I'm sorry I cracked up at the accusation these guys are intimidating voters. It's like the Chappelle skit where the white dad grabs his daughter's hand cause they're sitting behind black people on an airplane.
With or without violence the black panthers are just as divisive as the KKK..... because both look out for their own kind as opposed to using justice and fairness to further the civil rights movement intended for all to embrace.
Agreed. Regardless of the initial intent, or the purpose of the 10 points, perception is everything. (and 9/10ths of the internets)
Though correct, they're both separatist movements, you're entirely missing the relationship between action/reaction, cause/effect, offense/defense, perpetrator/victim, oppressor/oppressed.
WOW! A friend of mine told me about a week ago, that republican officals use to do this to scare white people at poling places on election day.He said they used all kind of mental dirty that they used and I am now convinced its true. I think this could be a republican stunt.
this is the guy with the club. make your own judgements. [rquoter]New Panthers' war on whites By DANA DiFILIPPO Philadelphia Daily News Some people wear their heart on their sleeve. Minister King Samir Shabazz wears his on his forehead. Right between the eyes. "If you want to stop the revolution, that's what you got to hit," Shabazz said, pointing to the target tattooed onto his forehead. "I fight my oppressor, and I give him the target." Shabazz is chairman of the New Black Panther Party's Philadelphia chapter. In black beret atop dreadlocks and a black military uniform, he spends most weekdays near City Hall condemning "crackers" and exhorting black passers-by to rise up against their "slavemasters" - and to give him $2 for the party's semi-annual newspaper. He is one of the most recognizable black militants in a city known, since the days of MOVE, for its vocal black-extremism community. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which monitors hate activity globally, listed the New Black Panther Party as among the most active and tough-talking of black-separatist groups. Black Hebrews also have grown increasingly active in recent years, according to the SPLC, especially in Philadelphia, where robed street preachers shout out their beliefs daily near City Hall, the Convention Center, Germantown Avenue and other heavily trafficked areas. Followers of the movement claim that African-Americans are God's true chosen people because they, not the people traditionally known as Jews, are the real descendants of the biblical Hebrews. Their views, while often just as extreme, tend to be couched in religious rhetoric about "Edomites" (the descendants of Esau) and such terms that barely slow the stride of most passers-by. But Shabazz is more blunt in his views: * On whites: "I'm about the total destruction of white people. I'm about the total liberation of black people. I hate white people. I hate my enemy. . . ." * On Jews: "I don't care how much they try to promote the Jewish Holocaust. The African people have suffered a hell of a cost. . . . " * On Barack Obama and voting: "He's a puppet on a string. I don't support no black man running for white politics. I will not vote for who will be the next slavemaster." Besides, he added, Obama is "a Negro who doesn't even support reparations for black people in America." * On white supremacists: "They're sissies; they want to put their feelings on a flier. Well, come into the black neighborhood with that rhetoric and we will show you what a strong awakened black man looks like." * On the Phillies: "They can kiss my ass. The Phillies are not doing nothing for our 'hoods." Shabazz, who also considers himself a Black Hebrew, said that his beliefs are rooted in high school, where lessons about slavery led to an "awakening." He doesn't like to talk about himself. He won't divulge his real name, which he shed years ago because it was a "slave name that still had an umbilical cord on it." He lives "wherever black people is, that's where I live." He's 38 and has children, but he won't say how many or provide any more details about his personal life, partly for security reasons but also because this reporter is a "cracker." He listens to "revolutionary, cracker-killing hip-hop" on his headphones and says things like: "I'll get black to you on that." And he says that he never worries what response his violent rhetoric might provoke in listeners. "The only thing the cracker understands is violence," said Shabazz, whose face also bears the tattoos "Freedom," "BPG" (Black Power Gang) and "NBPP" (New Black Panther Party). "The only thing the cracker understands is gunpowder. "You got to take violence to violence."[/rquoter]
The first highlighted quote would seem to undercut the premise of Drudge's story. The second is hilarious. "Hey, crazy guy with a face full of tattoos, how 'bout them Phillies?"
They should have youth step dancers with military wardrobe on sight, that would get me running in the other direction.
LOL! That's what I was thinking as well. It sounds like a question Chris Rock would have asked somebody on the street during 'The Chris Rock Show' and the response sounds like an answer he would have received after asking the question.
Mr. Jack Sparrow makes no sense. He wants reparations but white people only understand gunpowder. Ergo, his only sustainable political position is to want reparations paid exclusively in gun powder. Anyway, he will not be supporting Obama, so his relevance (small from the beginning of this thread actually) is plummeting. He may as well carve a backwards pirate B on his face.
If it wasn't for KKK the Black Panthers would have never existed but why doesn't Fox report about KKK meetings rather about some two confused african americans that blocked the entrance? Btw I'm white so it isn't bout the race...
The article you posted basso just confirms what was expected. An isolated incident by a dedicated but misguided racist separatist. Amateurish in comparison to the systematic voter suppression practiced by the Republican professionals.
I agree. People are picketing at every polling place. This is a non story that will only contribute to riots when the election is over. Let's get behind our next President whoever he is and hope for the best. Stupidity holds no ethnicity.
It a guy with an illegal weapon at the entrance of a polling place. You cannot walk around with a freaking club like that, heck security guards have spray now not clubs. You are not even allowed to carry a concealed weapon (CONCEALED) near a polling place on the day of a vote in Texas even if you hold a CHL.
