Historian: NRA Was Inspired by the Black Panthers
You never would expect that when analyzing history, you could draw an easy link between the Black Panther Party and the National Rifle Association, right? Well, think again.
Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at UCLA, says that the Panthers played a direct role in getting the NRA to start fighting against what they thought was government interference in their second amendment rights. Winkler, who wrote the book, ”Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America,” says that after the Panthers started to carry guns, this sparked fear in legislators. The NRA took notice of how the government had begun to clamp down on the gun rights of the Panthers, which led them to become concerned about the loss of their own rights.
On the NPR show, “On the Media,” Winkler said this:
“One of the surprising things I discovered in writing ‘Gunfight’ was that when the Black Panthers started carrying their guns around in Oakland, Calif., in the late 1960s, it inspired a new wave of gun control laws. It was these laws that ironically sparked a backlash among rural white conservatives, who were concerned that the government was coming to get their guns next.
“The NRA mimicked many of the policy positions of the Black Panthers, who viewed guns not just as a matter of protection for the home, but something you should be able to have out on the street, and also protection against a hostile government that was tyrannical and disrespectful of people’s rights. . . . ”
In another article, “The Secret History of Guns,” Winkler wrote in greater detail about the famous incident in which the Black Panthers showed up at the California State legislature carrying guns and demanding equality.
“The eighth-grade students gathering on the west lawn of the state capitol in Sacramento were planning to lunch on fried chicken with California’s new governor, Ronald Reagan, and then tour the granite building constructed a century earlier to resemble the nation’s Capitol,” the article began. “But the festivities were interrupted by the arrival of 30 young black men and women carrying .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns, and .45-caliber pistols.
“The 24 men and six women climbed the capitol steps, and one man, Bobby Seale, began to read from a prepared statement. ’The American people in general and the black people in particular,’ he announced, must
“ ’take careful note of the racist California legislature aimed at keeping the black people disarmed and powerless. Black people have begged, prayed, petitioned, demonstrated, and everything else to get the racist power structure of America to right the wrongs which have historically been perpetuated against black people. The time has come for black people to arm themselves against this terror before it is too late.’
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There are no assault rifles or automatic weapons on the streets unless the person has a class 3 licence which is very rare. There are however, semi automatic ak-47s along with other semi automatic weapons and they serve a purpose. Sadly some people, a very small percentage of people, use them in evil ways.
This is the reason, why the pigs killed, and incarcerated the Black Panther Party…they didn’t want them to carry guns, BUT it was okay for caucasoids to carry them.
HeII, just this past summer a white boy had an assualt weapon when O’Drama was speaking? Where was the secret service, cia and the fbi to arrest this gun toting dude?
Now, this racist organization (NRA) wants teachers to carry guns, to KILL BLACK YOUTH!!!
WILL YOU NEGROIDS WAKE UP IN 2013?
Derrick: Can you give a specific date / time / source? I ask because MSNBC did a bit about a “racist white guy” with a gun at an Obama rally — and it turned out they clipped the picture to hide the fact that the gun holder was actually black, thus destroying their dishonest point.
It would help to know for sure that you are talking about a different incident.
@Playrighter: “Derrick: Can you give a specific date / time / source”
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Of course; here’s the Truth and Proof:
CHECK
Man carries assault rifle to Obama protest — and it’s legal – CNN
Aug 17, 2009 – A man toting an assault rifle was among a dozen protesters carrying weapons while demonstrating outside President Obama’s speech.
ANYMORE QUESTIONS?
The NRA was formed in 1871!
So how again were they inspired by the Black panthers?
If memory serves, Huey marched around Oakland with a shotgun
regular people were running to get out of his way. Cleaver, Seale all thought they were more than what they really were, That’s why Huey shot that cop, he thought he was bigger than the law, then he started with the drugs, I lived in Oakland at the time and remember it well.
I knew when the NRA was formed, and what does that have to do with them disarming the BPP (Black Panther Party)? I lived near a location where they were stationed back in the ’60′s, so I know all about the Panthers!
Huey did what he had to do with that pig, he shot! If these punk azz so-called gangsters today had Huey’s attitude, they would stop killing each other, and start killing their real enemies…the pigs!!!
It wasn’t the fact, that Huey thought he was bigger than the pigs, the pigs thought they were bigger than Huey. The government had the BPP disarmed, and incarcerated because they were WAKING BLACK PEOPLE UP TO THE TRUTH ABOUT THESE DIRTY BAS*TURDS, CALLED PIGS!!!
Just look at all the pig killings going on today in our neighborhoods! These worthless bas*turds are shooting young Black men in the back of pig cars (while handcuffed); they’re even shooting them in the head, and back, even when they have no weapons on them!!!
How many caucasoids have been shot down like these pigs shoot down Black people…NONE!!!
CHECK OUT YOUR MIND!
The double meaning of the word inspired leads one to understand that the NRA took cues from the influence that the government in the Black Panther Party to mean that their (other predominantly rural and militant caucasian groups) guns and arms are in jeopardy and therefore are INSPIRED to create or lobby for certain legislature that would provide protection against similar intervention from he government.
In regards to the other issues that you addressed, while I was not present at the time of the Black Panthers, I have researched the information regarding them including some of the police reports and there doesn’t seem to be much evidence in the way of instituting fear into people that the Black Panthers were a part of, but rather a irrational fear that has always held steady about Black people in this country regardless of their disposition. More often than not, it has been derived from a fear that Black people will try and rise up and take the privileges that white people have created for themselves off the backs of Black people in general.
Power To The People!
