Black Panthers in Morristown, NJ? Stay tuned

Morris News Bee ^ | 06.05.03

[Coleus]

Black Panthers in Morristown? Stay tuned

06/05/2003

MORRISTOWN - The 1960s may have ended more than 30 years ago, but a distant name from that age - the Black Panthers - could be rejuvenated in Morristown.

Abbett Avenue resident William Riley, claiming to be a member of the New Black Panther Party, came to last Tuesday's Town Council meeting to tell council members young people feel harassed by police when they walk around Morristown, notably in the predominantly black and Latino Second Ward. He warned council that police misconduct would be met with "maximum physical retaliation."

Riley, 31, told the council that Panthers from chapters in Newark, Paterson, Harlem and Brooklyn would come to Morristown sometime this week to talk to teenagers.

He claimed that youths have become the target of police harassment, alleging that one particular officer has jumped out from behind bushes at teens.

Riley said that the New Black Panthers, an offshoot of the original Black Panthers based in Newark and Paterson, would become present in Morristown to combat the drug problem, but said problems with youth were a result of social injustice.

Second Ward Councilwoman Raline-Smith Reid said Riley had an important message.

She noted after the meeting that there is a concern not just with what is happening with police, but what else is going on in the community such as the drug problem and gang activities.

Riley had called such issues the result of a problem, not problems in and of themselves.

Smith-Reid has noted there have been several complaints from people in her ward about how police are handling certain matters.

Councilman Donald Cresitello said bias incidents would not be tolerated. "If an officer is harassing young people then no one in Morristown would tolerate that," Cresitello said Monday. "We don't want our officers harassing anyone."

Riley said he has been a member of the new Black Panthers for two years and serves as a minister of defense, meaning he can train other members and speak on the group's behalf.

Riley said the Panthers are in Morristown and looking for a home. The group wants to find a space with enough room to host everything from social gatherings to mentor sessions. No phone number for the group could be found.

Riley reportedly dropped out of Morristown High School in his junior year. He said he had been a member of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam organization but decided to join the New Black Panthers, an offshoot of Farrakhan's group and not related to the original Black Panthers.

In fact, the New Black Panthers were denounced by members of the original Black Panther Party of the 1960s and 1970s, according to reports.

The New Black Panthers were formed in the early 1990s by Khallid Muhammad, who had been ejected from the Nation of Islam for views that were deemed too radical and anti-Semitic. He died in 2001. Malik Shabazz is now the national leader.

The organization is regarded as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama.

According to the law center, an organization that tracks hate groups, former New Black Panther leader Muhammad called for a war when he addressed a crowd in the First Holy Temple of God in Christ in Detroit in September 2000. Muhammad had claimed there are only two kinds of white people: bad whites and worse whites.

Riley said his own past has given him the desire to help keep kids off drugs.

Riley is married with three children of his own. He works as a driver to deliver products in the tri-state area, was arrested in December 1995 and charged with three counts of manufacturing, distributing and dispensing a controlled dangerous substance, according to police. He spent less than a year in the New Jersey Department of Corrections and was released in October 1996.

Riley said he wants to give the children the chance to move toward social change.

Smith-Reid said she has very little knowledge about the New Black Panthers but added they have a right to set up in Morristown just like any other legal group.

Mayor John "Jay" DeLaney Jr. agreed, noting the Panthers have the right to come to Morristown.

[Coleus]

Just what we need in Historic Morristown--former drug addits telling kids not to respect the police and to hate white people.

http://www.nps.gov/morr/

http://www.njskylands.com/hsmtnhp.htm

 

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[Coleus]

Maybe we can FREEP them one day!

[Torie]

Morristown has black gangs? I have been to Morristown. That strikes me as quite amazing.

[pgkdan]

We've got an infestation of the Black Panthers in the Tidewater are of VA. They're in Norfolk and they're nothing but a bunch of anti-white radical black muslims looking for trouble. Their excon leader has shown up at city council meetings and threatened to burn down downtown. He so tormented (stalking and implied threats) a black conservative member of the House of Delegates that she decided to step down...and this thug suffers absolutely no consequence, just gets breathless news coverage at 6 and 11.

[rdb3]

Where have these reporters been? The so-called "New Black Panther Party" is headquartered right here in Dallas. Been here for a while, too.

Remember the name Khalil Abdul-Muhammad? He was in the New Black Panther Party (even Farrakhan kicked him out of the Nation of Islam). He harrassed me and another black woman when I worked @ the The Dallas Morning News. The sight of me walking down the hall of the "white man's" newspaper was too much for him, I guess.

[wideawake]

Every nice town in NJ is eventually infiltrated by parasites.

[wideawake]

You have the best "about page" I've seen on FR so far.

[Torie]

That is a considerate comment. It is always nice to give praise to those that participate here when one can for making a good effort, whatever it is. We need to do it more often. So many posts that show considerable effort and thought are not acknowledged. And that is a pity.

[PetroniDE]

One of their leaders was on Hannity and Colmes this evening. This group is nothing more than a "gang of racist anti-Semite thugs". They are DEMANDING $20K from the mayor and City Council of Morristown, NJ for their "thousand man march" (I refuse to call it million).

If you freep this group, be careful.

[Tamzee]

Perhaps the "New" Black Panthers would like to adopt a Poet Laureate? Amiri Baraka would fit in PERFECTLY and now has need of a new job...

[Chuckster]

I agree. I wish I were better with HTML myself, and I think it would be nice if more FReepers put more than just their state flag on their homepages (nothing personal)

d;^)

[DonQ]

The New Black Panthers Party has been denounced as a fraud by the surviving members of the original Black Panthers. Maybe that isn't very convincing. But the guru of the NBPP is Malik Zulu Shabazz -- real name Paris Lewis -- a former associate of Farakhan's mouthy henchman Khallid Mohammed, and who was soundly rejected by the DC electorate when he ran for city council about 5 years ago (his only "new idea" was that the black population in the depressed neighborhoods should bully the Korean shopkeepers into leaving and then taking over their stores!). It appears that the New Black Panthers exist just to be intimidating; it's not clear if they have actually gotten their hands dirty.

[Coleus]

A lot of home pages change when fr changed their format a few months ago. I've noticed not too many people bookmark fr pages anymore, their "links" page is empty.

[joesnuffy]

the freddies have no problemo taking out white motorcycle gangs
why dont they apply the same gusto to the other parasitic gangs of color?

[Calpernia]

>>>Remember the name Khalil Abdul-Muhammad? ...Farrakhan kicked him out of the Nation of Islam

Huh. Do you have any info I can research on this RDB3? I will try to do searchs after I post. But if you can send any URLs, I would appreciate it.

A first ranked told me that Farrakhan is not held in too high regard with Islam. In other words, he is being used for their own purposes currently. Omar's quotes were, "Farrakhan is just rock star, hollywood".

Whereas, I thought Khalil was a little higher in the pecking order of Islamic respect.

[Calpernia]

http://64.227.206.20/MainLine/MainLineOld/mainlineold_68.html

[jjm2111]

Riley reportedly dropped out of Morristown High School in his junior year.

That says it all. Also, wanna bet the mayor would be singing a different tune if the neo-nazis decided they were going to set up shop to "mentor" white kids?

Please.

[Conservative til I die]

It appears that the New Black Panthers exist just to be intimidating;

As opposed to the original drug pushing, murderous gangster Black Panthers?

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Khallid Muhammad, who had been ejected from the Nation of Islam for views that were deemed too radical and anti-Semitic

Now that takes some doing!