Jason Whitlock takes his anti-gun rhetoric up another notch, this time by marrying the dearth of gun control in this country to white racism. He said on Roland Martin’s podcast yesterday:
“You know, I did not go as far as I’d like to go because my thoughts on the NRA and America’s gun culture — I believe the NRA is the new KKK. And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people who obviously don’t have our best interests [at heart].”
Whitlock disagreed with the idea that gun ownership “enhances” liberty, explaining how — in his view — it damages society.
“I think it’s obvious if you’ve traveled abroad, and traveled to countries where they have legitimate gun laws, that we don’t have to have what we have in America, where people somehow think a gun enhances their liberty, and that people somehow think a gun makes them safer,” he continued.
“It just doesn’t. A gun turns some kids listening to music into a murder scene. And uh, you know, if you don’t have a gun, you drive home. You know, kids listening to some loud music, you don’t like it, you go home and complain to your wife. But when you have a gun, you open fire, potentially, and take the life of a child.”
I’m gonna have to pack a lunch in order to unpack this mess.
Starting at the end of the piece, Whitlock is citing the recent shooting of Jordan Davis, the 17 year-old black kid who was shot by a white man who chastised Davis at a convenience store for playing his music loudly. Which is a legitimate example of the bad that can happen when people carry guns on their person in public. But are incidents like that the most common instance in which guns are used improperly or criminally? Hardly. It just happens to be the most prominent recent case that fits the argument Whitlock hopes to perpetuate. I mean, look at the incident that really sparked this. Jovan Belcher, a black man, killed his girlfriend and then himself, and now we’re talking about the KKK? What world?
I could literally cite hundreds of cases in which it was some kid gunning down a random person on the sidewalk or at the store not even for the horrible excuse of loud music or obnoxious behavior. We could throw race into the mix in order to dismiss Whitlock’s argument a little further. Blacks are much more likely to target whites than the reverse.
By one count, blacks murder whites at 13 times the rate that whites murder blacks. Stories like that recent one in Florida and the previous one out of Florida are man bites dog stories. Nobody expects a white man to shoot a black kid when there is no strong reason to do so, so those incidents gain attention from the media and activists. I could cite
an incident that occurred three nights ago just down the street from me which is something that occurs so often in America that nobody outside of locals even notices.
Besides that, I bet Whitlock thinks the CIA infected the black community with AIDS. Only an Illuminati-fearing tinfoil hatter like that could think in terms of “arming” black youths as if they’re receiving government issued munitions or of “loading our community up with drugs” as if lots of black people don’t love partaking.
As always, comparing the U.S.’s social statistics to other countries ignores many confounding problems. The U.S. does have a relatively high homicide rate compared to other Western countries.
The U.S.’s overall homicide rate sat at 5.9 (per 100,000 residents; stats ~2004). Sweden = 1.2, Norway = 0.8, Germany = 1, France = 1.6, Denmark = 1.1, England = 1.6, Canada = 1.5.
Compare (
2008 stats): Louisiana sat at 12.3, Alabama was at 7.1. These states, heavily black, pull the nation’s overall homicide rate out of line with the rest of Western civilization. Wyoming = 2.0, Wisconsin = 2.6 (thanks Milwaukee*), Vermont = 1.3, Utah = 1.4, North Dakota = 2.0, New Hampshire = 0.9, Minnesota = 1.5, Maine = 2.0, Iowa = 1.3, Idaho = 1.5. You get the picture, and many of those states have very relaxed gun possession laws. Not like Chicago which has some of
the most arcane (progressive?) gun laws in the nation but also one of the highest homicide rates.
Though Whitlock wants us to believe that the NRA is like the KKK in that gun enthusiasts are white racists and that this somehow causes the death of black people, he’d have to explain why blacks are more likely than whites
to murder strangers. Also, though blacks are already overrepresented in terms of their rate of homicide offense, they are even more overrepresented in terms of homicide by firearm. Blacks committed 52% of homicides in 2005 and 56% of all gun homicides. To mask a logical argument, Whitlock pretends that the Belcher case and the Davis case share the same starting point. But they don’t.
Now, is Whitlock saying that blacks are not in a position, in general, to handle relaxed gun ownership laws? Do they not possess the characteristics needed – which people in heavily white states i.e. whites exhibit – that helps limit the number of gun-related homicides even while gun ownership isn’t banned? No. He’s not going to admit that. Instead, society is deficient for preying on their weakness – a weakness that goes unnamed.
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He’s right.
The racial group that is most interested in the 2nd amendment, and who owns the most guns are whites. It is another implicitly white area, like survivalism, hunting, or cross country skiing.
As the demographic crisis deepens, we can exactly predict that as the proportion of whites falls, gun rights and freedom will fall while police brutality must rise to hold back the vibrants. The SP community has already described how The Beast is going to remove guns, by raising the price.
Physical isolation is the best and most used defense against black violence. Don’t live near blacks, and go to where there are significant numbers of blacks only in daylight, in commercial and government areas which have some security, only when you have pressing business, and leave promptly when your business is done.
