Thread by @FordFischer

BIG VIDEO THREAD: Black self-defense groups gathered in Natchez, Mississippi on Sunday to commemorate Juneteenth with an armed "Gathering of the Great Armies" march.

"Arm yourself, or harm yourself!"

"I love you Black kings!" they chanted. "And I love you Black queens!"

"We're not gonna say 'Hands up, don't shoot!' We gonna let you know, you shoot at us, we're shooting back if need be," explained a speaker during the Black Second Amendment march in Mississippi on Sunday.

"Guns up!" they chanted. "Shoot back!"

They celebrated @BabuOmowale, General/Founder of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club.

"I wouldn't be out here with this AR-15," if not for Omowale, said Malik Zulu Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party.

"We love you Babu!" chanted the group with their fists in the air.

"Black power!"

Malik Shabazz of NBPP told marchers how he envisions their kids thinking: "My daddy, on this father's day, I wanna know that my daddy was not a punk."

"I wanna know my daddy was not a switching homosexual."

"I wanna say that my daddy was militant."

"We know that as they take Critical Race Theory out of the curriculum, we know what they're trying to do to our people," one marcher said through a megaphone.

"See, we gotta teach our kids now!"

He advocated writing books and using social media to spread the message.

After the march, Malik Zulu Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party led the several Black defense groups from around the country in signing documents including a "Declaration of the Regulated United Black Militia" to forge an alliance under one umbrella of ideology and objectives.

Ahead of signing the "Declaration of the Regulated United Black Militia" and a giant ballot with 5 questions, Shabazz led the groups in voting on ideology.

They agreed on wanting reparations, a Black nation, freeing political prisoners, and a willingness to "stand and fight."

Here is my full @N2Sreports footage of the Gathering of the Great Armies" march in Natchez, Mississippi on #juneteenth2022.

As always, all footage is available to license.

And here is my @N2Sreports video of the groups voting on their shared principles and signing the "Declaration of the Regulated United Black Militia" in Natchez.

As always, all footage available to license.