Racist Katrina Scamster Malik Rahim One Of GQ’s Men Of The Year

Sweetness & Light ^ | December 14, 2005 | N/A

[Sam Hill]

Hey, it isn't just Mother Sheehan getting the star treatment from the glossy mags of the glitterati.

Those gay lads at Gentlemen's Quarterly have selected Cindy's "bright spot," pretend Moslem, pretend Rastafarian, but real honest-to-goodness felony ex-con, Black Panther, cop shooter, race-baiter and Katrina grifter -- Malik Rahim (real name, Donald Guyton) -- as one of their "Men Of The Year":

GQ: Men of the Year 2005 Portfolio

Heroes of the Hurricane: Katrina Saviors
Malik Rahim, 58 — The Organizer

A week after Katrina hit, the Algiers section of New Orleans was in shambles. Hardly any food or water or ice, on the brink of race riots, grim. Help wasn’t coming, and Malik Rahim and the Common Ground Collective he co-founded weren’t going to sit by and watch as their community fell apart. So they went door-to-door asking what they could do to help. They took out trash, delivered food, collected medical supplies. Over the next month and a half, they grew into a full-time organization with more than 200 volunteers who have serviced 15,000 people so far, including 3,000 at a mosque that Common Ground converted into a health clinic. Rahim knows the collective’s work has just begun. “New Orleans has long been a gumbo of separate ingredients,” he says, “but I believe we’ve been given the chance to mix it together and make a bigger, better pot this time around.”

Never mind that there is no evidence whatsoever of our hero Rahim doing any of the things he now claims to have done. (Though he and his merry band of "anarchists" are suspected of stealing Red Cross supplies.)

But we do know that Rahim wasn't pilfering donated supplies he did his level best to start a race war. The internet is still rancid with his many claims that most of the dead in his part of New Orleans were innocent blacks shot by whitey:

“Most of them were killed by the police, or by these vigilante groups, when they were around,” [Rahim] said. “There wasn’t any flooding. Most people killed over in Algiers were killed either by the police or by vigilante groups. Because if you’re Black, and you have a weapon, you’re dead. They would literally shoot you down."

Of course as the rest of the article and his other pronouncements make clear, Malik means white police and redneck Texan vigilantes.

But what's not to celebrate about a race-baiting poverty pimp scam artist getting some national recognition as a hero?

It's just another sign post on this country's road to perdition via hand basket.

Some articles chronicling GQ's hero:

Cindy's "Bright Spot" -- A Moslem Mosque

Cindy's Hero: "Most Algiers Deaths Caused By Whites"

Race Baiters On The March

Oh Boy, Another “Road Trip”

Malik Rahim Eyes Run For N.O. Mayor

[Sam Hill]

But you just can't keep a good man down.

[Sam Hill]

More plaudits for Hate America, Inc.

[hang 'em]

Is that an earphone on his head or Nacy Pelosi's pudenda?

[LdSentinal]

GQ Man of the Year is . . .

[dfwgator]

He's certainly Heineken's Man of the Year. It's All About the Beer indeed.

[Niteranger68]

Real men don't read GQ.

[CajunConservative]

Heineken should pay looter guy for all of the free advertisement he's given them.

[Sam Hill]

That guy was just stealing beer. He's a piker compared to our hero Rahim.

[whodat57]

Actually.... Algiers was an area that made out quite well and was not this destroyed wasteland the writer claims it was/is.

I know this because I grew up there and still have family there. Algiers is really booming now because it's one of the few places in Orleans parish that is normal.

[gaijin]

No flooding! Gosh, I really feel silly. I thought there was a flood.

[Tzimisce]

So what you're saying is that if I want to get into the UCLA/USC grad program for film, I just need to murder a bunch of people and build my street gang?

[TexasCajun]

I remember some cable news people interviewing this guy.

Looked like he made sure he had taken care of himself before all others and was sitting on his ass.

[CajunConservative]

I know that the outlying areas are doing very well because I have family from around the area. I think that the city will shift westward. I lived in Harvey and Kenner for a while.

[billhilly]

Tookie's ghost?

[Humidston]

From your article: "“You can see the maggots eating his corpse up,” he said. “It’s been 12 days out in this hot sun, and they won’t move him. There’s no reason for this. It’s just blatant neglect. If it was a white guy, this would have been up."

My question is: If there's a dead body laying on the ground for 12 days WHY DON'T YOU BURY THE DAMNED BODY YOURSELF???"

[ThanhPhero]

...if I want to get into the UCLA/USC grad program for film, I just need to murder a bunch of people and build my street gang?

If the late Mr. Williams had been reprieved and clemencied right out of prison he would have been a full professor with tenure within a year.That is real shame of the execution. Generations of undergrads will now be denied his wisdom and erudition.

[Sam Hill]

"My question is: If there's a dead body laying on the ground for 12 days WHY DON'T YOU BURY THE DAMNED BODY YOURSELF???"

That's the whole wonderful joke of it all. This assclown has made a career out of demanding that people do things for him and his people.

He lived in a non-flooded area of NO during Katrina. At most the power was off for a couple of days. But he pretends to have lived through the Holocaust.

He milked this alleged dead body he found for all it was worth, going on every anti-American news outlet he could find with the same story.

He was too busy complaining to do anything useful like actually cover up the body.

But the media loves to hold people up like this. They believe his preposterous statistics.

His "clinic" "treated" 3,000? Pretty neat since they didn't have one damn licensed medical pratictioner. Just a couple "anarchist medics."

They handed out toothbrushes in ziplock bags. (Again, these people were in their homes with running water. Why would they need this?)

It was just a scam. This guy has been trying this for thirty years:

HungryBlues: Malik Rahim On Black Panthers And Black Resistance In NOLA
http://minorjive.typepad.com/hungryblues/2005/09/malk_rahim_on_b.html

In this fairy tale, whilst a young Black Panther in NO, Rahim reduced crime to zero, fed 300 children a day, and discovered Sickle Cell anemia.

I’m not making this up. (Of course he is.)

But it’s clear that Rahim has always been a pathological liar. It’s kind of fascinating to see how he still trots out the same kind of lies after all these years.

[Reactionary]

It's strange, isn't it, how the big, strong men do nothing but whine.

That's all they do. They can't be bothered to do a damn thing for themselves or anyone else.

[dangus]

I'm surprised at GQ. After all, this guy is a MUCH snappier dresser...

[Mark was here]

What matters most in the "community" is the perception not the reality.

Just ask Rev Al.