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Imagine
Black Teabaggers
It's easy if you try...
Excerpt:
Imagine that hundreds of black protesters
were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia,
just a few miles from the Capitol and White House,
armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition.
And imagine that some of these protesters — the
black protesters — spoke of the need for political revolution,
and possibly even armed conflict in the event
that laws they didn’t like were enforced by the government?
Would these protester — these black protesters
with guns — be seen as brave defenders of the 2nd Amendment,
or would they be viewed by most whites as a danger
to the republic? What if they were Arab-Americans?
Because, after all, that’s what happened recently
when white gun enthusiasts descended upon the nation’s capital,
arms in hand, and verbally announced their readiness
to make war on the country’s political leaders if the need arose.
Imagine that a rap artist were to say, in reference
to a white president:
“He’s a piece of shit and I told him to suck
on my machine gun.”
Because that’s what rocker shit-his-pants
Ted Nugent said recently about Obama.
If Black people did what the teabaggers did they would've been shot like the kids at Kent State.
The Rethugs get a free ride because Democrats would never stand
up to them.
We don't fight for what we want - we wait for it to fall in our lap.