Historian and award-winning\, bestselling author of White Rage\, Carol Anderson powerfully illuminates the history a nd impact of the Second Amendment\, how it was designed\, and how it has c onsistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and vulne rable. The Second is neither a &ldquo\;pro-gun&rdquo\; nor an &ld quo\;anti-gun&rdquo\; book\; the lens is the citizenship rights and human rights of African Americans.
\nFrom the seventeenth century\, when i t was encoded into law that the enslaved could not own\, carry\, or use a firearm whatsoever\, until today\, with measures to expand and curtail gun ownership aimed disproportionately at the African American population\, t he right to bear arms has been consistently used as a weapon to keep Afric an Americans powerless&ndash\;revealing that armed or unarmed\, Blackness\ , it would seem\, is the threat that must be neutralized and punished.
\nThroughout American history to the twenty-first century\, regardless of the laws\, court decisions\, and changing political environment\, the S econd has consistently meant this: That the second a Black person exercise s this right\, the second they pick up a gun to protect themselves (or the second that they don&rsquo\;t)\, their life&ndash\;as surely as Philando Castile&rsquo\;s\, Tamir Rice&rsquo\;s\, Alton Sterling&rsquo\;s&ndash\;ma y be snatched away in that single\, fatal second. Through compelling histo rical narrative merging into the unfolding events of today\, Anderson&rsqu o\;s penetrating investigation shows that the Second Amendment is not abou t guns but about anti-Blackness\, shedding shocking new light on another d imension of racism in America.
\nRose Scott is an award-winning jour nalist and host of the midday news program &ldquo\;Closer Look&rdquo\; hea rd on Atlanta&rsquo\;s NPR\, station 90.1 FM &ndash\; WABE.
\nIn her role as a co-host and now host\, Rose has interviewed foreign heads of st ates\, cabinet members\, U.S. ambassadors\, numerous consul generals\, sta te and local elected officials as well as civic and social leaders. Closer Look has become a signature broadcast for the community and brings togeth er viewpoints from all sectors of society.
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