Is There Black Power In A Loaded Gun?
Black History Year
PushBlack
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, even Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. all have a place in one of the most obscured parts of our history - the Black tradition of gun ownership. Douglas Jefferson, the Vice President of the National African American Gun Association, argues that for Black people in America to be fully vested as citizens, we have to be able to experience the fullest freedom every single liberty granted in the Constitution - including the right to lawfully bear arms.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Push Black's Black History Year. |
| 0:04.2 | I'm Jay and in this episode we're going to talk about gun ownership in the black community. |
| 0:08.8 | Our guest is Douglas Jefferson, the vice president of the National African American Gun Association. |
| 0:15.0 | Much of the gun culture and gun ownership debate is driven by organizations outside the black community. |
| 0:21.0 | Push Black is here to provide an alternate voice and Jefferson is someone we need to hear from. |
| 0:27.0 | Black gun ownership is an issue we need to take seriously. |
| 0:30.0 | Why? Because it goes to our ability to enjoy the same liberty in equal protection under the law as everyone else. |
| 0:41.0 | Look at what happened to Philando Castile, a brother who was pulled over by the police and followed the officer's orders. |
| 0:49.0 | He was respectful. |
| 0:50.0 | He informed the officer that he had a license to carry a firearm. |
| 0:54.0 | He reached for his driver's license as requested by the officer. |
| 0:58.0 | After all this, within only 74 seconds, |
| 1:01.0 | Philando Castile was shot and killed by a police officer, frightened by nothing more than the sight of black skin. |
| 1:08.0 | Push black members mobilised in the face of this tragedy. |
| 1:12.0 | Because guess what? |
| 1:13.0 | The Second Amendment isn't just the Second Amendment for white people. |
| 1:16.0 | Liberty, freedom from tyranny, and equal protection under the law |
| 1:20.0 | isn't just for others. |
| 1:22.0 | It's for us too. Douglas, thanks for being here man. |
| 1:37.0 | Thank you, appreciate it. |
| 1:39.6 | Glad to be invited. |
| 1:40.6 | Glad to have this conversation with you guys today. |
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