Black Panthers Patroling Atlanta

[jslo]

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[ray1970]

Without doing any research at all I?d just about bet I can guess the ethnicity of the candidate they?re supporting.

Never mind if he/she would likely support taking away their second amendment rights that they appear to be very proud of. They?ll support that candidate based solely on the color of their skin.

[Irving]

Saw the article this morning. Two of the guys have good trigger discipline.

[Scanker19]

That movie sucked.

[Skip]

They should ditch the Dim's campaign signs and start patrolling the neighborhood. Get the bangers out! Join us in advancing gun rights so decent people can protect their communities/families.

But I guess this is easier.

[BushMasterBoy]

Posers.

[Irving]

I've always been confused by actions like this. What exactly is the message? "We're tough and we support X!"?
"We're hoping to intimidate you into voting for X!"?

I wish there were more to the article, an interview for example. It's easy for white people to look at this display and be intimidated, but I'm not sure if the intended audience is even based on a specific race.

For example, when the klan does demonstrations, I assume it could be intimidating to minorities, but I generally see it as them signaling something along the lines of, "We're making our presence in your community known. If you have thoughts that align with ours, this is the person we're getting behind and if you're interested we're always looking for new members."

Since I don't even know any Klansmen or Panthers, I'm just making assumptions and don't really know.

TL;DR Sometimes with stuff like this it seems like the reporting is the bigger story than the actual event.

[Bailey Guns]

She calls modern semi-auto rifles, "like" the AR-15, "weapons of mass destruction".

A stunning example of stupid on display there.

[ray1970]

For example, when the klan does demonstrations, I assume it could be intimidating to minorities, but I generally see it as them signaling something along the lines of, "We're making our presence in your community known. If you have thoughts that align with ours, this is the person we're getting behind and if you're interested we're always looking for new members."

That?s not the Klan I remember when I was growing up. I?m not really very old but even in high school I remember the cross burnings (usually in the front yard of a minority that had recently moved into a neighborhood), a low income housing project that had to be abandoned after several arsons, a bulldozer that ?accidentally? ran off and crashed into a home, and some other things I either forgot or just don?t care to share.

I had an uncle (by marriage, not blood) that was in the Klan. He was a real douche bag. And a cop. Glad my aunt divorced him.

I was in fifth or sixth grade when our local schools were desegregated. I remember going with my mom to draw the ping pong ball that would determine what school I went to the following year. I ended up at one school, my cousin who lived two houses down went to a different school, and a friend who lived next door to her went to a third school. We would all wait for the bus in front of my house and would each catch a different bus to our schools.

[Irving]

Sorry, my reference was only to very recent political stuff like when they stir up a big fuss by going to talk at a college or something. I know the Klan has a long history, but I wasn't ever exposed to that stuff at any point in my life. They sound like a real classy bunch.