Racists again endorse Obama on candidate's website
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- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:51:45 -0700 (PDT)
Racists again endorse Obama on candidate's website
New Black Panther Party condemns 'white men,' 'Jews,' praises Barack
By Aaron Klein
WorldNetDaily
An anti-white and virulently anti-Semitic black supremacist party has
once again endorsed Sen. Barack Obama on the presidential candidate's
own website, WND has learned.
Following criticism earlier this month of an online endorsement from
the New Black Panther Party, or NBPP, Obama's campaign removed the
controversial organization from the presidential candidate's official
website. The NBPP had been a registered team member and blogger on
Obama's "MyObama" campaign site.
But the NBPP endorsement was reposted on Obama's official website
today.
"Obama is capable of stirring the 'melting pot' into a better 'molten
America,'" states the NBPP endorsement posted on Obama's site.
The NBPP is a controversial black extremist party whose leaders are
notorious for their racist statements and for leading anti-white
activism.
Malik Zulu Shabazz, NBPP national chairman, who has given scores of
speeches condemning "white men" and Jews, confirmed his organization's
endorsement of Obama in a recent interview with WND.
"I think the way Obama responded to the attack on him and the attempt
to sabotage his campaign shows true leadership and character. He had a
chance to denounce his pastor and he didn't fall for the bait. He
stood up and addressed real issues of racial discord," stated Shabazz.
Shabazz boasted he met Obama last March when the politician attended
the 42nd anniversary of the voting rights marches in Selma, Ala.
"I have nothing but respect for Obama and for his pastor," said
Shabazz, referring to Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor of nearly 20
years.
It is Wright's racially charged and anti-Israel remarks that were
widely circulated this month, landing the presidential candidate in
hot water and prompting Obama to deliver a major race speech in which
he condemned Wright's comments but not the pastor himself.
Speaking to WND, Shabazz referred to Obama as a man with a "Muslim
background, a man of color."
Shabazz's NBPP's official platform states "white man has kept us deaf,
dumb and blind," refers to the "white racist government of America,"
demands black people be exempt from military service and uses the word
"Jew" repeatedly in quotation marks.
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Shabazz has led racially divisive protests and conferences, such as
the 1998 Million Youth March in which a few thousand Harlem youths
reportedly were called upon to scuffle with police officers and
speakers demanded the extermination of whites in South Africa.
The NBPP chairman was quoted at a May 2007 protest against the 400-
year celebration of the settlement of Jamestown, Va., stating, "When
the white man came here, you should have left him to die."
He claimed Jews engaged in an "African holocaust," and he has promoted
the anti-Semitic urban legend that 4,000 Israelis fled the World Trade
Center just prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
When Shabazz was denied entry to Canada last May while trying to speak
at a black action event, he blamed Jewish groups and claimed Canada
"is run from Israel."
Canadian officials justified the action stating he has an "anti-
Semitic" and "anti-police" record, but some reports blamed what was
termed a minor criminal history for the decision to deny him entry.
He similarly blamed Jews for then-New York Mayor Rudi Giuliani's
initial decision, later rescinded, against granting a permit for the
Million Youth March.
The NBPP's deceased chairman, Khallid Abdul Muhammad, a former Nation
of Islam leader who was once considered Louis Farrakhan's most trusted
adviser, gave speeches referring to the "white man" as the "devil" and
claiming that "there is a little bit of Hitler in all white people."
In a 1993 speech condemned by the U.S. Congress and Senate, Muhammad,
lionized on the NBPP site, referred to Jews as "bloodsuckers," labeled
the pope a "no-good cracker" and advocated the murder of white South
Africans who would not leave the nation subsequent to a 24-hour
warning.
All NBPP members must memorize the group's rules, such as that no
party member "can have a weapon in his possession while drunk or
loaded off narcotics or weed," and no member "will commit any crimes
against other party members or black people at all."
The NBPP endorses Obama on its own page of the presidential
candidate's official site that allows registered users to post their
own blogs.
The group labels itself on Obama's site as representing "Freedom,
Justice, and Peace for all of Mankind." It links to the official NBPP
website, which contains what can be arguably regarded as hate
material.
The NBPP previously endorsed Obama on the presidential candidate's
site, but following publicity of that endorsement, the Obama campaign
removed the NBPP posting.
"It's our policy [to remove] any content generated by a group that
advocates violence," explained Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor to
FoxNews.com.
Before the campaign removed the party's page, Obama spokeswoman
Tiffany Edwards told FoxNews.com the NBPP endorsement on Obama's
website "has nothing to do with us."
"People can form their own groups," she said. "It's not something that
the campaign - it's not something that we've done."
While it appears anyone can initially sign up as a registered
supporter on Obama's site, it isn't clear whether the campaign
monitors the site or approves users. There is a link on each blog page
for users to report any abusers, such as those who post controversial
entries, to the administrator.
Shabbazz chalked up the Obama campaign's initial removal of his NBPP
endorsement from the website to "the game of politics."
"The Obama camp's move to remove our blog doesn't mean much because I
understand politics. We still completely support Obama as the best
candidate," he told WND.
Obama 'less biased' on Israel
Shabazz said that aside from promoting black rights, he also supports
Obama because he may take what he called a "less biased" policy on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"I have hopes he will change the U.S. government's position toward the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict because our position has been unwarranted
bias. Time and time again the U.S. vetoed resolutions in the U.N.
Security Council condemning [Israeli] human rights violations. ... I
hope he shifts policy," Shabazz said.
But he added he doesn't believe Obama could change America's policy
regarding Israel very much since, he said, "other, powerful lobbies"
control U.S. foreign policy.
Shabazz's comments follow recent reports highlighting the anti-Israel
views of scores of Obama advisors.
Merrill A. McPeak, Obama's military adviser and national campaign co-
chairman, last week sought to deflect calls for his resignation over
comments he made during an interview in which he implied U.S.
politicians are afraid of Jewish voters in Miami and New York City and
that American Jews are the "problem" impeding a solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
McPeak, a former Air Force chief of staff, also compared the Hamas and
Hezbollah terrorist organizations to what he described as religious
radicals in Oregon and claimed "born-again [Christians]" supported the
war in Iraq to help Israel.
WND recently quoted Israeli security officials who expressed "concern"
about Robert Malley, an adviser to Obama who has advocated
negotiations with Hamas and providing international assistance to the
terrorist group.
Also, Samantha Power, described as Obama's closest adviser until she
resigned earlier this month after making strong remarks against Sen.
Hillary Clinton, advocated investing "billions of dollars, not in
servicing Israel's military, but actually investing in the state of
Palestine."
Additionally, Obama's church printed an opinion piece by Hamas and
published an open letter in which a Palestinian activist accuses
Israel of constructing an "ethnic bomb" that "kills blacks and Arabs."
Robert Goldberg, a doctor who first pointed out McPeak's controversial
statements, wrote in a piece in the American Spectator online
magazine: "Obama has a Jewish problem, and McPeak's bigoted views are
emblematic of what they are. Obama can issue all the boilerplate
statements supporting Israel's right to defend itself he wants. But
until he accepts responsibility for allowing people like McPeak so
close to his quest for the presidency, Obama's sincerity and judgment
will remain open questions."
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