Residents say they feelsafer with Sheriff’s Dept.
Latino festival gets green light
Community policing topic of Comptonite’s new book
City parks the place to be this summer
Narcotics evidence analysis slowed by budget cuts
Former Burke aide hosts book signing
Federal funding possible for local emergency ops center
Negro Leagues baseball featured on new stamps
YWCA of Greater LA gives top honor to Venus Williams
Earl
Ofari Hutchinson:
Jesse Jackson fouls out on Lebron and race
Clarity and the New Black Panther Party
In
its coverage of the Philadelphia voter intimidation case,
conservative media has unfortunately chosen sensationalism over
clarity. There
are layers to this case to be explored that might highlight
the idealism of the right and expose the pessimism of the left.
Unfortunately,
those layers of exploration are not as sexy as the continuous
video loop depicting New Black Panther Party member King
Samir Shabazz screaming about killing crackers.
The vast majority of Black people respond to such rants this way: “That
brother is crazy!” Indeed, to see the video of Shabazz suggesting
that Black liberation can be had only through the murder of white babies
is to witness a man in the throes of mental illness.
Mental instability may not be a requirement for membership in the
New Black Panther Party, but believing in time travel certainly is. The
small membership of the Panthers routinely attempts to transport themselves
back to 1968. They have appropriated the look of Huey P. Newton and borrowed
their rhetoric from Elijah Muhammad and early Malcolm X. In addition, other
than standing on the street corner yelling at people or appearing on Fox
News, they appear to do very little actual work.
They also share the opinion of most New Leftists that because of
slavery, the American founding was illegitimate; that because of racism,
American values are bankrupt; and that so long as any measure of racism
continues to exist in American society, it will be proof that Blacks remain
the victims of an inherently white, racist system.
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