The Black Panthers? A hate group you say? No, not THE Black Panther Party. The New Black Panthers For Self Defense, and that's trouble. *Warning: there is hate speech quoted here that is violent and offensive.
Today, the News and Observer published a
story that The New Black Panther Party For Self Defense ( NBPPFSD) is coming here to Durham, North Carolina to march on Duke University. Leader Malik Zulu Shabazz said:
"We are conducting an independent investigation, and we intend to enter the campus and interview lacrosse players," Shabazz said Thursday. "We seek to ensure an adequate, strong and vigorous prosecution."
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Further on:
"They are a racist and anti-Semitic group," said Myrna Shinbaum, a spokesperson for the [Anti Defamation League]. "These guys come armed. They carry shotguns to demonstrations. The authorities down there should know this."
Basically, it's like the KKK wants to interview O. J. Simpson.
The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that former leader and Nation of Islam reject Khalid Muhammed said this to get whites to leave South Africa:
Muhammad had clear ideas for dealing with whites who did not leave immediately: "We kill the women. We kill the babies. We kill the blind. We kill the cripples. We kill them all. We kill the faggot. We kill the lesbian. ... When you get through killing them all, go to the goddamn graveyard and dig up the grave and kill them a-goddamn-gain, because they didn't die hard enough" the first time.
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Just when we thought that things have settled down here, when some of the camera trucks have gone home because there's nothing to speculate about, here comes an anti-Semitic, anti-white armed vigilante group to stir up trouble. They are using the tactics used by other hate groups to satisfy their own brand of vigilante justice. They will setback the hard work and well-meaning efforts by leaders in this community to promote healing and racial harmony.
I am worried that this racist organization will draw support from some in the black community that don't know that this group is not and never will be the legendary civil rights organization. Not that the NBPPFSD care.
The Anti-Defamation League states that when confronted with criticism from the real Black Panthers, Shabazz said they
...are really working with the Zionists. I think their lawyer is one. I think they are being used by outside forces to keep alive the counterintelligence program of the F.B.I. and the U.S. government, creating divisions and factions among black organizations."
What an idiot! Oh yeah, the real Black Panthers are in league with the organization of J. Edgar Hoover, who called them "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country".
The Huey P. Newton Foundation put out this release about the NBPPFSD stealing the real Black Panther's name:
[T]hey denigrate the Party's name by promoting concepts absolutely counter to the revolutionary principles on which the Party was founded. Their alleged media assault on the Ku Klux Klan serves to incite hatred rather than resolve it. The Party's fundamental principle, as best articulated by the great revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, was: "A true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love." The Black Panthers were never a group of angry young militants full of fury toward the "white establishment." The Party operated on love for black people, not hatred of white people.
There's no question who the real Black Panther Party was.
(This is not a racial attack. Those that come here to use this diary to attack any race, I heartily encourage hitting the troll button.)
Updated: The NBPFSD lost a lawsuit in 1997 to use the name or logo of the Black Panthers. Apparently, it was never enforced.