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Clearance Thomas who is Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, is widely known for his publicized court case where he ended up leaving his black wife for a white woman and that whole hair in the Coca-Cola incident was more prime than ever to talk about Gun Bans and Gun Control and what Black people today really need to be worried about. Now a lot of people don’t like Mr. Thomas and in some black circles he is known as an “Uncle Tom” However, reading this below may change some of their viewpoints…

referring to the disarming of blacks during the post-Reconstruction era, Thomas wrote: “It was the ‘duty’ of white citizen ‘patrols to search negro houses and other suspected places for firearms.’ If they found any firearms, the patrols were to take the offending slave or free black ‘to the nearest justice of the peace’ whereupon he would be ‘severely punished.’ ” Never again, Thomas says.

In a scorcher of an opinion that reads like a mix of black history lesson and Black Panther Party manifesto, he goes on to say, “Militias such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Knights of the White Camellia, the White Brotherhood, the Pale Faces and the ’76 Association spread terror among blacks. . . . The use of firearms for self-defense was often the only way black citizens could protect themselves from mob violence.”

This was no muttering from an Uncle Tom, as many black people have accused him of being. His advocacy for black self-defense is straight from the heart of Malcolm X. He even cites the slave revolts led by Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner — implying that white America has long wanted to take guns away from black people out of fear that they would seek revenge for centuries of racial oppression.

Thomas made no mention of the black loss of life and liberty from handguns being wielded by other blacks. But he has made clear on other occasions that the problem is not that there are too many guns in the black community; the problem is too many criminals.

He dismissed the cogent gun-control arguments of his retiring colleague, John Paul Stevens, conjuring up the abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens instead: “When it was first proposed to free the slaves and arm the blacks, did not half the nation tremble?” Let ‘em quake, Thomas appears to be saying. From Frederick Douglass, Thomas writes: ” ‘The black man has never had the right either to keep or bear arms,’ and that, until he does, ‘the work of the Abolitionists was not finished.’ ”

Say what you want about him but Mr. Thomas has a valid point. He comes from an era of “Real Racism” when you got spit on for being you, and YOU had to leave the premises. The N word was dropped with no fear and you weren’t allowed to progress no matter how smart or submissive your were. Will history repeat its negative period with changing gun rights? Let Me Know Something?