a quote from Ancestress Ida B Wells shared by sistern Bayaka Healing via Thandisizwee Ida B. Wells penned these words in an 1892 pamphlet titled “Southern Horrors” several months after three of her friends were lynched with impunity in Memphis: "The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great [a] risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life."
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 05:49:45 +0000
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