Posted on 05/29/2021 10:21:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Black gun owners plan to march in Oklahoma Saturday to advocate for gun ownership and in honor of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
As VICE News reported, hundreds of members from Huey P. Newton Gun Club, Anubis Arms Gun Club, and the Panther Special Operations Command as well other organizations from across the country are expected to participate in the protest.
"Our hope is to try to galvanize a community, educate around the position of Second Amendment rights, and hopefully be a vehicle to more or less unify the African American community," co-founder of the Newton Gun Club in Dallas, Texas, Yafeuh Balogun, said to VICE News.
Balogun told VICE News that the protest in Oklahoma will be one the biggest events of Black pro-gun rights advocates in years.
"We want to be part of history. We want the generations, the younger kids to understand the timeframe and the importance of recognizing the people that came before them and the sacrifices that they made," Balogun added.
Read more: The "concerted effort" in the US to cover up the Tulsa Race Massacre
According to the Huey P. Newton's Gun Club website, the organization is made up of a coalition of different groups with a main objective to educate the youth. Their mission "is to educate the masses of people on the necessity of self. That includes self-preservation, self-defense, and self-sufficiency through militant culture. Safety, caution, and attention to detail are at the core of our way of life."
The groups in attendance also aim to draw attention to the Tulsa Race Massacre, a race riot that occurred 100 years ago this year. Commemoration events are underway, and the US Department of Homeland Security warned that white supremacist groups might target the events. In addition, the groups also hope to inform the Black community about how to act during a police interaction, the report said.
Balogun told Vice that the groups credit themselves in part for the spike in gun sales from Black people. As firearm sales boomed in 2020, purchases from Black people also spiked amid the COVID-19 pandemic and racial reckoning in the US.
Back then Tulsa was an oil boom town with lots of crime. Not long before the riot a mob had lynched a white boy for murder. His age is often given as between 16 and 20 years of age.
One of the instigators of the riot was claimed to be the Tulsa Tribune-Democrat news paper. Richard Lloyd Jones Sr. wrote a hot article on the Editorial Page. If ANYONE has a copy of that page from that date he has a gold mine!
All copies of the editorial have disappeared.
Well, I'm sure something big happened there, as I've just read about it and seen some pictures of unrest. Unfortunately that's about all I'll ever know about it, since it was never taught in our history books prior to the day I became the world's biggest Doubting Thomas (the day that FOX News declared George S to be an off-limits topic).
That's all past history anyhow .. I'm concerned about there here-and-now, and I want to know if these protesters arrived to the protest (or to where the bus picked them up) in newer/nicer vehicles than mine.
Exactly.
The best way to deal with racists is to shoot them. Repeatedly.
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