Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.
Dick Gregory
Today’s topic came to light only because Edmund Burke’s quote is featured in the cartoon. Happens to be in my top ten.
Haven’t heard of the New Black Panther Party? Hmm.
Similar to hate factions like the KKK and neo-Nazis, the New Black Panther Party is a militant hate group, headquartered in Washington, D.C. that seeks to redefine the black struggle for equality and demand liberation from what it sees as white supremacy.
Read more: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/
There is a firestorm on the conservative side of the web. A lot of spin. However, not all of the news is from the right as we see from a balanced story in Newsweek.
Get a grip, folks. The New Black Panther Party is a lunatic fringe group that is clearly into racial theater of minor importance...This case is a one-off. There are plenty of grounds on which to sharply criticize the attorney general — his handling of terrorism questions, just for starters — but this particular overblown attack threatens to undermine the credibility of his conservative critics.
However, in light of the NAACP calling the tea party racist, and a head of steam in the civil rights commission, the story is picking up traction. Too bad Eric Holder told us that we dodn’t have the courage to discuss race. This is becoming more than a tempest in a teapot…
Americans have struggled with issues of race and equality since our founding. If America's first black president and attorney general have been found to selectively prosecute members of one race while ignoring members of another based strictly on the color of skin rather than the color of law, they will have foolishly fanned the flames of racial suspicion while tarnishing the legacy of civil rights pioneers who sought a color-blind society.
It is time for the Department of Justice to fully account for its failure to prosecute members of the New Black Panther Party for their apparent crimes. Would the Obama administration recklessly use the force and weight of our scales of justice to charge whites while providing a free pass to blacks for committing the same offense to score political points? Let us all hope and pray the answer is no while the evidence before us indicates another answer to the question.
My guess is this story only have 5 mode days in the news cycle. Something else will blow up and it will be forgotten. Until the election season. Dirige nos Domine.
The Fox story is below, along with the quote heard round the internet.
I hate white people. All of them! Every last iota of a cracker, I hate him! You want freedom? You're going to have to kill some crackers! You're going to have kill some of their babies.
King Samir Shabaz(z)
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Edmund Burke
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