ACLU tweet on Second Amendment and Bill of Rights is radical leftist propaganda – Washington Examiner

It's been years since the American Civil Liberties Union could convince anyone that it is not a left-wing organization, but a recent tweet from the organization shows just how radically leftward the group is heading.

Gone are the days of the ACLU in Skokie, Illinois, only to be replaced by the contemporary iteration influenced by radical leftist thought adhering to core tenets of critical race theory. While some may say such a classification is hyperbole, there is little other explanation after the groups recent tweet stating: Racism is foundational to the Second Amendment and its inclusion in the Bill of Rights.

The tweet links to an article and podcast discussion that advances the inflammatory rhetoric that black people are precluded from the Second Amendment and subjected to unjust and discriminatory practices of our countrys gun laws. Such fallacies are regurgitated leftist tropes designed to advance the notion that black people do not have the same rights as everyone else. While no one would ever argue that that was the case in the past, that is certainly not the case in the present. Moreover, as leftist organizations frequently do, it distorts the truth from reality to generate fear and hate.

Despite what many leftists would have American society believe, there actually were free black Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries. And, yes, these free black people were entitled to the same rights as every American at the time some of whom were even slave owners in the country. And contrary to the illusion that the ACLU tweet and subsequent article would have everyone believe, these free black people enjoyed the right to keep and bear arms.

Research from 1991 published in the Georgetown Law Journal reveals that as early as the beginning of the 18th century, free black people were allowed to own firearms a direct refutation of the claim the ACLU is making. Colonies such as Virginia, Massachusetts, and South Carolina permitted free black people to own firearms.

Additionally, after the Constitution was ratified, there does not appear to be any federal legislation that restricted free black people from owning firearms as a result of their race. There are historical records that show the 19th-century equivalent of the good guy with a gun narrative in which black people used firearms to fend off racist white mobs that were looking to do harm to their communities.

Granted, this is not to discount any of the racism that black people endured or to suggest their rights were not curtailed in American society. Unfortunately, as we all know, that is not true. And there were state laws enacted that restricted gun ownership for black people that many white citizens were not subjected to. So there are legitimate grounds to say that the government did not do enough for black people to ensure their Second Amendment rights were not violated. However, that is a very different argument from claiming that the Second Amendment and Bill of Rights were the results of white supremacist racism. That is unequivocally false.

No one is ever going to suggest that the United States could have and should have done more to ensure that people of all ethnic and racial backgrounds were treated equally. However, what is often the case is the actual history is convoluted to present one side of an argument while ignoring the plights of others, solely for political purposes. This tweet by the ACLU is indicative of the toxic propaganda that encompasses our countrys political rhetoric today, and as is usually the case, it is composed of half-truths and inconsistencies that do more damage than good.

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