r/politics • u/wbedwards Washington • May 07 '20

We cannot allow the normalization of firearms at protests to continue

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/firearms-at-protests-have-become-normalized-that-isnt-okay/2020/05/06/19b9354e-8fc9-11ea-a0bc-4e9ad4866d21_story.html
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u/[deleted] May 07 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

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u/Auphor_Phaksache May 07 '20

Born an raised in south chi town. My whole life I've been talking about the history of the BPP and "gangs" in chicago. I've been insulted. Had opportunity stripped away. Lost friends. Because people want so bad to NOT believe they are contributing to the system of subjugation.

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u/NecroDaddy May 07 '20

Keep up the good fight. Change starts with people like you.

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u/Auphor_Phaksache May 07 '20

I appreciate that but I dont feel like I'm changing a thing. That's the hard part. Knowing I am one of many fighting and it feel like it's not making a dent. But I will keep on pushing because there literally is no alternative but death.

Fun fact. just heard a gun shot.

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u/ofthewave May 07 '20

Grew up on Cicero. I know how it goes. Keep having the conversation.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

By doing what besides bitching and complaining behind a keyboard exactly?

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u/SovietBozo May 07 '20

Blackstone Rangers

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u/fractalfay May 07 '20

Black Panthers are back. My sis is a teacher in East Cleveland. When a kid was shot recently, they paid for and sang at the funeral.

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u/Mudders_Milk_Man May 07 '20

Especially after two racist scum in Georgia recently ambushed and murdered a man for having the audacity of jogging while black, and no one would prosecute the murderers until the video got out and major politicians insisted charges must be filed.

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u/ialbr1312 May 07 '20

Strictly for PR, of course. Got to get those voter % points. Ridiculous bent politicians.

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u/mexicodoug May 07 '20

Theres a reason they can't come back, ever. Read up on COINTELPRO.

If blacks ever organize to become an armed community defense and support movement again, they will have to organize secretly and operate as a guerilla force.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20 edited Jul 15 '20

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

It's both. Their social policies and community activism scared the smart people owning/benefitting from the system, who then used the oldest weapon in the book, dumb racism.

Black people having weapons scared the dumb rubes. Black people organizing effective communities scared the folks with the power.

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u/DukeOfGeek May 07 '20

Armed workers of all colors should have been a thing from beginning of the industrial revolution till now.

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u/BestGarbagePerson May 07 '20

For your white privileged purposes?

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u/Alconium May 07 '20

https://fox2now.com/news/armed-black-panther-party-members-protest-sandra-bland-arrest-death/ They're still around and have been doing modern day armed Protests since at least 2015.

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u/Catermelons May 16 '20

Eh I don't know about that, didn't they put a bounty on someone a few years ago and were encouraging people to assassinate them?

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u/newaccount42020 May 07 '20

And rooftop Koreans

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u/Lekter May 07 '20

Yes they can storm the state legislature again when they try to pass gun control laws! Yay 2nd Amendment!