The Second Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B093QG4MBR | 2021 | 6 hours and 30 minutes |MP3|M4B | 356 MB
From the New York Times best-selling author, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment - and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception. In The Second, historian and award-winning author Carol Anderson powerfully illuminates the history and impact of the Second Amendment, how it was designed and how it has consistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable. The Second is neither a 'pro-gun' nor an 'anti-gun' book; the lens is the citizenship rights and human rights of African Americans. From the 17th century, when it was encoded into law that the enslaved could not own, carry or use a firearm whatsoever, until today, with measures to expand and curtail gun ownership aimed disproportionately at the African-American population, the right to bear arms has been consistently used as a weapon to keep African Americans powerless - revealing that armed or unarmed, Blackness, it would seem, is the threat that must be neutralized and punished.