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Racism for minority gun owners

Maddoggie13

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I attended many, many open carry events during the last 6 months. Not once, any news report willing to show my face...may be my skin is yellow and not white. I could see my Glock, S&W and XD from the back or the side; but, never with my face from the front. May be I'm just too homely for them. :cool: This totally suck...we need to show faces across all race when comes to gun ownership in America. :banghead:
 

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Maddoggie13 wrote:
I attended many, many open carry events during the last 6 months. Not once, any news report willing to show my face...may be my skin is yellow and not white. I could see my Glock, S&W and XD from the back or the side; but, never with my face from the front. May be I'm just too homely for them. :cool: This totally suck...we need to show faces across all race when comes to gun ownership in America. :banghead:
It could be a numbers thing. There are so many more people who do not have the same ancestry as you.

Suggestion: Be the person who contacts the TV news reporter about the next event that you attend. You will likely become the point of contact for the reporter and will get a chance to express yourself on camera.

Don't wait for things to happen. Make them happen.
 

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eye95 wrote:
Maddoggie13 wrote:
I attended many, many open carry events during the last 6 months. Not once, any news report willing to show my face...may be my skin is yellow and not white. I could see my Glock, S&W and XD from the back or the side; but, never with my face from the front. May be I'm just too homely for them. :cool: This totally suck...we need to show faces across all race when comes to gun ownership in America. :banghead:
It could be a numbers thing. There are so many more people who do not have the same ancestry as you.

Suggestion: Be the person who contacts the TV news reporter about the next event that you attend. You will likely become the point of contact for the reporter and will get a chance to express yourself on camera.

Don't wait for things to happen. Make them happen.
I smile for the camera all the time...just get edit out asap...not white, old, angry, Republican...just a 4th generation gun owners from a family of WWII vets who is also pace loving buddhist with his sidearms...:lol:
 

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Maddoggie13 wrote:
eye95 wrote:
Maddoggie13 wrote:
I attended many, many open carry events during the last 6 months. Not once, any news report willing to show my face...may be my skin is yellow and not white. I could see my Glock, S&W and XD from the back or the side; but, never with my face from the front. May be I'm just too homely for them. :cool: This totally suck...we need to show faces across all race when comes to gun ownership in America. :banghead:
It could be a numbers thing. There are so many more people who do not have the same ancestry as you.

Suggestion: Be the person who contacts the TV news reporter about the next event that you attend. You will likely become the point of contact for the reporter and will get a chance to express yourself on camera.

Don't wait for things to happen. Make them happen.
I smile for the camera all the time...just get edit out asap...no white, old, angry, Republican...
My suggestion was that you contact the news about the next event. Make things happen. BTW, I am a white, old, Republican. Not angry, though. Stereotypes are annoying regardless of the direction.
 

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eye95 wrote:
Maddoggie13 wrote:
eye95 wrote:
Maddoggie13 wrote:
I attended many, many open carry events during the last 6 months. Not once, any news report willing to show my face...may be my skin is yellow and not white. I could see my Glock, S&W and XD from the back or the side; but, never with my face from the front. May be I'm just too homely for them. :cool: This totally suck...we need to show faces across all race when comes to gun ownership in America. :banghead:
It could be a numbers thing. There are so many more people who do not have the same ancestry as you.

Suggestion: Be the person who contacts the TV news reporter about the next event that you attend. You will likely become the point of contact for the reporter and will get a chance to express yourself on camera.

Don't wait for things to happen. Make them happen.
I smile for the camera all the time...just get edit out asap...no white, old, angry, Republican...
My suggestion was that you contact the news about the next event. Make things happen. BTW, I am a white, old, Republican. Not angry, though. Stereotypes are annoying regardless of the direction.
Just has to make fun of ourselves aka gun owners or we will go crazy with all the lib's around us...:D
 

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I agree. Often, the media loves to tie firearms ownership with old crusty white guys. This makes it more acceptable to denigrate those who do so.

Firearms ownership has nothing to do with demographics. Race, religion, orientation have nothing to do with the ability to defend yourself.If more minorities were portrayed as owning and carrying firearms, it might lead to a greater number of them doing so.

