Hartman Turnbow Quotes
I wasn’t being non-nonviolent, I was just protectin’ my family.
Hartman Turnbow, *, Mississippi Farmer & Civil Rights Leader, Statement after he thwarted a terror attack on his home by the KKK with rifle fire, Quoted in “The what and why of "Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms", http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/in-the-news/2014/1/the-what-and-why-of-negroes-and-the-gun-the-black-tradition-of-arms.aspx
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Malcolm was not an enthusiast of non violent, passive resistance a la Martin Luther King. He did not generally advocate general violence per se, but did preach the doctrine of the 21st century National Rifle Association: That everyone should be armed and use the weapons to thwart criminal attacks on them and their families. However at the time, many police departments commonly broke the law and attacked Blacks in many ways. If Malcolm had more followers there could easily have been armed pitched battles between blacks who had been attacked and police who even if their colleagues had violated the law, would not allow citizen armed defense. The non-violence of King and others, accomplished the objective with relatively few people killed and wounded. They were virtually all Black or white sympathizers however. The racists bore no physical casualties but their culture and way of life was destroyed.
This is one of many instances where Black leaders advocated armed self-defense. In the early 20th century, this worried whites who often accused these blacks of advocating violence against whites. It also made non-violent, anti-gun, blacks, like Booker T. Washington, more popular.
He was threatening to shoot another Texas State Legislator, Ramon Romero, with whom he had been brawling on the floor of the Texas House of Represenatives. Rinaldi had claimed that all the Hispanics who were protesting the bill he was supporting were Illegals and called ICE. Romero objected to the Racial Profiling and generalization of many Hispanic Citizens whose ancestors were Texas Citizens when Texas became a Republic.
Hartman Turnbow was a Mississippi farmer, orator, and activist during the Civil Rights Movement. On April 9, 1963, Turnbow was one of the first African Americans to attempt to register to vote in Mississippi, along with a group called the “First Fourteen”.
