Why Blacks Tend To Support Gun Control
By: Administrative Account | Source: Larry Pratt - Guest Commentary
November 26, 2003 10:59AM EST

by Larry Pratt


The conversion of Rev. Lee Peterson is a remarkable story.  A black
sharecropper's son, he ended up in Los Angeles.  There, he fell
under the spell of the teachings of the Nation of Islam and other
hate-based doctrines of the Jesse Jackson's of the world.

When Peterson became a Christian, he came under conviction that
hatred had no place in his thinking.  Hatred was simply the tool
used by too many black leaders to convince blacks that their
troubles were somebody else's fault.  Peterson has issued a fearless
call to the black community to set aside hatred, accept
responsibility for their own situation and get to work.

His call begins with a trenchant attack on the self-appointed
leaders whose tactics he labels with the title of his recent book,
Scam.  Included in the list are Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton (the riot
king) and Louis Farakhan (an American Hitler).

These, and other leaders like them, have led the black community
from freedom into dependency on the Democrat Plantation.  There they
have become dependants of the state, their families destroyed,
fathers marginalized and removed from the home, and kids raised by
moms whose "husband" is the plantation manager.

Hatred is the "glue" that has been used by many black leaders --
preachers and politicians alike -- to keep blacks on the plantation.
Peterson cites what Ezola Foster, a black conservative pro-family
leader learned while she was still a Democrat.  Namely, the thug
that founded the Soviet Union, Valdimir Lenin, understood the power
of hatred: "We must hate.  Hatred is the essence of communism."

The black family that is dependent on the Democrat's government
welfare plantation, has become dominated by feminist women who hate
men, Peterson says.  This combination of social pressures has locked
the black community into a liberal political world.  Not
surprisingly, one of the elements of the liberal worldview supported
by many blacks is opposition to self-defense.  Indeed, most black
politicians are gun-bashing anti-Second Amendment zealots.

Dependence on the state for food and shelter includes depending on
the state for protection.  That the state provides none of these
things well has not shaken the firmly held commitment to restricting
firearms.  Regarding the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP), Peterson says this: "These are radical
socialists who have little respect for individual responsibility or
the Second Amendment."

Peterson finds that the self-destructive views of a majority of the
black community are strongly reinforced by the training provided in
government schools.  Peterson warns: "You'd have to be crazy to send
your child to the average public school."

Peterson maintains that the incidence of violence among black youth
is a product, not of poverty, but of the number of single parent
households headed by single moms.  This is not a news flash, since
U.S. Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) told his colleagues in 1999 of this
conclusion found in the Journal of Research in Crime and
Delinquency.  Bayh cited other research that found that kids who
live without contact with their fathers are, in comparison to other
kids, five times more likely to live in poverty and twice as likely
to commit crime.

In other words, guns are not the problem behind black violence.  The
NAACP with its lawsuit against gun manufacturers and dealers is
simply attempting to shift the blame from blacks themselves.  The
problem is made worse by black preachers who "blame whites for their
own failings," Peterson says.  All this has enabled blacks to "take
away the responsibility of looking at themselves" to identify the
source of their troubles.

Peterson practices what he preaches, operating the BOND Home for
Boys, After School Character Building Program, and many other
programs and services that benefit men and their families.  Peterson
takes the message of the gospel to troubled blacks youths and men.
His objective is to transform their lives so that the black
community can be transformed as a result.

I interviewed Peterson on my talk show, Live Fire, which is archived
at http://gunowners.org/radio.htm.  Peterson's latest book is Scam:
How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America.  Among other
places, Peterson's book is available at http://www.bondinfo.org, the
web site of his Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND).

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