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Danny Glover: 2nd Amendment Was Created to Protect Slavery

by College Fix Staff on January 18, 2013

Actor Danny Glover, known for his wacky political statements, has opened his mouth yet again to bash the U.S. Constitution, and gun owners rights. And he even seems to equate gun ownership with racism.

Higher ed watchdog group Campus Reform reports on a talk Glover gave to students this week:

The Constitution’s Second Amendment was created to bolster slavery and capture land from Native Americans, award winning actor Danny Glover told a group of students at a Texas A&M sponsored event on Thursday.

“I don’t know if you know the genesis of the right to bear arms,” he said. “The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans.”

“A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that’s what the genesis of the second amendment is,” he continued.

Glover, best known for roles in the “Lethal Weapon” franchise… was addressing students at an event being held in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Apparently, Danny Glover thinks that if you support 2nd Amendment rights, you are a racist.

It’s truly hypocritical when a guy who makes millions off movies called “Lethal Weapon” tells students he has a problem with legal gun ownership.

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  • Standstrongwoman

    And to think the rest of us just thought it had to do with protecting our homes and country from the Brits for taxation without representation. . . . . . . . What an idiot

  • JC

    Eeything is “rasict” that b racist, this b racist. Guess I am a racist /shrug who cares

  • http://www.facebook.com/kender Kender MacGowan

    many actors should stick to their lines and never go offscript

    • http://www.facebook.com/blake.cash Kb Cash

      He is on script. You think he’s clever enough to make anything up?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1057358927 Gregory Gold

    You can’t fix stupid. Everything the brothas don’t like is racist, that’s how they justify how they be hatin.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bobohack1 Robert Conley

    Typical Hollywood liberal elitist hypocrite; glorifies gun violence in the movies, makes millions and pushes racisim with every opportunity. If he doesn’t like it here he can always go back to Africa.

  • $30330437

    Amazing how n1ggers attempt to turn anything and everything into just another life-crutch for themselves….These worthless animals are worse than infants. The chimps need to be given everything for free just to survive, and even then it’s not enough…

  • http://www.facebook.com/steve.cameron.96 Steve Cameron

    Dear Danny: Silence was invented to keep the stupid from embarrassing themselves, too. Close your yap and learn something.

  • popseal

    Some comments that come out of Hollywood are so ignorant or twisted, they deserve no response, except to say they deserve no response.

  • Robert

    Danny Glover is a Hollywood has been goof. What I do know is that the first amendment was created to protect idiots like him.

  • Jack in Ga

    If Danny Glover really does think that racism is rampant in America then why wouldn’t he want blacks to be able to protect themselves with a firearm from these racists? If what he’s saying is true then I would want a firearm if I was black.

  • bblaroux

    Danny… give it up, your baseless and mindless babbling make you look like a bigger idiot than you are.

  • ipgrunt

    The idea Glover mentioned is that James Madison wrote the 2nd Amendment to appease southern states for political purposes. It is an obscure theory promoted by Professor Carl T. Bogus of the Roger Williams University School of Law (Bristol, RI) in his 2001 book The Second Amendment in Law and History: Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms. Glover is parroting these same “Bogus” ideas that have circulated through liberal circles for a decade. No doubt we’ll here more of them in the coming months.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Chapman/583402683 Bill Chapman

      Yes, it’s interesting historically ignorant propaganda. The Founders knew perfectly well that there was no way in the world they could eradicate slavery at the Founding – yet they planted an obvious seed in the very concept of “all Men are created equal” (from the Declaration) and the fact that nowhere in the text do any Amendments of the Bill of Rights refer to people other than simply as “people” – never implying anything less than equality. The Founders were prescient. In fact, no country did anything to stop the widespread practice of slavery until the Brits and the Americans did. Americans of all colors deserve CREDIT for realizing the profound evil in slavery, and for stopping it. Yet in the Civil Rights Act of 1991 Congress passed the “disparate impact” abomination, moving us back from the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of Equal Protection before the law. We must go back to go forward.

      • ipgrunt

        Yes Bill, I agree completely about the Founding Father’s intent. Although I am no constitutional scholar, I understand that this one phrase caused a great deal of attention around the time of the framing of the Constitution. Abraham Lincoln echoed this sentiment in his famous address:

        “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

        I’ve read that Jefferson may have been influenced by Thomas Paine, who in Common Sense wrote these lines:

        “All men are by nature equally free and independent. Such equality is necessary in order to create a free government.”

        Sadly, with “equal opportunity,” “affirmative action,” “the doctrine of disparate impact,” as you’ve already mentioned, along with a blatant disregard of and contempt for the Constitution that has occurred in all three branches of our national government for as long as I can remember — the 1950′s “Red scare,” the 1960′s “war on drugs,” the 2000′s “war on terrorism,” and now, “the war on rifled firearms,” to name a few, our Constitution is being disfigured to protect the powerful instead the weak, as intended. To paraphrase George Orwell, it seems that some citizens are more free than others through these actions.

        The best that I can say in our defense is that we’ve forgotten our heritage and history, but as we continue to ignore the principles of our Constitution, to make more citizens less-equal than others, we’re going to witness continued violence, acted-out in frustration by those who feel less-equal, followed by more knee-jerk reactions by those citizens who either are or wannabe more-equal, to limit more of our essential freedoms that are guaranteed under our Constitution.

  • Christus Victor

    Ironically, one of the first big gun control initiatives in the country was tied to the “Black Codes” in the South. You see, the KKK didn’t like that freed slaves could buy guns to defend themselves from lynching and mob violence. And what did they tell the Northern intellectuals? That blacks were “ignorant savages” who couldn’t be trusted with weapons. Sound familiar?

    Time can cure some evils, but they often only metastize into other threats, and some problems will always be with us despite our very best efforts. Racial oppression has mostly wound down these days, with so many of our black brothers joining in the American bounty. But now that same liberalism that did so much good alongside our own Republican conservatism in ending segregation has turned to its own peculiar form of oppression. Gun control, of course, like the Hydra, lives on ever stronger to enable it. And against it, against the tide of history and statism and “progress,” stand we, keeping the patriot’s eternal vigil, our hands on the Westward reins, our arms about our rifles, our faces to the star spangled sky.