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11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)
Mon Nov 26, 2018, 04:25 PM Nov 2018

When the good guy with a gun is black, he's shit out of luck.

Security guard Jemel Roberson, and teenager Emantic Bradford Jr. were both licensed to carry weapons, and Roberson was actively engaged in subduing a gunman. Both of them were gunned down by cops.

I swear, if Johnny "Applecheeks" Roberts and the rest of the cons on the SCOTUS hadn't told me that racism is no longer an issue (as they were busy gutting the Voting Rights Act); I might be tempted to think that we still have real issues in this country.

Of course, I'm just another whiny lib playing the "race card".

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When the good guy with a gun is black, he's shit out of luck. (Original Post) 11 Bravo Nov 2018 OP
Exactly PatSeg Nov 2018 #1

PatSeg

(47,427 posts)
1. Exactly
Mon Nov 26, 2018, 04:27 PM
Nov 2018

When they say "good guys with guns", they actually mean "white guys with guns". People of color need not apply.

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