Like any good race-baiter, professor Carol Anderson knows the easiest way to demonize people or ideas is to brand them as racist, so she’s playing the race card to attack America’s Second Amendment.

Anderson, an Afro-American studies professor (whatever that is)  at Emory University in Atlanta, with the enthusiastic help of corporate media, is promoting her new book, which provides critical race theorists with the dual benefits of denigrating the nation’s founding fathers and telling us that the gun rights enshrined in our Constitution was not about individual liberty but, you guessed it, racism. And, of course, the mainstream media is lapping it up as an irresistible opportunity to connect yet another pet propaganda campaign to anti-White race hate and guilt.

In corporate media land, all roads lead back to skin colour. There is no better way to signal virtuousness while discrediting the defamed Whites racist.

In this case, the target is gun rights, one of the fundamental liberties that made America a relatively free nation. People aren’t quick to give up a right that’s essential to protecting one’s person, property, family, and freedom. Especially when the police have been defunded, are resigning en masse and not taking the oath. So, when hyping mass shootings isn’t enough, rebranding this liberty to protect oneself as bigotry is an appealing ploy.

On Thursday, the taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) news platform declared in a headline ’Historian uncovers the racist roots of the 2nd Amendment.’ 

Notice the language of the Red anti-White propagandist. Rather than introducing the idea with the objectivity we’re supposed to see in a news headline, NPR says ‘uncovers.’ 

Interviewed by NPR, Black Anderson claimed, ‘this isn’t an anti-gun or a pro-gun book. This is a book about African Americans’ rights.’

If that were the case, she would have focused on violations of the gun rights of blacks. Instead, she uses examples of such discrimination to essentially make the argument that the Second Amendment started out as White racist, continued to be White racist, and remains White racist today.

Other media outlets, such as CNN and the New York Times, jumped on board with NPR to heavily promote Anderson’s bizarre ramblings. It’s no coincidence that the same organisations that frequently oppose gun rights and constantly use the race card to divide people have found that an intersection of these two narratives is delicious.

Anderson uses her superpower to peer into the minds of the founding fathers. The black rabble-rouser and doyen of the press concludes that they weren’t thinking about freedom when they created the Constitution. In her view, it was all about making sure individual states had the ability to put down slave uprisings without relying on the federal government.

These activists and their on-message corporate media deliberately miss the point. The founders understood the individual rights of Americans to self-protect to be God-given, not government-granted privileges. The American Constitution was written to block the government from infringing those essential freedoms. Now, blacks and their press allies claim to know that the framers of the American constitution didn’t really mean what they said when they spoke about these rights.

James Madison, who wrote the Second Amendment, said, ’I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.’ As he said in the amendment itself, an armed militia of the people is ’the best and most natural defence of a free country.’ He argued that the ’ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone.’

Jefferson was even more explicit, saying, ‘The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.’

Not surprisingly, the ruling class and its media mouthpieces don’t favour that kind of thinking.

Anderson does play the race card for a good living. Her past books have included White Rage, which capitalised on the fake media spin regarding the police shooting of Michael Brown in 2014. She argued that angry white people are embittered and violent over black progress. Just to make sure that younger readers were properly indoctrinated with White Rage, it was adapted in a follow-up book aimed at teens. Like this story? Share it with a friend.