The thing about concealed carry is that if you need to carry a weapon somewhere, you probably shouldn’t go there in the first place. Still, white people know that isolation can’t always work, and having a gun in one’s home, vehicle or on one’s person- and having the right to use it- is a last ditch defense against black violence. Burglary of occupied dwellings is rare in the US, but common in Britain, because there is no right of defense in the home. Blacks and liberals want to remove the right of self-defense so the right to have a weapon is moot. That’s the purpose with Trayvon and the purpose here.
The shooter in this case had to buy gas, so he wasn’t in a position to avoid the violent black “children”. One could say that telling them to turn down the radio was a bad move, but blacks have had a culture of intimidation, not just since the 60′s, but since they moved north and didn’t face organized racism (or better to say, “white self-defense” any more. This culture of intimidation needs to end, so we need a policy of “Question and Confront”.
This morning the radio had a bunch of black NRA members calling in and saying, “Man, I didn’t know I belonged to the KKK!”
Chuck, have your thoughts changed on Whitlock?
I always knew he was a leftist wondered when you’d come around. Occasionally will have an out-of-mainstream opinion but he knows where his bread is buttered.
Dan in DC
Good article Chuck. A case can certainly be made that many African Americans are not intelligent enough to be responsible gun owners. Jason Whitlock’s argument is all emotion and prejudice, there isn’t any logic to it.
“Now, is Whitlock saying that blacks are not in a position, in general, to handle relaxed gun ownership laws?”
Yes, that is basically the crux of his point. It’s only sensible to talk of the NRA “arming” black youths if you believe their agency is so limited as to make working to protect their legal right to bear arms tantamount to simply handing them guns directly. His whole argument is premised on the idea that blacks actions are things that happen to them rather than things performed by them. Blacks don’t choose to deal or use drugs, somebody or something loads up the community with drugs and blacks then deal and use them as a consquence, the reaction as natural and predictable as that of water boiling at a 100 degrees centigrade.
It’s why his position is much closer to the KKK than the NRA’s is. The KKK has historically been opposed to blacks having the right to bear arms because they dont think blacks can help themselves. Whitlock appears to think the same, he only differs on what they’ll be helping themselves to.
If this type of logic and reasoning is used by Whitlock and Martin, what the f*ck do their massive proles believe? It’s like the conspiracy theory revelation sequence in “Black Dynamite”.
Whitlock has carved a really nice place for himself in sports writing where he toes the lib line 90% of the time, then 10% of the time says something that appeals to the old fashioned black social conservatives or acts as an iconoclast on race that makes whites smile. It’s smart and gets him invited on plenty of shows.
Shorter Whitlock: Black men get guns, kill other black men; white racism clearly to blame.
Meanwhile the Trayvon Martin case is still bubbling on and demonstrates that whites need to carry to protect themselves from dumb blacks who think they can do anything they want.
NRA is the new KKK… let him keep saying that. In fact let him say that on every TV channel 24/7. Let them keep putting effeminate, and downright CREEPY looking Bob Costas on at halftime to call for gun grabbing. This makes them look insane.
>Blacks and liberals want to remove the right of self-defense so the right to have a weapon is moot. That’s the purpose with Trayvon and the purpose here.
This.
If there were some conspiratorial effort to curtail the black population, wouldn’t it be aimed at the women, not the men? After all, a few black men can impregnate thousands of black women to repopulate. (And this seems to be the way they “roll” anyhow, lol)
1. white males know that without guns Black Men would eat them alive. white girls know this too which explains alot of things in regards to interracial coupling
2. When the demographics change, gun rights will be severely curtailed
Anti-Racist you are requested to submit a report of Execution of duties as Senior officer over last month. Your activities are reviewed Sir.
And without white farmers black men wouldn’t be eating period.
Africans are too poor to afford guns. Consequently, Africa is very peaceable and stable, with violence being very rare.
“Africans are too poor to afford guns. Consequently, Africa is very peaceable and stable, with violence being very rare.”
Droll. Very droll.
Anti-rascist: How much cuckold porn do you consume? Yea! Promoting Justice is back!! Fight the Power!
I watch quite a bit of Blacks on Blondes and stuff like that. I’ll never the touch of the women so it is the only sexual outleet available to me. Plus I have an admittedly strange admirection for Black Men. They are so strong and manly. I wish I could be them in many repects I’m trying to cut back.
If that’s how influential blacks feel, the answer is obviously to amend the consitution such that blacks are not allowed guns but whites are. That would solve his concern about blacks being unable to handle gun rights.
While the true effectiveness of gun control is debatable (i.e. gun control laws and the enforcement thereof seem to do a pretty shitty job of meeting the laws stated aim: keeping guns away from criminals), I do wonder how much gun-related violence would decline if there was an effective way of preventing blacks and crackers from owning guns. We’ll probably never know since the people most likely to abide by gun control laws are the ones who are least likely to act irresponsibly with guns in the first place.
“take the life of a child”????? again with that “child” meme from the trayvon martin case. what is with that? why is a 17 year old a child????
I don’t really have anything to add, except that that guy from Wichita kind of looks like Willis from Different Strokes. That made me laugh.
white 17 year olds from rich coastal suburbs are children
black 17 year olds from poor ghettos are definitely not
Maybe we should ban trains and Koreans because blacks seem to have difficulties dealing with them without killing people
That one is for you, anti-racissss.
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