He would be surprised to find out that the Second Amendment was an anti-black thing.
Wayne Howard:
Posted on 06/08/2021 4:44:57 PM PDT by MtnClimber
If the right to bear arms was intended to preserve slavery, why did civil-rights leaders insist that black Americans should be armed to protect themselves?
Left-wing academic Carol Anderson’s new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, is all over the news. “The Second Amendment is not about guns — it’s about anti-Blackness, a new book argues,” reads a CNN headline. NPR claims that the author has uncovered the racist “roots” of the Second Amendment.
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POLITICS & POLICY The 1619 Project Comes for the Second Amendment By DAVID HARSANYI June 8, 2021 6:30 AM Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Flipboard Email this article Print this article
A gun owner wears a handgun as members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League hold a gun-rights rally in Richmond, Va., July 9, 2019. (Michael A. McCoy/Reuters) If the right to bear arms was intended to preserve slavery, why did civil-rights leaders insist that black Americans should be armed to protect themselves?
Left-wing academic Carol Anderson’s new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, is all over the news. “The Second Amendment is not about guns — it’s about anti-Blackness, a new book argues,” reads a CNN headline. NPR claims that the author has uncovered the racist “roots” of the Second Amendment.
This is wishful thinking. The Second is an attempt — much like the 1619 Project — to reimagine history in purely racial terms. The result is tendentious polemic that suffers not only from a paucity of historical evidence, but from a dishonest rendering of the facts we do know.
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It is just propaganda to justify communism and take away the last means to oppose it.
The NRA got started as a way to arm free blacks and preserve their right to be armed against the Democrat KKK.
I would blame the Chinese for that gunpowder stuff.
It’s time.
After every shooting the left becomes more convinced that there must be gun control, and gun owners become more convinced that they must resist. The gun grabbers imagine a world without guns, where gun owners imagine a world where innocents are protected by force of arms. Who is being the most realistic?
Gimme re-write !
Who died and made them God? No one who even mentions this crap in passing is anything other than a fraud. Revisionist lies.
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”
- Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
The bureaucrats and the political class need to be reminded of the meaning of the phrase “consent of the governed.”
Bkmk
Taking away guns is racist because you prevent black people from defending themselves against racist white people and a racist government. So there.
You are absolutely correct— the organization started by two Union Army generals to defend the right to keep and bear arms, to train people in their use, later to increase marksmanship training and safety— for ALL people, and in the initial start up it was to defend the right for former slaves to defend themselves against the Democrat machine— the first klan and its winding down and eventual closing down (by- Nathan Bedford Forrest as achieving its goals then). The second clan (the pinnacle of national membership in the 2 million range- was formed headquartered in Indiana (a Union state, and nationally no longer exclusively southern states).
When the second klan came along the NRA expanded its membership again in response. And... bipartisan in those days as today. Have tried explaining this to leftist loonie whites— and they just don’t get it, but then, they are just virtue signalling to cover their bigotry against blacks.
I had a Jr High history book that I taught from years ago. One page showed a painted scene of a black family’s shack. I’d tell the kids, “Look at this closely. Does it show freemen or slaves?” The key to the right answer, which the kids never seemed to get, was the shotgun propped up next to the door. Freemen can be armed; slaves cannot.
Exactly right, commies aren’t interested in truth only in creating division.
Ok then
Leave for Africa
No one is stopping you
Did you have to mention the NRA? Sure as shootin', that'll trigger a bunch of b!tching & moaning about "Wayne's suits" and "why won't the NRA run educational infomercials" (as if anybody on the planet watches those things). In the future, you might call them "the predecessors to the GOA" - the guys who complain the loudest don't seem to have heard of the GOA, so maybe it won't set 'em off...
;^)
I can’t wait until the 2nd amendment come for the 1619 project, enough of this B.S. already.
All of them?
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