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Todd Starnes: No Black Panthers Here

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Newstalgia Reference Room - William F. Buckley And Huey Newton - 1973 | Newstalgia

An interview that would never happen today - at all.

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Black Panthers and the secret history of gun control

A good article on both sides of the second amendment gun control debate.

Obviously, the 2nd Amendment is going to play very heavily in the 2012 debate with the possibility of a total financial collapse on the horizon, anti-2nd Amendment groups are likely to try and capitalize on that in the unfortunate event that it happens.

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It was May 2, 1967, and the Black Panthers’ invasion of the California statehouse launched the modern gun-rights movement. On the west lawn of the state capitol in Sacramento 30 young black men and women [arrived] carrying .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns, and .45-caliber pistols. The 24 men and six women climbed the capitol steps, and one man, Bobby Seale, began to read from a prepared statement. “The time has come for black people to arm themselves against this terror before it is too late.”

Opposition to gun control as what drove the black militants to visit the California capitol with loaded weapons in hand. The Black Panther Party had been formed six months earlier, in Oakland, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. Like many young African Americans, Newton and Seale were frustrated with the failed promise of the civil-rights movement. Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were legal landmarks, but they had yet to deliver equal opportunity. In Newton and Seale’s view, the only tangible outcome of the civil-rights movement had been more violence and oppression, much of it committed by the very entity meant to protect and serve the public: the police.

Inspired by the teachings of Malcolm X, Newton and Seale decided to fight back. Before he was assassinated in 1965, Malcolm X had preached against Martin Luther King Jr.’s brand of nonviolent resistance. Because the government was “either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property” of blacks, he said, they had to defend themselves “by whatever means necessary.” Malcolm X illustrated the idea for Ebony magazine by posing for photographs in suit and tie, peering out a window with an M-1 carbine semiautomatic in hand. Malcolm X and the Panthers described their right to use guns in self-defense in constitutional terms. “Article number two of the constitutional amendments,” Malcolm X argued, “provides you and me the right to own a rifle or a shotgun.”

The Pathers’ efforts provoked an immediate backlash. Republicans in California eagerly supported increased gun control. Governor Reagan told reporters that afternoon that he saw “no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.” He called guns a “ridiculous way to solve problems that have to be solved among people of good will.” In a later press conference, Reagan said he didn’t “know of any sportsman who leaves his home with a gun to go out into the field to hunt or for target shooting who carries that gun loaded.” The Mulford Act, he said, “would work no hardship on the honest citizen.”A good article on both sides of the second amendment gun control debate.... more

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Is "Uncle Tom" a Racist Term or Shade of Truth?

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New Black Panthers Turn on Obama in an N-Word, Uncle Tom Tirade (Content Warning)

You Should Have Listened to Farrakhan When You Were at His Table: New Black Panthers... more

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Full video of 'New Black Panthers' scene reveals GOP attorneys orchestrating the affair

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Why Malcolm's last name was X.

Malcolm X appears on a television show in Chicago called City Desk on March 17, 1963.... more

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LA Sheriff Shoot man in the back 12 times; Man Dies

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(NEW VIDEO) New Black Panther’s King Samir Shabazz: Whites Use Black Babies as ‘Alligator Bait’, ‘Fox Jews’…

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Judiciary Republicans Demand Probe Into New Black Panther Case

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee want a hearing to investigate how the... more

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Justice Department - Black Panther organization accused of voter intimidation Obama blamed for cover up

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KILL WHITE BABIES! KILL CRACKERS! It’s Ok With Obama And Eric Holder…Uncut Black Panther VIDEO…Racial Bias?

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Interview With Dhoruba Bin Wahad - Black Panther Veteran and 19-year political prisoner + Black Panthers (1968) documentary

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Are We Overlooking The Black Power Behind Obama?

A year ago this week, Barack Obama stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to take the... more

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Guns Don’t Kill People, People Kill People!

You have the right as an individual to own a gun and defend yourself. Prohibition... more

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FARRAKHAN: “H1N1 VACCINE DEVELOPED TO CLEANSE COUNTRY OF BLACK AMERICANS”

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(OBAMA APPOVED MESSAGE): “You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!”

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Could Woodstock have been organized on Facebook?

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Black Panther intimidates voters, walks free

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Bernardine Dohrn and Jamal Joseph: From 1968 to 2008

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