If we’re canceling things with a history of racism, how bout we start with gun control laws?
Look it up.
The KKK supported strict gun control laws and consistently lobbied for measures to keep guns from "urban areas" that disproportionately housed Black Americans.
After the Civil War, southern states passed laws saying only "Army and Navy" guns could be sold. AKA the ones ex-confederate soldiers already owned.
It was meant as a clear way of keeping guns from Black Americans.
The pro-Civil Rights attorney who argued in Plessy v. Ferguson said in areas with a large KKK presence, "almost universally the first thing done was to disarm the negroes and leave them defenseless."
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This USC Professor is on leave after students were offended that a Chinese word he used during a lecture on foreign languages sounded like an english racial slur.
Watch the video for yourself:
The school is now offering "supportive measures" to students who were hurt by the Professor's language...
Worth noting: Last month a Professor was put on leave for asking a student named Phuc Bui to consider using a different name because it might offend students in class.
In 2014, while interning in DC, I got to go to a promotional event for his new movie ‘Get On Up.’
Before the event started there was a happy hour in the lobby, and everyone was awkwardly standing around mingling. (1/5)
I kept thinking one of the guys we were standing with was the dude I’d seen in the trailer, but I thought there was no way he wasn’t on the red carpet, or swarmed by people, so I just kinda let it be.
(2/5)
Eventually, I just said “Excuse me, not to be weird, but are you one of the guys in this movie?” And he was just casually like “Yeah, I’m Chadwick, what’s up?” As if him being a movie star was as normal as me being a Hill intern. (3/5)
Today, we hit 250,000 subscribers on the @campusreform YouTube channel. We've grown exponentially over the last 5 years and I'm so grateful for all of your support.
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In honor of this milestone, I'm counting down Campus Reform's most viewed videos ever.
1) Our most viewed video of all time is... Trigglypuff.