Ja Morant plays basketball in Tennessee, an "open carry" state with lose firearm regulations. But the issue of Black people carrying guns is not one of strict legality. Racism is also the issue.

While what [Morant] did is not illegal in the state of Tennessee, that is not the authority under which this penalty comes. The NBA Players Association collectively bargained to give the league a great deal of latitude to discipline players for conduct “unfavorable” to the league. This is a dog whistle clause that really means the conduct scared the hell out of the predominant white fan base.

This Ja Morant incident should be a salient, timely reminder that the only reason that the NRA even formed in the first place was as a check to the Panthers. Keep arming up. Keep learning your tools. The settlers getting the HOA scared out of them is immaterial to our own liberation; and in this country, power grows out of only one thing.