Stacy Swimp, president and CFO of the Frederick Douglass Society, spoke at a press conference on gun control on Feb. 22, 2013 in D.C. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)
Posted on 02/22/2013 3:27:40 PM PST by jazusamo
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(CNSNews.com) – Gun control dates back to laws before and after the Civil War that prohibited or restricted African Americans from owning firearms, a group of black leaders said Friday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
“History is [rife] with examples. There’s a direct correlation between gun control and black people control,” Stacy Swimp, president and CFO of the Frederick Douglass Society, said at the event.
Swimp compared the call for universal background checks for gun purchase to the time when blacks were required to register with the government.
“The first gun laws were put into place to register black folks, to make sure that they would know who we were – that we could not defend ourselves,” Swimp said.
“I think if you look right after the Emancipation Proclamation – what was going on down in the southern states, it’s very clear that the Dixiecrats wanted to disarm black people to keep us from defending ourselves against the Klansman, who were murdering white and black Republicans to control the ballot box,” Swimp said. “So I think history is [rife] with examples. There’s a direct correlation between gun control and black people control.”
The gun control laws that banned or put restrictions on African Americans from owning firearms are documented on a timeline from 1640 to 1995 by the National Rifle Association’s Institute of Legislative Action and can be found here.
Ken 'The Hutch' Hutcherson, former NFL linebacker and pastor of Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland, Wash., spoke at a press conference on gun control on Feb. 22, 2013 in Washington, D.C. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)
Ken “The Hutch” Hutcherson, former linebacker with the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys and pastor of the Antioch Bible Church, told CNSNews.com “gun control is about controlling people.”
CNSNews.com asked: From what was said today, it seems in fact that gun control hurts the African American community.
“It absolutely does, there’s no doubt about it,” Hutcherson said. “It began that way with history. You see why there was so much gun control earlier in life – in American life – because it controlled African Americans.
“Gun control is about controlling people,” he said. “We need to understand that those who need to be trained, who need to be armed is the African American community, and I don’t understand why any African American that is there in Congress right now would have the slightest thought about taking guns away from African Americans. We need them.”
Speakers at the event spoke out in defense of the Second Amendment and its guarantee that American citizens have the right to own and bear arms and that the government should not infringe on that right, including Ken Blackwell, chairman of the board for the Center of for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) and board member of the National Rifle Association.
“That right to protect one’s life and liberty is a God-given right,” Blackwell said in a statement. “It is a gift from God, not a grant from government.”
Star Parker, founder and president of CURE, said her organization held the event to allow black leaders “to express our deep concern of efforts currently under way to limit our God-given and constitutional right of self-defense.”
So they figured out that it’s really not about guns, but about control. Welcome to my world!
Very well spoken. Thanks for posting this.
This needs to be encouraged not bad mouthed . The Rat party has been brainwashing the black community for generations .
You would be amazed at the folks who never heard that the NRA was founded by Civil War veterans & that they taught blacks how to shoot back at night riders of the Klan.
You would be amazed at the number folks who do not know that the Democratic party founded the KKK as an official armed auxiliary to the party to keep the blacks in the former Confederate states from voting.
Encourage them when they get it right .
Amen to that.
“The Rat party has been brainwashing the black community for generations.”
Truer words were never spoken.
Thanks for posting this.
A friend sent me the following. Something every black person ought to see & consider...
What a smart young lady.
This young lady hits the nail on the head, telling a side of the gun control issue that most have never thought about.
Take a couple minutes to listen to what a very bright young black woman has learned...
Forward on because everyone needs to hear this.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/vn7bkncf1_E
Not only is she smart, she is accurate about the historical reasoning behind the 2nd Amendment.
Thanks for your post, that young lady understands perfectly.
Each black person named here is already a Conservative.
bttt
what was going on down in the southern states, it’s very clear that the Dixiecrats wanted to disarm black people to keep us from defending ourselves against the Klansman, who were murdering white and black Republicans to control the ballot box,” Swimp said. “So I think history is [rife] with examples. There’s a direct correlation between gun control and black people control.”
Typical democrat, even back then - controlling the ballot box and threatening republicans. And, sadly, republicans taking it without retaliation.
It’s also about ‘White people control.’ And Brown people. And Yellow people. And Red people. etc.
No, gun control is not about blacks.
It's about control of the masses by the elites.
If blacks could pull their heads out of their nether regions for a while they would see that everything is not about race. The political elites keep blacks stirred up about race to prevent them from joining with whites and kicking the crooks and scammers out of political office.
Politicians have blacks wallowing in racial paranoia, thinking that the working class white guy down the block spends his time devising ways to shortchange blacks when in fact he is just trying to take care of his family and keep the government off his back. It is the elites at the top who use race as a tool to keep the rest of us divided.
The truth is that 95% of the people, black and white have more in common with each other than they do with the politicians and race pimps who are screwing us all.
But as long as the crooked politicians, race baiters and race pimps can keep blacks riled up about race and suspicious of whites they keep us from joining together and taking back the government and the country.
it’s very clear that the Dixiecrats wanted to disarm black people to keep us from defending ourselves against the Klansman, who were murdering white and black Republicans to control the ballot box
Ken “The Hutch” Hutcherson, former linebacker with the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys and pastor of the Antioch Bible Church, told CNSNews.com “gun control is about controlling people.”
It's about the control of all people.
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