This Black Panther stuff is serious business. Shades of John Kerry. On his campaign website, Obama posted the endorsement of the New Black Panther Party, a resurrection of a domestic terrorist group of the sixties (Hillary has links to the original group, but we’ll save that till another day). Then he removed it. Interestingly, Obama still occupies a position on honor on the New Black Panthers home page:
While you can’t directly control who endorses you, Barack (think Louis Farrakhan), you don’t post stuff on your site if you don’t welcome it. That is, until you get caught by the bloggers and right-media. Wordnet Daily reports:
“The removal [] by the Barack Obama campaign from its official website of an endorsement from the black supremacist New Black Panther Party, or NBPP, was decided upon for “understandable political reasons,” according to the party’s national chairman.
“It’s the game of politics,” the NBPP’s Malik Zulu Shabazz told WND. “The Obama camp’s move to remove our blog doesn’t mean much because I understand politics. We still completely support Obama as the best candidate.”
“Shabbaz, who has given scores of speeches condemning “white men” and Jews, said today Obama “is the best guy to bring the kinds of racial changes supported by our community at the New Black Panthers.”
“The NBPP, which inherited its name from the Black Panther Party of the 1960s, is a controversial black extremist party whose leaders are notorious for their racist statements and anti-white activism. The organization’s own website also was taken down today too.”
Notice the Black Panther slogan in the logo: “Freedom or Death”. Death for whom? Now you see it, now you don’t. Teaches us not to blink, eh? At least not when we deal with a guy whose hand is faster than the eye.
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Margot Schulzke 03.22.08 at 11:09 pm
As reported in the New York Times, Oct 2, 2002, [http://www.rickross.com/reference /hate_groups/hategroups345.html]” The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the organization as an active hate group along with the Ku Klux Klan and various neo-Nazi movements. A report on the New Black Panther Party by the center includes statements by its leaders using phrases like “white devils” and “bloodsucking Jews.” Several years ago, the Anti-Defamation League also identified the party as a hate group; a spokeswoman described its members as armed and dangerous.
“But it is only in recent years that the group has received widespread attention by taking on high-profile, racially charged causes. In one of the first instances, Mr. Muhammad, once a top lieutenant to Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, led a group of armed members to Jasper, Tex., in 1998. The members said they intended to protect blacks from whites after the truck-dragging murder of a black man, James Byrd Jr., by three white men.
“When Bill Clinton opened his office in Harlem last year, Mr. Shabazz and other members showed up wearing paramilitary uniforms and demanded that the former president leave Harlem to blacks. The group also had repeated run-ins with former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani over its Million Youth March. ”
Anyhow, this is the New Black Panther Party, whose endorsement BO was pleased to accept and announce on his campaign website. Temporarily. Either he likes the group and got caught, or he did not do due diligence and got caught. Either way, Obama’s judgment goes up in smoke. Again.
Hi 03.23.08 at 2:05 am
Hillary doesn’t have links to the Black Panthers. “She was a politically-minded Yale law student involved peripherally in organizing students to help the ACLU monitor the trial for civil rights violations during the Black Panthers New Haven trial.” It’s not like she was hanging out with them or anything like that. Look it up on Snopes.com.
margot 03.23.08 at 3:53 am
You are right. Mea culpa. She was an intern for an attorney who defended them. Now THAT is guilt by association. She helped organize some responses to the protests involved.
Hi 03.23.08 at 3:53 pm
Margot, absolutely not. That’s why y’all can’t get anywhere with these stories. I just told you she was not an intern with the lawyer and you twisted it all around.