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Lessons to Be Learned from Min. Farrakhan
Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 5:34 am
By: Gregory Kane, BlackAmericaWeb.com
It’s Malik Zulu Shabazz, not President Barack Obama, who needs to learn some lessons while seated at Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s table.
Shabazz is the leader of the so-called New Black Panther Party. Its leader and rank-and-file members have done nothing but make me pine away for the old Black Panther Party. Mind you, the old BPP had its faults, but in terms of political analysis and what the old Panthers did for the community, they were light years ahead of the NBPP.
By now, you may have heard what Shabazz said about Obama in response to the president’s decision to allow American air power to be used to help anti-Muammar Gaddafi forces in Libya. For those of you who missed it, please peruse what’s below:
“Whatever Barack Obama is doing this hour, he represents the white man. He represents the ideology of the white man. He represents the policies of the white man. He represents the CIA-setup-sabotage-lie-on-an-African leader and bombed that man like he George Bush. He represents the white man. And his wife should leave the [censored] tonight. She should walk out. And his beautiful daughters should walk out on this bamboozling, buck-dancing Tom. Oh, yeah, I said it. We’ve held back on this Negro for a long time. Done held back on him and tried to hope that the nature of the black man would somehow come to reality. And he caved in like a punk.
“And you’ve fallen into this trap, Barack Obama, and you should have listened to Louis Farrakhan a long time ago when you were at his table. But you wanna follow the white man, and the white man’s time is up. How you gonna get out of this, Obama? One hundred million dollar a week, $200 million a week disaster? How you gonna get out of it? We PRAY that Gaddafi survives. We pray that that black man from black Berber lineage survives. When a black man is under attack, we don’t run with the dogs ... We seen the white man coming after us the same way all the time. Only thing you see in Libya is a big case of police brutality. We see the way they team up on us and run us down all the time. Sometimes it’s a [censored] police chief in the lead. And this time it’s a [censored] police chief in the lead named Barack Obama.”
In BlackAmericaWeb.com columnist Michael Cottman’s April 12 story about how an organization of black clergymen responded to Donald Trump’s claim that Obama wasn’t born in the United States, we learned the good ministers immediately charged racism. Trump didn’t mention race, but they saw racism all in his remarks.
They’ve had nothing to say about Shabazz calling Obama not only a “bamboozling, buck-dancin’ Tom,” but also a N-word as well. Hey, I’m just saying.
Now, compare Shabazz’s remarks to Farrakhan’s, who also opposes Obama’s Libya policy. This is also taken from a BlackAmericaWeb.com story, this time from April 4: “I love Muammar Gaddafi, and I love our president. It grieves me to see my brother president set a policy that would remove this man not only from power, but (also) from the earth.”
Then, later in the story, readers learned that Farrakhan “called for a cease-fire on both sides in Libya and a chance for the Libyan people to vote on whether Gaddafi should stay in power.”
Farrakhan is pushing 78; Shabazz is 43. When Farrakhan was Shabazz’s age, he might well have used some of the same language that Shabazz used. But a man learns things over the years. One thing Farrakhan has learned – and hat Shabazz has yet to learn – is the value of how to disagree without being disagreeable.
In December of 1964, when Farrakhan was only 41, he penned the notorious article in Muhammad Speaks warning Malcolm X that he was “worthy of death.” Years later, Farrakhan admitted those words led to the climate in which Malcolm X was eventually assassinated. When, 31 years after he wrote those words, Farrakhan called for his Million Man March with an emphasis on atonement, the man was dead serious, as serious as triple bypass surgery on an octogenarian.
Farrakhan realized he had much to atone for. Shabazz needs to realize that he, like Obama, has much to learn from the Nation of Islam leader.
Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 5:34 am
By: Gregory Kane, BlackAmericaWeb.com
It’s Malik Zulu Shabazz, not President Barack Obama, who needs to learn some lessons while seated at Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s table.
Shabazz is the leader of the so-called New Black Panther Party. Its leader and rank-and-file members have done nothing but make me pine away for the old Black Panther Party. Mind you, the old BPP had its faults, but in terms of political analysis and what the old Panthers did for the community, they were light years ahead of the NBPP.
By now, you may have heard what Shabazz said about Obama in response to the president’s decision to allow American air power to be used to help anti-Muammar Gaddafi forces in Libya. For those of you who missed it, please peruse what’s below:
“Whatever Barack Obama is doing this hour, he represents the white man. He represents the ideology of the white man. He represents the policies of the white man. He represents the CIA-setup-sabotage-lie-on-an-African leader and bombed that man like he George Bush. He represents the white man. And his wife should leave the [censored] tonight. She should walk out. And his beautiful daughters should walk out on this bamboozling, buck-dancing Tom. Oh, yeah, I said it. We’ve held back on this Negro for a long time. Done held back on him and tried to hope that the nature of the black man would somehow come to reality. And he caved in like a punk.
“And you’ve fallen into this trap, Barack Obama, and you should have listened to Louis Farrakhan a long time ago when you were at his table. But you wanna follow the white man, and the white man’s time is up. How you gonna get out of this, Obama? One hundred million dollar a week, $200 million a week disaster? How you gonna get out of it? We PRAY that Gaddafi survives. We pray that that black man from black Berber lineage survives. When a black man is under attack, we don’t run with the dogs ... We seen the white man coming after us the same way all the time. Only thing you see in Libya is a big case of police brutality. We see the way they team up on us and run us down all the time. Sometimes it’s a [censored] police chief in the lead. And this time it’s a [censored] police chief in the lead named Barack Obama.”
In BlackAmericaWeb.com columnist Michael Cottman’s April 12 story about how an organization of black clergymen responded to Donald Trump’s claim that Obama wasn’t born in the United States, we learned the good ministers immediately charged racism. Trump didn’t mention race, but they saw racism all in his remarks.
They’ve had nothing to say about Shabazz calling Obama not only a “bamboozling, buck-dancin’ Tom,” but also a N-word as well. Hey, I’m just saying.
Now, compare Shabazz’s remarks to Farrakhan’s, who also opposes Obama’s Libya policy. This is also taken from a BlackAmericaWeb.com story, this time from April 4: “I love Muammar Gaddafi, and I love our president. It grieves me to see my brother president set a policy that would remove this man not only from power, but (also) from the earth.”
Then, later in the story, readers learned that Farrakhan “called for a cease-fire on both sides in Libya and a chance for the Libyan people to vote on whether Gaddafi should stay in power.”
Farrakhan is pushing 78; Shabazz is 43. When Farrakhan was Shabazz’s age, he might well have used some of the same language that Shabazz used. But a man learns things over the years. One thing Farrakhan has learned – and hat Shabazz has yet to learn – is the value of how to disagree without being disagreeable.
In December of 1964, when Farrakhan was only 41, he penned the notorious article in Muhammad Speaks warning Malcolm X that he was “worthy of death.” Years later, Farrakhan admitted those words led to the climate in which Malcolm X was eventually assassinated. When, 31 years after he wrote those words, Farrakhan called for his Million Man March with an emphasis on atonement, the man was dead serious, as serious as triple bypass surgery on an octogenarian.
Farrakhan realized he had much to atone for. Shabazz needs to realize that he, like Obama, has much to learn from the Nation of Islam leader.
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