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If you ever wondered why MLK Day is necessary…

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Allow a white supremacist to enlighten you:

Some of the Nationalist supporters were armed despite a call from Barrett to leave guns behind.

Acting LaSalle Parish Sheriff Scott Franklin told a father and son from Tioga, about 30 miles from Jena, to put away two shotguns. Franklin allowed them to continue to wear holstered sidearms, but Jena Police Chief Paul Smith told David Dupre Jr. and his father that they would have to put away all weapons during the march, under Louisiana law.

”I’m here to protest black-on-white crime,” David Dupre Sr., 53, told reporters.

His 31-year-old son, at times using racial slurs, said: ”It’s time for us white folks to start getting some of our rights back.”

Won’t anyone think of the white people?

UPDATE: Um, I hope people realize this is snark. The fact that white people are allowed to carry firearms at a white supremacist protest on MLK Day speaks loud and clear about the fact that we are hardly living in a post-racial society or that white people have no rights, as some claim.

8 thoughts on If you ever wondered why MLK Day is necessary…

  1. His 31-year-old son, at times using racial slurs, said: ”It’s time for us white folks to start getting some of our rights back.”

    Which rights is he talking about, exactly? I’m white and I don’t recall having any rights taken away from me at all, and especially none that were then given to POC that I wasn’t also still allowed to have. Unless he means the right to beat the crap out of someone or otherwise terrorize them, or maybe keep them from having a job or healthcare or put in jail for a long time for being in the wrong neighborhood at the wrong time, or even for just existing, just because they happen to be some darker shade of brown than him? Because obviously the bastard can still do that, he just needs to be a little more discreet about it these days, is all.

    I swear, sometimes I think people like that guy need to be shipped off to some deserted island so the rest of us don’t have to deal with the whiny, entitled shit they spew.

  2. Won’t someone please think of the white men? They’re so abused.

    Don’t worry, though. We just had to wait for Lyndon Johnson to pass the civil rights legislation and then all the white people just made nice. I guess someone forgot to tell them down in Jena.

  3. i guess what continually surprises me is how people hold on to these kinds of strong racist beliefs to this day. my mother, for example; she plugs herself as being liberal and all, but when the topic comes up will always get on her “equal rights for whites” bandwagon. the depths to which these -isms get entrenched is frightening.

  4. The KKK had a rally on the town square yesterday. I wish I was lying about this, but I’m not. For as long as we have been living in this area (nearly 30 years) the Klan has not only had a strong presence (cross burnings, passing out flyers at the schools) but they have generally had a rally or march on or around MLK day.

    (I live in north central Texas, 100 or so miles from Dallas/Ft. Worth.)

  7. Sometimes I’m utterly ashamed to be white. Because honestly, I must belong to the stupidest race there ever was.

    Ya know what scares me more then anything else? White. Males. I think I’m white male-phobic. Why? because ask anyone in criminal justice, they commit 95% of the violent crimes.

    Maybe it’s time we started treating them based off of that (very true) stereotype.

  8. okay..the bottom line is that white people are definatley not on top anymore than we used to be. So for the old whites its hard to understand or get used to it.
    Its interesting how white men seem to think that they have to express their manly features to their little sons. And how their “manly” values are pushed upon their sons. “You hit like a girl” “Don’t use lotion that’s for girls” … Its interesting that their wives allow it. Or may not even notice. I can’t stand that men all over are so much the same in that matter.
    As a lesbian i hate that i almost have to act or approach people like i am the male in the relationship. WHY in a homosexual relat. does there have to be a dude in it? I’m always asked, who’s the man in the relationship? WHAT is that supposed to mean? -Who is stronger -Who drinks and doesnt do the dishes -Who makes more money…Men have this ingnorant tendancy. I’m frequently disgusted by it.

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