New NRA president wastes no time unveiling racism against newly elected Georgia congresswoman

Yes, the House of Representatives, in which 23 percent of members (as of this last election) are women, and 4 percent are black, is probably best known for its overrepresentation of women and people of color[1]. (The italicized lines are me being gratingly sarcastic through gritted teeth.) The NRA, at this point in our history, represents one thing: weapons sales for a white supremacist economic model and system. That’s it. For every Second Amendment handwringing about President Obama stealing your guns, there’s always stark silence when law-abiding people of color are murdered by police officers. It’s not a coincidence that Philando Castile, shot dead by a police officer in broad daylight as he went to show his very legal permit to carry, isn’t on every poster and at every NRA-sponsored gun rally. Because it’s people like Philando Castile[2] that the NRA and its members are truly afraid of: black people who want to be treated the same as everybody else. The state, in their opinion, is there to protect whites from everyone else, like a 1920s movie cowboy. Meadows is just reminding everyone what this is all about. It’s about making sure that these “minorities” stop acting like the majority in areas where they are, in fact, the majority. Let Rep. McBath explain how and why she is now representing Marietta. xI was just a Marietta mom. I loved my son Jordan more than anything else in this world. After Jordan was murdered  - I realized that nobody was going change our laws for us, so I had to do it myself. pic.twitter.com/aJqAEN7pn1[3]— Lucy McBath (@lucymcbath) May 6, 2019[4] xMy work on gun violence, healthcare, and many other issues is just starting. And yes - as a woman of color I am proud to be part of the most diverse class in American history. My

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