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Yup +10000. Racial segregation leads to disunity and weakness. We need to build trust and friendships.I abhor segregation and segregated gun clubs shouldn't exist. I don't want to see African-American clubs any more than I want to see White-American clubs (and there would be a Civil Rights suit and shut-down if anyone tried to create a Whites only club at this point in time). There are tons of minorities (Black, Asians, etc.) as members at Braintree R&P and I've never seen anyone treated any differently than anyone else . . . I like it that way.
true, kinda like going into a locals neighborhood bar and all eyes fall with suspicion on you.Gun clubs, by and large, do not have a welcoming facade. Drive by your (or someone else's) club, and look at it with the eyes of a Non.
never knew they had 'em, honestly. and, as i watched the video, i was thinking in all the years i have been shooting i've never, ever seen a person of color at any of the gun clubs i belonged to. not just in massachusetts but colorado and new hampshire. not saying we didn't have minority members, i'm sure we did. in my younger years i traveled around the country shooting trap, ihmsa and ipsc and never seen even one at an event. the only exception was at major trap shoots like the grand, zone shoots and some larger state shoots there were 5 older black dudes from west palm beach that would show up and compete, always shot as a squad.
And hatred towards each other, by and large manufactured by TPTB to maintain an gain more control and power. And steal our money.Yup +10000. Racial segregation leads to disunity and weakness. We need to build trust and friendships.
I bet she has strong toes.Yea, Samantha is not guilty.
After forty years in Connecticut and two years down here in Georgia - I think that people in the NorthEast are far more race conscious than people in the South.
Just look at the way that black conservatives are treated in the media as "race traitors" or "uncle toms". If you are going to think differently than the hive mind, you'd better be thick skinned or learn to keep it on the down low.
I must be following a different thread, because I don't know what you're talking aboutI’m hearing a lotta white guilt coming out in this here thread . . .
Dat's Raciss!
Gun owners are very tolerant, open, un-f***-giving-about-color as any group I've met. Why wouldn't black folks be welcome at ANY gun club?
I consider Donna Major a respected friend. She's a member of BR&P as well. A little correction . . . she was running an urban chapter of SAS with the blessing of the MA chapter leader (Lynne Roberts). So for years there were two opportunities in MA for women to go to SAS events monthly. I haven't seen her in a while so I don't know if she is or isn't running the group at BGRA anymore after the national group folded their tent.I was going to post, but LFF beat me to it, that BGRA in Boston is a very diverse club. Donna Major aka kimmie1911 (of Comm2A, USPSA, and JPFO fame) teaches there. It was the home of the Boston Urban Action Shooters BUAS for many years and was the home of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Second Amendment Sisters until the national group disbanded and the MA chapter moved to Braintree Rifle & Pistol Club to have greater access to a variety of facilities.
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