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Kana -> RE: UNMODERATED ZIMMERMAN (7/16/2013 7:37:59 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Powergamz1
How ironic of you. As pointed out before, the racist roots of gun control, to which SYG was a defeat, go all the way back to the anti Chinese laws, in which the fundamental human right to self defense was benied to the race with least power.
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ORIGINAL: Marc2b
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Of course it was racist. Of course the camps were unethical and illegal.But lets be clear why Japanese were interned and Germans weren't. The German American population was large enough to influence an election. The Japanese made the mistake of being a political micro-minority, rendering them politically unnecessary.
The Germans (and white people in general) had quite the head start on the Japanese (and Asians in general) in immigrating to America but that doesn't change the fact that the United States has a well documented history of anti-Asian discrimination. Fears of the "yellow peril" existed well before the attack on pearl harbor.
Even better.The first gun control laws with teeth in america came in Oakland,Ca in the late Sixties.
Why?
Because carloads of heavily armed Black panthers were starting to follow the extremely racist,brutal Oakland police through the ghettos and when the cops would start brutalizing a black,the Panthers would get out of the cars armed to the teeth and surround the scene.Not do anything, just stand there with hands full of cold iron.
For some reason made the Oakland PD somewhat nervous.
The political brouhaha led to this moment:
"The eighth-grade students gathering on the west lawn of the state capitol in Sacramento were planning to lunch on fried chicken with California’s new governor, Ronald Reagan, and then tour the granite building constructed a century earlier to resemble the nation’s Capitol. But the festivities were interrupted by the arrival of 30 young black men and women 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 American people in general and the black people in particular,” he announced, must take careful note of the racist California legislature aimed at keeping the black people disarmed and powerless Black people have begged, prayed, petitioned, demonstrated, and everything else to get the racist power structure of America to right the wrongs which have historically been perpetuated against black people The time has come for black people to arm themselves against this terror before it is too late.
Seale then turned to the others. “All right, brothers, come on. We’re going inside.” He opened the door, and the radicals walked straight into the state’s most important government building, loaded guns in hand. No metal detectors stood in their way.
It was May 2, 1967, and the Black Panthers’ invasion of the California statehouse launched the modern gun-rights movement. "
One of the great ironies of our times is that gun control started as anti-black and was almost entirely racially motivated.
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