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TOM TOMORROW: Black and White (Original Post) Hissyspit Dec 2014 OP
Clearly, all black males should roam the streets carring AK-47s. onehandle Dec 2014 #1
That's why the NRA has a "Black NRA" sub-division: DetlefK Dec 2014 #2
Funny Story. That happened in California in the 60's. AtheistCrusader Dec 2014 #20
I had to look up the Mulford Act nxylas Dec 2014 #25
It's a surprisingly thin Wiki article. No mention of the NRA's support. AtheistCrusader Dec 2014 #28
I'll have to check the article history nxylas Dec 2014 #29
Excellent point. AtheistCrusader Dec 2014 #30
I had a look nxylas Dec 2014 #32
Anybody remember the book "Black like me". I wonder what would happen, if say, 3 white men.. BlueJazz Dec 2014 #3
I read that book, and still have it in my personal library. chervilant Dec 2014 #4
I read the book when I was quite young (10 ?) (34 now) and I think it helped me grow up faster.. BlueJazz Dec 2014 #6
I read it in the early 60's in high school dumbcat Dec 2014 #8
I read it in the early 70s in high school. Hissyspit Dec 2014 #10
That book was chilling. RoverSuswade Dec 2014 #5
I remember it Auggie Dec 2014 #9
Yes, it was a very thought provoking book. Grey Dec 2014 #12
Excellent. K&R nt TBF Dec 2014 #7
you can find all those excuses right on DU noiretextatique Dec 2014 #11
right on, sister KG Dec 2014 #13
+1 uponit7771 Dec 2014 #16
I am guilty of having used mockery on DU. uppityperson Dec 2014 #19
good for you noiretextatique Dec 2014 #22
Tom must only have a hammer..... daleanime Dec 2014 #14
Correctamundo! Central Scruitinizer Dec 2014 #17
"Nail it down"? Bad choice of metaphor when, these days, a hammer is a deadly weapon . . . Petrushka Dec 2014 #27
Had to forward it on. Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2014 #15
I know he only has so many panels Blue_Tires Dec 2014 #18
"Yes, but he smoked weed, once!" AtheistCrusader Dec 2014 #21
I lived in Huntington Beach, California for a short while with my wife and her brother... C Moon Dec 2014 #23
K&R scarletwoman Dec 2014 #24
Great cartoon Gothmog Dec 2014 #26
K&R myrna minx Dec 2014 #31
black and White yuiyoshida Dec 2014 #33

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
1. Clearly, all black males should roam the streets carring AK-47s.
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 11:00 AM
Dec 2014

I'm sure that the NRA's real clients, gun manufacturers, would agree.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
20. Funny Story. That happened in California in the 60's.
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 06:55 PM
Dec 2014

Ronald Reagan and the NRA's response was to pass the Mulford Act of 1967.

They're liars and hypocrites. This was too scary for the NRA and the GOP's superhero, because black people.

nxylas

(6,440 posts)
25. I had to look up the Mulford Act
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 08:57 AM
Dec 2014

From Wikipedia:

The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill prohibiting the public carrying of loaded firearms. Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford, the bill garnered national attention after the Black Panthers marched bearing arms upon the California State Capitol to protest the bill. The bill was signed by Republican California Governor Ronald Reagan and became California penal code 12031 and 171(c).

nxylas

(6,440 posts)
32. I had a look
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 02:54 PM
Dec 2014

It doesn't look like the Conservapedians have been at it. It seems to have always been quite perfunctory.

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
3. Anybody remember the book "Black like me". I wonder what would happen, if say, 3 white men..
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 11:25 AM
Dec 2014

....put on Blackface makeup, walked around town for 3 days with an AK47, then walked around another town that was close by...(Tampa/St Petersburg ??)...with the same gun...SANS Blackface and reported what happened.

THAT would be interesting. Be better if the men were reporters.

chervilant

(8,267 posts)
4. I read that book, and still have it in my personal library.
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 11:29 AM
Dec 2014

Do you remember how much he wanted to say, "But I'm white, like you!"

Ironic, isn't it?

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
6. I read the book when I was quite young (10 ?) (34 now) and I think it helped me grow up faster..
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 11:45 AM
Dec 2014

..by realizing that the world can be so unfair to certain people and races.
It WAS an eye-opener.

dumbcat

(2,120 posts)
8. I read it in the early 60's in high school
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 11:59 AM
Dec 2014

I remember it had just come out, so it must have been '62 or '63 or so, when I was a freshman or sophomore in high school. My mom worked in a bookstore at the time, and each payday she would bring me home an interesting new book to read. I am pretty sure it wasn't required for any of my classes, but I do remember the premise of the book and it still affects me to this day.

RoverSuswade

(641 posts)
5. That book was chilling.
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 11:41 AM
Dec 2014

I felt his fear as he was apprehensive about crossing over the state line into Mississippi.

Grey

(1,581 posts)
12. Yes, it was a very thought provoking book.
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 12:38 PM
Dec 2014

As a teenager (1950's) the only blacks I knew were on the television, and seemed remarkably nice. (We lived on a small island in the Pacific northwest.) My father, on the other hand hadn't a good thing to say about anyone that wasn't Wasp. Two opposing views. That book cemented my feeling about colour and race. It should be required reading in grade school.

 
17. Correctamundo!
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 03:33 PM
Dec 2014

The blacks are frightening, subhuman if you will, so every white cop, or wannabe cop can just shoot them because they are so scary(Hulk Hogan scary!)
Only in America does a black boy go to trial for his own murder.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
18. I know he only has so many panels
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 03:59 PM
Dec 2014

but I wish he could have added Trayvon and the "Yes, but he was acting suspicious!" response

C Moon

(12,188 posts)
23. I lived in Huntington Beach, California for a short while with my wife and her brother...
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 01:51 AM
Dec 2014

One night my brother-in-law had one of his friends over. His friend was a policeman for L.A. (he later transferred to Huntington Beach), I'm not sure what he's doing now. He was always very aloof, like he wasn't there, when I would talk to him.

I went upstairs to bed that night while they were in the tv room.

The next day, I reached for a magazine. There was a black actor on the cover (I don't recall who), and the policeman had written numerous racist comments all over the actor's face.

There definitely needs to be more in-depth psychological interviews done when hiring police. They're supposed to be there to serve and protect, not search and destroy.

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