January 19, 2004
Quote of the Day
In the post-reconstruction period, when the pendulum swung back to overt racism, Taney's philosophy resurfaced as "the return-of-the-repressed" -- the American trauma, It was during this period that the most rabid anti-gun legislations, designed to keep guns out of the hands of black men, were enacted. This racial paranoia about black men with guns, which was at first southern, eventually spread to the north. This paranoia was potent enough to cause the infringement on a basic right: "the right... to keep and bear arms." To allow this to happen, two basic American tenets had to be ignored: one grounded in constitutional law and the other based on natural law.
Roy Innis, speaking in 1991
National Chairman, CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
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