Posted on 09/08/2002 11:45:20 AM PDT by Pat Bateman
It is hard to generalize about racism and gun control. Politics makes strange bedfellows and a lot of people are logically inconsistent, if not hypocrites.
In the 60's and 70's in Chicago I was in everything anti-da mare. We openly pursued a coalition of anti-communists and communists against Daley. I was peripherally active in the Black Panthers (one of many Whites). Some of my close Puerto Rican friends were super-active in the Black Panthers, dating them, etc. In Chicago, the Black Panthers were not ideologically monolithic. Many were libertarians. Many were statists. Many were confused.
The commonality was harrassment by politicized police units. Some police units worked directly for da mare. Others worked directly for States Attorney Hanrahan. Their job was to arrest, discredit and make ineffective any opposition to da mare, or committeeman. There were many political assassinations prior to the political assassination of Fred Hampton. eg Puerto Rican friends of mine backing RINO Lopez for Alderman against the Boss were shot in the back with the Republican precinct captain as an eye witness too timid to speak up and risk his own life.
I also knew people who saved their own life, or the life of a friend because a policeman backed down from getting into a shootout with them. So what was the crime of these people who used guns in self-defense? It was freedom of speech in opposition to urban removal and support of candidates who opposed urban renewal. So they actively used their 2d amendment rights to protect their first amendment rights.
But like I said at the beginning, people are not always logically consistent and are sometimes hypocrites. If some of the oppressed were to gain power, they would act just like the oppressors they previously denounced.
While I disagree with the inherent racism found in this law, it has to be said that at least the state of North Carolina ALLOWED free blacks to live in their state. Unlike the wonderful northern states of Illinois and Oregon to name a few. Of course those states wouldn't have gun laws affecting blacks because to them, blacks didn't even exist!!
By the way, the "Granny" bit was theoretical : In practice, no County Prosecutor would accept such a case. However, if Granny whipped out a licensed handgun- assuming she could somehow get a permit (doubtful !)-there would probably be Hell to pay: especially if she were White, and her assailant were " Other Than".
A few years back,in the City of Perth Amboy, NJ, the Police Chief,who, at the time, was a reasonably good-hearted,if rough-edged Irish fellow, was forced to shoot one of that fair city's violent Hispanic drug gang members-who was lunging at him with a knife.
No charges were filed against him-or even seriously contemplated-but the local newspaper decided to go after him: day after day, critical article after critical article.They even insisted on being present for the Chief's annual weapons qualification test ( which he passed with flying colors ).
After hounding him for about 3 months, and probing the department for disaffected officers willing to tip them off to "wrongdoing",they finally "caught him red-handed": using a City-owned car to rescue his daughter, whose car had broken down in the middle of the night a whole five miles outside the City limits !! The Chief, who had his 30 years in-with change left over-paid the City for the use of the police car, and retired. The newspaper, of course, rushed a reporter out to interview him, but did not receive a printable response.
The newspaper, which has since changed hands, had a policy of publicly tormenting anybody who owned or used a gun for any purpose ; and of treating Blacks and Hispanics as if they were endangered species. ( Nowadays, because of semographic changes, Muslims are considered a protected species ! )
damnyankees have always been really good at sel-righteousness and "speaking with forked tongue"!
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people like that make me want to gag!
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Yew said it!
The very place where folks are most likely to need to defend themselves and their homes.
it is my VERY humble opinion that that it is the BASE of most of the damnyankee elitists FEAR/HATRED of both guns & the 2d amendment!
in their view us "coloured folks" just can NOT be trusted!
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damnyankee elitists are, imVho, largely RACISTS/fascists and hatemongers, who use fear/racism/loathing/stereotypes to advance their agenda, against the citizens, who "just aren't smart enough to handle their own affairs;thus the citizens need wise persons to direct their conduct."
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