Unfortunately for the media, this would have a tendency to remove the focus of gun ownership from middle aged white males, making them less able to criticise firearms owners.

I agree with eye95. Actively pursueany reporter or media contact you encounter. If gun ownership is for everyone, it should represent everyone and exposure shouldn't be limited to white guys only. You never know, you could become the next face of the OC movement. It doesn't have to be a white dude.
 

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this is the same thing as what happened with the guy in AZ who was carrying the AR-15 that got so much media buzz at the time. while the left-wing media was screaming 'crazy white guys with guns', they left out (and edited out of the pic) the fact that the guy was a black man.

if it doesn't fit their agenda they will ignore it.
 

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Maddoggie, maybe your heritage IS the story. Contact the media and try to get them to do a story specifically on folks who OC who are not white males.
 

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Yes, remember all the hoopla about the fellow who was carrying an AR-15 at an Obama rally last year? The only place where you say his face (or could even tell his race) was in the pro-2A press. Almost NONE of the MSM revealed that this "radical gun toting Obama Hater" was actually a BMWAG. About the only one that even mentioned his race was CNN, and even that was just mentioned in passing:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/17/obama.protest.rifle/

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/17/obama.protest.rifle/#cnnSTCVideo

You'll notice that although CNN's Rick Sanchez makes a big deal about the fact that this guy is carrying (and even makes a deferential reference to the fact that in AZ it is 100% LEGAL) they only mention that this fellow is "African American" once. They never accuse him of being some sort of racist, like they always do with white citizens when they do the same thing...

It is particularly telling that they show his picture, but didn't actually interview him. Then they go on to speculate which "side" he is on and what his motivations are, rather than just ASKING him. They were close enough to get footage, but apparently, it is no longer a jurnalist's job to actually INVESTIGATE the news, or do interviews.

They keep saying that "there is an Open Carry Law in AZ that allows this"...

NO THERE ISN'T!!!!!!!

There is an Open Carry RIGHT enumerated in the US Constitution. No government has the moral or legal authority to "allow" a fundamental human right...

There is now statute, code, or law in AZ (or ANY state for that matter, except with regards to CA and their silly UOC law) that says that it is legal to OC. It is the LACK of PROHIBITION on OC that makes it legal in many states. These media putzes need to go back to high school civics class and re-learn how the American legal system works.

I find it morally reprehensible that the media is portraying OCers as being entirely white, redneck, uneducated and "radical right wing extremists". From what I've seen in VA, and NC, OCers are men and women, all races, all different levels of education and income, and are generally friendly, well-spoken, courteous and family-oriented.

The media is either stupid, or they are evil. Neither are good explanations for their behaviour, IMO, and we need to start calling them out on their intellectual dishonesty in an open and public manner...

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.40 Cal

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I'm with you. No one is running to interview the 6'2" 250 lb Puerto Rican with a 1911 on his hip. ;)

What's best is when I completely buck their stereotypes by riding in on a Harley softail. Only old white guys ride those...
 

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Maddoggie13 wrote:
eye95 wrote:
Maddoggie13 wrote:
eye95 wrote:
Maddoggie13 wrote:
I attended many, many open carry events during the last 6 months. Not once, any news report willing to show my face...may be my skin is yellow and not white. I could see my Glock, S&W and XD from the back or the side; but, never with my face from the front. May be I'm just too homely for them. :cool: This totally suck...we need to show faces across all race when comes to gun ownership in America. :banghead:
It could be a numbers thing. There are so many more people who do not have the same ancestry as you.

Suggestion: Be the person who contacts the TV news reporter about the next event that you attend. You will likely become the point of contact for the reporter and will get a chance to express yourself on camera.

Don't wait for things to happen. Make them happen.
I smile for the camera all the time...just get edit out asap...no white, old, angry, Republican...
My suggestion was that you contact the news about the next event. Make things happen. BTW, I am a white, old, Republican. Not angry, though. Stereotypes are annoying regardless of the direction.
Just has to make fun of ourselves aka gun owners or we will go crazy with all the lib's around us...:D
You're right, Stereotypes are annoying. Hypocrites are too.
 

