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First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
Ida Wells-Barnett, Civil Rights Pioneer
Ida Wells-Barnett proved a Black man, Sam Hose, innocent of the charges for which he was lynched in 1899 Georgia. White supremacist arsonists burned her newspaper when she wrote editorials that denounced lynchings. She refused to allow herself to be intimidated but she carried a handgun while travelling through the South to investigate lynchings. "Her campaign helped to lay the groundwork for the American civil rights movement. ...Wells-Barnett was quoted as boldly stating: 'I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.' She also maintained that 'a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black house'" (R. L. Wilson, "Silk & Steel: America's Unique Firearm Experience," The American Rifleman, January 2004).
Compare Ms. Wells-Barnett putting her life on the line to help stop white supremacists from lynching Black people with the behavior of the NAACP's Kwesei Mfume and Black Caucus members like John Conyers (D-MI). Far from agreeing that Black households should be armed for self-protection from white supremacists, Mfume embraces the Ku Klux Klan party line that African-Americans cannot be trusted with firearms. "Easily available handguns are being used to turn many of our communities into war zones," said Mfume. "The fact that the illegal trafficking of firearms disproportionately affects minority communities in this country is indisputable. Urban communities have sadly become so accustomed to the prevalence of firearms in their neighborhoods that they are no longer shocked at the sound of gunfire."
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
The Democratic Party was not always associated with anti-Second Amendment activities. Eleanor Roosevelt (the niece of Theodore Roosevelt) was an expert shot with a handgun, which she carried for the express purpose of self-defense. Mrs. Roosevelt also was active in the civil rights movement and she often carried a weapon for self-protection. Something tells me that she would not have gotten along with Rosie O'Donnell.
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