LadySimone
Banned
Change your thinking.
#WeWillShootBack Hashtag Going Viral
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Change your thinking.
Amerikan Melanin
Veteran
Yup.
This is common sense. Protect yourselves.
This is common sense. Protect yourselves.
They don't like you either.
Who is "they"? And have you seen how weird their culture is? EVERYONE is parodied. If we worried about where we are welcomed, we would be taking trips intospace. Calm down.
LadySimone
Banned
Unfortunately a lot or too many blacks want whites to be the grown ups while they be the kids.
If the issue is fear than I can understand because it's understandable but fear is not a permenate state. Fear can be overcome and it can be overcome with knowledge. We pick up a gun to kill other blacks or over seas but when it comes to defending ourselves than we need to have these long debates.
I've never held a gun in my life but you know what... I will learn to get over that fear with knowledge and experience and then become more comfortable with the idea.
What's so hard about that?
Oceanicpuppy
Superstar
Come on now, y'all need to start reading up things and history. NRA is very connected to the Republican party and the Republican party is an extension of KKK.When the KKK disbanded around the 1950s many aligned with the Republican party.
This is exactly the reason black people need to start reading up on history and their AA history.
I've said this time and time again on this board and I received so much backlash, so no offense to you.
I'm just tired of blacks being ignorant on their history because all this is vital information.
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The Nigerian
The Realest Member of TheColi
Bruh, don't be stupid.
space. Calm down.
Family Man
Banned
Either St. Thomas or DominicaAnd go where?
PortCityProphet
Follow me to the truth
they should have come up with a more clear hashtag. #wewilldefendourselves or #wewillarmourselves or #blacksgetarmed work better with the message they're trying to get across than #wewillshootback.
direct and to the point.
PortCityProphet
Follow me to the truth
cause we aren't naturally evil. white folk are evil, black folk ain't LOOKING out to do harm to folk for no reason, obviously white folk do. as has been documented since the beginning of history
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeWillShootBack?src=hash
CHARLESTON— The murders that took place here on Wednesday night have left some black Charleston residents struggling with a visceral fear.
Not just because all nine victims were black, and the white suspect, Dylann Roof, had been photographed wearing flags of racist states. Not just because the location of the murders, Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, is a historic symbol of black freedom that has been attacked many times before. Not just because they feel churches should be safe spaces. Not just because Roof allegedly sat with members of the bible study group for an hour before he killed them. Not just because each victim was shot multiple times.
The fear stems from it all.
If you're afraid for your life, American citizens are told, call the police.
But Taurean Brown, the black man who popularized the hashtag #WeWillShootBack after the church massacre, doesn't think black people always have that option. Brown said police killings of unarmed minorities — including Walter Scott, Freddie Gray and Michael Brown in the past year — happen far too often for him to trust them.
And if the state can't protect black people, then Brown wants black people to protect themselves.
“We’re often the first ones that are called upon to be nonviolent," Brown, who lives in Durham, North Carolina, told Mashable. "I want to change the narrative to say that we have the right to defend ourselves, just like every human being.”
#WeWillShootBack has racked up more than 25,000 tweets since Wednesday's murders, but it's not the first time that phrase has been used.
We Will Shoot Back is the title of a recently published book by Akinyele Umoja, who heads Georgia State University's department of African-American studies. In it, Umoja chronicles the the armed resistance of black Mississippians in their struggle for freedom against intimidation and violence from their white counterparts.
But Brown said he isn't advocating for the random shooting of white people.
"What I’m saying is we have a right to organize ourselves, and defend our humanity," he explained. “We’re taking the power into our own hands, and not allowing another entity go do that for us.”
Brown is in favor of black people owning legal weapons, and posting trained armed guards at places such as Emanuel AME Church, which has historically been attacked by racists.
In the days following Wednesday's murders, response to #WeWillShootBack among those congregating around the church was mixed.
Wendell Green, a lifelong Charleston resident, told Mashable that posting armed guards at historically black churches made sense to him, even though it would be giving in to fear.
"The way society is now — I guess depending on the location — people would consider that, knowing the history," Green said. "The church, it's been burned to the ground."
Sina and Shawn Howell were silent for a moment, as they considered whether armed guards should be at black churches. The married couple, from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, disagreed with each other.
"You going to put an armed guard at every black church across America?" Shawn asked. "I don't think that will control ignorance."
But Sina seemed less concerned about ignorance than she did with her own safety and that of black communities. Sina started getting emotional at the thought, then said she's fine with anything that will make her feel safe.
"If we can do something to protect ourselves, then absolutely."
Funny how this sounds like "conservative" and "libertarian" talking points........."arm yourselves" in "self defense".
Where as the "liberals say take away all the guns from everybody .........
Curious how the democrats going react to black folks increasingly want access to guns ......
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