Posted on 08/23/2010 11:52:52 AM PDT by nasube
It’s just starting to get dark when I stroll up to Jerry Jackson’s house in north-central Philly, a tidy, well-landscaped brick single with a red, black and green flag flying out front. A small sign by the door reads: “COLORED ONLY. No Whites Allowed.” I go for the bell anyway, at any moment expecting someone to tell me to get my cracker-ass off the property.
Jackson—chief of staff of the Philadelphia branch of the New Black Panther Party—answers, and we cordially shake hands. He tells me to wait, going back inside and locking the door behind him. Soon, the door opens again and three Panthers dressed in black file out and take up positions guarding the sidewalk. A woman in street clothes comes out and starts walking around the house, peering behind bushes and into corners.
They stand “at ease” but are alert, with their eyes on the street. No weapons are visible but the martial atmosphere is palpable as daylight fades to night on the otherwise deserted block.
Jackson comes out again, setting an old office chair in the center of the porch. Assistant Chief of Staff Ayotefnut Ba takes up position at the back of the porch. Finally, the chairman himself emerges.
King Samir Shabazz is shorter than I’d expected but otherwise looks just like he does in various YouTube videos—dreads, face covered in tats, and dressed like a soldier. I hesitate—would he be offended to shake the hand of a white man? I extend mine anyway and he takes it; a solid, firm handshake.
Shabazz sits in the office chair and starts talking. “We’re just tired of being demonized,” he says. “When you demonize the New Black Panther Party, you demonize the ideology of black power, black struggle and love."
The New Black Panthers have been all over national news since Election Day 2008, when Shabazz and Jackson were accused of intimidating voters at a Fairmount Avenue polling station in the 14th Ward. Evidence is sparse to what actually happened on that day at the Guild House West Retirement home. A videotape distributed on YouTube shows Shabazz and Jackson standing out front, with Shabazz holding a nightstick and telling the cameraman he is providing security. According to the Department of Justice, which brought a case against the men, “Every voter necessarily had to pass within the mens’ armed purview, and within a distance at which the weapon could potentially be swung to hit them.”
Bartle Bull, a white civil-rights attorney known for working on Democratic candidates’ campaigns, was checking in at various polling stations that day, and when he stopped in on Fairmount Avenue, he said Shabazz yelled at him, “Now you will see what it means to be ruled by the black man, cracker!”
Two poll watchers stationed inside the building reportedly told a third poll watcher that they were intimidated, but they later denied it and said that they were unaware of the Panthers’ presence.
“I didn’t see anybody outside. Nobody said nothing to me about anything,” poll watcher Larry Counts testified at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, though he had previously told Justice Department lawyers that before leaving the polling place, he “first checked to see if the Black Panthers were still deployed outside.”
There were no reports of voters denied entrance to the polls. The neighborhood is primarily black, and out of more than 1,500 voters, fewer than 100 were registered Republican. So it’s unclear who exactly Shabazz and Jackson would have wanted to prevent from casting ballots.
Vice Chair of the Civil Rights Commission Abigail Thernstrom said, “So far —after months of hearings, testimony and investigation—no one has produced actual evidence that any voters were too scared to cast their ballots.”
Citing lack of evidence, the Department of Justice dropped the intimidation charges but issued an injunction banning Shabazz from Philadelphia polls until 2012. Critics are accusing the DoJ of “backing off” voting cases involving black defendants, under the direction of President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. A number of lawmakers have called for the DoJ’s Inspector General to investigate why the case was dropped, but the office declined, stating that its jurisdiction is to uncover waste and fraud, not political bias.
Meanwhile, Shabazz and Jackson have said very little about Election Day 2008.
“It’s not about a night stick. It’s about the very fact that the New Black Panther Party was there providing security for our elders. The KKK and neo-Nazis in the city of Philadelphia were putting out fliers saying they would be attacking elders and youth. We were there to secure the elders’ home.
“Everything else that happened after that, it is what it is.”
Shabazz says he can’t speak more about the voter-intimidation charges because the case is still under review by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He and Jackson were subpoenaed by the Commission but declined to testify when their lawyer did not show up to the deposition in January. “To be honest, I don’t want to talk about it,” Shabazz says. “The white man has lied about it so much. That’s small potatoes.”
When interviewed on Fox News, New Black Panther National Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz (unrelated to King Shabazz) was quick to say that the Panthers do not support voter intimidation. “We should not be conducting ourselves that way at a polling station on Election Day.”
