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Originally posted by vcwxvwligen
Blacks are even telling one another not to have guns. I was going to make a thread about it but I didn't for some reason or another.
I was watching a certain TV show that is produced by Tyler Perry. In the show, a grown-ass man is hiding a gun in the closet. The gun is discovered by their grandson who fires it by mistake. Instead of teaching the boy to use the gun correctly, they make a big stink about it, and the man's wife scolds him. The man basically buys gifts to beg her forgiveness, and promises never to have a gun in the house again. The man then tells the woman that he's going to take the gifts back for a refund. It seems as though the show makes a mockery of issues within the Black community, in the sort of "self-hating" style of humor that was first popularized by Richard Pryor. And BTW, Tyler Perry also created the "Madea" character.
Certainly a few ATS members who know about hip-hop remember that the "stop the violence" movement had an anti-gun-ownership component built into it.
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