As Booker Rising has already mentioned a few days ago, various black conservatives recently held a press conference at the National Press Club to slam the Obama administration's gun control efforts. From Townhall.com: "A number of African-American leaders joined together Friday to
challenge the gun control proposals currently being considered on
Capitol Hill, claiming gun control laws are inherently racist. 'There’s a direct correlation between gun control and black
people control,' Stacy Swimp, president and CFO of the Frederick
Douglass Society, said at the press conference sponsored by the Center
for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)."
The article continues: "Swimp compared the call for universal background checks for gun
purchase to the time when blacks were required to register with the
government. 'The first gun laws were put into place to
register black folks, to make sure that they would know who we were —
that we could not defend ourselves,' Swimp said. 'I think if you look right after the Emancipation Proclamation —
what was going on down in the southern states, it’s very clear that the
Dixiecrats wanted to disarm black people to keep us from defending
ourselves against the Klansman, who were murdering white and black
Republicans to control the ballot box,' Swimp said."
More: "Niger Ennis, President of CORE, Congress for Racial Equality, one
of the oldest civil rights organizations in the country, agreed that 'gun control has ultimately been about people control. It sprouts from racist soil,' Ennis said. 'Democratic controlled
segregationist governments after the civil war attempted to deny black
men and women their freedom, they instituted black codes, largely to
deny the second amendment from newly freed slaves,' Ennis said."
Black Conservatives: "Gun Control Is Black People Control"
