If you’re anti-lynching, you should be inherently anti-gun control, argues a new ad from conservative organization the Center for Urban Renewal and Education C.U.R.E.
In a 30 second ad released last week by C.U.R.E. founder Star Parker, white men break into a black man’s house, drag him out and set his house on fire, and men dressed as KKK members subsequently hang him.
“Taking guns from the law-abiding many puts too much power in the hands of an ill-intended few,” says a line of text on screen. Followed by, “It’s very important that we don’t allow gun control to happen again in this country.”
The ad is part of the organization’s new “Never Again” campaign,which seeks to expose “very real link between gun control and the historical black experience in this country.”
Never Again uses the scourge of Jim Crow laws, which segregated white and black people, and the Mississippi Black Code of 1865, which said that “No freedman, negro or mulatto should carry or keep firearms” incite African Americans to aggressively fight for their Second Amendment rights.
“Literally from Jim Crow until present day, black urban communities have been under siege and they cannot protect themselves, and the inability and/or reluctance of law enforcement to protect them. During the Black Codes the right to bear arms was taken away and perpetuated during Jim Crow,” claims the Never Again campaign’s website.
C.U.R.E. did not respond to a request for comment from Red Alert Politics, but Parker told CNSNews.com of the ad campaign, “The Second Amendment of the Constitution is a right for all Americans, including blacks, to protect themselves and their families from both private and public violence.”
However, Ladd Everitt, communications director at Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, said he categorically disagrees with Parker’s interpretation of the gun control debate in America.
“I don’t think this is the genuine opinion of African-Americans in this country,” Everitt told CNSNews.com. “No group has supported gun control more than African-Americans, and that goes back decades.”
Regardless of whether or not one agrees that the country needs less strict gun laws, Parker’s ad is unarguably over-the-top. Tying America’s African-American President’s push for gun control to the KKK is nearly as absurd and inaccurate as liberals’ claims that requiring photo idea to vote is racist. Photo ID laws are not racist. Gun control laws are not racist. And playing the race card every time you disagree with a policy proposal is just sophomoric.
Watch the advertisement:
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