
Over the weekend, members of the New Black Panther Party showed just how tense the situation in the Trayvon Martin shooting has gotten: They offered a $10,000 bounty for the capture of George Zimmerman, who shot and killed the unarmed teenager.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that Mikhail Muhammad announced the reward during a protest on Saturday, and when a Sentinel reporter asked if he was inciting violence, Muhammad said, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
Nationally the shooting death has brought up questions about whether Zimmerman, who was on a Neighborhood Watch patrol, profiled Martin and whether Sanford police's failure to arrest Zimmerman had to do with racism.
The New Black Panther's bounty just heightens that narrative
A scholar whom President George W. Bush appointed as vice chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Abigail Thernstrom has a reputation as a tough conservative critic of affirmative action and politically correct positions on race.
“This doesn’t have to do with the Black Panthers; this has to do with their fantasies about how they could use this issue to topple the [Obama] administration,” said Thernstrom, who said members of the commission voiced their political aims “in the initial discussions” of the Panther case last year.
“My fellow conservatives on the commission had this wild notion they could bring Eric Holder down and really damage the president,” Thernstrom said in an interview with POLITICO.
The criticism has focused attention not just on Thernstrom, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, but on the partisan nature of the Civil Rights Commission and on a story that, like the controversy over the anti-poverty group ACORN, has raged almost completely outside the mainstream media.
Obama did stand at the same podium that Shabazz stood at, though not at the same time. He wasn't there in support of the Black Panthers, it was an event commemorating the march in Selma. Both Bill and Hillary Clinton were there, too. Ti...
A scholar whom President George W. Bush appointed as vice chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Abigail Thernstrom has a reputation as a tough conservative critic of affirmative action and politically correct positions on race.
“This doesn’t have to do with the Black Panthers; this has to do with their fantasies about how they could use this issue to topple the [Obama] administration,” said Thernstrom, who said members of the commission voiced their political aims “in the initial discussions” of the Panther case last year.
“My fellow conservatives on the commission had this wild notion they could bring Eric Holder down and really damage the president,” Thernstrom said in an interview with POLITICO.
The criticism has focused attention not just on Thernstrom, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, but on the partisan nature of the Civil Rights Commission and on a story that, like the controversy over the anti-poverty group ACORN, has raged almost completely outside the mainstream media.
Obama did stand at the same podium that Shabazz stood at, though not at the same time. He wasn't there in support of the Black Panthers, it was an event commemorating the march in Selma. Both Bill and Hillary Clinton were there, too. Time reported this back during the primary campaigns. This is old news, but they are just now trying to twist it to make it seem as though Obama is in league with the NBPP, which is clearly not the case. If you look at the second photo, no NBPP members are standing near Obama. That's because these photos were taken at different times during the event.
http://www.newshounds.us/2011...
Adams, you may recall, is the ex-DOJ employee whose allegation that Attorney General Eric Holder failed to prosecute a couple of thuggish New Black Panther Party members for voter intimidation because of Holder's own racial bias toward black people was much ballyhooed by Fox in the summer of 2010. What Adams always failed to mention – and Hannity didn't either – is that no voters at all in the predominantly black precinct ever came forward to allege intimidation. The complaints came from white Republican poll watchers, who have given no evidence they were registered to vote in that precinct. You can read about this case in an excellent post on the Main Justice website.
Furthermore, Adams is a Republican operative who, as Main Justice noted, was hired by the Bush administration “in the Civil Rights Division Voting Section under a process the DOJ Inspector General later determined was improperly influenced by politics."
http://www.washingtonpost.com...
The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has concluded an investigation finding that politics played no role in the handling of the New Black Panther Party case, which sparked a racially charged political fight.
After reviewing thousands of pages of internal e-mails and notes and conducting 44 interviews with department staff members, the OPR reported that “department attorneys did not commit professional misconduct or exercise poor judgment” and that the voter-intimidation case against the Panthers was dismissed on “a good faith assessment of the law” and “not influenced by the race of the defendants.”
There was NO voter intimidation.
As for the bounty I thought that guy was arrested..
Look at the ignorance..
Neo Nazis in Sanford FL
makes his new announcement!
In fact, we don't have to bombard them. All we have to do is stop volunteering income tax!!! We could put them out of business overnight!!!
America - The Divided States of Denial - Land of the Sheep and Home of the Slave!
- Your fear of Eric Holder. One person cannot do this alone. It has to be a nationwide effort. Besides - show me the document that says we have to volunteer income tax?
- Glenn Beck. Anyone in the media who refuses to discuss and avoids truth is not to be trusted.