JIm FUlner reviewed Negroes With Guns by Robert Franklin Williams
Review
4 stars
It was not particularly well written, Williams is a solider not an author, but the story was great. I had never heard it before, and I think its a story that needs to be told. Somone should really make a movie of they Vetran who returns to his medium sized hometown from an intregrated Army to a segregated community. The NAACP had given up on Monroe, there was nothing that could be gained, but Robert voted against disallution and they make him chair. He also gets a charter from the NRA to teach other blacks how to defend themselves. They fought back against the KKK and got them out of town, but the national papers made no mention though they were all over some Natives doing the same a few weeks later. He opposed the initian of force, but would insist on self-defense. Often just having a gun was enough …
It was not particularly well written, Williams is a solider not an author, but the story was great. I had never heard it before, and I think its a story that needs to be told. Somone should really make a movie of they Vetran who returns to his medium sized hometown from an intregrated Army to a segregated community. The NAACP had given up on Monroe, there was nothing that could be gained, but Robert voted against disallution and they make him chair. He also gets a charter from the NRA to teach other blacks how to defend themselves. They fought back against the KKK and got them out of town, but the national papers made no mention though they were all over some Natives doing the same a few weeks later. He opposed the initian of force, but would insist on self-defense. Often just having a gun was enough to get the cops to actually do something before it went south. Got worse when the Freedom riders came to town, diversity of tactics, but it was an excuse to beat the blacks and their allies. He saved a white family, and then the cops claimed he tried to kill them, and he is forced to leave town. [return][return]I first heard of this through libertarian/patriot circles. Now that I've read it, I'm not sure which side they were on, if they were showing an example of why everyone needs gun rights, or if it was a warning against empowering blacks leading to communism. There certainly is leftist undertones, which may upset some readers, but its real, and that's what matters.