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madinmaryland

(64,931 posts)
2. That's because if you take off their hoods, you would see they are the
Sat May 4, 2013, 08:33 PM
May 2013

same "people" at KKK Rally's.

Just sayin.

BainsBane

(53,031 posts)
3. I read an account of a past NRA convention
Sat May 4, 2013, 08:38 PM
May 2013

by an African American man who attended, as a journalist, I believe. He said out of 45,000 attendees, 12 were African American.

Skittles

(153,150 posts)
10. aw HELL YES
Sat May 4, 2013, 09:35 PM
May 2013

we hear them wailing that Zimmerman had a right to act on his paranoid fantasies but arming Treyvon? NOT SO MUCH,

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
5. Same thing at gun shows, gun stores, etc. Gun nuts keep saying they are not bigots.
Sat May 4, 2013, 08:44 PM
May 2013

Of course, when I was growing up, this guy ran for governor every election. Claimed he wasn't a racist (later he was finally convicted of bombing a Black church in Alabama). He often appeared in photos with guns, used for intimidation.




Big Jim Porter, new NRA President, reminds me of him.
 

Pelican

(1,156 posts)
11. He also lost every election by wide margins...
Sat May 4, 2013, 10:07 PM
May 2013

From Wikipedia...

"During his Senate campaign, the FCC ruled that television stations had to play his ads due to the fairness doctrine. His ads included the word "n*****." Stoner also ran for lieutenant governor in 1974 and the United States Senate in 1980. His best showing was 73,000 votes (10 percent) in his campaign for lieutenant governor in 1974, when he sought to succeed Lester G. Maddox in Georgia's second highest constitutional office. Maddox lost the gubernatorial nomination that year to former legislator George D. Busbee."

 

newmember

(805 posts)
13. It's become a political organization
Sat May 4, 2013, 10:26 PM
May 2013

I'm not surprised since close to 90% of African Americans vote Democratic.

I'm sure if you took a poll in there 90% of them voted republican.

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