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In reply to the discussion: The Real and Racist Origins of the Second Amendment [View all]Lionessa
(3,894 posts)12. The same way Latinos are caucasian.
Sorry you are confused, but caucasian covers a lot of folks.
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Their color was nonetheless entirely insignificant, we would've done the same to any color,
Lionessa
Dec 2012
#13
I think the sense, back then, was more along class and culture lines than race lines.
iemitsu
Dec 2012
#56
Can you give an example of white populations who were wiped out and/or forced off their land
ecstatic
Dec 2012
#62
When the native Americans started the Pequot War in 1637 by killing an Englishman who they thought
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#29
The late-colonial and early Republic had their own racist gun control laws
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#9
"I don't know why you think guns were the most important right." I don't.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#52
Please repost this for the Gungeon folks, they are out of the loop on this notion.
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#5
Perhaps some people haven't read this. I haven't. I would really like to hear the
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#20
Exactly. And the NRA cleverly got people parroting their devised "gun control is racist" line...
villager
Dec 2012
#15
Though gun apologists get to ignore the racist roots of gun proliferation? Or the actual politics
villager
Dec 2012
#43
Look at who most of the victims of gun violence -- recurring massacres aside - tend to be
villager
Dec 2012
#48
I'm sure the founders knew pretty damn well that slaves could indeed rebel and
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#45