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1. In my considerable experience, there is a STRONG streak of racism in the anti-gun movement. A lot of them aren't afraid of guns. They're afraid of non-Whites with guns.

2. To a large extent, the commercial media are in the tank for the anti-gun movement.

If you're pushing gun control as a way to disarm "them" whom you don't want to have guns, why show "them" in possession of guns while NOT committing violent crimes?

You do the math.
 

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Toymaker wrote:
Maddoggie13 wrote:
eye95 wrote:
Maddoggie13 wrote:
eye95 wrote:
Maddoggie13 wrote:
I attended many, many open carry events during the last 6 months. Not once, any news report willing to show my face...may be my skin is yellow and not white. I could see my Glock, S&W and XD from the back or the side; but, never with my face from the front. May be I'm just too homely for them. :cool: This totally suck...we need to show faces across all race when comes to gun ownership in America. :banghead:
It could be a numbers thing. There are so many more people who do not have the same ancestry as you.

Suggestion: Be the person who contacts the TV news reporter about the next event that you attend. You will likely become the point of contact for the reporter and will get a chance to express yourself on camera.

Don't wait for things to happen. Make them happen.
I smile for the camera all the time...just get edit out asap...no white, old, angry, Republican...
My suggestion was that you contact the news about the next event. Make things happen. BTW, I am a white, old, Republican. Not angry, though. Stereotypes are annoying regardless of the direction.
Just has to make fun of ourselves aka gun owners or we will go crazy with all the lib's around us...:D
You're right, Stereotypes are annoying. Hypocrites are too.
Huh?
 

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eye95 wrote:
Toymaker wrote:
Maddoggie13 wrote:
eye95 wrote:
Maddoggie13 wrote:
eye95 wrote:
Maddoggie13 wrote:
I attended many, many open carry events during the last 6 months. Not once, any news report willing to show my face...may be my skin is yellow and not white. I could see my Glock, S&W and XD from the back or the side; but, never with my face from the front. May be I'm just too homely for them. :cool: This totally suck...we need to show faces across all race when comes to gun ownership in America. :banghead:
It could be a numbers thing. There are so many more people who do not have the same ancestry as you.

Suggestion: Be the person who contacts the TV news reporter about the next event that you attend. You will likely become the point of contact for the reporter and will get a chance to express yourself on camera.

Don't wait for things to happen. Make them happen.
I smile for the camera all the time...just get edit out asap...no white, old, angry, Republican...
My suggestion was that you contact the news about the next event. Make things happen. BTW, I am a white, old, Republican. Not angry, though. Stereotypes are annoying regardless of the direction.
Just has to make fun of ourselves aka gun owners or we will go crazy with all the lib's around us...:D
You're right, Stereotypes are annoying. Hypocrites are too.
Huh?
My apologies for being so cryptic. The 'hypocrites' comment was directed at the news media.
 

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Gotcha. I thought you may have meant me. I musta reread my posts a hundred times, wondering what I could possibly have said.

It's cool. :cool: Yes, the many in the media (not all) are hypocritical..
 

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My fault for not explaining why I highlighted those lines.

It's a shame that the OP has to take extraordinary measures in order to get the news media to acknowledge him as pro 2A. The main reason isto furthertheir agenda to demonize firearms and firearms owners. They want to give the impression of being champions of human rights and at the same time support a controlling socialist agenda.
 

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Another angle on race I think about is I bet there are black men who are afraid to OC because of law enforcement in some areas. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
 

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rottman43055 wrote:
Another angle on race I think about is I bet there are black men who are afraid to OC because of law enforcement in some areas. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
I think you are right. I was scared enough to OC in Colorado my first few times. I'm as white as can be- the "Good Ol' Boy" looking type. I couldn't even begin to imagine the feelings that a minority feels when attempting OC.

A good example of this is the recent Michigan open carry movement. Open carry in Detroit draws some serious attention- not all positive. I can see a LONE black man, OC; getting drawn on and put to the ground for a 'quick investigation' before being released. It's bad enough for white people trying to OC in Detroit; forget being Black or Mexican.
 
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