The Black Hitler of Harlem

Sultan Knish Blog ^ | March 08, 2014 | Daniel Greenfield

[Bigg Red]

The Black Hitler was a Chicago community organizer who moved to New York. Somewhere along the way he picked up a gold lined cape, a purple turban and a stepladder on which he used to stand while giving speeches outside the stores of Harlem's dwindling Jewish community.

The cape and the turban were combined with Nazi style military shirt and jackboots, for the quixotic uniform of a man who is remembered today as a pioneering labor leader-- but was known back then as the Black Hitler.

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[Bigg Red]

Fascinating -- and chilling -- history of racial hate mongering in NYC.

[Yorlik803]

Wow.....things never taught in school. Makes one happy Al Gore Invented the internet.

[P.O.E.]

The tactic was an old one, unleash violence and then claim to be the only ones who could bottle it up.

The old "never let a crisis go to waste" sort of thing.

[a fool in paradise]

Merchandise of Wal-Mart PING (really)

[DaveA37]

I think the Black Hitler actually moved into the White House, not Harlem.

[arderkrag]

[Rodamala]

Not to be confused with Girl Hitler from The Venture Bros. on [adult swim].

"You mess with the girl, you get the Hitler!"

[NativeSon]

Awesome show

[livius]

Excellent historical account.

These guys are such clowns...they usually go for bizarre royal dress and accoutrements that they believe to be Arabic or Egyptian...that it’s hard to remember that they actually are quite vicious and that many blacks take them seriously.

There was (and still is) a group of them that gathers in their ridiculous get-ups to shriek hate-filled racial conspiracy theories and anti-white and anti-Semitic nonsense across 7th Ave from the 34th St Macy’s. And they are always surrounded by a nodding and occasionally fist-pumping audience of young black guys.

[FAA]

Lots of 1970s cult movie references around here lately. Most I never heard of. From IMDB:

“General Ahmed has started an inner-city People’s Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts...”

I may have to watch.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

“The Black Gestapo” is a good film, especially for its genre. Look for Charles Robinson of “Night Court” fame (Mac) as the villain.

He’s really good; he made an interesting bad guy!

[P.O.E.]

From Front Page Mag

[Popman]

Fascinating article...

[Popman]

Imperial Japan's simultaneous cultivation of Muslims in order to subvert the British Empire, also led to ties between Japanese officials and the Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad. The Moorish Science Temple, a more explicit fusion of Islam, Asiatic exoticism and Black Nationalism, another pseudo-Islamic cult operating out of Chicago.

What an interesting factoid...

The POTUS would have fit right in...

[texas booster]

... Sharpton's prominence is a testament to how mainstream Sufi Abdul Hamid's form of community organizing had become. When Obama visited Sharpton to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his National Action Network, he was commemorating not just the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights Pogrom, but an organization which had ominous similarities to Hamid's own.

[a fool in paradise]

From Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night.

Youtube - The Black Führer of Harlem (from MOTHER NIGHT by Kurt Vonnegut) ... (filmed in the 1990s, written decades earlier, set in the 1960s)

[skinkinthegrass]

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[Bigg Red]

Makes one happy Al Gore Invented the internet.

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[Bigg Red]

The whole article was such an eye-opener for me. Well, except for the part I already knew about $harpton.

[Bigg Red]

Sorry, not my kind of programming.