Monday, April 26, 2010

Black tea party?

Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters —the black protesters — spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly even armed conflict in the event that laws they didn’t like were enforced by the government? Would these protester — these black protesters with guns — be seen as brave defenders of the Second Amendment, or would they be viewed by most whites as a danger to the republic? What if they were Arab-Americans? Because, after all, that’s what happened recently when white gun enthusiasts descended upon the nation’s capital, arms in hand, and verbally announced their readiness to make war on the country’s political leaders if the need arose.
I doubt we would see any Republican within 500 miles of the meeting and that the entire group would be surrounded by police taking photos for future reference... People of color are obviously terrorists. White people are sincere, religious and true patriots who regretfully drag their armaments out of the closet to do the Lord's work.

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