Mark Small

The Republican Party held values that emphasized racial equality and justice. President Lincoln sought to keep the country together despite the wickedness that had been built into our nation’s structure in The Constitution. 2/13

Other Republican candidates brag about their high ratings w/the NRA & their devotion to The 2nd Amendment. Are any of my opponents familiar with a group that sought to protect members of its community via The 2nd Amendment? 3/13

Mid-1960s: African-Americans in Oakland CA feared the (mostly white) police. Young black males especially were being killed. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale decided to use the 2nd Amendment. They bought copies of a book for 25 cents and sold them for $1. 4/13

The book: “Quotations from Chairman Mao.” The market: the U Cal-Berkeley campus. They used the profits to purchase shotguns. They formed the Black Panther Self-defense Party to act as a force for protection of their community. 5/13

Newton & a lot of the other members of the Black Panther Self-defense Party were gunned down. The NRA seemed strangely silent. Today people riot because of actions of violence committed by white law enforcement against African-Americans. 6/13

Will NRA advocate African-American citizens be armed with assault weapons to defend themselves & their community? Will my opponents in the GOP primary advocate African-Americans rely upon those candidates’ precious 2nd Amendment? 7/13

It’s abhorrent the occupant of the Oval Office was gleeful as he rhymed “looting” & “shooting.” Shooting our own citizens is not what the overwhelming majority of people of the 5th district believe should be a cause for joy. 8/13

Under this horrible president we are about to abandon the ideals that I always thought were the source of any claim we might have to greatness. We are on the brink of doing things for which we and future generations will be ashamed. 9/13