1. Robert Williams believed in”Negroes with Guns and Black Power. He believed violent self-defense because as he says, “I don 't think you could really have a defense against violent racists and against terrorists unless you 're prepared to meet violence with violence.” One of the things that set off this movement was when the KKK tried to make a black woman dance in the street at gunpoint like she was their puppet. Which led to the Black Guard as Williams says, it was the first thing that set of the Guard in Monroe in 1957. The whole purpose of black people carrying guns was not to intimidate the white people, but to protect themselves from which they were constantly going through. The two young white boys that went to jail for kissing a
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He had a role in the Civil Rights Movement struggles in the 1960s. He was very much associated with the case of the pregnant black woman that almost got raped by a white man. The case was dismissed with no charges against the man and the woman treated as nothing. He made a statement after the trial of the pregnant black woman saying, “if the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution cannot be enforced in this social jungle called Dixie, it is time that Negroes must defend themselves even if it is necessary to resort to violence. That there is no law here, there is no need to take the white attackers to the courts because they will be free and that the federal government is not coming to the aid of people who are oppressed, and it is time for Negro men to stand up and be men and that if it is necessary for us to die, we must be willing to die. If it is necessary for us to kill, we must be willing to kill.” Which was basically a call to all black people to wake and smell the roses, that there is no justice in the legal system and they have to now start to take the law in their own hands. He wanted black men especially to stand up and defend their families and friends because it enough was enough and they weren 't taking anymore of …show more content…
Altogether, I believe Robert Williams stood up for what he believed and fought for it. Like he said at the end of the documentary, “I 'm called a criminal for advocating that people had the right to defend themselves, for telling them to get all their asses and fight for what they deserve. If that 's criminal, then, I hope, I hope that I will always be a criminal.” What he believed in led to his course of living abroad for years and also seeing how the world sees the United States. He contributed a lot to the movement, he did not believe in the whole nonviolence thing and set out to do his own thing which was defending himself and black people. He is not well known because he did what was not the norm. He responded back with how they were being treated which was considered wrong since MLK had the nation going for the nonviolence movement instead. And to say in the very least that he is overlooked and overshadowed for his contributions to the Civil Rights era and Black Freedom struggle because he did not like spotlight. He was not into it for the recognition but for what he truly believed
He had a role in the Civil Rights Movement struggles in the 1960s. He was very much associated with the case of the pregnant black woman that almost got raped by a white man. The case was dismissed with no charges against the man and the woman treated as nothing. He made a statement after the trial of the pregnant black woman saying, “if the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution cannot be enforced in this social jungle called Dixie, it is time that Negroes must defend themselves even if it is necessary to resort to violence. That there is no law here, there is no need to take the white attackers to the courts because they will be free and that the federal government is not coming to the aid of people who are oppressed, and it is time for Negro men to stand up and be men and that if it is necessary for us to die, we must be willing to die. If it is necessary for us to kill, we must be willing to kill.” Which was basically a call to all black people to wake and smell the roses, that there is no justice in the legal system and they have to now start to take the law in their own hands. He wanted black men especially to stand up and defend their families and friends because it enough was enough and they weren 't taking anymore of …show more content…
Altogether, I believe Robert Williams stood up for what he believed and fought for it. Like he said at the end of the documentary, “I 'm called a criminal for advocating that people had the right to defend themselves, for telling them to get all their asses and fight for what they deserve. If that 's criminal, then, I hope, I hope that I will always be a criminal.” What he believed in led to his course of living abroad for years and also seeing how the world sees the United States. He contributed a lot to the movement, he did not believe in the whole nonviolence thing and set out to do his own thing which was defending himself and black people. He is not well known because he did what was not the norm. He responded back with how they were being treated which was considered wrong since MLK had the nation going for the nonviolence movement instead. And to say in the very least that he is overlooked and overshadowed for his contributions to the Civil Rights era and Black Freedom struggle because he did not like spotlight. He was not into it for the recognition but for what he truly believed