Posted on 03/29/2012 5:29:33 AM PDT by SJackson
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The New Black Panthers’ Bounty on George Zimmerman
Posted By John Perazzo On March 29, 2012 @ 12:54 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 30 Comments
Distilled to its essence, the original, widely accepted narrative of Trayvon Martin’s death was that of a clearly delineated battle between good and evil which went something like this: On the night of February 26th in Sanford, Florida, a racist vigilante named George Zimmerman relentlessly and unjustifiably stalked an African American child, as Al Sharpton tenderly described him, who had been minding his own business, eating a bag of Skittles. Zimmerman then gunned the boy down in cold blood, according to Jesse Jacksonsimply because, like so many Americans, he instinctively viewed all black males as potential criminals. Notably, a host of major media reports described the Hispanic gunman specifically as a white Hispanica term rarely if ever used prior to the Martin killingto emphasize the familiar oppressor-versus-victim racial storyline that the left has grown so proficient at reciting.
Recently the New Black Panther Partynever known for mincing wordshas weighed in on the case as well, ominously declaring that White America, having failed black people for 400 years, will no longer be permitted to kill black children and get away with it. To drive the point home, the Panthers initially offered a $10,000 bounty for the capture of George Zimmerman. Lest there be any ambiguity about what the Panthers meant by capture, the group not only demanded an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, but also circulated a flyer that read: MURDERED in Cold BLOODChild killer of Trayvon MartinWANTED DEAD or ALIVE. Soon thereafter, the Panthers upped the ante to $1 million, a sum which they expected to collect in donations from the black community [including] athletes and entertainers.
The Panthers, it is worth noting, have been unpersuaded by some inconvenient facts that emerged following the announcement of their bounty, including eyewitness evidence that Trayvon Martin actually attacked Zimmerman (rather than vice versa) and was beating the latter quite badly just prior to the shooting. Of course, not all the facts are known yet, but as far as the New Black Panthers are concerned, the collection and evaluation of evidence are merely tiresome formalities that would serve only to delay and deny justice for the racist killer. The Panthers’ southern regional leader, Mikhail Muhammad, puts it succinctly: He [Zimmerman] should be fearful for his life. You cant keep killing black children. Righteous crusades against evil don’t require due process; they only require victory.
Anyone familiar with the New Black Panthers knows that they have long been vexed by the racism which they claim pervades White America. Indeed, who could forget one of the Panthers’ most famous leaders, the late Khalid Abdul Muhammad, whose angst about white racism led him to express his deepest love for one Colin Ferguson, a black gunman who had shot some twenty white and Asian commuters (killing six of them) in a racially motivated rampage aboard a New York commuter train in 1993. Determined to stamp out white racism by any means necessary, Muhammad announced: I honestly wanna kill the enemy…. I would be embarrassed if we couldn’t point to one Colin Ferguson that decided one day to … just kill every goddamn cracker that he saw.
When Muhammad died of a brain aneurysm in 2001, he was succeeded as Panther chairman and crusader-in-chief-against-racism by his longtime protégé, Malik Zulu Shabazz. Like his mentor, Shabazz reads American history as an unpunctuated narrative of white-perpetrated oppression. He asserts, for instance, that George Washington was little more than a slave owner who raped black women, while old wooden-teeth-wearin’, wig-wearin’ Thomas Jefferson, [was] nothin’ but a slave-master, a slave-owner, an Indian-killer.
Shabazz was once a featured speaker at an Al Sharpton-organized Redeem the Dream rally at the Lincoln Memorial, where the young Panthertroubled as he was by the intransigent scourge of American bigotryunambiguously called for a race war. Expressing solidarity with Reverend Sharpton, Shabazz spoke of a proverbial black jury finding white America guilty of injustice and racism; he called on young African Americans, including gang members, to unite against their common enemy; and he articulated his black dream that when we see caskets rolling in the black community we will see caskets and funerals in the community of our enemy as well.
By Shabazz’s reckoning, the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case cries out for precisely such retributive justice. Long before this case, in fact, Shabazz made it clear that if any white person lays their hand on any black man or woman in this county, the black community should swiftly and mercilessly crush that devil.
