Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, "Loaded"

Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz discusses her book Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment at Politics and Prose on 1/5/18.
Guns loom large in nearly every chapter of American history, and in her eye-opening study of the Second Amendment, Dunbar-Ortiz exposes the racist roots of America’s gun culture. Starting with the first European settlers and moving through slavery, Jim Crow, and today’s aggressive policing, Dunbar-Ortiz shows that the main victims of “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms” have been people of color. Author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States and the 1977 indigenous studies classic, The Great Sioux Nation, Dunbar-Ortiz raises important questions about the connection between the country’s staunch resistance to gun control and our seemingly intractable racial issues.
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[@TRACELHENTZ]

Her book also goes into considerable detail about the early formation of slave patrols (in the 1600s). Membership in the slave patrol (to hunt down and capture runaway slaves) was compulsory in many states and the slave patrol was the basis for the KKK and the extreme racist, white nationalist violence that characterizes police culture of US cities.

[@eileenmc4746]

she is expert on history of early and pre-America. this book will be a to go to classic once it catches on just like her great An Indigenous Peoples History of the U.S. book.

[@juliecarlson3868]

This history should be broadcast, widely. Sadly, it never will be!

[@laurelnoel732]

It's so important that we progressives have discussions about this. It certainly didn't occur to me to go dig up 'What did they mean by a well-regulated militia...what was that for?" Her book is required reading !!

[@nickschiff985]

Only convincing explanation of the 2nd Amendment I've heard anywhere. And I've looked.

[@jim5jim5jim5]

You heard what you were looking for. It's called confirmation bias.

[@kylienoelshelley]

lol shareholders i'm dying

[@justgivemethetruth]

I find her argument about the second amendment, being an amendment - and dealing with citizen's individual rights, is arguing for an individual right.