Racial tensions in South Dallas almost exploded at an anti-mosque protest Saturday afternoon before quickly dissolving when the protesters retreated.
A few hundred South Dallas residents, mostly black, flooded Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to oppose a planned demonstration by a mostly white group that routinely protests outside mosques.
Both sides were armed.
Dallas police stood guard on a funeral home’s roof as black counterprotesters swarmed the parking lot of Eva’s House of Bar-B-Q, vowing to defend their streets and chanting “black power.”
“This is what they fear — the black man,” said activist Olinka Green. “This is what America fears.”
The anti-mosque group showed up in camouflage, carrying guns and an American flag, FOX 4 reported. They left soon after and the protests ended without incident.
I guess those Islamophobic protesters don't feel like such bad ass Rambo types if the other side brings their guns out as well.
Isn't having EVERYBODY armed one of their favorite talking points?
You know, though it might seem counter intuitive, this kind of a response might actually keep somebody from being shot as it will intimidate these candy ass ammosexuals into skipping the next protest.
The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Finally, the proof the NRA has been waiting for!
ReplyDelete+1,000,000
DeleteThe history of guns from Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPBHtjZmSpw
Always worth the watch.
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Just waiting for the anti-Islamic ammosexuals to call the counter-protesters "thugs".
ReplyDeleteI read the comments at the newspaper article link. I didn't see any commenters acknowledgment of the idea that our gun laws mean BOTH sides can carry or defend! The comments were pissed off that these "black panthers" dared show with guns too!
ReplyDeleteThis can't end well. More guns, more anger, more nervous people, more racial division. It may have ended well this time but next time we might see heavily armed counter-counter-protestors because, as we all know from Oregon stand-off, nothing unites the extreme right and draws them in like flies to the shitpile more than living out their gunplay fantasies in real life.
ReplyDeleteOh America, Dog help you all.
Civil war is inevitable.
DeleteI couldn't disagree more. Those cowards aren't going to come back if they can't get their erections scaring unarmed Muslims. They'll have to find some other group to threaten. And after a while nothing will work so they'll go back to porn.
DeleteIs that a woman that's prominently featured?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm really scared of YOU.
Just like I am of the big bad coward $arah.
Give it a damn REST already.
The featured woman is the New Black Panther leader who organized the protective effort against the armed anti-Islamic idiots who have been intimidating the Nation of Islam mosque.
DeleteGood example of what's wrong with the media:
ReplyDeleteOpening: "Racial tensions in South Dallas almost exploded ..."
Closing: "the protests ended without incident"
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Right off the bat, the article attempts to illicit a fearful emotional response before reporting the details of the protest. At no time, was there an 'almost exploded' situation.
The article headline is "Armed clash over black mosque triggers anger in South Dallas"
Delete'Clash' - (noun) a violent confrontation.
The reporter and her editor need a dictionary. They should also review their motives and whether they want to inform their readers or feed the race/religious divide.
Of course they do, they don't care what shit they cause or promote. All they care about are clicks, sales, and ad money. the more extreme the headlines, the more of all those three things they get.
DeleteA cub scout helping an elderly woman cross a street doesn't sell papers.
DeleteArmed Black Panthers are what convinced Gov. R. Reagan to push gun regulation through the CA legislature. It will be interesting to see if white America still wants to prevent black citizens from exercising their 2nd Amendment rights.
ReplyDeleteOnly white evangelical Christian "conservatives" would have firearms in their perfect worlds.
DeleteWhen the Black Panthers showed up armed in Sacramento in 1967 the legislature made sure open carry ended in California. Hmmmmm.
ReplyDeleteI hate guns---but what did the idiots who have been armed and scaring the hell out of muslims think would eventually happen? Did they really think they could scare people's families and they would be so cowed that they wouldn't eventually arm themselves too? The Nation of Islam people I knew as a child would have stuck guns in the faces of these racist assholes a long time ago.
Sigh. We will never get it right in this country. Just enough fear and hate to get this shit to keep going.
“This is the black America that white America made,” he [South Dallas resident Robert Greaves] said.
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Heartbreaking and true.
Perhaps there should have been a "repatriation" effort following emancipation and we should have helped reunite families back in Africa instead of having a bunch of now free, but still disenfranchised ex-slaves in a country that was still not accepting of them.
DeleteWe did create the problem, although many slaves that came to America were already enslaved by other tribes in their own country. However, we could have done a better job of addressing the needs and desires of these people, and sending those back home that wished to go.
I guess you never heard of Liberia.
DeleteI guess it never occurred to you, that after building the American economy and living here for hundreds of years, the former slaves may have had more of a right to live and thrive here than their white oppressors.
Chicken shit white patriot pussies!
ReplyDeleteWhat?
ReplyDeleteYou mean guns are legal to own for other than white anglo Christian Sovereign Citizen males?
Wonder how the local ammosexuals protesting the mosque like their 2nd amendment when it applies to ALL CITIZENS?
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/the-secret-history-of-guns/308608/
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ReplyDeleteIf you have time check out an article on Salon by Conor Lynch. Title is "Donald Trump is the Pinnacle of American Stupidity."
Pat Padrnos
We had an incident on Saturday where the Australian racist collective staged a protest outside a Halal food expo and some people dressed in black rocked up and attacked them. Only one of the racists was hurt but all those big white slugs fought like the girls among them. All this happened in front of a dozen mounted police that usually cosset the racists.
ReplyDeleteFile under "Reasons not to visit Texas" again, ever. Freedom of Religion is our constitutional right, the muslims were doing nothing more or less illegal than christians do going to church, but the fear of someone different is enough to bring out the WASPS with arms to show up, not realizing the same rights that protect them, protects other religions as well.
ReplyDeleteI could never wrap my head around this type and level of hatred borne of ignorance.
I've always said if somebody in my family should ever need an abortion, she will show up with an armed guard and an armed private nurse. These people don't think that anyone will shoot back, and as we saw at Malheur, they sure as shit don't want somebody around who might shoot back. The only one who might be considered unfrightened of bullets committed suicide by cop.
ReplyDeleteI would have no problems shooting to protect a family member. I might have problems shooting to protect myself.