"Vanderdough the race baiting whigger.": An intellectual discussion of race over at KABA

My reply to the Reverend of Detroit's First Church of Gungrabbing (see below), has elicited the usual well-reasoned responses over at Keep and Bear Arms.

An example,

Comment by: Ø (1/1/2009)
More bilge from Vanderdough the race baiting whigger.

And another:

Comment by: mfs@alltel.net (1/2/2009)
What the h*** does this rant have to do with the NON-WHITE elected regime's plan to disarm WHITE VICTIMS OF CRIME?

The first anti-gun laws in America were enacted by the criminal Radical Republican regimes imposed at bayonet point in the South during Reconstruction...forbade former Confederates from possessing arms. Southerners were forced to take extreme measures to protect their families from criminals encouraged by the local "Loyal Leagues."

As for those who hate "haters," the SPLC wants you!


Now I shouldn't waste time responding to such elegant displays of intellect and logic, but there are many, many more folks who use KABA as their go-to summary of firearms rights news. They far outnumber the racists and antisemites who so prolifically post there. It is to them, rather than the dim-witted racial and religious tribalists, that I direct my responses. To wit,

Comment by: GeorgeMason1776@aol.com (1/2/2009)
"What the h*** does this rant have to do with the NON-WHITE elected regime's plan to disarm WHITE VICTIMS OF CRIME?"

To characterize the Obama administration as a "non-white regime" is a demonstrable falsehood. The problems with the degradation of liberty and law in this country are first and foremost those of a colorless collectivism which uses the races as pawns against each other. Portraying yourself as a "victim of crime" may make you feel sorry for yourself but is unlikely to sway others. I am not a victim, I am a citizen. An armed citizen. I have the means of both my personal defense and my liberty in my hands. I also have the head to know the difference between a pawn and an enemy.

Those who don't are themselves pawns.

"The first anti-gun laws in America were enacted by the criminal Radical Republican regimes imposed at bayonet point in the South during Reconstruction."

Again, a demonstrable falsehood. The first gun laws in this country were aimed at slaves and free blacks. This is incontrovertible. See Clayton Cramer's The Racist Roots of Gun Control, et al.

You remind me of the poor white sharecroppers (from whom on my mother's side I am descended) who allowed themselves to be manipulated by the former plantation owners into not only competing against their own self-interest with black sharecroppers, thus driving down the wages of all, but to be used as a blunt instrument against poor blacks when the landowner wanted to make a point.

One of the early memories I have of my Reynolds kin was somebody saying, "Well, we may be poor, but at least we ain't black." As if that meant anything. Did it put more food in their mouths? Help send their kids to college?

It was such a tried and true tactic that northern industrial owners used it for hundreds of years. Your Germans on strike? Bring in some Irishmen as strikebreakers. The Irish then go on strike? Bring in some Italians and Slavs. Got trouble building a railroad because the Irish want too much money? Bring in Chinese.

And all the time, exploit these divisions against them for your benefit. Only a moron, knowing these facts, would continue to allow himself to be manipulated.

Racists of all colors have always been tools in somebody else's hands, more often in those of a bloody collectivist than an unscrupulous capitalist. You remind me of Blazing Saddles, "Mongo just pawn in game of life."

At least Mongo had the sense to know he was being used. Racial tribalism -- black or white -- is still collectivism.

Ask yourself, "who do I serve?" If you don't serve a Higher Power -- Who is certainly more interested in the content of our character than the color of our skin -- at least have the sense to serve your own selfish interests.

If the right to KABA really interests you, you won't blow off any potential allies in that fight. Unless of course you want us all to lose. Again, who do you serve?