Author and academic CaroL Anderson says the fight over gun control in Tennessee and the expulsion of two Black Democratic lawmakers from the state Legislature are connected to "the inherent, fundamental fear of Black people" that drives much of U.S. gun culture and politics
“The problem we have in the United States is that we use these myths as a way to diminish the humanity and the citizenship of large sectors of our population."
"The foundation of the second amendment is the fear of blackness, the fear of black people, defining African Americans as criminal, as a threat, as dangerous, as violent, and that the white community has to be protected.”