Liberals have this little trick they use to cancel anything they don’t like by declaring it racist. They’re hoping it will work to get around the constitutional issues of eliminating private gun ownership. According to the new BS narrative, the 2nd Amendment isn’t about guns but rather anti-black racism. The goal now is to create significant outrage and trigger backlash against one of our fundamental rights in the name of wokeness.
CNN kicked things off with with an enthusiastic review of a book written by some nobody:
Gun rights supporters say the Founding Fathers created the [2nd] amendment so that citizens could protect their homes from tyrannical governments abroad and at home.
But while that interpretation may provide great political theater, it’s sloppy history, according to a prominent scholar in a provocative new book. In “The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America,” Carol Anderson argues that the Second Amendment is not about guns — it’s about anti-Blackness. She says it “was designed and has consistently been constructed to keep African-Americans powerless and vulnerable.”
And what evidence does this “prominent scholar” have of this claim? Well, this:
Anderson cites legislative debates from the Founding Fathers and a range of historical records to make some bold points. She says some early lawmakers who supported the Second Amendment were more worried about armed Blacks than British redcoats. She says that even after the Civil War ended, many Southern states banned Black citizens from owning weapons.
Bold points? How’s that for objective reporting? Also, this bold argument is that the Founding Fathers were worried about armed blacks, so they created an amendment to guarantee the right of gun ownership. It’s hard to be that full of shit but CNN and their pseudo scholar pull it off effortlessly.
And that famous line about a “well-regulated militia?” Well, that was inserted primarily to deal with potential slave revolts — not to repel a foreign army, she says.
The 2nd Amendment has absolutely nothing to do with repelling foreigners armies.
“For me, the Second Amendment really isn’t about guns. It is about anti-Blackness. It’s not about guns and the access to guns to fend off bears,” said Anderson.
The 2nd Amendment has absolutely nothing to do with fending off bears.
Anderson added that, “anti-Blackness is really foundational to understanding the Second Amendment.”
No, it’s not.
NPR helped push this garbage with their own interview with the this prominent scholar: Historian Uncovers The Racist Roots Of The 2nd Amendment
That headline was designed to assert that it is a fact that the 2nd Amendment is racist, when it is so obviously not. Again, this is the work of a biased liberal media with an agenda.
As for the interview with Anderson, check this quote out:
“One of the things that I argue throughout this book is that it is just being Black that is the threat. And so when you mix that being Black as the threat with bearing arms, it’s an exponential fear,” said Anderson.
The truth of the matter is that gun control is rooted in racism, not gun ownership. This is an attempt by the left to flip the script in an Orwellian way: freedom is slavery. They’re trying to establish that the right of gun ownership is racist so therefore we should surrender that right to become a more free and just society.
