KEEP HOPE ALIVE with REV. JESSE JACKSON

Co-Host: SANTITA JACKSON

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Sunday, January 13th, 2013

We are commencing the birthday week of Rev. Dr. Martin

Luther King which will, coincidentally, culminate with President

Obama’s second inauguration...

Although this is a great moment for our nation, the newscasts

brim with the latest rounds of the gun debate---which has raged

since the tragedy in Newtown, CT---but, new and even more

incendiary fuel has been added to this fiery discussion...

On Friday, when discussing GUN APPRECIATION DAY,

its Chairman, Larry Ward made an incredible assertion

insisted that GUN APPRECIATION DAY “honors the legacy

of Dr. King”, and continued: “

I think Martin Luther King Jr.,

would agree with me if he were alive today that if

African Americans had been given the right to keep and

bear arms from day one of the country’s founding, perhaps

slavery might not have been a chapter in our history.”

This despite the fact that Dr. King espoused nonviolence---

was murdered by an assassin’s bullet---and whose murder

inspired the Gun Control Act of 1968, the nation’s first

comprehensive federal firearms regulation...And, in spite

of the fact that most armed slave uprisings ended in deaths

of mostly Black people...

It seems that many have mistaken the fantasy enacted in the

popular film DJANGO for historical fact...What do you think?

Would Blacks have broken the yoke of slavery if they had had the

power to bear arms?

Let’s talk..

Atty. Barbara Arnwine

LAWYERS’ COMMITTEE forCIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW

Dr. Obery Hendricks

Biblical scholar and author

of THE POLITICS OF JESUS and

THE UNIVERSE BENDS TOWARDS JUSTICE

Dr. Jonathan Metzl

Director, Vanderbilt University’s

Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, and Professor of

Psychiatry and the author of

THE PROTEST PSYCHOSIS,

which illustrates how schizophrenia moved from being the

disease of White women to that of “angry Black men” who

were activists in the civil rights movement...

Danny Schechter

Emmy-Award Producer,

documentarian and author

Kevin Gray

Former South Carolina ACLU President and

author of THE DECLINE OF BLACK POLITICS

Dr. Max Wolff

Economist/HUFFPOST Blogger