The release of a video of a hate-filled, racially charged tirade by Minister King Samir Shabazz, one of two members of the New Black Panther party originally charged by the Justice Department with the crime of voter intimidation, lends credence to the testimony of former department attorney J. Christian Adams. Adams testified yesterday before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that he had been ordered to disregard cases involving black defendants and white victims, insisting that the NAACP pressured Attorney General Eric Holder to drop the case against the Panthers.
Holder's claim that justice was indeed meted out seems incredulous in light of the video in which Shabazz
openly expresses his hatred of white people and calls for their death and the death of their children.
The video, which appears below, revives images of some of the ugliest bigotry of the Jim Crow era, only in this case the identities of the bigot and the victim have been reversed.
In the incident that was the basis for the voter intimidation investigation, Shabazz and another member of the militant organization appeared in paramilitary garb outside a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day of 2008. Shabazz is visible brandishing a nightstick in a video of his exchange with a reporter.
Eyewitnesses have reported that Shabazz used racial epithets and struck a menacing posture toward white prospective voters.
It would seem incumbent now on the Justice Department to reopen the investigation. As for Eric Holder, if the man who called America "a nation of cowards" is shown himself to be the biggest coward of all—someone who pretends to uphold the law but in reality abuses it to satisfy his own narrow, racist agenda—it would behoove the White House to ask for his resignation and proceed with criminal charges against him.
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That skinny little punk is angry because he's been raised in a world where everyone takes for granted that a black man should be athletic, but he doesn't have the upper body strength to beat his meat.
It's hard being a whiny black man in America. No one takes you seriously anymore. Can't even get arrested advocating the murder of white babies.
Kind of seems to me that this little loud mouth has set it up for the first "Cracker" that blows him away has a better than average chance of claiming self defense. " He said he was gonna kill me and my Cracker baby,I only did what I had to do.I was afraid for my life" yadda, yadda, yadda.
He looks like a woman. Could that be why he is so draumatic? The little dog sure has a loud bark. If he brandished that night stick at me, I'd shove that so far up is ass he could taste it.
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