
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Rosa Parks was an armed. No surprise from this Cracker.
Tim Tyson, Visiting Professor at Duke Divinity School, did a little "myth-busting" on NPR's "On The Media" last year, saying this about the fabled civil rights leader Rosa Parks:
"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."
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/08/27/02
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Parks, like Fannie Lou Hamer , kept herself armed for immediate self-protection, and probably knew the limitations of violence within the civil rights movement, so "non-violence" was probably not a philosophical, but more a practical choice. I cannot help but notice that the Washington Post -- agitprop of record for gun-control -- continues to throw mythological pixie dust about in support of the myth of Ms. Parks.
Original message
Rosa Parks was an armed. No surprise from this Cracker.
Tim Tyson, Visiting Professor at Duke Divinity School, did a little "myth-busting" on NPR's "On The Media" last year, saying this about the fabled civil rights leader Rosa Parks:
"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."
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/08/27/02
_____________
Parks, like Fannie Lou Hamer , kept herself armed for immediate self-protection, and probably knew the limitations of violence within the civil rights movement, so "non-violence" was probably not a philosophical, but more a practical choice. I cannot help but notice that the Washington Post -- agitprop of record for gun-control -- continues to throw mythological pixie dust about in support of the myth of Ms. Parks.
Kindly take your revisionism elsewhere...
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Please explain how wearing a gun in public contributes to the problem of dead people.
Pacafishmate
Dec 2012
#46
"Progressivism in this country has always been at the forefront on Gun Control and Prohibition."
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#34
The Vermont Progressive Party makes no mention of gun control on their website.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#49
Then carrying guns around (legally) isn't a marker for *anything*, save...
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#52
It is a choice for any individual as long as guns exist and should be so.
Starboard Tack
Dec 2012
#53
Depends on the situation. Sometimes it may be reactionary, but never is it progressive.
Starboard Tack
Dec 2012
#56
I question your authority to define what a progressive gun owner can wear in public. (n/t)
spin
Nov 2012
#17
The Deacons For Defense And Justice certainly felt it was progressive
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#35
Oh yeah? What else am I prohibited from doing, oh wise and all knowing one?
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2012
#85
It is progressive when various state entities inhibit or infringe upon that right.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2012
#91
While the Constitution forbids disarming the people, Mr. Fineblatt does have a path to reducing gun
TPaine7
Nov 2012
#2
So what are you saying? You accompany them everywhere, like a bodyguard?
Starboard Tack
Nov 2012
#26
Naw man, the wife started carrying her own personal safety device, and happy watches over the kids
ileus
Nov 2012
#28
The plight of gun-controllers is not solely the result of the NRA's power...
Eleanors38
Dec 2012
#44
their influence is waning. they will leave this world having wasted their time and breath
trouble.smith
Dec 2012
#45