The Racist Origin of the Second Amendment and the Rise of Black Gun Ownership
NOVANEWS
By Zenobia Jeffries, YES! Magazine
Two members of the Black Panther Party are met on the steps of the State Capitol in Sacramento, May 2, 1967, by Police Lt. Ernest Holloway, who informs them they will be allowed to keep their weapons as long as they cause no trouble and do not disturb the peace. Earlier several members had entered the Assembly chambers and had their guns taken away.
Siwatu-Salama Ra, 26, will likely spend the next two years in a Michigan prison. In early February, a Wayne County jury found the six-months pregnant Black mother of a toddler guilty of felonious assault and felony firearm possession. She was sentenced last week.
Outside her mother's Detroit home last summer, she pulled a gun on a neighbor, who Ra says used her vehicle to hit her car with Ra's 2-...