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US law has long seen people of African descent as fugitives

9 mins | May 28, 2017
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"Given the peculiar history of racial oppression in the US, the fear of the armed black man is almost reflexive." Manisha Sinha writing in Aeon magazine tells us how US law has long seen people of African descent as fugitives. Even in the passing of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution – the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

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