And make sure you hold the march the same day there's a major immigration march that's supposed to happen in Raleigh and Winston Salem, also the night before the Durham primary. Think WRAL has enough reporters to cover all that?
47 posted on 04/30/2006 9:24:14 AM PDT by billbears
(Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
Born Paris Lewis, Shabazz is, for all his radical exploits, a member in good standing of the Washington, D.C., Bar who graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1995. In 2003 he organized Black Lawyers for Justice. He is an inveterate organizer. As an undergraduate in 1988, he founded Unity Nation, a "Black Revolutionary" student group. This led to his association with the notorious Khallid Abdul Muhammad, then of the Nation of Islam, who later chaired the New Black Panther Party from 1998 until his death in February 2001.
Muhammad is best known for his address at Kean College in New Jersey in November 1993, when he was spokesman for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. In the three-hour speech, Muhammad denounced whites, gays, Jews and Catholics, and called for the murder of every white person remaining in South Africa. [5] Muhammad was subsequently fired by Farrakhan, who stated that he differed not with the content of Muhammad's remarks, but only with his manner of delivery.
Shabazz emulates his late mentor in cultivating an inflated impression of his own power and importance. Just as the New Black Panther Party website claims that Muhammad's Kean College speech "shook the racist, Zionist, imperialist, white supremist foundation of the world," [6] Shabazz introduced Muhammad in 1995 by saying, "We want to bring on a man who gives the white man nightmares. We want to bring on a man who makes the Jews pee in their pants at night.... My big brother, Dr. Khallid Muhammad!" [7]
Like big brother, like little brother. At a February 1994 rally that Shabazz organized for Muhammad at Howard University, he warmed up the crowd by whipping them into a frenzy with a vicious anti-Semitic call-and-response. [8] In an October 2001 press conference that was televised live on C-SPAN2, Shabazz blamed Israel for the September 11 attack on New York's World Trade Center. [9] At an April 2002 protest outside B'nai B'rith headquarters in Washington, DC, he said, "Kill every goddamn Zionist in Israel! Goddamn little babies, goddamn old ladies! Blow up Zionist supermarkets!" [10]