Why The Left Won’t State The Obvious About The New Black Panthers

(I use the word ‘babies’ a number of times in this article so I don’t want this to drift into a debate about abortion. It won’t be settled here and because it’s an established controversy with large numbers of people with a lot of divergent viewpoints it’s a distraction from my point here which is that killing months-out-of-the-womb, crawling, crying, diaper wearing children isn’t something that is or should be controversial with anyone at all. The discussion about abortion can wait for another article.)

Here is every single thing you need to know about the New Black Panther Party in order to make an informed judgement about them; they are in favor of killing babies.

The leadership of the New Black Panther Party has shouted this belief of theirs repeatedly in the last two decades in short, simple three word declarative sentences that cant be broken down, interpreted or parser in any other possible way save for their obvious meaning,

“Kill the babies!”

There isn’t one other fact you need to know about the New Black Panther party.

Yes, amazingly, after my piece yesterday on “Who Is The Black Panther Party?”, I got into a few discussions with people who seem to be struggling to deflect from this obvious point. Why is that?

Let’s remember the new related issue on the table here. While running for President in 2007, Barack Obama spoke and marched at an event in Selma, Alabama commemorating the 42nd anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights protest. Memorializing this event and the Civil Rights movement in general is justified and honorable. Thousands attended, including Al Sharpton and Bill & Hillary Clinton. At the time, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were locked in a tight and often vicious primary race.

Yesterday, photos were released related to J. Christian Adam’s new book Injustice showing candidate Obama speaking at the same podium as Mailk Zulu Shabazz, the leader of the New Black Panthers. Video showed that Obama was in proximity to Shabazz at one point. At the time, Shabazz and the New Black Panthers gave Obama their endorsement. Obama never repudiated this endorsement and after he was elected President, his justice department refused to peruse voter intimidation charges against the New Black Panther Party. This is the subject of Adam’s book.

It pains me to have to point out what should be completely obvious were it not for the blinders of ideology — it’s wrong to grant any legitimacy to to people who repeatedly call for racist violence against children. There’s no possible justification for it. Zero. There’s simply not one ounce of nuance here to grapple with.

A few people tried to argue with me that the New Black Panther Party was ‘marginal’. That’s true in the sense that there isn’t a popular mass movement in the United States calling explicitly for racial killings. It’s not a view with many adherents. If that’s what marginal means, so are the Manson Family and the church that protests at soldier’s funerals, yet that doesn’t keep anyone from condemning them, immediately and strongly.

The other argument that gives shelter to the New Black Panther Party’s involvement is even more depraved, so it was naturally put forward by Media Matters for America. It’s the opposite of the ‘marginal’ argument and it says in essence that it’s no big deal that Obama was there, since thousands of other people were as well.

This gives lie to the idea that the New Black Panthers are completely marginal. They are treated legitimately and taken seriously enough to not only be included in such an event but to be given a speaker’s slot. Their presence wasn’t controversial. They weren’t asked to leave or denounced.

I’m going to state simple, obvious, civilized truth again. There’s a word for people who explicitly call for racist murder of children and it’s psychopath. Once you make that argument, you have left the realm of sane, legitimate discussion and are to be banished to the hinterlands of the homicidally obsessed insane.

Barack Obama shouldn’t have been speaking at an event where Malik Zulu Shabazz was speaking. Once he knew Shabazz was there, Obama should have immediately and strongly condemned him and whoever gave Shabazz access to a microphone and a crowd. Instead, he took their endorsement,

But Media Matters is correct in the sense that criticism shouldn’t just be directed at Barack Obama.

The Clintons should have denounced Shabazz’s participation as well. Even as bad as Al Sharpton is, he’s in aother dimension from the New Black Panthers and should have denounced them and the event organizers as well. Thousands of people shouldn’t have been marching with them. Nobody should have. Not one single person. The New Black Panther Party should be completely shunned by everyone — black, white, Asian, Hispanic, liberal, conservative, libertarian, socialist, Christian, Muslim, Jew, atheist. Every single person.

So why has the New Black Panther Party been given a pass?

Here’s the ugly truth — it’s because they are black and because the murders that they call for are of white, ‘cracker babies.’ The unstated basis for the silence protecting Shabazz is that somehow Shabazz’s group is perhaps a bit extreme but somehow maybe a little bit justified because you know…slavery.

Wrong. A thousand times, wrong. The tacit acceptance of the New Black Panther’s black-on-white calls for murder is totally wrong because it helps to perpetuate hatred, racism and violence to the benefit of no one.

Let’s not tip toe around this. Letting Shabazz speak at the Selma event dishonored everyone who fought for civil rights. It disgraced the event and all those who stood silently by while it happened and ll those who defend it in any way now let the cause of equality be sullied. This includes Barack Obama, who is well aware that he risks being called an Uncle Tom and worse if he dares to criticize the New Black Panthers in the way they so richly deserve.

Racism is wrong. It needs to be discussed and debated so we can all move forward. Sometimes those debates are going to get uncomfortable and heated. That’s the way forward. Anyone who calls for wholesale violence can’t be part of that debate.