There's an old joke about a literacy test being given in one of our less racially tolerant states years and years ago. It goes like this " The polling place referees when faced with a black man or woman who wished to vote would tell then that there was a literacy test that was required before anyone could vote. One particular black gentlemen said "I don't mind a literacy test, I can read and write." Then the chief examiner handed him a copy of a Chinese newspaper, the Canton Golden Times, and told him to read it if he was literate.As Straightarrow says, gun owners are the modern-day analogue of those whom Reconstruction-era bigots referred to as "niggers."
The man looked at it, and said, "No problem, I can read that headline quite well." The examiner was stunned. He said "What? You're telling me you can read that?"
"Yessir" said the hopeful voter, " Right here in the headline it says ain't no niggers voting in this state this year."
It's up to us whether we'll emulate Uncle Tom, or Nat Turner.
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