Posted on 02/16/2013 5:44:42 PM PST by Kaslin
That MSNBC host would be the one and only Touré who was responding to a section in Wayne LaPierre’s recent article on The Daily Caller. The NRA chief was discussing the various reasons law-abiding citizens need a firearm, including after a natural disaster.
“After Hurricane Sandy, we saw the hellish world that the gun prohibitionists see as their utopia. Looters ran wild in south Brooklyn. There was no food, water or electricity. And if you wanted to walk several miles to get supplies, you better get back before dark, or you might not get home at all.”
And just like that, Touré’s racism radar went off.
MSNBC’s Toure: If Newtown Shooter Killed Black Kids We Probably Wouldn’t Be Talking About Guns
“Perhaps we know Wayne LaPierre is wrong about good guys and bad guys and guns. I’m sure many of us find him hard to trust given his obvious use of racial demonization to spread fear that will lead to buying guns. In his recent editorial in the Daily Caller, he spoke of supposedly rampant crime and murder in some place he called South Brooklyn in the days after Hurricane Sandy. Put aside that no reporting bears that out, I live in Brooklyn, and I have for a long time, and there is no place referred to as South Brooklyn. But I think it's safe to say that when he says that, much of the country envisions a place clogged with black people.
Now if Adam Lanza had walked into a black public school in this mythical South Brooklyn or in the Southside of Chicago, we would probably not be having a sustained national conversation about guns.Adam just smushed the pain of the gun epidemic in America's face, but black people have been living with that pain for so long we're numb to it. We’re rightly outraged by interracial killings, but black on black crime is a far more prevalent problem.”
He does have a point though. If Adam Lanza, a white male, had walked into a black public school and massacred 26 children and teachers, we’d be talking about racism. But that would be only part of the national conversation. Many have argued the reason the president’s real push for gun control came after Sandy Hook rather than Aurora is because it was in his second term. While this may be true, I’d also argue the public’s outrage and many people’s emotional draw toward gun control stems from the fact that the majority of victims were innocent children. Moreover, they were victimized in an elementary school--one of the safest places young people can be. This has nothing to do with race. To suggest Americans wouldn't be just as outraged if this occured in a black public school is disgraceful.
That being said, however, black on black crime is a far more prevalent problem—so in that sense, Touré’s right. If we are to stick with his example of the Southside of Chicago though, we can see that more gun control isn’t the answer. Guns are an easy target for progressives but it’s time people stop overlooking the many reasons people choose to the pull the trigger.
As a side note, NewsBusters’ Noel Sheppard points out there really is such a thing as South Brooklyn and he just happened to find a HuffPo article titled, “Hurricane Sandy Looting, Fights Plague South Brooklyn." Hmm.
"It's getting dark, and it's real dangerous out here -- that's why there's a cop on every block," one NYPD officer told HuffPost Crime. "You could get your stuff stolen." [...]
Dena Wells, 39, a resident of Ocean Towers, had had enough after watching the melee.
"People are turning on each other -- they're attacking each other," she said, shaking her head. "Even when there's no disaster, this building is disastrous. But after the hurricane, it just got crazy."
Don't expect an apology from Touré.
My guns are mostly black. Does that mean that they can’t be racist? Is my silver gun more likely to be racist than my others? If we are going to have a national conversation about guns and racism, should it start in my gun cabinet? I could not find a color trend in the bullets, so I am not sure if bullet racism is irrelevant. What if I buy a rainbow colored gun...do I have to worry about gay-bashing by the black and silver ones? (yes, this makes more sense than most of what is on MSNBC)
My guns are mostly black. Does that mean that they can’t be racist? Is my silver gun more likely to be racist than my others? If we are going to have a national conversation about guns and racism, should it start in my gun cabinet? I could not find a color trend in the bullets, so I am not sure if bullet racism is irrelevant. What if I buy a rainbow colored gun...do I have to worry about gay-bashing by the black and silver ones? (yes, this makes more sense than most of what is on MSNBC)
My guns are mostly black. Does that mean that they can’t be racist? Is my silver gun more likely to be racist than my others? If we are going to have a national conversation about guns and racism, should it start in my gun cabinet? I could not find a color trend in the bullets, so I am not sure if bullet racism is irrelevant. What if I buy a rainbow colored gun...do I have to worry about gay-bashing by the black and silver ones? (yes, this makes more sense than most of what is on MSNBC)
My guns are mostly black. Does that mean that they can’t be racist? Is my silver gun more likely to be racist than my others? If we are going to have a national conversation about guns and racism, should it start in my gun cabinet? I could not find a color trend in the bullets, so I am not sure if bullet racism is irrelevant. What if I buy a rainbow colored gun...do I have to worry about gay-bashing by the black and silver ones? (yes, this makes more sense than most of what is on MSNBC)
Hey Toure, if thats the case how come the left NEVER mentions what is going on in Chicago..because its blacks killing blacks therefore its not really a “Crime” according to leftists..hey Toure, something else for you to think about, if George Bush were President..would you give a damn about Benghazi?
Sorry, iPad does this sometimes.
If Adam Lanza were black and shooting up white kids he'd be up for his own Monday holiday by next February.
Where is “Southside Chicago”. Where is their city hall?
Duh
Of course he’s right. Chicago proves the point.
Just when I think MSNBC can’t sink any lower, they find a way.
OMG, you are so right. Liberals really object to his timing (after they were born) and the fact that he used a gun and not a scalpel.
If Lanza were white and his victims black, we'd never hear the end of it.
If Adam Lanza were black we wouldn’t be talking about guns.
If Adam Lanza was black, we wouldn’t be talking about it at all...
Doncha know, it’s racist to talk about black crime.
Absolutely no talk of guns after Ft. Hood...Black and Muslim...Surprise !!!
Most of my guns are black.... that proves I am not racist.
If Lanza's victims were black, the lynching of George Zimmerman would pale in comparison to it.
and if obama had any interest in his “hometown” of chicago where the black on black murder rate exceeds newtown by several orders of maganitude
MSNBC NEVER gets it right. Never.
If Adam Lanza had killed black children we’d never hear the end of it. Look what happened to Zimmerman - and Zimmerman wasn’t even ‘really’ white. ANS he killed ONE black kid in self defense - the mob was ready to hang him. NBC was doctoring tapes to make him look racist... There was blood in the water - they were after Zimmerman.
No, the only way it would NOT be a story is if some black kid killed black kids. Like what’s been happening in Chicago, Detroit, and Philly for years.
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