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Clarence Thomas gave his opinion on gun rights before the Supreme Court’s decision to extend gun rights and stop Chicago’s hand gun ban. He claims that Black people have had their gun rights infringed on and could not defend themselves against groups like the Klu Klux Klan.

From The Washington Post

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.”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Caveman1816/ Caveman1816

    Who am I protecting myself and my family with my guns in my house. Take a guess….it is not the KKK!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jayevans20/ jayevans20

    Smartest thing from “Uncle Rukas” that I ever heard. It may be 20 to 60 years to late but it’s still smart and a start. lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/infinite_question/ infinite_question

    wow, i guess we all have a lil malcolm x in us somewhere, who knew it would be burried under years and years of “uncle tomness”. who the f is scared of the kkk anyway? thats so 1963, we have a new enemy now that cant be killed with fire arms (unfortunatley)…ignorance.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Brownsugah331/ Brownsugah331

    This is actually making me want to go and buy his book! He only jumps on the ban wagon when it suits him.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jspew/ jspew

    wow, this is shocking !!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Johnny_Walker/ Johnny_Walker

    @infinite_question
    Southern Pennsylvania…KKK were on me and my family’s back not 12 years ago..

    They’re not gone and neither is their influence.

    As for gun rights..I used to be incredibly against guns, until someone opened my eyes and reminded me that if guns are banned, the only citizens (non-police) who will have them are the criminals. So a ban on guns leaves the public unarmed, giving the criminals an even bigger upper hand. I then went out and got mine.

    Open Carry laws are a tough idea, but crimes are committed at a slower pace in areas where people can carry weapons..so maybe there’s something to it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/duncan69/ duncan69

    this fool sits time after time when they meet for a hearing or rule on some shyt as quite as a mouse and all of a sudden he got balls to speak on some real shyt he knows nothing about,i guess he,ll be runnin off at the mouth form now on.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/infinite_question/ infinite_question

    @johnny_walker
    i asked “who was scared of the kkk?”, i have no doubt they still exist. i say this because they’re only prevelant in white areas. im from the chi, never seen a kkk member (in person), but racism is more covert up here and whites watch there diction (exept the ones in blue) when they’re in our neighborhoods. i dont go to theirs because everyone mostly stays around people who share their racial or social background. this is how our public school system is bogus and more segragated than its ever been in my lifetime. so if u stay around families on section 8, ur school may not have enough books for the students because the property taxes are so low in that area (not to mention what all these foreclosed, boarded up houses do to the property value).

    up here in the 60s and 70s, the local and state govt gave certain gangs immunity to bring down the property value so that mayor richard daleys’ (our current mayors racist father) mafia cronies could buy up the property for dirt cheap (im talkin prime lake front property sold for a mere fraction of its actual value). then they gave contracts to their friends to rehabilitate the properties and rent them to our people. the klan is the last of our worries here.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/itsmeChrissy901/ itsmeChrissy901

    Are you guys retarded?? Of course you don’t see them in your Chi-town neighborhood..they are in the state senate determining what laws will govern your neighborhood. They are the voices of talk radio that incite fear in the public and who circulate lies like “a substantial amount of black men are on the down-low”. They are your local sheriffs, deputies, teachers, and business leaders. They are the Heritage Foundation and others. The KKK announced years ago that they would focus more on policy than cross burning and infiltrate the airwaves. Its no coincidence that so many politicians are declaring things like “I’m proud to be a redneck”. Consider this the next time there is legislation that disproportionately disarms blacks by way of overriding your CONSTITUTIONAL right to bear arms. Or that you have to “register” you gun. Wake up.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/infinite_question/ infinite_question

    Are you guys retarded??

    many of the religious right would call me retarded, proof of their own ignorance.
    im very aware of the heritage foundation and other lobbyist groups (im addicted to cspan) and know what they stand 4. im simply stating that clerance thomas is making a boogie man out of the klan, and thats just plain misdirection to keep us off the trail of the real enemy. but what u fail to realize is that we live in a democratic society (supposedly) and we are the majority.

    the tea party, and any other underground neo con sub groups dont have any new members. they’re the same party who just lost 2 election cycles in a row. i dont fear them, my biggest problem is the mis education of our communities and the forgotten fact that all the minorities combined is the majority. their ignorant rants against everyone whos not a white babyboomer are alienating those who used to support the republican party that clarence thomas represents.
    im all for the right to bear arms, but not because im scared of some white people but because its my right protected myself and my property from any and everyone.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NICEYOU/ NICEYOU

    Mr. Thomas you’r super right !!!! and all blacks need to understand our rights as people in America

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BlkSuperHero928/ BlkSuperHero928

    Wow Mr. Thomas, your on the right track with that comment. In Pomona if your black and not physically able to defend yourself, you have to worry about Mexican gang members hopping out of the car on you, police officers, and even other blacks. This was seriously a no-brainer.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Just1man4u/ Just1man4u

    Uncle tom clarence aint got sh it to say worth listening to he has not support the black cause since he get get his hands on some white drawls.

