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I see the actions of late, as another excuse to militarize the appointed police forces and elected Sheriff departments across the 50 states of America.
All to fight the people becoming more Constitutionalized.
Keeping guns out of the hands of the ancestors of slaves, has been on going since the end of the civil war and the Freeman, owning weapons to gain revenge upon their suppressors.
Another reason for the Military Reconstitution Act.
No one suggested that ex-Confederates be disarmed, but strong sentiments were expressed over abuses committed by state agents who were disarming freedmen. Lieutenant Colonel H. S. Hall, an official with the Freedmen's Bureau, told how Governor Hamilton authorized armed patrols to suppress an alleged negro insurrection.
Under pretense of the authority given them, they passed about through the settlements where negroes were living, disarmed them--took everything in the shape of arms from them--and frequently robbed them of money, household furniture, and anything that they could make of any use to themselves. Complaints of this kind were very often (p.652)brought to my notice by the negroes from counties too far away for me to reach.
A contrasting view was presented by New York Times correspondent Benjamin C. Truman, who had just returned from the Texas constitutional convention of 1866 at Austin. Truman found Texas to be the most progressive and tolerant of freedman's rights of the several southern states he visited. He noted that "[t]he convention passed an ordinance giving the negroes all the civil rights, and it passed by a very large majority."
The above civil rights apparently included bearing arms, for unlike other Southern states, Texas did not pass a black code provision disarming freedmen. T. J. Mackay, an ex-Confederate who assisted in the surrender of arms to the Northern army, stated that "a majority of [the freedmen] are armed, and entitled to bear arms under the existing laws of the southern States." The Texas legislature considered and rejected adoption of the fourteenth amendment in October 1866. The report of the Senate Committee on Federal Relations admitted that the Negro had no right of suffrage, but noted, "our Constitution(The State of Texas) guarantees to the negro every other right of citizenship."This clearly included the right to keep and bear arms.
On the other hand, the House report suggested that section 1 of the fourteenth amendment would make negroes "entitled to all the privileges and immunities of white citizens; in these privileges would be embraced the exercise of suffrage at the polls, participation in jury duty in all cases, [and] bearing arms in the militia ...." The militia laws in Texas at that time, according to a congressman, "authorize anybody and everybody ... to organize a militia hostile to the Government ...." Thus, the Senate committee did not object to blacks keeping and bearing arms and exercising other rights of citizenship aside from voting. The House committee, however, rejected the fourteenth amendment because it was perceived as protecting (p.653)from state infringement privileges such as bearing arms and associating into militia companies.
On November 6, 1866, the Texas legislature passed its first gun control measure, which was also the closest Texas came to adopting a black code provision to disarm freedmen. The act declared that "it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to carry fire-arms on the enclosed premises or plantation of any citizen, without the consent of the owner or proprietor," subject to a fine of one to ten dollars and imprisonment of one to ten days. This meant that sharecroppers who still lived on plantations could keep firearms in their homes but could not carry them outside for any purpose other than civil or military duties.
Southern Democrats were opposed to blacks bearing arms in militias which could be manipulated by radical Republicans to seize power. In the period of fall 1866 through summer 1867, carpetbaggers descended upon the South. Following orders from Washington, D.C., General Phil Sheridan deposed Texas governor Throckmorton and installed E. M. Pease. Sheridan, according to a partisan account, "under the inspiration of an incendiary press and the [Union] Leagues, was permitting the Texas negroes to run amuck with guns and knives." In the wake of this military autocracy, a constitutional convention was called.
It has been a race based battle ever since, to keep the black people of America, disarmed.
The fear of what is upon us, has perpetuated it's rise, to the call of the hired guns oppressing them, be assassinated.
We see, just like ours, their freedom is not free.
Well, the 2nd Amendment doesn't really apply to Blacks because of white fear. Let a group of black men walk anywhere in America with guns strapped at their waist.
Well, the 2nd Amendment doesn't really apply to Blacks because of white fear. Let a group of black men walk anywhere in America with guns strapped at their waist.
Yea, 2nd Amendment my ass.
Hahahahaaaaa, yep you are right....that's all it can be....for whites only...
Well, the 2nd Amendment doesn't really apply to Blacks because of white fear. Let a group of black men walk anywhere in America with guns strapped at their waist.
Yea, 2nd Amendment my ass.
You don't know jack only what your liberal socialist teachers interpretation of anything promoting Americanism is. The NRA supported black Americans in the racist Democratic south from lynching with that 2nd Amendment right.
Now off to school with you so you can be brainwashed some more...
Well, the 2nd Amendment doesn't really apply to Blacks because of white fear. Let a group of black men walk anywhere in America with guns strapped at their waist.
Yea, 2nd Amendment my ass.
Oh bull***! Are you not a citizen of the US? Have you been convicted of a felony or have been proven to have a mental illness? If you are a citizen, and can answer "no" to those 2 questions, please show me where your right to bear arms because you are black doesn't apply?
As a percent of the community, there is no serious question that the highest concentration of racists, and also the most intense racism, exists in the black community. Of course these episodes are in part just another illustration of that.
As a percent of the community, there is no serious question that the highest concentration of racists, and also the most intense racism, exists in the black community. Of course these episodes are in part just another illustration of that.
Case closed.
Oh yeah....that type of attitude will only lead to our black companies, our black banks, our Malls and other institutions, denying you opportunity. lets see how you make it in this world then buddy!
Well, the 2nd Amendment doesn't really apply to Blacks because of white fear. Let a group of black men walk anywhere in America with guns strapped at their waist.
Yea, 2nd Amendment my ass.
I agree.
Change the roles.
Open carry Austin, was a bunch of black guys, it would be the cuffs.
You don't know jack only what your liberal socialist teachers interpretation of anything promoting Americanism is. The NRA supported black Americans in the racist Democratic south from lynching with that 2nd Amendment right.
Now off to school with you so you can be brainwashed some more...
K.
How will local law enforcement act if it sees 20 large black men with assault rifles marching down the street?
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Originally Posted by no1brownsfan
Oh bull***! Are you not a citizen of the US? Have you been convicted of a felony or have been proven to have a mental illness? If you are a citizen, and can answer "no" to those 2 questions, please show me where your right to bear arms because you are black doesn't apply?
Black men are getting shot in stores over toy guns.
I know what the constitution says on paper. How it is enforced in the real world is a different story.
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Originally Posted by chucksnee
Hahahahaaaaa, yep you are right....that's all it can be....for whites only...
How will local law enforcement act if it sees 20 large black men with assault rifles marching down the street?
Black men are getting shot in stores over toy guns.
I know what the constitution says on paper. How it is enforced in the real world is a different story.
Yep.
LOL....
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