Posted on 07/24/2013 8:53:51 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
After Ted Nugent made comments about the Trayvon Martin case that were seen as racist, a gun control group is demanding his removal from the National Rifle Association's board of directors.
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has launched a petition to "publicly repudiate Ted Nugent's racist rhetoric" and have him kicked off of the NRA's board of directors.
The "Cat Scratch Fever" rocker called Martin a "17-year-old dope smoking, racist gangsta wannabe" in a column for conservative media website Rare. Nugent continued to say, "The only racism on that night was perpetrated by Trayvon Martin, and everybody knows it."
In a July 16 appearance on the conservative talk radio show "The Alex Jones Show," Nugent asserted that those most prejudiced against African-Americans were African-American themselves.
"There are black mobs across America that are guilty of the worst racism since the Klan," Nugent said. "The worst racism against blacks is documented and undeniable by blacks."
Nugent continued to say that black Americans are tricked into believing they're oppressed.
"The blacks have bought into this lie that somehow they're oppressed when the president is black, the attorney general is black, governors are black, senators are black, congressmen are black, mayors are black, Oprah Winfrey [and some of] the richest people in the world are black. It is a dirty lie," he said.
Currently, the group says the petition for his removal has about 1,300 signatures.
"These disgusting comments reveal that Nugent has moved to a new extreme of unapologetic, overt racism," coalition Executive Director Josh Horwitz said in a press release. "No credible organization should be associating with this kind of hater, let alone continuing to allow him to serve on its board."
Horwitz also stated if the NRA wants to continue to bill itself as the "oldest civil rights organization in the United States" then it needs to "walk the walk" and sever its ties with Nugent.
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence is, according to their website, a nonprofit organization seeking to "secure freedom from gun violence through research, strategic engagement and effective policy advocacy."
The NRA and Nugent did not respond to Whispers' repeated requests for comment.
FOAD... you leftards are racists... Ted tells the truth. you blacks had better get your mind around this... we are tired of your crap and Americans will no longer remain silent.
Emphasis mine.
Ted Nugent is a patriotic American, and is entitled to his opinion and First Amendment right to speak his mind. What he said is basically correct, those are just truths that the usual suspects don't want to hear.
We must not let free speech be quashed. Heaven knows that there is enough ridiculous rhetoric from the Left that we have to endure.
Go Ted!!!
(BTW someone should start a counter-petition and see how many signatures IT gets... ;)
A racist always sees racism....
Yeh I bet the NRA is going to be real interested in what a gun control group has to say.
Ted just got re-elected to another term on the NRA BOD.
Go Ted!!
What are they going to do? Boycott the NRA?
The truth hurts.
Josh Horwitz? Might be a white Hispanic!
Just goes to prove that any truthful but uncomplimentary statement about a protected class is considered racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. by the left.
I wonder if the “gun-control” group knows what the letters “F.O.” and “K.M.A.” mean???
Everything he said is true, so if you tell the truth, you are supposed to get removed from a group? Nuts.
Which of those comments were suppose to be racist?
What exactly was untrue that Ted said?
Gangsta wannabe is now racist?
What were the racist comments?
Where is the petition to keep him?
8^O
And, "Yes," I only said that because you're White. Get a frigging life.
8^D
Yeah, the NRA is going to get right on that, you betcha.
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV), and the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence (EFSGV or Ed Fund), its sister organization, are two parts of a national, non-profit gun control advocacy organization.
In 1974, the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society formed the National Coalition to Ban Handguns, a group of thirty religious, labor, and nonprofit organizations with the goal of addressing “the high rates of gun-related crime and death in American society” by licensing gun owners, registering firearms, and banning private ownership of handguns with “reasonable limited exceptions” for “police, military, licensed security guards, antique dealers who have guns in unfireable condition, and licensed pistol clubs where firearms are kept on the premises.”
In 1989, the National Coalition to Ban Handguns changed its name to the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, in part because the group felt that “assault weapons” as well as handguns, should be outlawed.
Michael K. Beard is the President of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence/Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, a title he has held since the inception of the respective organizations.
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The NRA’s Perverted View of America
There are consequences to the NRA’s perverse and dangerous ideology.
“The concept of a government ‘monopoly on force’ may sound inconsistent with the political traditions of a country steeped in stories of its own revolution, but it is the fundamental organizing principle of any nation-state.” – Josh Horwitz, Executive Director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
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Josh Horwitz laughably accuses gun rights advocates of disregarding Constitution
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (once known as the Coalition to Ban Handguns, until they decided that they wanted to ban so-called “assault weapons,” too) is perhaps the anti-gun group most open about its rabid opposition to the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms. No other group in the U.S. has been willing to publicly state that there must be a “government monopoly on force.”
Octar= NRA Benefactor Life Member
Not likely.
As a NRA Benefactor life member who did vote for Ted, my message to the Commie Gun grabbers is one big
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