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Gun Control and the Disarming of the Black Community
I hate to say it, but Ronald Reagan was the father of the modern gun-control movement in America. Of course, that was at a different time in this country, when Reagan was governor of California and black radicals had taken over the Statehouse toting machine guns and chanting “Black power.” At that time, the solution to…
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What if Black Lives Really Mattered?
On the first anniversary of the controversial death of Michael Brown last week, protesters in Ferguson, Mo., took to the street with the urgent message that “Black lives matter.” The phrase has come to symbolize a movement largely focused around instances of alleged police abuse against black citizens, a problem that many in the movement have…