    And last I seen and heard the KKK is the least of some black communities troubles try living in a black neighborhood uncle boy for a month and not the well to do one home boy and than you can speak on it.

    as of now you been in the suspreme court and havent done s**t to support the black agenda other than put pubic hair on Ms. Hill coke can that a selfish agenda

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    infinite_question
    6-30-2010 4:02 pm
    “wow, i guess we all have a lil malcolm x in us somewhere, who knew it would be burried under years and years of “uncle tomness”. who the f is scared of the kkk anyway? thats so 1963, we have a new enemy now that cant be killed with fire arms (unfortunatley)…ignorance.”

    I hope you got your typing speed and accuracy up…you gone be in for the long one with this topic…But I agree with you on this post I quoted from you…well said

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smoke-smza/ smoke-smza

    He was just only using this historical reference as an example ya’ll.

    Sure he is a tom 90% of the time, but this time this man is Militant as s**t and ITS ABOUT TIME!!!!

    By the way, He loves throwing White Women in the face of the White Man.

    See, he is not as Uncle Tommy as many of you would, or even I would think.

    Hear me Out:

    In order to change the social paradigm of America even more to a Minority Majority state. Some Black Men are going to have to make babies with White Women. Sistas I know you dont like it, but thats too damm bad. Some of you could help that cause if you would like by making sure some White Men dont end up making White Babies.

    Expanding the Race by Mixing with Whites in order to diversity the Genepool maybe 15% of us would help the long term growth and Development of our race.

    hey its not just about Toms and Aunt Jemimas with money Mixing with Trailer Trash Whites. Its now becoming Whites with money Hunting after poor Blacks. Oh, and they do hunt after Black now. Just Look at those stats.

    Black Americans are a Special Race but we cant grow further if we dotn diversify the genepool.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/easy_one65/ easy_one65

    Yeah…The Klan may not be in the hood, but we still got people like Mayor Daley who are just as bad and don’t want to let Black people defend themselves against evil…even though it is your neighbor. Gun laws are never complicated in this country…that is, until the rights of Black people owning guns for self-protection against lawbreakers BLACK and WHITE!!!

    The greatest and most dangerous enemy of Black people is the government, on all levels (local, county, state, federal).

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ABLKMAN2NO/ ABLKMAN2NO

    Is it me or does Clarence Thomas always look like he has just been embalmed?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/254Fat_Boy/ 254Fat_Boy

    had a friend who had his house shot up twice in a week…. cops never found out who shot up his house, but they sure put him away for 5 years for unlicensed poss…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    sometimes I think they are trying to promote a race-war on the low

    maybe im just paranoid though (shrugs shoulders)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Johnny_Walker/ Johnny_Walker

    @infinite_question
    My bad…misread your comment

    And the more I come to this particular article, the more I’m confused at how Thomas came out the woodwork with this one..lol Is he going to run for office soon?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/wogmin/ wogmin

    I agree with what justice Thomas said, but, he didn’t go far enough.

    As the Rev. Jesse Jacksonson said, some years back, ‘It is not Bull Turner, or someone with a hood over their head that we need to fear, but rather, some brother, who is a ‘hood’, living in the neighborhood.’

    I will take it a little further, we need to have guns, to protect ourselves from a government that has gone amuck, taking rights from decent citizens, destroying the constitution, taxing us in to poverty, and making us feel like second class citizens.

    The passing of the health care bill is a goood example. Over 70% ov the population said, we don’t want it, and this administration, did it anyway, by threatening, and bribery. Then, after it is passed, the truth comes out about what is in it, which is what those opposed to it, told us anyway.

    I am not for name calling, but, if anyone is hurting the black community, look at the white house.

