#Robert F Williams

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Negroes with Guns - Robert F. Williams

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Negroes with Guns is a 1962 book by civil rights activist Robert F. Williams. Timothy B. Tyson said, Negroes with Guns was "the single most important intellectual influence on Huey P. Newton, the founder of the Black Panther Party".

The book is used in college courses and is discussed in debates. Negroes with Guns was Williams' experience throughout the Civil Rights Movement of Monroe, North Carolina.

Because black rights were constantly violated, the self-defense policy was born, with Williams saying there was a need to "meet violence with violence." However, Williams claimed that black militants were not promoting violence, but were combating it, believing in self-defense and not aggression.

NEGROES WITH GUNS: Rob Williams and Black Power tells the dramatic story of the often-forgotten civil rights leader who urged African Americans to arm themselves against violent racists. In doing so, Williams not only challenged the Klan-dominated establishment of his hometown of Monroe, North Carolina, he alienated the mainstream Civil Rights Movement, which advocated peaceful resistance.

For Williams and other African Americans who had witnessed countless acts of brutality against their communities, armed self-defense was a practical matter of survival, particularly in the violent, racist heart of the Deep South.

As the leader of the Monroe chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Williams led protests against the illegal segregation of Monroe’s public swimming pool. He also drew international attention to the harsh realities of life in the Jim Crow South.

All the while, Williams and other protestors met the constant threat of violence and death with their guns close at hand. In August 1961, the Freedom Riders, civil rights activists trained by Martin Luther King, Jr. to lead non-violent resistance, came to Monroe to demonstrate the superiority of passive resistance. An angry mob turned on the protestors and, by the end of the day, the Freedom Riders had been bloodied, beaten and jailed, and Rob Williams was on the run from the FBI.

Backed by a jazz score by Terence Blanchard (Barbershop and the films of Spike Lee), NEGROES WITH GUNS uses interviews, rare archival footage and searing photographs to chronicle Williams’ rise to notoriety, his eight-year exile in Cuba and Mao Zedong’s China and his much-publicized return home in 1969. Voices include historians, members of Williams’ Black Guard—armed men committed to the protection of Monroe’s black community—and Williams’ widow, Mabel. For eight years, Williams and his family lived in exile, first in Cuba and then in China.

In Havana, Williams began to broadcast a 50,000-watt radio program called "Radio Free Dixie." Selected recordings are featured in NEGROES WITH GUNS. The radio show fused cutting-edge music with news of the black freedom movement and Williams’ editorials, which, among other things, urged blacks not to fight in Vietnam.

In exile from 1961 to 1969, at the height of the American Civil Rights Movement, Rob Williams and his accomplishments have been largely erased from the public consciousness. According to the filmmakers, NEGROES WITH GUNS helps to “restore Rob and Mabel Williams to their rightful place as important civil rights figures who defied the white power structure without the protection of large numbers or the attention of television cameras.”

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Vermont Governor DILFs

Peter Shumlin, Jim Douglas, Phil Scott, Howard Dean, Deane C. Davis, George Aiken, F. Ray Keyser Jr., Franklin S. Billings, Charles Manley Smith, Richard A. Snelling, Harold J. Arthur, Horace F. Graham, John A. Mead, Joseph B. Johnson, Lee E. Emerson, Thomas P. Salmon, William Henry Wills, Mortimer R. Proctor, Ernest W. Gibson Jr., Robert Stafford, Philip H. Hoff, Allen M. Fletcher

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In 1917, two Royal Corp pilots on patrol over France got attacked by Germans in World War I. Alexander Mackaye thought he was done for when his wing man flew into a cloud and actually disappeared. In actuality, the other pilot was transferred 42 years into the future. ("The Last Flight", Twilight Zone, TV, Event)

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From the September 12, 2024 article:

The last few weeks could hardly have gone worse for the Libertarian Party of Iowa. Republican activists successfully forced the party’s three U.S. House candidates off the ballot, leaving Nicholas Gluba, Marco Battaglia, and Charles Aldrich to run write-in campaigns in the first, third, and fourth Congressional districts.

Meanwhile, a crowded field of presidential candidates imperils Libertarian prospects to retain major-party status in Iowa for the next election cycle.

Republicans sued to keep Libertarian congressional candidates off the ballot on the grounds that the Libertarian Party broke state law by holding its precinct caucuses and county conventions on the same evening.

More from the article:

To keep major-party status for the next cycle, the Libertarian ticket of presidential nominee Chase Oliver and vice presidential nominee Mike ter Maat need to receive at least 2 percent of this year’s presidential votes.

...

Unfortunately for Libertarians, Iowans will see seven presidential options listed on the ballot. So Oliver will need to receive the lion’s share of votes from Iowans who don’t want to vote for Trump or Harris.

Oliver’s biggest competition will be Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has much higher name recognition.... Kennedy endorsed Trump in late August and is now suing to get his name off the ballot in Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Carolina. To withdraw from the Iowa ballot, he needed to send a written notice to the Secretary of State’s office by August 29. He didn’t, because for whatever reason, Kennedy is only trying to end his campaign in the swing states.

