Mumia Abu Jamal: U.S. Obsessed with the Gun | Black Agenda Report

Mumia Abu Jamal: U.S. Obsessed with the Gun

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford

06 Dec 2017

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In an essay for Prison Radio, the nation’s best known political prisoner praised the works of Native American historian Roxanne Ortiz-Dunbar, including her latest book on the roots of the country’s obsession with firearms. “America is a creation of genocide, slavery and mass death,” said Mumia Abu Jamal. “The gun, far more than the Bible, made this so.”

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