Sunday, May 17, 2015

Open Carry a gun: White - no problem, Black - Get on the Ground and many cops show up

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/05/17/how-not-racist-cops-react-when-a-black-man-tries-to-open-carry-video/

Open carry laws. like Stand Your Ground laws, were never intended for Black people. They were created by frightened white people, who feel the need to have a gun with them at all times. That’s so they can feel like they’re safe from all the scary Black men, the scary Muslims and the scary immigrants (*not the white ones, Ted Cruz is OK). Most of all, they need to feel like they’re safe from the president, who they think is a super-scary-Black-Muslim-‘Not-American’ with the power to invade Texas and put them all in FEMA camps.
A Black man legally carrying a gun in Amerikkka is more likely than not to end up as a dead man. In spite of that fact that a majority of white people still deny the police are racist, study after study shows that there is a very real problem with racism in the US. There is also a very real problem with both overt and underlying bias in American policing. Contrary to white people beliefs, racist cops are the norm, not the exception.
Whether you’re talking about stand your ground, stop and frisk, the war on drugs, incarceration rates or simple traffic violations, racism is reflected in every single statistic. The most alarming statistic, however, is that Black people are as much as eight times more likely than white people, to be killed by police.

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