The New Black Panther Party

Last week Fox news commentator Glenn Beck and Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly covered the story of the incident at a Philadelphia polling place where the New Black Panther Party members were standing outside the polling place. New Black panther Party member King Samir Shabazz was brandishing a billy club. Voters were complaining about feeling intimidated by Shabazz holding that nightstick at the polling place. Police eventually escorted Shabazz away from the polling place. On January 7, 2009, the United States Department of Justice filed a civil suit against the New Black Panther Party and three of its members alleging violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 over the incident at the polling place in Philadelphia. The suit accused members King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson of being outside a polling location wearing the uniform of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, and that Shabazz repeated brandished a police-style baton weapon. The suit sought an injunction preventing further violations of the Voting Rights Act. After the defendants didn't appear for court, a default judgment was entered. On May 29, 2009, the Department of Justice requested and received an injunction against the member who had carried the nightstick, but against the advice of prosecutors who had worked on the case, department superiors order the suit dropped against the remaining members. On July 6, 2010, J. Christian Adams, a former lawyer for the Justice Department, testified before the Commission on Civil Rights and alleged that the case was dropped because the Justice Department didn't want to protect the civil rights of white people.

What is this New Black Panther Party? The formal name for this party is the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. It's just now called The New Black Panther Party. It's a U.S.-based organization founded in Dallas, Texas in 1989. It's not an official successor to the original Black Panther Party in the 60's and 70's. Members of the original Black Panther Party such as Huey Newton and Bobby Seale contend this new party is illegitimate. They have blatantly stated that there is "no new Black Panther Party." The Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center have branded this party as a hate group. The New Black Panther Party attracted many breakaway members of the Nation of Islam when former Nation of Islam minister Khalid Abdul Muhammad became the national chairman of the group from the late 1990's until his death in 2001. The current chairman of the NBBP is led by Malik Zulu Shabazz. Khalid Abdul Muhammad is considered the de facto father of their movement.

What are the origins of the New Black Panther Party? In 1987 an alderman in Milwaukee threatened to disrupt white events throughout the city unless more jobs were created for black people. A "state of the inner city" press conference in 1990 at city hall brought this situation to a head as the alderman, Michael McGee, announced the created of the Black Panther Militia, which inspired Aaron Michaels, a community activist and radio producer, to establish the New Black Panther Party. Michaels rose to widespread attention for the first time when he called on blacks to use shotguns and rifles to protest against the chairman of a school board who had been taped calling black students, "little niggers." In 1998 Khalid Abdul Muhammad brought the organization into the national spotlight when he led the group to intervene in response to the murder of James Byrd, Jr., in Jasper, Texas. He also made the NBPP well-known for their school board disruptions and public appearances.

The New Black Panther Party self-identifies itself with the original Black Panther Pary and claims to uphold its legacy. However, the new party is seen by the general public and the original members of the old party as illegitimate. The party sees capitalism as the fundamental problem with the world and "revolution" as the solution. However, the new party doesn't draw its influences from Marxism and Maoism as the original party did. In a careful, roundabout form of ethnic nationalism, they say Karl Marx based his ideology and teachings on indigenous African cultures. This group is starkly anti-white and they are anti-Semitic. Some of the ideology of the NBPP are black nationalism, Pan-Africanism, black supremacy, and they are anti-capitalists, to name a few. I'm going to start posting some philosophical beliefs of the NBPP. This will give the blog readers an idea some of the beliefs of groups such as the NBPP. I'm going to start introducing tomorrow one of the major philosophical beliefs of black separatists, and that is liberation theology. You don't want to miss this.

There have been some recent controversies concerning the New Black Panther Party. Following the September 11 attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., the party promoted the 9/11 conspiracy theory that 4000 Israelis who worked at the World Trade Center were warned ahead of time by Israel and called in sick the day of the attack. It was a theory propounded by Amiri Baraka in his poem, "Somebody Blew Up America." The party also participated in reparations for blacks marches on Washington, D.C. in 2002 that drew hundreds of African-Americans. In 2006 the New Black Panthers were in the spotlight again when they interposed themselves in the 2006 Duke University lacrosse team scandal, organizing marches outside of Duke University and made numerous media appearances where they demanded the jury organized by Disrict Attorney Mike Nifong convict the accused lacrosse players. Of course, the Duke players were eventually exonerated. Malik Zulu Shabazz appeared on the O'Reilly Factor and stated that he wouldn't apologize for his actions in the leadup to the Duke University lacrosse rape scandal. He stated that he believed the rich, white families of Duke had placed political pressure on the investigation and forced the charges to be dropped. When he was questioned by guest host Michelle Malkin, he labeled her a "political prostitue" and "mouthpiece for that racist Bill O'Reilly." Critics have called the NBPP extremist, citing Muhammad's "Million Youth March" , a youth equivalent of the Million Man March in Harlem in which 6000 people protested police brutality but also featured a range of speakers calling for the extermination of whites in South Africa. Former Nation of Islam and New Black Panther Party member, King Samir Shabazz, had a long history of confrontational racist behavior, advocating racial separation and making incendiary racial statements while promoting anti-police messages in the media and on the streets of Philadelphia.

The New Black Panther Party is very racist indeed. I don't care whether it's white against black, black against white, or any race, it's all racist. Racism needs to be condemned. There's no excuse for it. God created the races. Any type of organization that promotes hate of another race should be condemned and exposed regardless whether it's this party or the Ku Klux Klan, or any other racist organization. This is an abomination.