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
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Thank you very much. I feel like I've been gone for a month, not five days! I was at a dog show, and I'm proud to report my dog went Best Of Breed yesterday! Still waiting to hear what happened today.....
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YES, but how would Kimberly Guilfoyle have treated the KKK
if they had come into a town and said they were going to go looking for 3 black alleged rapists (before any trial), and
they wouldn't rule out weapons.
Do you think any University in the World would let them protest without fighting it first?
The Media heads, everyone, would be calling them racists or TV and taking the opportunity to slam a racist group. Guilfoyle would have been saying - NO, you SHUT UP and listen to me. YOU are spreading HATE and you should be ashamed, why don't you crawl back under the rock you came from. You have no business being involved in this case and that's why we have courts and Judges - this is America.
Most everyone here should be aware that a White Hate group or a White separatist group would be absolutely killed on TV and the papers (and by the DA and authorites). If this had been a white group (listed a hate group).. The Governor and the Mayor would've have tried to prevent the protest from happening. Appeals would be made to the Federal Gov't to provide the National Guard. Reporters would've asked the President, if he was going to intervene to protect the civil rights of the accused rapists and to secure our way of life - Justice for all, INNOCENT until proven Guility.
Shabaz, said on a Friday Radio interview (WPTF- 0680 AM) that he was going to meet with Mike (Yes, the DA on a first name basis) and that they were pretty much on the same page. Shabaz said he looked for more charges to come down in this case. The white Radio host (Kevin Miller), asked Shabaz if he could come along with him Monday and Shabaz said okay - but there are certain places you will not be allowed. Kevin Miller said "Why's that?", and Shabaz said you will have to be watched.
Can anyone seriously imagine a Press being civil (and some friendly) when racist comments are made like this? Shabaz also has said in many interviews that the alleged Victim is, by Nature, a Divine Queen because she is a black sister.
Again, how would a White Hate group leader be received if they made comments like all White Men are Divined Kings by Nature or white women. Shabaz also parroted Jesse Jackson's racist comments that Rape is, largely, a white male problem (which stats don't support) and that White men have throughout the history of this country have raped and sexually assaulted black women. IF anybody wants to support that statement - then could it be said that BLACK Men, throughout the history of this country, have beaten black women.
You see my point. In some cases both are true, but if one wants to take some cases from various points in history and apply them in a damning, sweeping statement you can say a lot of things. Throughout the history of this country, White men have paid higher taxes so black men don't have to work. Again, there's as much truth there as there are in the racist statements that the Media let go every day without challenging.
Yes, the New Black Panther party is listed as a Hate group. They have called White people - blue eyed devils. They have called for people to rise up by whatever means necessary and take what "our people" deserve. They have stated that White people are racist by nature and that White people oppress any group they encounter - and they state these things as facts.
.. .. Check out this article on the New Black Panthers:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=214
Mangum, Mangham, MANGRUM OR MAUGHAM
The New York Times weighs in with a sickeningly sympathetic portrayal (is anyone surprised):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1624416/posts
Nah. Shabazz is a hustler. He's a lawyer and runs an....om....well....."organization" of black lawyers called "Black Lawyers for Justice."
Follow the money. Shabazz and his boys are there for the lawsuit against Duke.
I came across an invitation to his Black Town Hall meeting. I'm thinking about sending him an email or two. Text follows:
Urgent... Monday May 1st, 6pm
Black Community Town Hall Meeting
St. Joseph's AME Church, 2521 Fayetteville St. Durham, across from the
Know Bookstore.
*RAPE allegations by a Black Female NCCU Student by Duke University Students
*Racism in Durham, North Carolina
*Unity in our Community and Respect for our Black Women
Panelists include: NCCU Student Leaders, Rev. Phillip Cousins (Host
Pastor), Dr. Bruce Bridges, NAACP, Nation of Islam, Min. Najee
Muhammed (NBPP), Min. Yusuf Muhammed (NBPP)
Keynote Speech by Attorney Malik Z. Shabazz, National Chairman of New
Black Panther Party and National Spokesman of Black Lawyers for
Justice.
call 919.682.7223 or email shabazzlaw@aol.com
Sponsored by Black Leaders and the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense.
I never knew how that ended. What did they reap?
I just can't believe that this man who calls himself a major university president--the man who has hung these young men and in fact the entire lacrosse team out to dry--would even consider allowing these thugs on campus. I can only guess that his reputation has taken a beating for going so PC, so he is allowing them in to do and say what he would like to say himself. He want Duke's PCness out in the open and on the record. I hope that enrollments sharply drop, but I wouldn't hold my breath. I would be worried about sending a child of mine to a place like that!
Anyone listening to the Major of Durham on Fox, William "Bill" Bell?
He's claiming the Black Panthers will cause no problem, it's their right to be in Durham (true) and that he doesn't anticipate they will be armed.
As he's saying that, Fox is showing pics of some panthers carrying weapons. More burying of heads in the sand from elected officials.
Those are file pics. Latest update from FNC is that there are about 20 NBP members congregating. Good news for Duke. Looks like Shabazz isn't all that threatening after all.
UNC reaped the Muslim crazy who mowed down students. My point being, PC never really accomlishes its mission: it draws calls of discrimination, means-spiritedness etc rather than bringing peace and harmony. It encourages resentment, and the latter, as Nietzsche noted long ago, is the pivot-emotion of the striving-talentless (Friedrich put it a little differently here, to be sure).
The Duke president is doing what he's doing because, quite literally, he has no choice. The U has been so PC for so long, and unambiguously so, that he can only bend over and greet the Panthers; he can quiver about "arms on campus," but that is a side issue.
I've never seen anything like that before... so very interesting! I'm amazed at how you find these things! Thanks so much.
Good article.
It would be nice to have that Duke guy (in the picture) greet the New Black PP today! Gosh, he's big!
A sit-in movement had been planned for quite some time by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), under the leadership of John Lewis. The Greensboro Four beat them to the punch; unled, untrained, and inexperienced, they took it on themselves to challenge the system. Their act of heroic non-violent protest followed up on the promise of the Montgomery bus boycotts, and sparked a nationwide sit-in movement which took the struggle for civil rights to its most basic level. They forced white America to take its finger out of the dike, and the deluge followed.--end snip
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