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Jasper officials and residents had feared the rally could become violent, as members of the New Black Panther Party had vowed to arm themselves and take up positions around town to protect Jasper's black residents.
Before the KKK rally began, members of the New Black Panther Party walked through Jasper's streets, chanting "black power" and warning of violence if there were problems for blacks.
Back to the Future:
Black Panthers: old v. young
London Sunday Times
16 March 1997
A BATTLE for the soul of America's black power movement is expected to come before the courts next month as young activists accuse their elders of going soft and betraying the cause of "power to the people". A group of young zealots has set up a rival Black Panther organisation called the New Black Panther party. They want to try to revive the radicalism of the 1960s, when the group struck terror into the hearts of white Americans and was described by J Edgar Hoover, the FBI chief, as "the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States".
The original Black Panthers, who took their ideology from Mao Tse-tung and Malcolm X but have since mellowed in their outlook, are suing the upstarts to prevent them from using the Panther name and logo of a pouncing panther. "The Black Panther Party Inc does not wish to be confused with the 'New Black Panthers', a group preaching racial division and the inappropriate use of arms to promote social change," said the lawsuit. A judge has ordered the new group to stop using the Panther name until the case is heard.
"I don't give a damn what judge issued an order," said Aaron Michaels, the 35-year-old leader of the new organisation. Michaels, who has led a series of high-profile, armed confrontations with the Texas authorities since last summer, said he believed the original group of Panthers was jealous of the new organisation's success. "We've garnered the attention of the establishment." He branded the original Panthers as "has-been wannabe Panthers", adding: "Nobody can tell us who we can call ourselves."
Michaels earned his revolutionary credentials after calling on blacks to use shotguns and rifles to protest against the chairman of a school board who had been secretly taped calling black students "little niggers".
A few weeks later, Michaels led a group of heavily armed Panthers to a black church near Dallas that had been burnt down. "You catch a cracker lighting a torch to any black church or any property of black people we are to send them to the cemetery," warned Khallid Muhammad, the controversial spokesman for the Nation of Islam, who had rushed to support Michaels and the new Panthers.
It was at this point that Fahim Minkah, leader of the Dallas branch of the original Panthers, initiated the lawsuit, accusing the new Panthers of "race-baiting and bully tactics".
"For these guys to walk around in their little berets and guns smacks us right in the face," said Charles Hillman, a member of the original Panther group. "These new groups are not consistent with what we were about," said David Hilliard, former chief of staff for the Panthers. "They are only spouting rhetoric."
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When was the last time you heard of Aaron Michaels?
BUT!:
Khallid Muhammad, who denied the existence of the Holocaust and has called New York, "Jew York City.", has just appeared on Hannity and Colmes in all his hatefulness in his brand new *uniform*, and he is to be watched...most definitely.