Politicians and law enforcement take advantage of people’s ignorance by using the term “assault rifle”. At close range a shotgun is much more effective than a semi-automatic because you don’t have to aim. Just point and the fire power is awesome. Off balanced nerds like to play soldier with the military models when blasting innocent civilians.
Black on black crime and the affirmative action negro is at its worse when affirmative action negroes/AKA black millionaires, seek to blame their lack of equal social opportunity on poor black negroes, and use their position power to destroy their own people. The ex-ghetto negro who benefited from good social policy now looks down on the blacks who didn’t make it out. They see everything in themselves in these people and money cant stamp it out. Whenever they aren’t invited to a white’s party, or get a job, they blame it on their blackness instead of their low thinking, immorale drug addicted ways, and sorry personal habits. Then they look at the poor negro and hates, because they see their incompetence and niigertude wide open.
The house negro has power now and they are using it to genocide their own race. That is what is going on today.
Rich, Black, Flunking
Cal Professor John Ogbu thinks he knows why rich black kids are failing in school. Nobody wants to hear it.
By Susan Goldsmith
Published: May 21, 2003
The black parents wanted an explanation. Doctors, lawyers, judges, and insurance brokers, many had come to the upscale Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights specifically because of its stellar school district. They expected their children to succeed academically, but most were performing poorly. African-American students were lagging far behind their white classmates in every measure of academic success: grade-point average, standardized test scores, and enrollment in advanced-placement courses. On average, black students earned a 1.9 GPA while their white counterparts held down an average of 3.45. Other indicators were equally dismal. It made no sense.
Well, the Black Panther Party used to say All Power to The People…They didn’t say just black people.
You are right when the BPP said “ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE”, Huey said, “Black Power for Black people, brown power for brown people, red power to red people, yellow power to yellow people, and white power for white people.” Huey Newton
But, just because he said ALL power to the people, the Panthers still was against racism, and the racist fascist government. The Panters were not a racist organizaton becaue there were a FEW caucasoids, who acknowledged, and supported this group.
Gay Edgar Hoover was spying on this organization, and he was responsible for their downfall. He told the LIE, that this group was a militant organization, and this is why the government put a ban on guns!
Personally, I wouldn’t Trust a caucasoid because the majority of them were agents for the government. Therefore, we must be careful when caucasoids contribute or become members of Black organizations.
On the other hand, Bobby Seale had this to say about caucasoids:
“We have to defend ourselves agains them [the police] because they are breaking down our doors, shooting Black brothers on the streets, and brutalizig sisters on the head. They are wearing guns mostly to intimidate the people from forming organizations to really get our basic political desires and needs answered. The power structure uses fascist police against people moving for freedom and liberaton. It keeps our people divided, but the program will be what we unite the people around and to teach our people self defense.”
What Bobby Seale said back then, is still relevant today! The pigs are still shooting down our Brothers on the streets, and beating our women over their heads! A Black woman in California was just beaten by some racist pigs; therefore, do the math.
The BPP was still against the caucasoid ran, racist government, who were mostly racist southern caucasoids back then, who HATED Black people. Just think about this, they (the government aka willie lynch) had racists, such as, Strom Thurman, and Robert Byrd who were devout racists, and klan members, but they held seats in the government!!!
Byrd was a member of the ku klux klan advancing to the level of Grand Kleegle in the 1940s, but later left the group and denounced racial intolerance.
This is what this racist redneck had to say about Black soldiers:
“I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side … Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. He also said that the klan was a needed organization when he was a member!
Strom Thurman had a bi-racial daughter, but he HATED Black people, too!!! This cracker was a devout racist and segregationist, BUT he had s*ex with a Black woman!!! Don’t think there are not racists, who are serving in government positions RIGHT NOW!!!
MY POINT: Don’t get the impression that the Panthers loved caucasoids because, they did not love them, but they respected those caucasoids, who contributed and acknowledged their teachings.
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE means; the PEOPLE, who are against the racist facist government, who is still ruining, I mean running amerikkka!!!
Ukuthula!
I made that as a flippant remark. I know what Huey and Bobby meant. They actually had their first outreach program for the community right across the street from where I grew up as a kid in San Francisco. They would not support the NRA. But I do find it very ironic that all of that posturing Charleston Heston used to do was actually inspired and came from the Brothers of the Black Panther Party. I sometimes wonder whether white folks have ever had a good original idea of their own…..
ohh thank God, someone finally said the truth,, because this is what its really about,making laws so people will not have war weapons or automatic rifles when a race war break out and when the government makes a move to enslave people again.. but if we all have the same weapons they do, they can do that s**t..AMERICANS ESPECIALLY BLACK PEOPLE WAKE THE h**l UP!!
PLEASE PEOPLE WE NEED A REAL BLACK PANTHER PARTY AGAIN.. DONT BELIEVE THE LIES THE GOVERNMENT SAID ABOUT THE PASS BLACK PANTHERS, THE FBI MIXED IN WITH THEM AND BROKE THEM APART.. ILLEGALLY,,,
I HOPE TO GOD U PEOPLE OPEN YOUR EYES.. OR YOU ARE ALL DOOMED JUST LOOK FOR REAL INDIANS NOW, ARE THEY AROUND ANYMORE
Guns do not protect you against genetically specific germ warfare. Wasn’t it Yeltsin who said “We have biological weapons that have a 99.9% kill rate.?” After Americans turn on each other invading armies only have to do mop up detail. Then you will have to go to GOODWILL to find people with good will. By the way, real Indians are still around and they are hyper intelligent people. Oppression has moved them aside temporarily. If the west ceases to exist they will still be here.