{"id":1523784,"date":"2022-06-20T09:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T13:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1523784"},"modified":"2022-06-20T09:34:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T13:34:29","slug":"push-to-ban-assault-rifles-like-fight-to-end-slavery-crt-backer-ibram-x-kendi-tells-cbs-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/push-to-ban-assault-rifles-like-fight-to-end-slavery-crt-backer-ibram-x-kendi-tells-cbs-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Push To Ban \u2018Assault Rifles\u2019 Like Fight To End Slavery, CRT Backer Ibram X. Kendi Tells CBS News"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpush-to-ban-assault-rifles-like-fight-to-end-slavery-crt-backer-ibram-x-kendi-tells-cbs-news%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1523784&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The ongoing effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/second-amendment\">ban so-called assault weapons<\/a> is similar to America\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/civil-war\">bloody fight to end slavery<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/cbs-news\">CBS<\/a> contributor and chief proponent of Critical Race Theory (CRT) said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In a segment commemorating Juneteenth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ibram-x-kendi\">Ibram X. Kendi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/mark-finkelstein\/2022\/06\/19\/cbss-kendi-gun-rights-advocates-are-people-who-fought-slavery?utm_source=SocialDog\">told<\/a> \u201cFace the Nation\u201d host Margaret Brennan he teaches his young daughter that the struggle for emancipation continues today. Kendi, the network\u2019s \u201cRacial Justice Contributor,\u201d said \u201cfreedom\u201d today means liberation from poverty and guns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m actually going to teach her that \u2026 throughout this nation\u2019s history,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>there\u2019s [sic] been two perspectives on freedom, really two fights for freedom,\u201d Kendi said. \u201cEnslaved people were fighting for freedom from slavery, and enslavers were fighting for the freedom to enslave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd in many ways\u00a0that sort of contrast still exists today,\u201d he continued. \u201cThere are people who are fighting for freedom from assault rifles, freedom from poverty, freedom from exploitation.\u00a0And there are others who are fighting for\u00a0freedom to exploit,\u00a0freedom to have guns, freedom to maintain inequality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Do you support the Second Amendment freedom to keep and bear arms? If so, you are akin to people who fought for the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1eCnfPnwhD\">https:\/\/t.co\/1eCnfPnwhD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sophie Nouveau (@sophienouveau_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sophienouveau_\/status\/1538687764807438337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kendi, the author of controversial books including \u201cHow to Be an Antiracist,\u201d believes America is plagued by systemic racism and white privilege. He argues that whites must acknowledge their privilege and implicit bias, as well as America\u2019s systemic racism, to oppose racism.<\/p>\n<p>Kendi said he is raising his daughter to believe the effort to purge America of racism is like the fight to end slavery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really want to get her to understand there are multiple kinds of freedom, and she should be fighting for and joining with those who are fighting for freedom from something like slavery,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd the way kids can understand it is, kids understand bad rules. My daughter understands what\u2019s not fair. And we can teach children that there\u2019s [sic] bad rules in society. There are things that are not fair in society. And that\u2019s why, let\u2019s say black people, have less. It\u2019s not because they are<em>\u00a0<\/em>less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gun control has been thrust back into the spotlight following mass shootings last month in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/buffalo-mass-shooting-suspect-had-been-flagged-as-troubled-a-year-ago-report\">Buffalo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/uvalde\">Uvalde, Texas<\/a>. While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2022\/02\/03\/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s\/\">most firearms killings<\/a> in the U.S. involve handguns, both mass shootings from last month\u2019s attacks used AR-15-style weapons. They are often referred to as \u201cassault weapons,\u201d but that term is not used by the industry, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-democrat-floats-1000-tax-on-ar-15-style-rifles\">lawmakers have struggled to define<\/a> what it means in order to draft legislation.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/support-for-banning-semi-automatic-long-guns-hits-all-time-low-left-of-center-poll\">recent poll<\/a> by Quinnipiac University found that support for banning semi-automatic long guns was at an all-time low and that Americans do not support limiting the number of guns someone can own. It also concluded that Americans do not expect Congress to do anything on gun control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn today\u2019s poll, 50 percent of registered voters support a nationwide ban on the sale of assault weapons, while 45 percent oppose it,\u201d the poll <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/poll-release?releaseid=3848\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing effort to ban so-called assault weapons is similar to America\u2019s bloody fight to end slavery, a CBS contributor and chief proponent of Critical Race Theory (CRT) said Sunday. In a segment commemorating Juneteenth, Ibram X. Kendi told \u201cFace the Nation\u201d host Margaret Brennan he teaches his young daughter that the struggle for emancipation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1523792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1523792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}