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To: epicure who wrote (108111)	4/9/2009 9:59:27 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541379

If laws are enacted to make getting married more difficult after legalization/recognition, like a test for aids - that would be a valid analogy. In fact all laws I've seen are moving in the direction of full recognition - I think every state and nearly every politician supports civil unions which is a step in the process. Except for the recent vote in CA, just dust off and try again - don't go burn a church. Emmett Till was long after the start of Jim Crow laws, I know the story - disgusting. I like Robert F. Williams and his struggle for civil rights and against the KKK. In fact the history is buried and denied by the anti-gun crowd when they like to paint the NRA as a racist organization - when in fact they helped him setup the first all black chapter to fight the KKK. en.wikipedia.org Williams had already started the Black Armed Guard with the National Rifle Association's blessings, to defend the local black community from Ku Klux Klan activity. KKK membership numbered some 15,000 locally at a time when gun ownership was fairly common in the South. Black residents fortified their homes with sandbags and resorted to being trained with rifles on hand in the event of night raids by the Klan. Followers attested to Williams' advocacy of the use of advanced powerful weaponry instead of more traditional firearms. Williams insisted his position was defensive in the face of provocation as opposed to a declaration of war: "armed self-reliance" in the face of white terrorism. Threats against Williams' life and on his family would become more frequent. He wrote a book "Nergo's with Guns" and they made an film over at PBS - pbs.org