Guns control the African American male population and while providing a profit to the companies that produce guns and bullet...Black people around the world-- still justify their tribal enslavement of each other—yet vilify the enslavement by Europeans.
Spiritually, I see this as the Law of Attraction working as a testament that like attracts like. Black people are preaching Black Lives Matter-- but the small print on the sign reads: we are only allowed to kill each other daily. Our lives only matter if a white person shoots us.
By, Cassandra George Sturges
Americans defend their right to bear arms under the second
amendment. I work at a community college
where several of my colleagues carry concealed weapons. There have been
incidents where students and parents have walked around campus with unconcealed
weapons. I find this behavior unnerving.
Guns, aggression, and violence is deeply woven into American culture starting
with the annihilation of Native Americans, not to mention 300 hundred years of slavery
and Jim Crow Laws, The Chinese Exclusion Act,... so forth and so on.
If you know anything about America, you know that guns and
violence is as American as Apple pie. Every time a new act of violence hits the
American news wave, people begin re- asking why are guns legal; Why can’t we
make it more difficult for some people to buy guns?; Why don’t we have more gun
control in the United States?
Well I might as well throw my two cents in while waiting for
my YouTube craft tutorial videos to render. First off, I would like to say: WE do
have gun control in America that is working perfectly. People just don’t want
to accept it.
Guns control the African American male population and while
providing a profit to the companies that produce guns and bullet.
Guns are created for one purpose and one purpose only—to take
a life- whether it is a person or animal. I don’t know what the numbers are but
I am pretty sure that companies that manufacture guns and bullets make
multi-millions of dollars. If I manufactured guns and this was how I provided for my family and maintained my
luxurious lifestyle—I don’t think I would give up my company. I mean let’s be
honest, law enforcement and our military personnel need guns to protect our
communities and country.
I don’t mind people hunting with guns. I am not a vegetarian.
But, I don’t think this is the type of gun control and
violence that people are angry about. I think people are angry about the ease
at which any American can own a gun. I don’ t want to sound pessimistic but I
think the collective, mainstream American spirit is perfectly in alignment with
the current gun control laws for 3 reasons.
Gun Control Reason # 1
Guns are profitable for the dominant group in society. If
guns were being created by companies owned by people of color—they would have
little value in a white dominated society. Businesses owned by ethnic groups
are (indirectly) expected to earn marginal profits from restaurants, dry cleaners, and neighborhood convenience
stores and gas stations. Therefore, the production of guns is a hugely profitable
business that maintains a wealthy, powerful position for the dominant class of
people in America.
Gun Control Reason # 2
The second reason that tighter gun control laws are not enforced
in America is because the number one cause of death for an African American male
between the ages of 16 and 25 is to be shot by another African American male--
This is a two for one deal that diminishes the African American male population,
power, and progress.
The Black male who is shot and killed propels a sense of
hopelessness, self-hatred, and trauma throughout the African American community
that reinforces a subliminal message of lack of control over one’s destiny and
a dependence on outside sources for spiritual growth and self-esteem.
Black people in America are so outraged when a cop kills a
black male—yet have accepted the norm of Black on Black crime. As a people, we
don’t understand that society is only reflecting back to us—how we feel about
ourselves. This reminds me of the
beginning of slavery. It is well documented that the African tribe members
collected and sold their own African slaves to the Europeans.
Black people around the world-- still justify
their tribal enslavement of each other—yet vilify the enslavement by Europeans.
Spiritually, I see this as the Law of Attraction working as a testament that
like attracts like. Black people are preaching Black Lives Matter-- but the small print on the sign reads: we are only allowed to kill each other daily. Our lives only matter if a white person shoots us.
Can’t we see—that Black people are being treated the way we
collectively treat -- each other-- as a people? We can’t get mad at White
people for not valuing our lives—when we don’t value each other.
Gun Control Reason # 3
The third reason that gun control is effective in America is
because the majority of prisoners in America are men of color, predominately African
American males. The African American male who goes to jail participates in a
form of slave labor making products for major corporations for less than a
quarter an hour. Many of our prisons have out sourced their services to the
private sector who earn millions of dollars. I bet there are no people of color
with prison contracts for services rendered. Here in Michigan there are towns
where the primary employer is the prison system.
The added plus is that prisoners are not allowed to vote—so their
political voices are silenced. If white males were being killed and
incarcerated by gun violence at the same rate as African American males, I
believe that guns would be banned in America.
Even though white Americans are killed by guns, the numbers
are extremely low in comparison to people of color. And I think the people who manufacture
guns look at white deaths in terms of profits and losses and write them off as
collateral damage—especially police officers—since they signed up knowing the
potential risk for danger.
So, I think my video has rendered. Thank you for listening.
No comments:
Post a Comment