Is gun control racist? (Warning: graphic/disturbing content in the video)

[demmiblue]

Source: Salon

If you’ve been paying attention to the hardline elements in the pro-gun crowd lately, you probably already know that gun control leads to genocide, and rape — but is it also racist? That’s what some on the right say, including a group of black conservatives who recently released an ad comparing background checks to Jim Crow-era laws restricting African Americans’ rights to firearms.

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The campaign, organized by Star Parker and her Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) is clearly meant to be provocative, and Parker helped crank up the controversy this week when she told Sean Hannity that women who have had abortions may be prohibited from by buying guns because the procedure is linked (erroneously) with mental illness.

These kinds of provocative claims are nothing new for Parker and her segment of the black conservative movement that often seems to prize shocking people over convincing them. Parker has also compared abortion to slavery and genocide. “They are specifically targeting a human race in the society in the guise of choice. It’s Holocaust levels, it’s genocide levels,” she said on a Christian TV show.

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But CURE’s ad has taken the meme to a new level. Fox News has given the campaign at least two segments worth of attention, and the ad got favorable coverage on many major conservative blogs when it came out earlier this month. Jim Hoft called it a “MUST SEE VIDEO,” The Blaze called it “hard-hitting.”

Read more: http://www.salon.com/2013/03/21/is_gun_control_racist/

[Mojorabbit]

1. Whoa! nt

[Cleita]

2. Simple answer.

Restrictions would apply to everyone, not just one race. In the Jim Crow era, it was only blacks who were restricted.