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The black community is in a total state of implosion. It's a community that has always been under extreme pressure in the face of constant widespread discrimination and hostility. The stability of the black family unit has always been fragile ever since slavery.
After slavery, slaves walked off the plantation only to face a different level of discrimination. Not so much in the form of brutal involuntary slave labor, but mostly in the form of social displacement, segregation, psychological denigration, systematic lowering of black self-esteem, and social marginalization.
I tend to agree. Certainly, in our country's early history, as the author points out, there was no question but that only white men would bear arms: both (as the article notes) to keep black slaves in check, but also due to problems with the British, whom did not like losing their colony.
It was discussed (at least by me) in a similar thread, how in 1968, a Black Panther group descended upon the California state house, bearing guns, to protest something or another. Said gentlemen were arrested, only to have it discovered that, hey! there was no law against open carry in California.
The NRA and the California legislature sprang into action. Now, they realized that they could not pass a bill saying 'black men cannot openly carry arms', so they had to make it a general ban, which Governor Reagan signed into law.
For those that do not like Snopes, plenty of other articles on the web. It is called the Mulford Act, after the Republican politician whom introduced the bill.
That's exactly what I was thinking of. Thanks for reminding me of the name.
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Originally Posted by Roboteer
WaPo- Gun violence is rooted in white supremacy
Umm, sorry to burst your bubble. But gun control laws were first put in place, to ban black people (newly freed slaves) from getting guns. They were designed to protect the white supremacists you are complaining about.
As I quite clearly recall, there was nothing blacks wanted more than to freely live amongst whites prior to the 60's. They were all for civil rights, genuine integration, and true christian fellowship.
It was again, the white racist right-winged conservatives that proved resistant to integration and as a result, we now have these pockets...
Wow. No. Democrats were and still are the most pervasive NIMBY racists...
Since blacks continue to face this deeply rooted and most relentlessly resilient discrimination, they too have become more resentful as the polarization continues to increase in magnitude.
The black community is in a total state of implosion. It's a community that has always been under extreme pressure in the face of constant widespread discrimination and hostility. The stability of the black family unit has always been fragile ever since slavery.
After slavery, slaves walked off the plantation only to face a different level of discrimination. Not so much in the form of brutal involuntary slave labor, but mostly in the form of social displacement, segregation, psychological denigration, systematic lowering of black self-esteem, and social marginalization.
I just commented on that. The culprits AREN'T who you and other misinformed individuals think they are.
As I quite clearly recall, there was nothing blacks wanted more than to freely live amongst whites prior to the 60's. They were all for civil rights, genuine integration, and true christian fellowship.
It was again, the white racist right-winged conservatives that proved resistant to integration and as a result, we now have these pockets...
Since blacks continue to face this deeply rooted and most relentlessly resilient discrimination, they too have become more resentful as the polarization continues to increase in magnitude.
No thanks to the debilitating efforts of the POTUS...
You can buy a gun just like any white guy, what are you whining about? You want them to pay for it to?
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