Is the NRA for whites only?
That was the shocking charge made by black activist Al Sharpton at a speech in New York. Sharpton has claimed that the national gun rights organization only defends the Second Amendment rights of white gun owners, but as Sirius XM radio’s David Webb relates in this clip, this spurious belief is grounded in baseless myths.
Webb himself is a card-carrying member of the well-known gun-advocacy organization, and as he tells Fox’s Stuart Varney, claims of prejudice couldn’t be further from the truth.
Sharpton, however, has a long history of race-baiting, beginning with the shameful Tawana Brawley episode in 1987, wherein he presented 15-year-old high-school student Brawley as a young black victim of a horribly degrading attack by three white assailants.
At the time of the incident, New Yorkers were aghast at the viciousness and the callousness of the crime (Brawley claimed to have been raped and smeared with excrement). However, as time went on, the truth emerged — Brawley had been lying through her teeth, but Sharpton never apologized.
As Varney points out, in contrast to the NRA, people like former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani have charged black social justice groups such as Black Lives Matter with divisive racism. That’s because they’re organizations that have events open only to African-Americans, and they advocate strictly for one particular group of people while claiming that equal rights for all citizens are not a priority. Webb uses the example of former President Obama, who got on the division bandwagon with incidents such as the case of mistaken identity Cambridge, Massachusetts police officer James Crowley made with Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates in 2009.
Watch, as Webb informs Fox’s Varney about the facts.