Posted on 04/30/2006 8:47:13 AM PDT by JaggedEdge
DURHAM - The national chairman of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense says his group intends to march at Duke University on Monday to "deal directly" with lacrosse players about charges of rape of an escort service dancer at a team party.
Duke's campus police are coordinating with the Durham Police Department to prepare for the black-separatist group, which has a reputation for coming to its protests armed.
Malik Zulu Shabazz, a Washington lawyer who is the leader of the New Panthers, said he will be in Durham to rally with local black leaders and monitor progress of the criminal case against Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, the two students charged with raping and kidnapping the dancer.
"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."
Duke is a private institution, and its campus is private property. Shabazz said he has not sought permission to enter but that his group has "received no word that we are not welcome."
John Burness, Duke's vice president for public affairs and community relations, said Thursday that the university will allow a controlled march on campus, as long as the New Black Panthers follow specific rules.
"As an institution we support free speech, and we will treat them like any other group," Burness said. "But we do not permit weapons. We will take necessary steps to keep the campus safe."
One of the key tenets of the New Black Panthers is owning firearms and knowing how to use them, according to the Anti-Defamation League, a national Jewish group that has monitored Shabazz and his followers for years.
"They are a racist and anti-Semitic group," said Myrna Shinbaum, a spokesperson for the New York-based league. "These guys come armed. They carry shotguns to demonstrations. The authorities down there should know this."
Asked whether his followers will be armed when they come to Duke, Shabazz chuckled and said, "I don't know if I can comment on that."
A flier distributed by the group this week displays photos of Finnerty and Seligmann and calls for those who have "had enough of disrespect and racism from Duke" to assemble at the front gates of the university's West Campus at 10 a.m.
"We as black men cannot sit idly by and allow white men to rape black women, regardless of what our sister (who by nature is a queen and a divine black woman) was doing," Shabazz is quoted as saying in a media release announcing the event.
In a telephone interview Thursday, Shabazz said he and several local black leaders will meet with Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong about the case Monday. Nifong did not return a message late Thursday seeking to confirm that a meeting is planned.
A "town hall" meeting is also planned at 6 p.m. Monday at St. Joseph's African Methodist Episcopal Church on Fayetteville Street. Shabazz is set to be the keynote speaker. The Rev. Philip R. Cousin Jr., the minister of the church and a Durham County commissioner, did not return calls about the event. Representatives of the NAACP and the Nation of Islam are also expected to attend.
New Panthers' origin
The New Black Panthers is listed as a racist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization more often cited for its efforts to monitor the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists. The Panthers is also disavowed by the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, named for the activist who helped found the original Black Panther Party in 1966.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the New Panthers are a black separatist militia founded in 1990 by Khallid Muhammad, who was removed from a top leadership post at the Nation of Islam after Louis Farrakhan reportedly found his statements against Jews, Catholics and homosexuals too radical.
Shabazz became the group's leader in 2001, after Muhammad's death. He has drawn media headlines in recent years for claiming that Jews were evacuated from the World Trade Center before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and voicing support for Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called "20th hijacker" who was found eligible for the death penalty this month for his role in the Sept. 11 plot.
Shabazz, who said the group's current membership numbers in the "low thousands," backed away from claims published in a Durham newspaper Thursday that the New Black Panthers are providing security for the dancer and her family after she received death threats.
The accuser's mother told The News & Observer on Thursday that Panthers came by the family's house Wednesday and offered their protection, but the family decline
"The World Wonders."
I don't think so.
Also on "The Lineup" last night , Shabazz said there would be a rally at St. Joseph's church on Monday night in Durham. I hope that's a good distance from the campus. He also said the Mayor of Durham would be in attendance...I bet that's a lie. The mayor has seemed pretty level headed in all this. I don't recall his name, but have heard him interviewed.
Black Panthers/Black Muslims--as long as they're black they can do no wrong these days, in the eyes of the proponents of revers racism.
I wonder if "Reverend" Sharpton is a consultant on this latest Tawanna Brawley replay.
