Despite strong support for gun control in African-American communities, pro-gun conservatives see a chance to make inroads.
Okafor, 29, who followed Toure on CPAC’s mainstage, became a gun rights activist after being sexually assaulted as a child. As a graduate student at the University of Texas at Dallas in 2015, she became an advocate of concealed-carry laws as a deterrent against campus sexual assault.
Though Okafor said she approaches her activism from the perspective of women’s empowerment — she is featured on her website posing with guns in a cocktail dress — she said her black identity also figures into her views. “As a black woman who grew up without a father, I was always especially aware that my safety was in my own hands," she said in an interview ahead of her appearance on a panel that also featured Parkland High School shooting survivor Kyle Kashuv and Rep. Richard Hudson .
In an interview following his appearance, Toure said he began proselytizing about gun rights in inner cities after seeing too many friends locked up on avoidable gun possession charges. Beyond gun control, he said his mission was to extend conservative values to urban communities, arguing that the blockbuster movie “Black Panther” depicted conservative values in action in the fictional African land of Wakanda. “Think about it,” he said.
Toure also said he wanted to continue the legacy of Malcolm X, the radical black nationalist who was assassinated in 1965. “I want to pick up from where post-Mecca Malcolm was,” Toure said, referring to the activist’s pilgrimage to the holy Muslim city, which led him to express more conciliatory views on race following. “Try not to get to murdered and pick it up and try to take it further.”
But first, he was planning to party Thursday night with Donald Trump Jr., whom he had just ran into in the lobby after a direct message exchange on Twitter. “We’re going to chop it up,” he said.
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