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SCLC director calls on black families to arm themselves
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | March 31, 2015 | Christian Boone

Posted on 03/31/2015 4:31:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Rev. Samuel Mosteller, photographed at a 2013 rally at the Georgia State Capitol, on Tuesday advocated African-American families arm themselves in response to recent police shootings of unarmed black men.

The head of the Georgia chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to promote nonviolent social change, on Tuesday advocated African-American families “exercise their Second Amendment rights” in response to recent police shootings of unarmed black men.

“You stand there, (police) shoot. You run, they shoot. We’re going to have to take a different tack,” Samuel Mosteller, longtime president of the Georgia SCLC, told reporters.

The remarks came one week after 23-year-old Goodyear employee Nicholas Thomas was fatally shot by Smyrna police serving an arrest warrant on a probation violation. Police say Thomas tried to run them over in a customer’s Maserati, though lawyers hired by the dead man’s family have challenged the official account.

Earlier this month 27-year-old Anthony Hill, who suffered from bipolar disorder, was shot and killed by a DeKalb County police officer who alleged the Afghanistan war veteran charged him in a threatening manner. Hill was nude and unarmed at the time....

(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: banglist; blacks; lawenforcement; sclc
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Charles Manson and David Duke must both be chuckling.
1 posted on 03/31/2015 4:31:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Nevermind the years of Black-on-Black criminal violence, right, Rev ?


2 posted on 03/31/2015 4:35:13 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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Yup.

All but telling people to go shoot cops.


3 posted on 03/31/2015 4:36:04 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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They will do it faster than the youngest two generations of our publik skool edjookaded emasculated white bois will, unfortunately.

I can see a day when the DOJ will force townships to give Affirmative Action to gun permits, too.

4 posted on 03/31/2015 4:36:38 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation -- FUJB!!!)
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Yep that’ll do it, at least when the cops shot them, they can't claim they were unarmed.
5 posted on 03/31/2015 4:36:40 PM PDT by amigatec (The only change you will see in the next four years will be what's in your pocket.)
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>>Police say Thomas tried to run them over in a customer’s Maserati,

That’s horrible. Did they shoot the Maserati?


6 posted on 03/31/2015 4:36:57 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

all this means is... the number of blacks getting shot will increase, not decrease

and not by cops... but by each other.


7 posted on 03/31/2015 4:37:44 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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As a white man, I want reparations for all the damage these people have done to my country.

8 posted on 03/31/2015 4:38:08 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Victim" -- some people eagerly take on the label because of the many advantages that come with it.)
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“You stand there, (police) shoot. You run, they shoot. We’re going to have to take a different tack,”

Yep that might work out. /sarc


9 posted on 03/31/2015 4:39:00 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Not deniable = Not falsifiable = Not science = Not even wrong.)
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but but but but but.....blakc lives matter........only when whitey cops kill dem


10 posted on 03/31/2015 4:39:44 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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“You stand there, (police) shoot. You run, they shoot. We’re going to have to take a different tack,”

So tell us outright, what tack is that?
11 posted on 03/31/2015 4:40:10 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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The guy died driving a Maserati?

There may be worse ways to go.


12 posted on 03/31/2015 4:41:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Most of our current gun control was intended to disarm blacks.

I have mixed emotions about it. I happen to like the idea of blacks protecting themselves and the more people who carry lawfully, the better. The race baiting part of it, notsomuch.


13 posted on 03/31/2015 4:41:09 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Ted Cruz 2016)
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I wish the idiots would go ahead and bring it.

Time for a showdown. Past time. The country is coming apart anyway. There won’t be much left if this destruction and constant bickering, oppression and tension go on.


14 posted on 03/31/2015 4:45:22 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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Well, he is right. And it doesn’t matter if your black or white, you have a right to protect yourself. From a criminal or a cop... It makes no difference. (and sometimes there’s overlap)


15 posted on 03/31/2015 4:48:48 PM PDT by babygene
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Black families should be armed....? Are you talking only about families that has a working dad in it, a stay at home mom and kids named Ann and Steve?


16 posted on 03/31/2015 4:50:31 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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I couldn’t agree more! Every responsible person in society, black, white, Asian, whatever should be armed with a personal weapon, as many places as they possible can be. An armed society is a police society, and criminals would soon tire of getting shot by their would-be victims. Government would cower from such a fully-armed citizenry, and liberty would ring throughout the land.


17 posted on 03/31/2015 4:51:27 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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You may be right morally and possibly even legally, but everybody should keep in mind that in practical terms you have very little right to self-defense against a cop.

Kill a cop, regardless of the circumstances, and in many states you have an excellent chance of getting the needle.

Not saying I agree with this POV, simply pointing out that it is a fact.


18 posted on 03/31/2015 4:51:50 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bring it on Jack asses. You won’t believe the response.


19 posted on 03/31/2015 4:54:17 PM PDT by iowacornman (Speak out with courage!!)
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To: Bryanw92

I could never shoot at a Maserati, unless it was charging at my Porsche.


20 posted on 03/31/2015 4:54:55 PM PDT by Gator113 (Cruz, Lee, and Sessions speak for me.... most anyone else is just noise.)
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