Posted on 04/24/2018 2:08:40 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Malik Shabazz, former chairman of the New Black Panther Party and president of Black Lawyers for Justice, called on President Trump to provide reparations for slavery or designate territory solely for African-Americans.
“We must have reparations, full compensation for the theft of our land, the theft of our bodies, the theft of our people from Africa, the theft of our dignity; the desecration of our souls decade after decade after decade after decade. As I said, we don’t want your food stamps. We don’t want no government handout. We don’t want to be trying to fix up some paperwork so I can get Social Security. We want our own. Donald Trump, you don’t want us? You don’t want to be around us? Hot dammit, I don’t want to be around you,” Shabazz said during a “Save Our Sons: Stop the Killing” and "Condemn Donald Trump" National Black Men’s Convention march and rally outside of the White House on Saturday organized by the National Black Men’s Movement.
“We want land. We want our own. You don’t like us, Mr. Trump? Break us off some of this territory. You don’t like us, Mr. Trump? You don’t want to be around us? Then hand over the state of Florida,” he added. “You don’t want to be around us – make a trade. Give me Georgia. Give me Alabama. Give me South Carolina.”
Speakers at the National Black Men’s Movement events included representatives from the New Black Panther Party and other organizations such as city-level Black Lives Matter groups and the National Action Network. Shabazz, who organized the rally, slammed Trump for calling an NFL player who kneels during the national anthem a “son of a bitch.”
“If you’re a son of a bitch, as Donald Trump says, who is your mama? Where I come from, you talk about my mama that’s some fighting words. Where I come from, a man don’t let nobody talk about his mama like that; he’s ready to throw down. Where is your toughness, black man? Where is your hard-nosedness, black man? Where is your anger, black man? Where is your militancy, black man? Donald Trump says black men are sons of bitches and thereby he calls, pardon me, but I have to say it, he calls the black woman a bitch as well,” he said to chants of “Black Power” from the crowd. “The black woman is the mother of all living things on the planet… Your women didn’t take care of your babies. It was black women on the plantation that took care of your little nasty babies.”
Shabazz continued, “Donald Trump, the black man is not a son of a bitch. He is the original man. He’s the maker. He’s the owner. He’s the cream of the planet Earth, father of civilization and he’s the God of the universe. He is your father, cracker. Donald Trump, I’m your daddy. I’m your daddy and you’re a child that’s out of line. This is a child in the White House throwing a temper tantrum every five minutes – what kind of fool is this, unable to control his emotions?”
John Cheeks, head of the United States Citizens Recovery Initiative Alliance, also called for reparations or “recovery benefits for black Americans.”
“We need our unpaid due. We need it now. We cannot live in this country without money. How many can live without money? Raise your hand. I thought so. We have a president who’s in the house that our ancestors built for free. We have a congressional seat who is at the Capitol that our ancestors built for free,” he said.
“We have the senators at that Capitol who enjoy the dome for free. It is time for all industries, all institutions, all associations and yes, we have public utility companies who have benefitted from slavery, such as your water company and your gas company,” he added. “How do you think water was purified? Who did it? How do you think the gas lines were buried in the street? Who do you think did it?”
Cheeks said African-Americans should attach a note to their utility bill payments that reads, “My ancestors are still looking for their unpaid wages.”
Dr. Cornel West, who described himself as a “revolutionary Christian,” explained why he decided to join the rally and spend time with the New Black Panther Party.
“This is very important because we need to be able to come together across political, ideological and religious lines. People ask me all the time, why is it that you spend time with the New Black Panther Party, with brother [chairman] Hashim [Nzinga]?” West said at the rally. “Why do you spend time with brother Malik Shabazz? I say, ya’ll don’t understand that when you’re a love warrior you love black folk in all the different forms and all the different embodiment. Why? Because I am who I am because somebody loved me, beginning with my mama and my father.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center designates the New Black Panther Party as a hate group, calling it “a virulently racist and anti-Semitic organization whose leaders have encouraged violence against whites, Jews and law enforcement officers.”
Arthur Reed, a community activist from Baton Rouge, urged the crowd not to “sit back” while police kill innocent African-Americans such as Alton Sterling. “Sometimes the only thing that this man understands is hand-to-hand combat and we cannot continue to sit back and play the coward role and pray for a better day, dammit,” Reed said at the rally. “We’re going to make it a better day because a better day has already come with what you see before you.”
Shabazz, nobody owes you anything. Biggest problem you and your followers have is going through life thinking somebody owes you something. They don’t. You get what you earn. If you don’t work to earn anything, then you get nothing. Don’t like it, tough crap. That’s the way it is.
I wish he would he would give it to them. But, The Art of the Deal being what it is, they are on their own. They are now the country of, Florida or whatever else they want to call themselves. Put up a 50’ high wall across it’s northern and small western border and let them have at it. They can have a trade agreement with the country of California. I’m sure both countries will thrive.
I will gladly pay your airfare to GO BACK TO AFRICA. Reparations? You owe us as do many for living on welfare most of your damn life.
Funny, isn’t it, that they don’t seem to want to go back to their homeland, Mother Africa.
A Damon Wayons sketch from In Living Color?
You want land? Buy some. There have been many groups in American history, and there still are today, that wish to live separately. Some of them put their words into action and form their own communities. Buy some land. Build a community. You start small and learn by doing. Most such groups fail, and learn from the failure. A few succeed. The first big hurdle, which I imagine is the stopping point for the Panthers, is that you have to figure out how to earn an honest living.
What evidence whatsoever is there that Donald Trump is a bigot, other than empty assertions by his enemies?
1.) I cordially despise you, Mr. Malik Shabazz, but that has nothing to do with your skin color.
2.) Who appointed you to be a spokesman for American blacks?
3.) Florida is not mine to “give”. I might see myself clear to “giving” you personally a few acres in the western Aleutians, provided you agree to stay there.
“Give me Georgia. Give me Alabama. Give me South Carolina.”
There’s got to be an unpopulated area in Alaska they can have.
We already gave them Liberia. Deal’s done.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_settlement_in_Africa
Give him “Wakanda” and tell him to GTFO.
[Then Hand Over the State of Florida]
Always maintain a proper distance away from crazy, greedy people.
I ran into one. They’ll try anything.
[There’s got to be an unpopulated area in Alaska they can have.]
No. He can go to Zimbabwe or the Sudan and pound dirt. Wouldn’t he be happier in Africa, anyways?
Bingo! His real name is Paris something not Malik Shabazz. He was born and raised in Washington DC and been nothing but a shuck and jive huckster his whole life.
1. No there was no white slavery.
2. Why is the rantings of some insignificant little group of loons something anyone should care about?
Will you settle for $10,000 and a one way ticket to S. Africa?
Are you saying all slaves throughout history have been exclusively blacks? That’s ridiculous.
We did it’s called Liberia he can go there and anybody else like him.
“There were white slaves in America “
This is what you said.
There was not. And please don’t run that “indenture servatude = slavery” nonsense like some people have tried.
We could give the Blacks any state they want and in months without a multitude of welfare checks it would look like Zimbabwe with a few years
You do your research, I’ll do mine. In the 17th and 18th centuries the British Empire used white slavery in America. It’s nice that you said please but don’t tell me not to say something unless you can prove I’m wrong.
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