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Lunatic Ron Karenga's posse had violent, murderous disputes with the Black Panthers back in the 60s.

http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/sixties-l/4235.html
First of all Karenga was not a Panther, he was a member of US which was a nationalist group in LA. US members were convicted of killing two Panthers at UCLA Bunchy Carter and John Huggins. Karenga now teaches at UCSD and is head of the African American Studies (name? ) program. He is also famous for inventing Kawansa which is now popular all over the US as an African American celebration in either Dec. or Jan. Last month while attending the Socialist Scholars Conf in NYC I attended a work shop that only Karenga showed up and the rest of the panel missed so I got to hear him speak for about an hour. AT the end of the panel during the question period I asked him to give me his version of the shoot out at UCLA. I videoed the entire 10-15 min response which I hope to write up at some point. He discussed his version of the history between the Panther and US which I found to be very interesting. He said he was present during the shoot out which was the first that I had heard of that.

Despite modern perceptions that blend all the black activists of the '60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites. They did not seek armed revolution. Those were the precepts of Karenga's United Slaves. United Slaves were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, blowing away Black Panthers and adopting invented "African" names. (That was a big help to the black community: How many boys named "Jamal" currently sit on death row?)

Ann Coulter

This has already turned out to be very enlightening. I didn't know the details about Karenga's sketchy history. Here's a frontpage article from last year that I just scraped up: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5251

The guy sounds like a total loon.