I believe you've summarized the message quite nicely.
"Black Panthers" = modern-day Nazis with black skin.
These Muslim led Black panthers need a knot jerked in their ass.
On what authority do a gang of thugs demand to "interview" anybody?
And look at the babies he's whose minds he's poisoning mimicking him in the picture.
Yeah, Allah is the same god at the God of the Bible. And I've got some real estate in New Jersey I'll let you have at a great price, too.
Where have you been? He's been down there already and said that his organization will pay all her college expenses from now on. By the way, she has said that she wants to attend law school.
I believe it is from Howard University, not Harvard.
"By the way, she has said that she wants to attend law school."
Since this is the second time she's accused three men of raping her, the first time without doing anything to press the accusation, I hope she learns in law school that you do not press false charges against people.
Malik Zoooo Loser is nothing more that the "clan with a tan". I hope somebody kicks his slimy ass.
"I chose Malik Zulu Shabazz because it gives me an air of royalty and dignity."
Nothing you do, chump, is going to give you an air of royalty and dignity. You should have picked the name Dumbazz.
Kimberly Guilfoyle has a pretty smile and that's about it. Can't imagine how she was a deputy district attorney. I emailed Fox weeks ago, complaining about Kimberly and Jamie Colby, among the other weekend (empty) talking heads.
..Because even strippers need lawyers.
Generally I would be willing to let something like that slide. Within the circle of people & groups who would refer to "Duke Police", I take it to mean the group. The additional problem particularly with "police" in the term is the word itself invariably indicates more than one.
But within this article he used both "Duke Police is..." -- singlular -- and "Duke Police were..." -- plural. So it's inconsistent at least. The use of the plural, if you didn't see it written out, might lead you to believe that he was talking about individual policemen rather than somebody in particular, i.e., the chief, representing the organization as a whole.
Yah my advice to the writer and people in those circles would be to start calling it DPD (unless that's how they refer to the Durham PD) or something like that. Nothing to get to overworked about IMO.
The obvious answer, of course, is "US"
And if you think that objective is ridiculous, keep in mind that in 1930's Germany and 1918 Russia, relatively small but well-organized armed groups did succeed in seizing power."
The Black-whatever-their-latest-name-for-themselves-might-be can't do it on their own, but with the media, the Democratic Party and the U.N. among others focused above all else on bringing to fruition the destruction of conservatism-defined as the principles on which this nation was founded- and our own MSM leading world opinion against the United States, along with Islamofascism, and the blurring of what it means to be American through rampant illegal immigration of Latinos, we are on a path that will, in 20 years, result in there no longer being a United States of America.
There will be numerous nation states: Spanish speaking, Islamic, atheistic liberal, Christian, and others not unlike Europe, each with it's own priorities and in disharmony with each other. It will probably be dangerous for those of one state to even enter the others. There will be little or no world voice from the territory formerly known as the United States of America, as Islam and Communist China vie for dominance over the rest of the world.
Without a clarion call from a visionary leader, who probably would need to come from a third party, since, even if a Republican with the necessary vision and backbone arose the media would use it's last breath to destroy anyone with an (R) after their name, to the point of inciting an assassination if necessary, and the Democratic Party is is a cesspool wrapped in platitudes, floundering without a moral or ideological compass, substituting smoke-and-mirrors for principles in blind lust for power.
If this sounds like "doom-and-gloom", to quote a phrase used freely to label posters, particularly during the Clinton era, by the "It's all over for Clinton and the Demoncrats" crowd here on FR-- even long after it was obvious the MSM was willing and able to do whatever was necessary to preserve the Scumbag In Chief, well I say we're already well down this road, and it will take a lot more to keep this from becoming our future than it will for it NOT to happen.
I was out of the state until arriving home a few minutes ago. These Black Panthers are itching for a wild riot, it appears. I wonder what will happen if the KKK comes to Durham to counter-demonstrate?
I suppose they can investigate privately all they want to, but just exactly how are they going to inverview Duke Lacrosse players, and under what legal grounds?
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