Posted on 01/18/2013 3:23:24 PM PST by Kaslin
The Constitution's Second Amendment was created to bolster slavery and capture land from Native Americans, award winning actor Danny Glover told a group of students at a Texas A&M sponsored event on Thursday.
“I don’t know if you know the genesis of the right to bear arms,” he said. “The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans.”
“A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that’s what the genesis of the second amendment is,” he continued.
Glover, best known for roles in the “Lethal Weapon” franchise and “Angels in the Outfield,” was addressing students at an event being held in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Director of Texas A&M’s Memorial Student Center, Luke Altendorf, told Campus Reform on Friday that the university was unaware of Glover’ talking points prior to his speech.
“I had no idea, we really didn’t know that topic was coming up,” he told Campus Reform. “Someone was asking a question about activism, I think that’s where some of that came from.”
Altendorf declined to say if, or how much the school had paid for Glover’s speech, but said student fees were not used.
WATCH: Danny Glover says the Second Amendment was crafted by America's founding fathers to protect slavery
Danny Glover at Texas A&M MLK Breakfast, 2nd Amendment
In the past, however, the university paid Angela Davis and Harry Belafonte $25,000 for their speeches at the same event.
Altendorf also defended the school’s decision to host those controversial speakers with university resources.
“We didn’t feel those speakers you are referring to are bad decisions on these topics because we want to foster discussion,” he said.
The video recording of the event was captured by members of a student group, the Texas Aggie Conservatives (TAC). That group has also created an online petition blasting Texas A&M for its speaker selections.
Eric Schroeder, chairman of the conservative group, called the event “outrageous.”
“It should be a time for real reflection and respect,” he said referring to the memorial breakfast for King. “Instead, the university pushes a political agenda.”
Schroeder also called on university President Bowen Loftin to make up for the event by inviting a conservative speaker of equal star power.
“We expect President Loftin to stand by his commitment to diversity and fully support our efforts to bring in a conservative speaker to provide an alternative to Mr. Glover’s far left message” said Schroeder.
Wow! I had no idea Danny Glover is old enough to have participated in the Constitutional Convention of 1789 and was privy to all that the other participants said and wrote and did! Strange, though, that none of the anti-slavery ones mentioned the Second Amendment as an impediment to eventually doing away with slavery. Maybe Mr. Glover could point out those for us.
He is a complete idiot and is to stupid to ever listen to again.
This tool was the featured speaker at my daughter”s college graduation. I made sure we arrived late enough to miss his “message”.
Stupidity at that level is criminal.
Slavery was widespread in the British North American colonies ~ it took decades to suppress the practice after the Revolution. Look up ABOLiTION OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA ~ there are several timelines that may prove useful in your pursuit of a question or Br'r Glover.
Oh Danny Boy,
You and your agent, doing the rounds of expectation.
Auditioning for the coveted spot on C-Span.
Maybe then, you can submit your tax returns and investment results and point to the WHITE MAN that TOOK this money from you.
It’s not fair that the White man is more clever.
It’s not fair that Black folks are susceptible to belief in the MAN.
The right to bear arms goes back to the signing of the Magna Carta, dated 1215. A great monument to the expression of liberty was contained in that document, and subsequent versions, that explicitly stated that no man, including the King, was above the law, that it applied to all.
The Castle Doctrine was also asserted, in which the lands and domicile assigned to free men was to be recognized, and the right to take measures to secure that heritage were delineated, which implies the right to take up arms in its defense.
Startlingly revolutionary for its time, the Magna Carta also tended to freeze in place various classes, and reflected the stratification of its authors. The law may have applied to everybody, but it was strikingly different in how it applied to one class as compared to another. After all, not everybody had a heritage or a patent on property. A goodly number WERE the property, under the feudal system as it then existed.
It's not so much that the Second underlines your right to have guns ~ rather, it's that the US Constitution, in this single amendment, says EVERYBODY in America is the equivalent of a noblemen in the broadest sense ~ but any limitations on that status is in the hands of the states ~ almost all of whom had or had had in the recent past, legal slavery.
In short, while abolishing the traditional European class system in America, it also handed over power to the states to restrict that right ~ and we can only guess it was for the purpose of protecting the institution of slavery.
Else, it could easily have been stated that 'neither the Congress nor any state shall abridge the right of the people'.
It's only recently that the USSC has finally said the 14th Amendment also makes the 2nd Amendment apply to the states.
Slavery finally ended in America on Tuesday, June 29, 2010.
It's not surprising that the Democrats wish to resurrect the traditional class structures through recission of that same amendment ~ they so miss their privileges over the broad masses.
That'd be at least 12,000 years ago.
The second amendment is your very manhood ~ we are a privileged people of high estate ~ none dare tread on us.
It is quite likely the most fantastic expansion of the concept of human freedom in history ~ the enoblement of a vast nation!
It's not just guns
That'd be at least 12,000 years ago.
The second amendment is your very manhood ~ we are a privileged people of high estate ~ none dare tread on us.
It is quite likely the most fantastic expansion of the concept of human freedom in history ~ the enoblement of a vast nation!
It's not just guns
Of course Danny’s armed security detail might have a different view.
This is so utterly stupid you have to wonder how Glover managed to fool studio execs into paying him millions for acting roles. Truly, this level of stupidity and lying is galactic-sized.
Must be terribly difficult going through as a mute with turrets ....
Now days, seeing how well it works to stifle condemnation of Obama, they don't even try. The race-card is the very first one played.
Don't be cowed by it. Call them on it loudly and scoffingly.
bttt
NRA bump to protect blacks against KKK
I’ll bet he picked up this idea from ‘Left’ radio on serius or XM. I was looking for Fox radio last week and got ch127 instead of 125 or 6(?)
Anyway a commentator named Bob Edwards was going on about this book ‘Slave Patrol’ that alleged the south had militias that searched out escaped slaves and Madison and Henry were responsible for the 2nd amend. to made sure these could be continued.
Would be nice to know of a good critique of the book. I picked up on these ‘patrols in the 1750’s and the Cons Conv. was 40 yrs later.
Aah the source for this drivel appears.
"Thom Hartmann is certainly not the first person to openly acknowledge the role that protecting slavery played in crafting the second amendment. In an article published in the U.C. Davis Law Review, entitled The Hidden History of the Second Amendment, Professor Carl T. Bogus wrote that the Second Amendment was crafted to assure the southern states that Congress would not undermine the slave system by disarming the militia, which were then the principal instruments of slave control throughout the South."
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Bogus, the name fits very well, is a long time opponent of arms rights. A college/collaborator of the infamous Michael A. Bellesiles, who got caught making up his facts in his anti-arms rights screeds, specifically "Arming America".
http://thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1526
But as Clayton Cramer has shown, it's really early gun control laws that were designed to keep the newly freed blacks in "their place".
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