    Mind you, the way Hitler, Castro, and other dictators came in to power, was to first, disarm the citizens.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/easy_one65/ easy_one65

    …Sometimes, to our misfortune, we finally “open” our eyes when it’s too late…Case in piont: I am almost certain that if Jewish men had guns to defend themselves before they were murdered en masse, maybe history would have made a right turn in their favor…However, they took ‘the man’ out of the house first, made him unemployable, bulit a propaganda machine against him, berated/humiliated/emasculated him…then came back and killed his women, children and babies on the second trainload…

    …Just like they’re systematically doing to us Black men and our families right now. How many of us do they have in prison now?….2 million??!!…That’s two million strong black men that are at the mercy of a racist system, who at a moment’s notice, could wipe them out into mystery as happened before…”Never say never”…Black man always getting put in jail for bullshyt, trumped-up charges for defending himself for unwarranted attacks, only to be rendered defenseless and vulnerable while these crazy-@zz, pseudo-religious, wacked-out, racist white people are armed to the phucking teeth, talking about armed resistance, ‘posse comitatus’, constitutional revisions (and damn well mean it too!) and making all kinds of not-so-subtle remarks about killing the president at unprecedented levels….

    …Now, do you really wanna know what’s goin’ on??!!…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/killasweet82/ killasweet82

    f**k them crackers, we need to round up those groups, as many as we can find and cook there asses like steaks on a grill!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/easy_one65/ easy_one65

    Read this post…it will open your eyes to “what’s really goin’ on”…

    http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=3312

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/btfmf69/ btfmf69

    easy_one65 wrote”Black man always getting put in jail for bullshyt, trumped-up charges for defending himself for unwarranted attacks”. so next time one of these clowns are robbing the corner store or shoplifting and its caught on tape i guess they are defending themselves from the unwarranted attack of getting a job or the prices these stores charge for their merchandise. I’m at the dollar tree now buying some balloons and this idiot is stealing glue for her hair. you can’t afford $1.00 for glue but you got 30 tats on your body. i love my people but when you got ones like this they need to be in jail. $1.00 hair glue just pathetic.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/perfect992/ perfect992

    I agree with this lady itsmeChrissy901.

    Why do you think Blacks are not being hired for jobs now. These are the people that are Recruiters, Employers, Supervisors, Teachers. These are the Tea Partyers, KKK and other racist groups. Notice the job ads, must be bilingual. What they are saying is Spanish preferred. Special check marks on the applications if you are Spanish. It has become legal not to hire African Americans and it is legal to fire us from jobs we have been on for years. The Labor Department of the United States is only interested in the rights of illegal immigrants, are they being paid, are they being treated good on the job. There is silence when it comes to African Americans. Notice more and more you can’t find a legal recourse for things done to you by Whites or others, like the laws don’t apply to work in your behalf, but are welcome to work against you.

    When Obama was elected President, a few days later on my job, I overheard a white woman say, “I hope she don’t think just because Obama is President, she just gon’ sit up here”. Two weeks later I was “laid off”.

    I know we’re talking about guns, I don’t ever want to own one. But I want to say this, and keep this in mind, “All people are being laid off because suddenly the companies don’t have the business they used to, right, every city and state is claiming this and laying off people in huge portions. Why? Because Obama is President and he might redistribute the wealth. If Obama does not make a second term, all the people that was laid off and without a job now will be called back to work, because suddenly business will start booming again – well they will all be called back except Blacks. Its a plan by these people. When you go in a private sector business, you see all whites, asians, hispanics, and no Blacks. That’s whats happening here in California.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jayhood40/ jayhood40

    Look and i mean look very closely….a TOM is a TOM not matter how u look at it….I don’t trust judge Thomas at all…..his wife called president “Obama” a tyrant…i’m sure she wanted to use the N-WORD….she’s got her husband all twisted up….if she thinks this way of the pres…then what does she really think of her man

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MrWantSomeNewBooty/ MrWantSomeNewBooty

    An unarmed society is an easily oppressed society. Clarence Thomas is right for a change but he used old and historic rhetoric to make a point. Yes, most blacks were denied the right to own firearms at one time to prevent wide spread and chaotic uprising. However, in this modern day era everyone who has a legal right to own a firearm can do so.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    Wow you guys seem to overlook smoke-smza interesting comment as for Thomas, YTF would he even mention the KKK they aren’t around liek they were back in the old days. And why does he look like an oompa loompa in this pic?

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