But at an undated, videotaped Panther event, Malik Shabazz is seen telling group members: “What would we look like in front of a polling place with a baton? You know we don’t carry batons. Sike.”
Critics say past inflammatory comments made by King Shabazz in print, audio and video prove he intended to intimidate white voters on Election Day.
The most notorious clip is one in which he stands on South Street and yells at a crowd, “You want freedom? You gonna have to kill some crackers! You gonna have to kill some of they babies!”
Shabazz says the clip is overplayed. “For white media to pick out the one thing I said, when I’m talking to the people—I never said King Samir is gonna kill your babies.”
He won’t accept or deny charges that the New Black Panthers are racist. “A racist is one who loves, supports and adores his race,” he said. “We love our people more than they hate themselves. White people love white people more than they like black people.”
Malik Shabazz outright denies the charge. “The New Black Panther Party is not a hate group or a racist organization,” he told Fox News when confronted with King’s statements.
Back on the porch at Jackson’s house, King Shabazz is telling me what’s wrong with white people: “You were grafted out of the idea of being wickedly wise. Everything about your god is false. It is in your disposition to be against the laws of nature. Naturally, you’re just a f**k-up. A wild, untamed savage beast.”
The rhetoric was too over the top. In the silence, as I think about my next question, I start to giggle. I can’t help it. I look at Shabazz and he is smiling too, just for a second.
“What is wrong with you?” he asks. He posed a lot of rhetorical questions but this one seemed directed at me. Any hint of professionalism in the interview was already out the window, so I answer.
“It’s just in my disposition to be evil,” I say, and Shabazz lost his shit, slapping his knee in laughter. “That’s the smartest thing he’s said since he’s been here,” he says to Jackson.
If people want to say King Shabazz has a problem with white people, they’re on pretty solid ground, and he’s happy to confirm the notion in the strongest possible terms.
“The white man is the devil,” he says.
But whether King Shabazz acted along or under the direction of the party, who he hates and to what extent he hates them aren’t the question. The issue is whether any voters were actually intimidated, and whether the DoJ acted improperly in dismissing the charges.
The Civil Rights hearing has no resolution in sight and the body has no enforcement power anyway, so the case will linger for some time to come.
“Sometimes, whatever we do, we just tend to do it kind of strong,” Malik Shabazz said at the New Panther gathering. “King Samir Shabazz was just a little bit too strong.”
“White people need to go. Bottom line,” King says, tapping his fist in his hand. “The solution is the extermination of every last cracker on the planet.”
Also, an 87 year old white man a WW II Navy vet-a Seabee, was shot and murdered as he returned home from the store. A widower he lived alone in a house he had lived in for many years-when he moved there it was white, now it's black and crime/drug ridden.
Two neighborhood "youts" both black a 17 year old girl and a 14 (!) year old boy were apprehended. The girl was seen running from the victim's house wearing "Muslim garb" You won't see a word about either crime in Phila. Weakly
instead, the white libtard reporter is giggling (his word) while these racist swine are spouting their insanity. Meanwhile, a few months ago, they did a hatchet job on the Delaware County Patriots, a Tea Party group in the suburbs.
how many new black panthers are muslims?
“The white man is the devil,” he says.
That’s all I need to know....stop reading.
Another question is how many of the NBPs go to Rev. Wrights church?
Textbook example of a ‘useful idiot’.
My thoughts exactly.
Paralyzing self-victimization taken to an extreme.
Just keep blaming others for your problems, it’ll keep you from having to be responsible.
The meme is that these are just fringe wackos spouting words-well, action speaks louder than words they say, and based on that as well as my observation-the majority of blacks share these people’s views.
No whites allowed! guess they dont want our tax money either.
exactly
puke later ... :)
yup ...we will never be one people according to them..we are supposed outreach and give.while they slap our hands and take..
da pidjin posse has spoked....
“White people need to go. Bottom line,” King says, tapping his fist in his hand. “The solution is the extermination of every last cracker on the planet.”
That is some love...
I guess that means the "devil" invented every electronic device that they use to sustain their organization. Computers, cell phones, modes of travel ....
Your neck of the woods looks just like what I have to boat thru to get to my place when the Trinity is up.
Well, to be completely fair, they seem to not just hate white people:
Attacks against Mexicans inflame tensions in NYC
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20100816/US.Staten.Island.Attacks/
We don’t have any alligators up here but the two legged critters can be dangerous when they get their dander up.
People get real protective about their piece of bottom land.
“THe white man is the devil” is basically Black Liberation Theology concisely packaged.
