So if you believe that Black life matters and you don't advocate for Black people to have the means to defend themselves, that's a contradiction.

At the Freedom Fest Conference in Las Vegas, I sat down with Maj Turey, the Philadelphia rapper who founded Black Guns Matter,

a movement that advocates for second amendment rights and promotes responsible gun ownership in Black and urban communities.

There is a propaganda onslaught to convince the American people to operate and vote in their own disinterest.

And if you're unaware of the framework of this place, and these are human rights, if you don't even know that, it's a lot easier for you to fall for the pump fake.

We discuss the history of firearms in urban areas and is unique perspective on gun control policies and how they help or hurt minority communities.

This is American Thought Leaders and I'm Janja Kellek.

Maj Turey, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.

Thank you for having me.

So I'm looking at your shirt here. Black Guns Matter, I think that's what you're known for.

Where does this name come from? It's a bit on the, let's call it edgy side.

So in 2015, when we started, this was the origin of the Black Lives Matter movement.

And I just found it very interesting that this organization was saying Black Lives Matter, which they do, obviously.

But a lot of the people that were promoting it were anti-gun.

So if you believe that Black life matters, and you don't advocate for Black people to have the means to defend themselves, that's a contradiction.

You defend all life, more specifically Black life, in areas where there's unconstitutional second amendment violations and statutes.

You protect that Black life with Black firearms as a defense of gun usage. That makes sense.

To not put one with the other is a contradiction.

So for us, we just understood the importance of utilizing firearms to protect life, especially in the communities where there's the most high amounts of this horrible practice of gun control.

And that's where we needed to put the information, the classes, and the training the most, and Black Guns Matter was born.

That's fascinating. I'm going to spin off so many things from what you just said.

Before we go there, where does Maj come from? Like tell me a little bit pre-2015, what's your background?

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