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New article by Bob Cottrol and Ray Diamond
Helpless by law: enduring lessons from a century old tragedy, in the Connecticut Law Review. Summary:
"This essay examines questions of violence and self-defense in African American history. It does so by contrasting historical patterns of racist anti-Black violence prevalent in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, as exemplified by the destruction of the Greenwood community in Tulsa Oklahoma in 1921, with the current phenomenon of Black-on-Black violence in modern inner-city communities. Although circumstances have changed greatly in the century since the destruction of Greenwood, two phenomena persist: 1. the failure of authorities to protect Black communities and their residents, and 2. efforts by authorities to use the law or law enforcement to disarm members of Black communities leaving residents helpless by law."
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Part of me wonders if that is part of an attempt to push the Black community into an armed response. With the idea of starting a civil war or maybe as a way of getting them killed?
No, it's just the democrats keeping the black population on the urban plantation and supposedly beholden to the dems for their livelihood, in return for votes, of course. All thanks to race baiting huckster preachers, smiling gun grabbing politicians, and even all the way back to the democrat party's first post civil war PAC, the KKK.
"push the Black community into an armed response."
A miniscule subset of that community seems to have gotten the message, however that subset has chosen other Blacks as their victims.
Thanks for that essay, I'll add it to my collection. It is sad that the part arms have played in Black history has largely been suppressed and forgotten. So much has been written about the tradition, and the relationship of gun control and slavery. It's a new plantation, but the same laws, and now we are all subject to them.
Just a few:
Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms, Negroes with Guns,
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible,
We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement.
"1. the failure of authorities to protect Black communities and their residents,"
Defund the police to further expose Black communities to crime.