{"id":2124,"date":"2013-07-23T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/07\/23\/the-la-time-discovers-mr-colion-noir\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:22:33","slug":"the-la-time-discovers-mr-colion-noir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2124","title":{"rendered":"The LA Time Discovers Mr. Colion Noir"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13039,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.latimes.com\\\/news\\\/nationworld\\\/nation\\\/la-na-black-guns-nra-20130723-dto,0,3571136.htmlstory&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.latimes.com\\\/news\\\/nationworld\\\/nation\\\/la-na-black-guns-nra-20130723-dto,0,3571136.htmlstory&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-black-guns-nra-20130723-dto,0,3571136.htmlstory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Los Angeles Times has an article up today about Mr. Colion Noir<\/a>. They call him an &#8220;Internet sensation&#8221; whose popularity is growing. The article is actually informative about Colion Noir and seems rather fair. As to the comments, not so much.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve watched a number of his YouTube videos and am very happy that the National Rifle Association realized the potential in having him as a commentator (along with Natalie Foster and Dom Raso). Adding commentators like Colion Noir punches holes in the perception that the NRA is only for aging and overweight Caucasian males.<\/p>\n<p>I think what is really going to infuriate the gun prohibitionists is that not only is Mr. Colion Noir black (well, duh!) but he is a practicing attorney in Houston with degrees from the University of Houston and Texas Southern&#8217;s law school. In other words, he&#8217;s not just some hip actor reading lines provided to him by the NRA.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Noir is a practicing attorney. He reads fashion blogs, loves gadgets and drives a sports car and a truck \u2014 neither with a gun rack, although he keeps a metal candy dish full of bullets in his living room.<\/p>\n<p>Noir said he grew up hesitant to admit he liked firearms because it wasn&#8217;t something people talked about in his middle-class neighborhood. He fired his first gun, a little Taurus .40, about seven years ago at the urging of a friend who took him to a shooting range.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember how exhilarating it was,&#8221; Noir said, comparing the experience to sky diving.<\/p>\n<p>Soon afterward, he was going to the range weekly and researching guns. He later joined the NRA and bought about a half dozen guns. Noir, who once worked at A\/X Armani Exchange and favors tailored suits, worries that a concealed handgun might &#8220;print,&#8221; or show through the fabric.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Secret Service have the worst cut suits \u2014 big and bulky,&#8221; so their guns won&#8217;t show, Noir said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;Colion Noir has attracted detractors among some in the African-American community who consider him a &#8220;sell-out&#8221; and other worse epithets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Now some in the black community have denounced Noir for what they say is selling out to the white pro-gun establishment, with critiques posted on theroot.com and the Black Entertainment Television website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s taking more heat from black people than anybody. The racism that exists now is mostly on our side,&#8221; said the Rev. Kenn Blanchard, 50, a gun rights activist who is black. He said he advised Noir to accept the NRA deal.<\/p>\n<p>Noir said he expected attacks, but he gets frustrated when critics highlight his race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Calling me an Uncle Tom simply because I&#8217;m into firearms, it doesn&#8217;t even make sense. My entire identity as a black guy is based on my ownership of guns? Really?&#8221; he said. &#8220;Some of the most influential black individuals have advocated for the use of firearms, so how come when I do it, I&#8217;m vilified? Take a look at the Black Panthers, MLK, Malcolm X.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. supported gun rights? Noir noted that after King&#8217;s home in Montgomery, Ala., was firebombed, King applied for a handgun permit.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While most of the comments to this article are supportive of both gun rights and Mr. Colion Noir, there are some detractors who are appalled that a man of color would not only like shooting but that he would be a member of the NRA. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<br \/>\n<i><b>From &#8220;NoBeggrsPlz&#8221;<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p>As a lawyer you could be a role model for the African-American community and work to reduce the amount of black-black violence and deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Or is indulging and glamorizing your own fetish with guns more important to you?<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s the glamourizaton of guns working out for the African-American community?<\/p>\n<p><b>From &#8220;Pam00015&#8221;<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p>That was the stupidest video I have ever seen!  It made no sense and was pointless.  WOW!  You have guns you are so powerful!  <\/p>\n<p>You are a coward!<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fetish? Stupidest? Pointless? Coward?<\/p>\n<p>I guess you just can&#8217;t open some minds despite the good work that a commentator like Mr. Colion Noir does.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times has an article up today about Mr. Colion Noir. 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