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Robert F. Williams [Chat]
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Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
So I promised to tell you what happened to cause the Klan to go after the Lumbee tribe rather then the local African-Americans.
Well it starts with the man on the far right of the first picture, Dr. Albert E. Perry. And the man in the second picture, Robert F. Williams.
These two men joined their local branch of the NAACP and managed to jump start what was a dying branch. As they managed to grow their local numbers, they decided it was time to start doing something. So in 1957 they began to push for the integration of local swimming pools. As you can guess, the local Klan didn't take kindly to this. But Perry and Williams figured that would be the case. So they began to prepare. They gathered up an organization of local black veterans. And they reached out to the NRA to get a charter for a local rifle training association, seeing as they were veterans and decided to leave out that they were black, the NRA got them set up to conduct rifle training. Also a nice selection of military surplus weapons. And they trained.
The Klan decided they were going to go after Dr. Perry who was one of the major fundraisers for the local NAACP. On 5 October 1957 they held a rally in Monroe to get themselves nice and psyched up to go burn down Dr. Perry's house. They lead a motorcade to his house and began to fire into the air, hoping to build up the proper air of terror. And it was terror they got. When they realized that the black men at Dr. Perry's house weren't scattering in fear but rather were in prepared fighting positions with sandbags and prepared dirt to give them lots of cover. Oh and they were shooting back. It appears that the local NAACP members decided to shoot low, but it was effective since the Klan scattered in terror.
The degree of restrain shown by the local NAACP members wasn't lost on the local town council. The city government in Monroe banned Klan motorcades the next day. Mostly because they were afraid that the violence would escalate and they weren't likely to live through it being put down. The Klan would go on to what they thought was a weak target.
But Robert F. Williams goes on to be a very polarizing figure in the Civil Rights movement. He frequently debated Martin Luther King about non-violence until 1961. That year he was accused of kidnapping by the FBI. He fled the country. First to Cuba, then to China. Later he returned to the US and appeared in court where the kidnapping charges were quickly dropped. He'd play a major role in the black power movement.
Well it starts with the man on the far right of the first picture, Dr. Albert E. Perry. And the man in the second picture, Robert F. Williams.
These two men joined their local branch of the NAACP and managed to jump start what was a dying branch. As they managed to grow their local numbers, they decided it was time to start doing something. So in 1957 they began to push for the integration of local swimming pools. As you can guess, the local Klan didn't take kindly to this. But Perry and Williams figured that would be the case. So they began to prepare. They gathered up an organization of local black veterans. And they reached out to the NRA to get a charter for a local rifle training association, seeing as they were veterans and decided to leave out that they were black, the NRA got them set up to conduct rifle training. Also a nice selection of military surplus weapons. And they trained.
The Klan decided they were going to go after Dr. Perry who was one of the major fundraisers for the local NAACP. On 5 October 1957 they held a rally in Monroe to get themselves nice and psyched up to go burn down Dr. Perry's house. They lead a motorcade to his house and began to fire into the air, hoping to build up the proper air of terror. And it was terror they got. When they realized that the black men at Dr. Perry's house weren't scattering in fear but rather were in prepared fighting positions with sandbags and prepared dirt to give them lots of cover. Oh and they were shooting back. It appears that the local NAACP members decided to shoot low, but it was effective since the Klan scattered in terror.
The degree of restrain shown by the local NAACP members wasn't lost on the local town council. The city government in Monroe banned Klan motorcades the next day. Mostly because they were afraid that the violence would escalate and they weren't likely to live through it being put down. The Klan would go on to what they thought was a weak target.
But Robert F. Williams goes on to be a very polarizing figure in the Civil Rights movement. He frequently debated Martin Luther King about non-violence until 1961. That year he was accused of kidnapping by the FBI. He fled the country. First to Cuba, then to China. Later he returned to the US and appeared in court where the kidnapping charges were quickly dropped. He'd play a major role in the black power movement.
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@Organichu
Mostly because I'm leaving in a half hour and I hadn't gotten one yet this trip
And with that I no longer have any tiny portraits of Lizzie
oh thank christ
If this is about the game I agree
If this is about the candy bar I am afraid I don't understand
River Walks of Nottinghamshire shall have to await it's turn
It is about my bank account not having a minus number in it anymore.
Are you in Scotland?
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Irnbru is done to an extent in England too.
By design none of our windows outside of a single conference room overlook the river here. I have two views of two different car parks.
On the bright side, you can get a head start on your photo book "The Car Parks of Cambridgeshire"
This will be a great chat
I start that last year:
Speaking of which, how comes along your novel, An American in Anglia?
I have started chapter 15: Wherein an American discovers the joys of cottage pies.
Morning.
that's halfway to a packet of crisps, on sale
Postscript: The Shepherd and his Pie
But I paid 230,- for unlimited coffee from the student cafeterias so that probably works out to something like 0,60 per cup so I can't complain
most of the automation leaps have already taken place - rice cookers, processed meats, etc.
this music video always makes me think, man it is a damn shame that we don't have sabre armed cavalry anymore because man look at that shot (1:22)
it looks badass as all hell
or... I dunno, a pack of cigarettes or a beer
But really, what does a pack of cigarettes cost? The relative priceyness of alcohol and cigarettes are interesting, even if the reason is mainly due to sin tax (of which we have a lot of too)
I just want to say, that I'm not saying that if you end up dating one race more than the other that, that's a bad thing. I DO find it highly questionable when people go "Well I prefer X" if X is not the same race/culture/ethnicity as them* and wonder where it's coming from. Because I start to wonder if it's from a place of stereotypes/fetishization. Like, there's a difference between "I live amongst a high concentration of X so I mostly date X" and "I will only date X because X is superior than A, B, C, and D" to me.
My biggest problem is "I won't date A, B, C, or D" or even "I won't date X" because they go "Well the entirety of them are unattractive/we have nothing culturally in common". It's the shutting down and labeling everyone that belongs to that culture/race/ethnicity as being unattractive/culturally inferior that bothers me.
*I say this because sometimes people do find it nice to date within the same race/culture/ethnicity as them because it makes it easier and there are just certain things that might not come across well in a mixed relationship. But I would have a problem if the reasoning was "Well everyone else is unattractive and savage", obviously.
Also @Wash had a good point about mixed people. As we become more of a mixed society, certain identity markers are getting mixed up all the time. Like, maybe someone would want an Asian and White woman more so than a Black and Asian woman, but then why would that be if you're attracted to Asian features and both women had the same amount of Asian identity markers, etc, etc.
@Hakkekage @skippydumptruck @poshniallo @Mazzyx
(85 is the take away price, 90 is eating in the restaurant. Grocery has less VAT, 14%, and one unintentional effect of that is that there is no difference between a can of beans and a burger, as long as you take it out of the store. So everything has two listed prices.)
which was a strange experience because he votes for the less-taxes-and-man-if-the-government-would-just-use-some-common-sense party and I emphatically don't, so it became a strange mix of us both trying to explain a thing to them, together, while also indirectly debating each other, without actually directing arguments at each other
the foreign couple was perhaps, less than fully enlightened by us due to this