“Check out the National African American Gun Association - they look like an upstanding group to me.”
I went to their website (http://www.naaga.co), and they do look like an upstanding group that I personally wouldn’t mind spending time with at the range, but there’s a problem...I have the wrong skin color. Maybe it’s just me, but I’m tired of the division being created by the ever growing list of “hyphenated American” groups. Under the Obama regime, it has been encouraged to set oneself apart from others based on skin color, sexual orientation, and plenty of other things rather than just being or becoming an AMERICAN. Obama was touted to be the “Great Uniter”, and he was going to end racism in our nation. Well, since we know everything he says is a lie, and it’s obvious that relations between different races has been set decades back, I question if creating division between all Americans has been the goal of Obama from the very start.
>> Check out the National African American Gun Association - they look like an upstanding group to me.
>> I went to their website (http://www.naaga.co), and they do look like an upstanding group that I personally wouldn’t mind spending time with at the range, but there’s a problem...I have the wrong skin color...
Well, let me put on my (ex-767 airline) Captain’s hat for a moment: For all the days of my airline career, I loved saying “hi” and “bye” to the passengers that paid my salary. I’d do the cockpit setup early; the shutdown checklist quickly after we blocked in, and then stand by the door as they passed by me.
It was never a “buh-bye buh-bye buh-bye”. I could always find something different and interesting to say: “Get all your homework done? Looks like a good book. Kids, did Mom behave? Did y’all have a great vacation?”, and so on. In my 30+ year career, I probably did this one-on-one interaction with well over 10,000 passengers.
Now, for the black passengers, both male and female: They are so used to being ignored that they would pass me with an expressionless, blank stare - UNTIL - they were spoken to. To the person, their faces would would light up; they would smile and engage in conversation.
Since retirement 12 years ago, I have volunteered over 2,000 hours at our international airport’s information booth. For the most part, I’ve had the same experience, but, sorry to say, in the post-Ferguson days, the current occupant of the White Hut has created a chilling effect on more than a few. Sad. Good riddance to him.
If you can find a local group, I hope you give it a try - especially if you have experience, firearms instructor or RSO creds. Many of us Freepers would love to hear how it works out.
And now [ahem], putting on my Chaplain’s hat - Edwin Markham’s (1852-1940) poem “Outwitted”:
He drew a circle that shut me out —
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in!