The NRA recently put out a racist ad narrated by Dana Loesch that not only attacked Black Lives Matter, but can also be described as a white supremacist call to violence.
In addition to being called out about the racist ad, the NRA has also been called out for their deafening silence in the wake of the Philando castile case.
Then again, the NRA is only proving what we've been saying about them for years in that they are a white supremacist organization, and their defense of the Second Amendment is only for the benefit of one ethnic group.
Black Lives Matter clapped back at the racist NRA by unleashing one of their own condemning it
The gun nuts keep making our case for sensible gun regulations in the United States with every passing day..
A doozy of a talking point came out of the mouth of Larry Ward, the chairman of something called Gun Appreciation Day, which is ostensibly being held on January 19, the day before before President Obama's second inauguration happens on January 20.
Note to these history challenged conservafools. January 19 is also Confederate General Robert E. Lee's birthday, which is celebrated as a holiday in Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia and in Texas as Confederate Heroes Day.
"I think Martin Luther King, Jr. would agree with me if he were alive today that if African Americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country's founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history,"
WTF? Let's get real for a moment. The reason you and other white males have such a fetishistic attachment to guns in the United States is because of what your ancestors did to mine during slavery.
With your looming status as a minority in the US rapidly approaching in 2040 or 2050, you peeps are deathly afraid that once non-white peeps get power, we will do unto you what you did unto all of us.
And let's get back to that jacked up slavery talking point I'm going to have fun eviscerating. Guns are what allowed you to kidnap Africans and bring them to the Western Hemisphere in the first place. With slave rebellions a far more frequent occurrence than the 'happy darkie' meme let on, you damned sure didn't want free Blacks to have arms out of fear they would either use them to help free their captive relatives in the Deep South or send them that way in mass quantities to arm rebellious slaves.
Your fear level of armed slave rebellions went up dramatically after the successful Haitian Revolution from 1791-1804 ejected the French from their profitable Saint-Dominigue colony and established the Republic of Haiti.
The anxiety was especially acute in the Deep South in which they feared a successful repeat in the United States of what transpired in Haiti.
My ancestors damned sure did their best to make it happen with multiple slave rebellions in the wake of the successful Haitian one. The most well known of the slave rebellions of that period was the one triggered by Nat Turner in 1831. .
Frankly you didn't want to prevent slavery. It was far too profitable for you and it took a Union victory in the Civil War and the 13th Amendment to end it.
So don't even try to peddle some stank revisionist history like that to attempt to justify your weak position of unfettered gun access.
Jet magazine in its nearly six decades of publication has had many prominent African-Americans in the worlds of business, politics, sports and the entertainment world on its covers.
It has had a long proud history of chronicling the inhumanity aimed at our people and especially our children.. Jet published in September 1955 the pictures of Emmitt Till's swollen, disfigured body lying in his open casket during his funeral. Those photos are credited with galvanizing our community around the Civil Rights Movement and fueling our determination to see it through.
We're probably on the cusp of seeing the 21st century's 'Emmit Till moment' in the African-American community in terms of being sick and tired of being sick and tired ofour kids dying at the hands of another proud accomplishment of the National Rifle Association, the Kill Black People With Impunity Stand Your Ground Laws.
The latest incident in Florida in which a Black teenager died at the hands of a white male assailant now claiming the 'stand your ground' defense is transpiring in Jacksonville, FL.
17 year old Jordan Davis was on his way home minding his own business along with two friends in their SUV outside a Jacksonville gas station November 23 listening to rap music after shopping at the mall during the after Thanksgiving Black Friday sales.
46 year old Michael Dunn parked in the space next to the vehicle along with his fiance Rhonda Rouer to attend a wedding when they stopped at the store to buy a bottle of wine before returning to their hotel. They parked next to the SUV containing Davis and his three friends as Rouer went into the store to buy wine to take back to their hotel room..
Dunn confronted the teens about their music and demanded they turn it down. The teens responded by cranking up the volume and according to Dunn's attorney threatened him. Dunn grabbed his gun out of his glove compartment, claimed he saw a shotgun in the SUV and fired eight to nine shots at the SUV that struck Davis who was sitting in the backseat before driving off.
Police found no weapon in the teen's vehicle and Dunn was arrested a day later, charged and indicted on December 13 for the first degree murder of Jordan Davis. Dunn of course is hiding behind the 2005 Stand Your Ground law that Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) and his task force claim there's nothing wrong with.
Tell that bull feces to the parents of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis. 70% of the people who claimed the Stand Your Ground defense went free despite the fact that in 200 cases that were analyzed by the Tampa Bay Times, the defendants initiated the fight, shot an unarmed person or pursued their victim — and still went free.
And I guess Stand Your Ground doesn't work for Black people. Marissa Alexander is doing 20 years in a Florida jail because she fired a warning shot at an abusive husband who admitted he has a domestic violence history and threatened to kill her during an altercation.
And bottom line, loud music is no reason to whip out your gun and kill a 17 year old kid. But as Jason Whitlock correctly stated when he commented on the Belcher-Perkins murder-suicide last month,
"Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it."
It's obvious to everyone but the fetishistic vanillacentric privileged gun sales pimps of the NRA that their Kill A POC Kid With Impunity law has got to go.
Jordan's parents Lucia McBath and Ron Davis now know what Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin are going through. They are vowing to lead the effort to push for federal action to take down the Stand Your Ground Laws in Florida (and 25 other states) that took his life, and we need to join them in that crusade before someone you love is the next victim of it.
The Stand Your Ground Law needs to die, not our kids.
We always like to brag in the United States when we're number one in the world about something vis a vis other nations, but being number one in the number of people who die due to gun violence is not something to be proud of.
