While Fox aired a report earlier today accusing Philadelphia’s Black Panthers of intimidating voters, at least one genuine Philly Panther (as opposed to, y’know, a plant) probably didn’t participate. The Philadelphia Daily News’ Dana DiFlippo chatted with New Black Panther Party chairman Minister King Samir Shabazz, “one of the most recognizable black militants in a city known, since the days of MOVE, for its vocal black-extremism community.”
* 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.”
Much as I’d like to condemn the hateful rhetoric, I’m always happy to check out more revolutionary, cracker-killing-hip-hop. Anyone know if Shabazz is on Last FM?
He’s certainly right on about the Phillies.
Hilarity…The vicinity of the 12th & Fairmount polling site is around 90% African-American with a smattering of houses shared by either Temple students or young artists. I sure hope the Panthers didnt scare off the 3 or 4
McCain voters in that precinct.
here’s a video of a Philly polling place incident. It’s unclear from the footage who is affiliated with who.