Attend court in Philly sometime. You will see a gathering of black garbed females waiting for the man of the house to be led into court for his hearing. You can see the prisons are breeding grounds for “new converts” and Islamic worker bees. A captive audience for sure.
Rwandan love.
Africans are the most racist on the planet. Their tradition is so established they have a word for it genocide.
Gotta ask, where would these “people” be without the whitemans inventions they always want to raid?
Left in Africa, they would have just continued being f’d up africans. Here? They have incredible opportunity to integrate and do something with their lives other than blame others and loathe in their racism.
They need to figure out the fact that we are all in this together.
They want a reason to bitch? Lets pick on their man Obama and his policies. His inaction on unemployment has affected the black community more than the whites...
>The white man is the devil
I’ll should send them a Fruit Basket for Christmas.
Unfortunately, too many do have the entitlement attitude. The closing line is the “money line”: ““White people need to go. Bottom line,” King says, tapping his fist in his hand. “The solution is the extermination of every last cracker on the planet.””
King Whatsit’sName might be well advised to contemplate the First Rule of Genocide: When calling for genocide, make sure you are in the majority, not a small and easily identified minority.
“..fewer than 100 were registered Republican. So it’s unclear who exactly Shabazz and Jackson would have wanted to prevent from casting ballots.”
Actually, I think that makes it very clear.
Yeah, sorta like on 9/11. If only someone had captured the event on tape, we might be able to solve the riddle...
Really, how does somebody live to adulthood with this defective of an intellect? Seems to me he should have been crushed to death in a pedestrian crossing at least 100 times before his 20th birthday, not to mentioned fatally drowning every time it rains.
I wonder how the Chinese government would react if they heard genocidal mania like this. It would be lovely if these idiots realized that Asians, hispanics, and Indians are not interested in living in a black ruled country and don’t hate whites the way these idiot blacks do. Society welcomes everyone who works hard, earns their living, and also follows the law.
These selfish idiots have been isolating themselves from a society that has bowed and scraped and pampered them in order to welcome them, but they still hold back and want the rest of the world to grovel to them. I think (and hope) that other minorities understand that once whites are gone, they’ll be next. And that I daresay is why that if blacks do start something, that they will be outnumbered. The last thing anyone wants is racial war, but strangely blacks seem to court it in the deluded belief that whites will just bend over.
“Really, how does somebody live to adulthood with this defective of an intellect”
Welfare.
“The white man is the devil,” he says.
Bastard needs a bullet thru the head. Along with all bastard racists. F**k em all.
Aaron Kase - “I was born a poor, black child”
“Assistant Chief of Staff Ayotefnut Ba”...??? “Assistant Chief of Staff Ayotefnut Ba”.....?????
Are you kidding me? Now that’s FUNNY!!!!
Only in Philly.
“White people need to go. Bottom line,” King says, tapping his fist in his hand. “The solution is the extermination of every last cracker on the planet.”
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But then who would pay the taxes to supply these scumbags with their welfare dollars?
best left to the black panthers and whites living off of ss and welfare.
Then stop acting like demons.
I had the opportunity to see the Olympics in the 60’s and 70’s and noticed the African teams were either all African or all Arab although their nations have Indian, Chinese and some white citizens. One African nation had a mixed racial team - South Africa. SA was kicked out of the Olympics in 1972 because of apartheid
Start with me, cockroach.
I have a lot of cracker love waiting for you and your tribe. 
Looks to me like the black man is pretty damned good at starting and worsening a Depression. Oh yeah, that's par for the course. Get in power, impoverish the country.
“White people need to go. Bottom line,” King says, tapping his fist in his hand. “The solution is the extermination of every last cracker on the planet.”
Bring it on ......
*Shabazz sits in the office chair and starts talking. “We’re just tired of being demonized,” he says.*
IT’S HARD NOT TO DEMONIZE THOSE THAT DO THE WORK OF DEMONS.
Makes me think of a trip to Kalinga’s home.
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Idiots.
Whoever says Muhammad was black must be killed…(Ash-Shifa, Tr. Aisha Abdarrahman, 2004)
Ahmad ibn Abi Sulayman, the companion of Sahnun said, “Anyone who says that the Prophet was black should be killed. (ibid, p.375)
In one Hadith, Mohammed referred to Blacks as Raisn Heads (Sahih Al Bukhary vol. 1, no. 662 and vol. 9, no. 256), and as pug nosed slaves in Sahih Moslem vol. 9 pages 46 and 47.
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