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Owners
of bed and breakfast in Saint Johns, Michigan removed Norwegian flag
after passers-by mistook it for Confederate flag; reaction from
Princeton professor Robert George.
Black gun-rights groups have started open-carry marches at anti-racism protests
Peter Weber
More than 300 heavily armed Black protesters marched in formation through Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday, demanding progress on the slow investigation of the police killing of Breonna Taylor. The same group, the Not F---ing Around Coalition (NFAC), had recently marched
in Stone Mountain, Georgia, wearing black and carrying their
semi-automatic rifles, protesting the Atlanta suburb's namesake monument
depicting Confederate generals, and a separate armed Black group
marched in Oklahoma City in June to mark President Trump's Tulsa rally.
They have gotten mixed reactions from Black Lives Matter protesters, who do not carry firearms to demonstrations.
In Louisville, about 50 heavy armed white members of the far-right Three Percenter militia watched the NFAC march,
purportedly there to support local police. Three Percenters came in
from Indiana, Tennessee, and other states for the rally, according to
leader Tara Brandau. Fellow militia member Nick Alsager told the Louisville Courier Journal
the NFAC marchers had a constitutional right to speak up, but they've
"got no business being here. It ain't your state." Three people were
wounded when someone's gun accidentally discharged, but otherwise the
rally was tense but peaceful.
Black
Americans, like white Americans, have been buying firearms in unusually
large numbers since the COVID-19 pandemic started, and Black gun
ownership picked up more after the police killing of George Floyd, Politico reports, citing a sharp uptick in new memberships in Black gun owner organizations.
The
general chaos of the pandemic was one factor in the surge in
memberships, but the Floyd killing and subsequent protests were a "line
in the sand" for many many new members, Phillip Smith, president of the
National African American Gun Owners' Association, told Politico.
"The days are over of African Americans sitting around singing
'Kumbaya' and hoping and praying that somebody will come and save them.
We're gonna save ourselves." Armed Black Panther demonstrations convinced the NRA and California Gov. Ronald Reagan, the future president, to support gun control in the late 1960s.
Anti-racism proponent Ibram X. Kendi argued recently on Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast
that the glut of white gun ownership is one of the ways that racism has
harmed white Americans, pointing to the white male gun suicide rate.
White men make up 79 percent of America's 24,000 gun suicides each year, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, and people in rural areas are especially at risk. Nearly two-thirds of U.S. gun deaths are suicides. More stories from theweek.com North Korea may be 'reaching out to the world for help' after finally announcing a suspected coronavirus case 5 scathing cartoons about Trump's use of federal force Trump's old tricks aren't working
Dramatic
video shows a nurse being attacked on the Chicago Transit Authority Red
Line by a man whom witnesses say was ranting about the coronavirus
pandemic.
Ohio man in custody after kneeling on White toddler's neck
Isaiah
Jackson, 20, has been put in jail after being out on parole and awaits
new felony charges after a photo circulated on social media showing him
posing with his knee to the neck of a crying, White 2-year-old boy
alongside a message referencing Black Lives Matter.
