Las Vegas firearm safety presentation that warned black people to ‘lick the chicken grease off your fingers before shooting’ has angered people on the internet but Gun safety instructor Nephi ‘Khaliki’ Oliva says it was just a joke. Just a joke? This isn’t funny and something needs to be done in order for it not to be repeated.
The Daily Mail reports that;
A gun safety instructor who told black members of a Las Vegas class to ‘lick the chicken grease off [their] fingers before shooting’ denies that he was being racist, saying his presentation was meant to ‘shock the system’ so attendees would remember ‘an important safety rule.’
At the annual Vegas CCW event at Clark County Library on April 10, Afghan American Nephi ‘Khaliki’ Oliva showed slides featuring a caricature of a black man wearing sagging pants wielding a side-cocked gun, and another slide showing a beer-bellied white man holding a cold one and a rifle.
The slides were labeled ‘Firearm Safety for Black People’ and ‘Firearm Safety for White People,’ respectively. Oliva read bullet points pictured alongside the black caricature to the audience: ‘Always shoot the gun right side up’ and to ‘always lick the chicken grease off your fingers.’
‘Always make sure there’s a white person around so you have someone to blame for everything that goes wrong in your life,’ he continued, and ‘always aim for small children to ensure you actually hit another gang member.’
Alongside the white man, the bullet points read: ‘Always put your beer down before handling a firearm,’ ‘always keep your finger out of your nose while shooting,’ ‘always wear a wife beater on the range’ and ‘always make sure there are no minorities in your backdrop.’
In videos from the event posted to social media, some members of the large audience can be heard laughing at the racially motivated jokes, while others voice their displeasure.
In another video clip shared on Facebook, Nephi ‘Khaliki’ Oliva debunked racism claims saying;
‘I think racism is funny. In order to be a racist you’ve got to be so ignorant. To me, racism is about fear. I fear you so I want to try to control you because I’m afraid that if you are left to your own devices you will rise above me.’
‘When somebody talks about the racist s***, I think they’ve revealed themselves in a way that is quite humorous to me.’
One Black man named Marcus at the event said he wasn’t offended by the jokes that got people pissed off.
‘If that joke was directed to me as an individual, meaning how we’re having this interview right now maybe I’d take offense to it,’ he explained to a reporter. ‘He didn’t just point out one particular group or minority and just focus.’
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