So as to avoid portraying Shabazz as nothing more than a two-dimensional moron, a third dimension should be pointed out at this time: By no means does the Panther leader uniformly detest all non-blacks. In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, for instance, he lavished praise upon a newly prominent Middle Eastern Arab named Osama bin Laden, characterizing him as a Muslim brother and a bold man who was not bowing down to the West, but rather was standing up for his beliefs and bringing reform to this world. The real terrorists, Shabazz explained, have always been the United Snakes of America.
Under Shabazzs leadership, the New Black Panthers adhere to a Ten-Point Platform that demands the overdue debt of reparations to be paid by this wicked racist government [which] has robbed us; that exhorts all Black People to unite and form an African United Front and arm ourselves for self-defense; and that demands the release of all nonwhite inmates from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial. In the Panthers’ calculus, the collective innocence of blacks is as axiomatic as the collective guilt of whitesincluding, of course, white Hispanics like George Zimmerman.
From that premise, it is but a short logical leap to the conclusion that the evidentiary specifics of any particular case involving race are of no real consequence. And while racial hucksters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton may not endorse the Panthers’ call for violence, they have, for decades, shared the Panthers’ vision of collectivized white guilt and black innocence. Moreover, they remain prepared to exploit any incident which they believe might help them keep that vision alive. Thus do they focus so fervently, so predictably, on incidents bearing even the remotest resemblance to white-on-black violence, which has been a statistical rarity for decades. And thus do they now cleave like leeches (see photos here and here) to Trayvon Martin’s parents, casting them as the latest new faces of their anachronistic, morally bankrupt movement.
When Trayvon Martin was killed, President Obama counseled all Americans to do some soul-searching to figure out how does something like this happen. It is significant that he has not seen fit to encourage a similar analysis of the modern civil rights crowd’s inane and hackneyed ramblings.
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Soliciting kidnapping and murder are both felonies—but neither the Florida authorities nor Eric Holder’s DOJ seem to think this is worthy of their attention.
“But if the Black Panthers do it, they just pop some popcorn and sit back to see how it turns out. “
They already KNOW how it turns out. They are holders people—just axe them.
Also, the MSM 'knows' right from wrong EXCEPT when a member of one of their protected victim groups is involved. In forty years people will look back on this time with amazement that major institutions like the press could be so blind. Much the way we look at how the press acted in the early sixties - totally blind to the civil right movement then - unaware of injustice - in a racist past. Now they're doing it to conservatives.
The press hasn't changed they've just switched 'favorites'. Sick.
It is instructive that Trayvon’s death is the incident the left had to seize upon to demonstrate to blacks the victimhood police are still needed to protect them. If the killing of blacks by whites were rampant, it would seem a better example could be found.
This episode merely serves to show how little white-on-black crime there really is, how much white guilt still exists, and how desperate those who have a stake in black victimhood have become.
The dude Zimmerman turns out to be Hispanic-oops, turns out he mentors black kids-oops, and now has black friends defending him-oops.
The left will continue to try to milk this thing, but it’s one big backfire, and in the end, it will only serve to prove the opposite of what theyre trying to prove.
“Let Aryan Nations put a bounty on a black man and watch how fast their leaders are arrested for conspiracy. Then watch how quickly the feds pile on the terrorism and RICO charges.
But if the Black Panthers do it, they just pop some popcorn and sit back to see how it turns out.”
I think you are incorrect in only one particular. The FedStasi probably eats skittles nowdays, rather than popcorn.
Too bad there aren’t any conservative Senators from Florida who might try to put a stop to threats of violence against one of his constituents.
lol, true dat.
Perhaps a severe conservative will soon emerge.
I have a gray hoodie jacket that's perfect for winter weather in my part of Texas. I'm hoping that by the time the weather turns cool again next fall, the hoodie will have lost its political meaning.
remember how snickers sales plunged after the superbowl ad with two men smooching?
I suspect skittles sales will drop and it will be reduced to a niche candy.
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