Civil rights advocates pose dilemma for prejudiced gun-grabbers

March 5th, 2013

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

A regrettable yet understandable result of a history of racial bigotry and injustice that has plagued this nation from its inception are mistrust and divisions along lines of ethnicity, religion and culture. This can especially manifest itself in politics, where a politician’s electability is too often influenced by whether or not a candidate’s appearance fits a demographic expectation, and also in terms of who a given population will accept as a credible and trustworthy message-bearer.

It’s unfortunate, but it’s undeniable. And it’s one reason why the message that natural and civil rights include those to keep and bear arms has been unpersuasive with many in urban communities, who dismiss organizations such as the National Rifle Association as primarily being special interest advocates for white people. That the history of “gun control” has its roots in racism, first in keeping slaves disarmed and later in discriminatory laws, and that there are many examples of blacks defending themselves against racist violence with civil rights-era examples like the Deacons for Defense and Justice, are messages that have not significantly impacted modern public discourse. Sadly, that has much to do with who is presenting them.

I’ve discussed these issues in this column since its inception, and long before that. We’ve repeatedly written about efforts to educate, mourned the passage of pioneers, and helped amplify the voices of present-day leaders. But there’s always a line, an uncomfortable one, but there nonetheless, illustrated by a concern I often discussed with my friend the late Aaron Zelman, founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership: He could call out anti-gun Jewish leaders and be immune to being dismissed as an anti-Semite.

Two new and separate efforts providing similar opportunities to reach across racial/cultural lines have recently emerged, one from NRA, where someone recognized a good thing in the outstanding, no-nonsense online video commentary of Colion Noir, and invited him to join the NRA News team and reach a wider audience.

The other is from civil rights advocate and columnist Star Parker, founder of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), who has created a message to “Preserve gun rights, save black lives.” Parker has produced a powerful video depicting a lynching entitled “Never Again” that is a must-see, and you can, in this column’s video player.

Naturally, the National Coalition to Ban Handguns (since renamed to the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence because they really want to ban everything but don’t want to show all their cards) can’t allow such heresy against their state monopoly of violence religion to stand unchallenged.

“I don’t think this is the genuine opinion of African-Americans in this country,” their communications director Ladd Everitt is quick to point out.

That’s exactly what CSGV told me about women and guns when I chided that they’d rather see them raped and killed than armed. Rather than addressing that demonstrable truth, their rebuttal was “You’re another white gun nut claiming to speak for the Women of America. And you don’t. Nor will you ever.”

You see what they’re doing in both cases — accusing others of presuming to speak for a group while they do exactly that.

I don’t claim to speak anything but the right of adult individuals to make their own choices. Tellingly, the collectivist CSGV hypocrites are the ones who would impose laws binding on all, including women and African-Americans, and have their choices dictated to and forced on them.

And what’s with using a person’s race as a pejorative? Really? What does that tell us about the hateful mind who meant that as an insult?

It’s the same divide I talked about at the beginning of this column that we who believe in liberty need to be working to overcome and build bridges over, as Colion Noir and Star Parker are doing. How revealing that in the case of CSGV, their message must rely on and perpetuate naked bigotry.

No? Then here are two challenges for Ladd & Co. First, let us know who is authorized to post on your Twitter account — who exactly is it who thinks “white” is an appropriate put-down, or is that racist dismissal another of the collective assessments you all share? And will you now call the champions of these newest efforts “black gun nuts”?

In the interests of logical consistency, why the hell not?

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