I don't know if for Brando or Carson, the people with guns are Black Americans. As I write this article, I'm clicking to follow the pro-Trump insurrection of predominantly white Americans in Washington D. C. Many have guns. They believe in the Second Amendment, if nothing else. They believe they have witnessed a fraudulent presidential election of 2020. Trump is cheering them on in his last days as president. Rioters, a mixed mob including, Proud Boys, Qanon, Oath Keepers, and MEGA supporters, climbing the walls of the Capitol Building, have pushed pass law enforcement and have reached the grounds of the Pavilion. There's video! Americans watch other Americans breaching security, walking onto the National Statuary Hall, and walking themselves into the offices of the House of Representatives and onto the Senate floor.
Votes were stolen from them! A victory snatched away!
And why? Too many Black and people of color organized and voted!
Disenfranchisement of Blacks and people of color is the goal, even if the rioters never utter the word. I have heard a number of media commentators ask, what if these rioters were Mexican immigrants? Or Black Lives Matter activists calling for justice, as many did, rightly protesting after the murders of Arbery or Taylor or Floyd?
Those with guns, white Americans, will be okay, as they take over the Capitol. Those with guns who shot Jacob Blake, a white American, will be okay, as the justice system refuses to charge Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey of paralyzing a man he shot seven times in the back.
According to Rep. Linda Sanchez (D), California, she heard shots fired within the Capitol by the rioters"
"We have one shot in the barrel," Brando stated. "Time is running out." Brando mentions the need to pass laws that would take time to come to fruition. In the meantime, Brando received commitments from prominent celebrities to contribute to SCLC. But even that's not enough, he stated.
We have to ask ourselves, what is it when white Americans "beat" against Black people? "All of us have to find out, what is that? Why do we feel that way?
Most "racists," Brando explains, and "I don't mean Wallace" or someone like that, but ordinary white Americans, don't know they are racists.
Whatever that it, we have to "root" it out!
I think Dr. Martin L. King would cheer Brando's observations. Now, over fifty years later, after the Kenosha Attorney General ruling, after the January 6 th , white-mob insurrection, how many Americans recognize the American problem is anti-blackness?
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