Wouldn't the Second Amendment be ancient history if there was a list of dead right wing political leaders like the list of dead leftists?

Medger Evers, Malcolm X, JFK, RFK, MLK, and even John Lennon?
What if Ron Reagan, George Bush, Maggie Thatcher, Joe McCarthy and George Wallace were gunned down dead?

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MrMonnyPenny · 22-25, M

Was Malcolm X left? I got a kind of Black Entrepreneurialism feel from some of his speeches. Build up economic power within the community.

bijouxbroussard · F

@MrMonnyPenny He was initially a separatist, when he was part of NOI. I’m not sure if that’s considered leftist. And definitely he wanted blacks to become self-sufficient and autonomous—so they wouldn’t have to depend on or even interact with whites.

Stopmakingsense · 61-69, F

@bijouxbroussard he's a leader in which camp? Left.

MrMonnyPenny · 22-25, M

@bijouxbroussard Yeah sounds like Malcolm was interested in power and autonomy, not really caring whether a tactic was ‘left’ or ‘right’.

bijouxbroussard · F

@Stopmakingsense Black leaders of the past are retroactively classified as “leftist” because they fought for civil rights for black people, which is a leftist position today, even the ones who were against women’s rights, or those of LGBT individuals. I can tell you firsthand, the people who stood with him, and with MLK, didn’t consider themselves “leftists” back then. A lot of them held “traditional” beliefs—they just wanted blacks to be part of it.