IF WE HAD GUNS, WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN SLAVES

some background:

(from a Huey P. Newton Story)
http://www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/actions/actions_capitolmarch.html
It began shortly after the shooting of Denzil Dowell. Easy Bay legislator Don Mulford introduced a bill to repeal the law that permitted citizens to carry loaded weapons in public places so long as the weapons were openly displayed [see link to California Penal Code, Sections 12031 and 171.c]. What the Mulford law sought to achieve was the elimination of the Black Panther Police Patrols, and it had been tagged "the Panther Bill" by the media.     
The Police Patrols had become an integral part of BPP community policy. Members of the BPP would listen to police calls on a short wave radio, rush to the scene of the arrest with law books in hand and inform the person being arrested of their constitutional rights. BPP members also happened to carry loaded weapons, which were publicly displayed, but were careful to stand no closer than ten feet from the arrest so as not to interfere with the arrest.

Passage of the Mulford Bill would essentially end the Panther Police Patrols, so the BPP sent a group to Sacramento, California on May 2nd, 1967 to protest. The group carried loaded rifles and shotguns, publicly displayed and entered the State Capitol building to read aloud Executive Mandate Number 1, which was in opposition to the Mulford Bill. They tried to enter the Assembly Chamber but were forced out of this public place where they then read Executive Mandate Number 1 out on the lawn.

The legislature responded by passing the bill, thus creating the Mulford Act, which was signed into law by Governor Ronald Reagan. This step by the Black Panther Party was enough to put them into national prominence and was a stimulus for growth of the party within the young Black population.

ms_wonderland wrote: yeah it is accurate.  they were all afraid of the panthers in California.  the NRA are full of racist hypocrites.

yes


Edited by PurpleHaze - Jan 14 2013 at 6:28pm

blaquefoxx wrote: That's back when our people had their sh!t together and was all on the same accord. Our men weren't flamboyant coons or punks, and our women were orderly and played their position

Can u imagine had Black people started buying guns en mass, after seeing Django Unchained? LOL

Whites would lose their minds (or whatever they have left)

PurpleHaze wrote: ironically some friends and I are discussing this image right  now.

LMFAO I been telling you Brothas that all that gun control sh*t is anti-Black. They want Brothas to stay unarmed and defenseless.

But these spooks be so far up these White liberals' ass cracks that they can't see the picture. These liberals are leading you Brothas to the goddamn slaughterhouse smmfh.

While on the flip side, White conservatives want to loosen gun control laws so that they can arm themselves in case Black folks rise up on some Toussaint L'Ouverture sh*t.

ALL this gun control sh*t is rooted in White fear of an armed Black (male) population. Always has been.


Edited by Midwest_Da_Gawd - Jan 14 2013 at 6:45pm