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“In a direct response to African Americans patrolling Oakland, California, and “copwatching,” Republicans in California passed the Mulford Act, which banned open carry of loaded firearms in California. Who signed that law? Republican patron saint and then governor of California Ronald Reagan. The absolutist interpretation of the Second Amendment is new, but using gun rights or gun control, as necessary, to maintain racial dominance is old.”
― Elie Mystal, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution

“business”
― Rachel Maddow, Blowout

“The supposed rights of the unborn hold no moral suasion in a society that is willing to consign children who are born alive to poverty, malnutrition, and toxic air and water.”
― Elie Mystal, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution

“There is not enough distance between tragedies for my sadness to mature into anything else but another new monument obscuring the last new monument.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance