Posted on 01/31/2021 6:43:00 PM PST by Trump20162020
The defining photograph of the attempted insurrection on Jan. 6 was that of a man strolling through the broken halls of our national Capitol, amid the smashed windows and assorted rubble of the failed coup, proudly brandishing a Confederate flag on his shoulder and hoping to overturn an election decided largely by Black voters. It’s an image that tells the story not only of Jan. 6 or of the Trump presidency, but also of all the steps that led to that moment — the whole history of hate in America captured in one frame.
This deadly connection between white supremacy and guns runs throughout our history. In 1866, armed Confederate loyalists stormed the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, murdering 34 Black Americans in an attempt to block suffrage for freed slaves. In 1898, an armed White mob in Wilmington, N.C., proclaimed a “White Declaration of Independence,” then killed at least 60 residents before replacing the multiracial local government with white supremacists. In 1921, mobs of armed White residents of Tulsa attacked the Black neighborhood of Greenwood, murdering as many as 300 Tulsans for the crime of being Black and successful. In 1955, Emmett Till was tortured and shot in the head by White vigilantes. And today, mass shootings – from the church in Charleston to the supermarket in El Paso to the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. — have been committed by white supremacists filled with hate and armed with a gun.
Simply put, if the Confederate flag is the primary symbol of white-supremacist hate, the gun is its deadliest weapon.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
And that one of the reasons the NRA was founded was to find a way to provide firearms and the skills to use them to the Freedman. Personal weapons defend Liberty.
Don’t laugh, such symbols can be easily twisted into symbols of “white supremacy”. Whatever serves the never-ending grievance industry can be co-opted. The truth is, the very existence and historical achievement of whites is an affront to leftists and black racists. That’s why what can’t be appropriated is being “cancelled”.
Not a white supremacist, but a supreme white:)
And stay home too. Ya gotta wonder what sort of devious POS comes up with this garbage.
FTA.......
The Rev. Sharon Risher is a member of the Everytown Survivor Network, a volunteer with Moms Demand Action and the author of “For Such a Time as This: Hope and Forgiveness after the Charleston Massacre.”
( hoo boy. Barking moon bat in need of a good - ahem. You know....)
If that bill passes, it’s going to get real, real ugly.
I agre. My guns are nothing but love and kindness. The ammo however are a bunch of serious hating @ssholes!
How old is this idiot?
Also, some corrections in brackets:
This deadly connection between white supremacy and guns runs throughout our history. In 1866, armed [Democrat] Confederate loyalists stormed the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, murdering 34 [Republican] Black Americans in an attempt to block suffrage for freed slaves. In 1898, an armed [Democrat]White mob in Wilmington, N.C., proclaimed a [Democrat] “White Declaration of Independence,” then killed at least 60 residents before replacing the multiracial [mostly Republican] local government with [Democrat] white supremacists. In 1921, mobs of armed [Democrat] White residents of Tulsa attacked the [Republican] Black neighborhood of Greenwood, murdering as many as 300 Tulsans for the crime of being [Republican] Black and successful. In 1955, Emmett Till was tortured and shot in the head by [Democrat] White vigilantes. And today, mass shootings – from the church in Charleston to the supermarket in El Paso to the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. — have been committed by [Democrat] white supremacists filled with hate and armed with a gun.
Simply put, if the [Democrat] Confederate flag is the primary symbol of white-supremacist hate, the gun is its deadliest weapon.
Libs think that they somehow had something to do with stopping Klan violence against blacks. Blacks arming themselves was the cause. Just because one ignores history doesn’t change that.
Washington Post. Hating guns in civilian hands since 1963.
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/herblock-gallery/1963-Part-2/05988u_enlarge.jpg
https://www.herbblockfoundation.org/gun-control-cartoons
The propaganda is so thick in this one......
Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays.
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
- Booker T. Washington, historical black educator and Presidential advisor
These lot are so deep in their own b.s. it’s all they breathe and eat
Do a quick search for The Racist Roots of Gun Control.
Making good people helpless doesn’t make bad people harmless.
-Supports Abortion because it kills 3 times more minority babies than white.
-Imposes slave wages on legal immigrants and minorities by flooding the labor market with cheap, illegal labor.
-Refuses to fight crime in minority neighborhoods because they really don't give a damn.
-Refuse to provide a meaningful education or school choice in minority neighborhoods because they want to keep minorities dependent on government handouts.
-(add your observations here ____)
The author forgot to mention that the only gunplay at the January 6th protest was the shooting of an unarmed white woman, killed by a black government employee. The shooter lay in wait some 8 to 10 feet to the side of the victim, who was moving in a perpendicular direction, relative to the shooter position, i.e., away from him, and deliberately shot her in the neck.
For the record, that is not my view of the Confederate battle flag. Most of the soldiers on both sides in the Civil War, North and South, were white supremacists by modern standards.
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