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Alabama state representative launches into race-fueled rant over Second Amendment rights
Daily Caller ^ | March 27, 2013 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 03/27/2013 11:58:18 AM PDT by Rufus2007

In Alabama, no state legislator, Republican or Democrat, would ever question gun rights, given the state’s conservative leanings and rural setting.

But Democratic Alabama State Rep. Joseph Mitchell of Mobile, Ala. has a curious take on why his constituents in his majority African-American district should appreciate their Second Amendment rights.

In emails sent from Mitchell’s official state legislature account obtained by the blog Yellow Hammer Politics and published Wednesday morning, Mitchell had a heated exchange with a constituent identified as Eddie Maxwell and provided his own defense of the Second Amendment.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; banglist; democrats; secondamendment
This is what you would call being on the right side of an issue for all of the wrong reasons.
1 posted on 03/27/2013 11:58:18 AM PDT by Rufus2007
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To: Rufus2007
Rep Mitchell is an ugly mofo.

And his idea that racism cannot exist in the hearts of those who are unable to carry out destruction on those they hate is pure BS.

Racism at its core is hatred...and that can spread across all racial divisions like a prairie wildfire.

2 posted on 03/27/2013 12:07:22 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
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To: Rufus2007
But Democratic Alabama State Rep...........

Like THAT'S a big surprise?

3 posted on 03/27/2013 12:10:44 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Puppage

About as clear racist hatred on the part of the legislator as you can get.

And we are supposed to accept the leftist insane definition that excludes it as racism.

Giving the left the power to define words in the way they want is right out of 1984.


4 posted on 03/27/2013 1:29:59 PM PDT by marktwain (The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: Rufus2007
for reference:


             

5 posted on 03/27/2013 1:39:57 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: marktwain

I agree completely


6 posted on 03/27/2013 5:34:37 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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