Conversation is accurate. My background in this is, there are two influences, i suppose. So i grew up in rural gun culture which was black gun culture. So everyone that i knew, all of the, you know, the good people of the community, my grandfather and father were both ministers, both owned guns and so did everybody else in the community really unapologetically. And when i got to law school, i found that there was a quite different impression about something that i took as being sort of one of the clear, fundamental rights and importance of practical resources even before i could articulate something about fundamental rights. So there was this tension that operated in the way that i was sort of dealing with what i knew in my bones versus what i heard in law school and then the kind of cultural response to firearms issues that i got in lots of the venues that i was operating in after law school. So certainly at harvard the sense in the early 80s when i was there was, oh, well, that Secon
Tradition of warm us. So i look forward to really getting into those three areas with you, love for a was interested in hearing from you a little bit about your background and how you have gotten into this topic, how did you arrive at this topic. Happy to be here. I think your sense about the way the book encounters occurred conversation is accurate. My background and this is there are two influences. I grew up in rural gun culture, which was black and culture. So everyone that i knew, all of the, you know, good people of the community, my grandfather and father were both ministers, both those guns. So did everybody else in the community. Really unapologetically. When i got to law school ill bet that there was a quite different impression of about something that i took as being sort of one of the clear fundamental rights. Before i could articulate something about the fundamental rights. There was this tension in the way that i was dealing with what i knew verses what i heard in law sch
Was a very unique approach to a very desperate situation and he was left hanging out to dry. And he was able to hold off an army that outnumbered his probably 100 to one if not 100,000 to one. For more information on both tvs visit from china to tennessee and the many other cities visited by her content vehicles, go to cspan. Org local content. Up next on booktv, after words with the former Senior Researcher of columbia university. Nicholas johnson in his book negroes and the gun the black tradition of arms. In it, the Law School Professor discusses the tradition of African Americans using firearms to defend their families and communities. A tradition that dates back to reconstruction. He argues that the nonviolence of the civil rights help to bury this fact of black history. This program is about one hour. So this strikes me as an important intervention in three ways. One of the black Freedom Movement and over the years has been increasingly revising the way that we understand the rol
Up next on booktv, after words. Former Senior Researcher of colombia diversities malcolm x. Project. Nicholas johnson and his book will be featured. In at the Law School Professor discusses the tradition of africanamericans using firearms to defend their communities. It dates back to reconstruction. The nonviolence help to bury this fact of black history, he argues. This program is about one hour. Host negroes and the gun the black tradition of arms strikes me as an important intervention in three ways. One that is story of the black freedom movement. And the increasingly new work that revises the way that we understand the role of violence related to the kind of predominant narrative of nonviolence. The other intervention is cultural in terms of who we see or who we think of when we think of gun owners and also how we think about black resistance. Finally there is a Public Policy implication as well for the presentation of the black traditions of arms. So i look forward to really gett
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