A gun safety instructor has been fired for presenting racist slides during a class in Las Vegas, on Sunday.
Nephi “Khaliki” Oliva, owner of Vegas Conceal Carry Weapons, tells black students to “always lick the chicken grease off your fingers before shooting” and to always “make sure there is a white person around to blame.”
He instructed the class at the Clark Country Library. He showed the slides titled “Firearm Safety for White People” and “Firearm Safety for Black People.”
A slide featured a caricature of a masked black man wearing saggy pants, and flashing a gang sign, holding up a sideways gun.
One slide featured a stereotyped caricature of a masked black man wearing saggy pants and flashing an apparent gang sign as he holds up a sideways gun.
The slide said, “Always lick the chicken grease off your fingers before shooting.”
Another slide presented, “Always shoot the gun right side up,” “always make sure there’s a white person around so you have someone to blame for everything that goes wrong in your life.”
And “always aim for small children to ensure you actually hit another gang member.”
The slide of whites showed a bearded, pot-bellied man wearing a cap and holding a beer can in one hand and a rifle in the other.
One of the bullet said, “Always make sure there are no minorities in your backdrop.”
Kelvin Watson, executive director of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, said that the district condemns hate speech in any form, and it will be meet to review its room rental policy.
He added the room was rented for a meeting, and the incident has nothing to do with them.
Roxann McCoy, president of the NAACP Las Vegas said that the lecture was pure and simple, callous racism.
The instructor insisted that the slides weren’t racist, when he got backfired.
He tweeted that people were equally roasted in his class.
Adding, “I am a minority and I was the one telling those jokes.”
He told, “I am an Afghan American and I come from a Muslim family. For you to use my comedy and my event as fodder for your political nonsense is shameful. That audience was MY audience and it was comprised of a wide mix of races.”
“Those of you missing the true context of my humor. I am going somewhere meaningful and you seeing it out of full context is unfortunate,” he wrote.
