Prometheus 6

I haven't listened to the piece in its entirety, but I probably will later. A couple of things jumped out at me within the first 5 minutes which is why I'm commenting now.

I just read a reader's response on the Portside listserve that basically explained the disconnect between gun-control advocates and white blue-collar gun-control opponents. The explanation is basically that the evidence doesn't cut one way or the other, and that the left's outcry at the recent SC decision is as disturbing to gun-owners as the Iran saber-rattling is to progressives. Immediately, that made sense to me. I'm still, though, disturbed by the SC's so cavelierly turning over DC's popular sentiment - the very act of "judicial activism" conservatives decry. And I certainly disagree with their interpretation of the 2nd amendment. That said, Kilpatrick is correct in her measured response. DC still has options that don't amount to guns for tots.

The other thing that jumped out at me was the fact that there're just 43 members of the CBC. So, African Americans have about 10% representation even though we make up about 13% of the general population? That sounds about right to me - this is still the US of KKK-A, after all. I guess I've never considered that these 43 members come from just 21 states. Just 21? So the other 29 have absolutely no black representation on the federal level of govt? Okay. How do racism-deniers make sense of that stat? 29 states? Sure, these are mostly the Utahs and Montanas where there're isn't a large black population. But 29?