Obama Web Site Still Carries New Black Panther Party Endorsement

FoxNews.com ^ | March 19, 2008

[rightwingintelligentsia]

One day after Barack Obama delivered a speech calling for improved race relations in America, the blogosphere was buzzing Wednesday about whether his campaign planned to remove an endorsement by the New Black Panther Party from his Web site.

The New Black Panthers, who inherited their name from the Black Panther Party of the 1960s, has a page on the Obama campaign’s public forums that says it is backing Obama because he “represents ‘positive change’ for all of America. Obama will stir the ‘Melting Pot’ into a better ‘Molten America,’” the group says.

The NBPP, which has been led since 2001 by Malik Zulu Shabbazz, is identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a tolerance education organization, as an extremist hate group. The Anti-Defamation League calls NBPP “the largest organized anti-Semitic black militant group in America. … Under Shabazz, the group continues to organize demonstrations across the country that blend inflammatory bigotry with calls for black empowerment and civil rights.”

The NBPP lists on its Web site a 10-point plan for full employment for black Americans as well as housing, education, free health care and an end to the death penalty.

[JeepInMazar]

Here is one link to a graphic, but I know there is a better quality one somewhere.

[bw17]

No link posted?

[JNancomb]

To be honest, this is an incredibly lame story. The barackobama site is set up like a social networking/blogging site like facebook and blogger, anyone can join. This is like saying Facebook/blogger endorses racial violence because the KKK sets up a page on their site. I doubt the site is moderated that well, since, well, it’s not a business like facebook or blogger (which, to be honest, also rely on people reporting offensive pages to know they have to remove them).

[Libloather]

To be honest, this is an incredibly lame story.

Not any more.