Black Americans are buying more guns while navigating ‘landmines of white supremacy and racism’

March 23, 2021

Sharon Spivey-Oliver, a 54-year-old Black woman, felt vulnerable while closing up her business in the suburbs to head home in Detroit. Her guard was raised more often with the presidential election approaching.

Spivey-Oliver didn’t want to be “easy bait” for a would-be mugger or someone who saw her Black skin as a target. She and her husband had never owned guns before, but it felt more dangerous to live and work in 2020. They decided to purchase handguns and obtain concealed pistol licenses.

Less than a year later, Spivey-Oliver urgently called her daughter when a violent mob broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Spivey-Oliver worried that her daughter, who works for the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., would be preyed on by white supremacists.

https://www.mlive.com/politics/2021/03/black-americans-are-buying-more-guns-while-navigating-landmines-of-white-supremacy-and-racism.html