We've had two mass shooting in the States this week. One was Tuesday at a mall in Clackamas, OR that killed three people and yesterday it was a mass shooting at an elementary school campus in Newtown, CT. that killed 27 people. 20 of the victims were children between the ages of 5-10 along with seven adults.
As someone who is part of a community that continues to experience a gun violence plague, I'm beyond sick and tired of seeing people die because some people have a fetishistic attachment to guns.
I'm also beyond sick and tired of vanillacentric privileged card carrying NRA gun nuts pointing to the Second Amendment and immediately deploying their 'guns don't kill people' and 'if people were armed, it would have stopped the attack before it happened' spin lines.
Yeah right,.the shooters in the last three incidents were wearing masks and body armor. There were armed people in the vicinity when former congressmember Gabby Giffords was nearly assassinated in Tucson by Jared Loughner and when James Holmes attacked the Aurora, CO movie theater.
Someone was even mindnumbingly stupid enough to say that if the kids at the school had been armed it wouldn't have happened. Don't even insult mine or anyone elses intelligence by trying to peddle that line.
We always hear about protecting the rights of you gun owners. How about protecting the rights of us Americans who don't want to own guns, but our safety and security are increasingly threatened by the out of control gun culture. This is not the Wild Wild West anymore and the United States has a highly competent, well equipped professional army unlike in 1787 when the Constitution was adopted. Our gun laws need to reflect that. It's
time to deal with the reality this fetishistic gun culture is killing innocent people and making our country less safe.
And it's not just us liberals complaining about the flood of guns in the US making our streets less safe. The guns are now spilling over across the Mexican and Canadian borders and negatively impacting their citizens and their nations, too.
It's past time for sensible gun control legislation that balances the 2nd Amendment rights of gun owners with the needs of people who don't want to come near a gun, but have just as much right to have the ability to go about their daily lives without the fear of themselves or their loved ones being shot or killed.
To paraphrase Spock from Star Trek, the needs of many Americans outweigh the needs of a few militant gun owners.
I asked this question when I wrote my post in the wake of the Aurora, CO shooting and it bears repeating once again.
How many more people have to die, be wounded or crippled in the United States, Canada and Mexico before y'all stop tripping and allow some common sense gun laws in this country that ban assault weapons, extended magazine clips and people with mental health issues getting their hands on weapons that kill mass quantities of human beings?
Can somebody in the National Rifle Association answer that question for me? And this time, I think people in Clackamas, OR and Newtown, CT would be very interested in hearing the answer to that question.
While I was preparing to get my learn on at the 2012 TTNS, some fool decided he'd use the lax gun laws to buy some weapons, multiple rounds of ammo and shoot up a movie theater in the early morning hours of July 20..
12 people are dead, including a six year old girl, 58 wounded because the NRA has stifled any rational discussion of gun control laws in the United States because of their racism, paranoid conservafool political stances and their overzealous interpretation of the Second Amendment.
Granted, the waste of DNA James Holmes is in jail now awaiting justice, but that's of little comfort to the families of the people he killed, the lives of others he disrupted, and the peace and tranquility of the lives of the citizens of Aurora, CO he shattered with this senseless act.
Society will also be denied the talents and potential contributions these persons could have made if their lives hadn't been violently cut short.
But the NRA doesn't care about the entire country or any community that's affected by the gun violence, that's been obvious for decades. They only care about a certain vanillacentric conservaslice of the electorate. The NRA doesn't care about people who live in the urban communities who have had to deal with the consequences of the flood of guns their lax laws help enable in the name of 'protecting Second Amendment rights', especially if those folks don't look like them.
All that comes out of the mouth of NRA apologists is that tired bull feces spin line that 'if everyone in that theater (or fill in the blank area) had been armed, it would have stopped this shooting.'
Yeah, right. There were armed people at the Tuscon shooting and that didn't stop Jared Loughner. Armed people wouldn't have stopped this fool either since he was wearing a bulletproof vest. .
Every time one of these mass shootings happens (Columbine, Virginia Tech, Tucson) we hope this will finally be the tipping point event that starts a serious discussion about enacting serious gun control laws here only to fade away until the next mass shooting happens and we have the next one in which people are burying loved ones.
How many more people have to die, be wounded or crippled in the United States, Canada and Mexico before y'all stop tripping and allow some common sense gun laws in this country that ban assault weapons, extended magazine clips and people with mental health issues getting their hands on weapons that kill mass quantities of human beings?
I'm not holding my breath that the needed discussion will happen, especially with less than 120 days to go until an election day.
With your looming status as a minority in the US rapidly approaching in 2040 or 2050, you peeps are deathly afraid that once non-white peeps get power, we will do unto you what you did unto all of us.
The anxiety was especially acute in the Deep South in which they feared a successful repeat in the United States of what transpired in Haiti.
And I guess Stand Your Ground doesn't work for Black people. Marissa Alexander is doing 20 years in a Florida jail because she fired a warning shot at an abusive husband who admitted he has a domestic violence history and threatened to kill her during an altercation. 
Yeah right,.the shooters in the last three incidents were wearing masks and body armor. There were armed people in the vicinity when former congressmember Gabby Giffords was nearly assassinated in Tucson by Jared Loughner and when James Holmes attacked the Aurora, CO movie theater. 
I asked this question when I wrote my post in the wake of the Aurora, CO shooting and it bears repeating once again.
While I was preparing to get my learn on at the 2012 TTNS, some fool decided he'd use the lax gun laws to buy some weapons, multiple rounds of ammo and shoot up a movie theater in the early morning hours of July 20..
Yeah, right. There were armed people at the Tuscon shooting and that didn't stop Jared Loughner. Armed people wouldn't have stopped this fool either since he was wearing a bulletproof vest. .