The other presidential options for Iowa voters will be the Party for Socialism and Liberation ticket of Claudia De la Cruz and Stephanie H. Cholensky, the Socialist Party USA ticket of William Stodden and Stephanie H. Cholensky, and the independent ticket of Shiva Ayyadurai and Crystal Ellis.

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Happy Father's Day❤️🎉✨️

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Invaders from Mars (William Cameron Menzies, 1953).

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Bad movie I have Maniac Cop 1988

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S1, Ep. 14: Samantha Meets the Folks (1964) Bewitched (1964-1972)

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I would say Kick and Billy, Bobby and Ethel, Eunice and Sarge had the best relationships. And it’s sad only one of them got to live till old age with their partners 😭

Yes!!! Thinking about Eunice and Sarge makes me so sad because they were so in love and got to grow old together 😪😔

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The High & Mighty Sure Are Falling ... Thump ... Thud

As I have mentioned before, Adam Kinzinger, former U.S. Representative whose political career came to an abrupt halt when he first voted to impeach Donald Trump, and then voluntarily served on the January 6th committee, now writes a column/post on Substack.  His words are generally wise, thoughtful, and he pulls no punches.  In his column today, he throws in a bit of tongue-in-cheek humour as he…

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Kansas Governor DILFs

Bill Graves, Frank Carlson, Jeff Colyer, Frank L. Hagaman, Robert Docking, George Docking, Andrew Frank Schoeppel, Edward F. Arn, John W. Carlin, John McCuish, Fred Hall, John Anderson Jr., Mark Parkinson, Alf Landon, Mike Hayden, Sam Brownback, Payne Ratner, William H. Avery

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In 1959, one moment, Kenneth Haigh was fleeing German fighter planes in 1917 and the next moment he was 42 years into the future. His confusion was heightened after he landed that not only was he in the future, but the air base he landed at was waiting for the arrival of a World War II hero that Haigh left to face the German fighters alone and die ("The Last Flight", Twilight Zone, TV)

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Here Comes Fall, and October's Quotes

Well, another month has gone by and as we await the arrival of Fall, weather-wise, here in the Southern States, let me present the Halloween month’s array of quotes. October showcases its share of genius and, hopefully, awe-inspiring thoughts from a variety of well known, and not-so-well known folks. It’s still a good read, though!   Chaos is the only thing that honestly wants you to grow. The…

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IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WAS ONLY THE OCEAN

“Accepting the Universe” (1920), by John Burroughs; // “Literary Paper” (1855), by Edward Forbes; // “A Thousand Flamingos” by Sanober Khan; // Sylvia Earle; // “Wither” (The Chemical Garden Trilogy), by Lauren DeStefano; // “The Immense Journey” ch. The Flow of the River (1957), by Loren Eiseley; // Jacques-Yves Cousteau; // Heinrich Zimmer; // “Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems” (1962), by William Carlos Williams; // “Sandry’s Book” (Circle of Magic Quartet), by Tamora Pierce; // “The Sea”, by Barry Cornwall (Bryan Waller Procter); // Speech at the America’s Cup Dinner (1962), by John F. Kennedy; // Jacques-Yves Cousteau; // Erica Billups; // Robert Wyland; // “Eragon” (The Inheritance Cycle Tetralogy), by Christopher Paolini; // Christy Ann Martine; // Robert Wyland; // “Le testament d'Orphée” (1960), by Jean Cocteau; // Speech at the America’s Cup Dinner (1962), by John F. Kennedy; // “The Infinite Moment of Us”, by Lauren Myracle; // “American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps”, by Julian Hawthorne

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Happy Valentine's Day❤❤❤

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I was going through my books, trying to decide what to read next, when I noticed that I had a lot of collections of short stories.

So i've decided to play a reading game.

I've written out a list of all of the short story collections I own and given each a corresponding number. I'll roll a die and I'll read a random story from a collection with the corresponding number. The goal is to read my way through the list and sample how each writer approaches short story writing. Some of these are writers I've read novels or novellas but not short stories, some I've read other stories, and some I've never read anything from before.

Here's the list with corresponding numbers, 17 collections from 17 writers from various genres and eras.

1. The Complete Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard

2. The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

3. The Best of Richard Matheson

4. The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard

5. Poseidonis by Clark Ashton Smith

6. Books of Bloods Vol.2 by Clive Barker

7. The Complete John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood

8. In the Land of the Lost and other Fantasy Stories by Lord Dunsany

9. A Song for Lyra by George R. R. Martin

10. The White People and Other Weird Stories by Arthur Machen

11. Vathek and Other Stories by William Beckforth

12. The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

13. The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

14. Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald

15. Departures by Harry Turtledove

16. Night Shift by Stephen King

17. Dracula's Guest and Other Stories by Bram Stoker