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Originally posted by beezzer
Oh good lord! Let them talk!
People complained about Westboro Baptist and the government created a frickin' law to silence these people.
If people start getting up in arms over Shabing Shabazz (whatever) then I can see the government stepping in again to create some dumbass law about free speech AGAIN!
The ugly truth is this; we need to allow and protect buttheads like these or else OUR rights might be taken away.
A terroristic threat is a crime generally involving a threat to commit violence communicated with the intent to terrorize another, to cause evacuation of a building, or to cause serious public inconvenience, in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience.
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
Sometimes it just seems like the 60's all over again, only the hippies are now in the White House and other places of interest.
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by paxnatus
This is just another example of free speech.
It's only classified as hate speech if people act on it.
They are, in a sense, like Westboro Baptist. They will say imflamatory things, hateful disgusting things. Then step back and cry "victim" if anyone acts against them. They are irrelavent. They are a waste of space.
They are an embarassment.
But they only become important if we elevate them to a level of importance.
They deserve nothing but our scorn, and our silence to their voices.
Bezzer you are completely correct. I would not give these idiots the time of day in a clock shop. The first (and only black panthers) were a group of men and women who were fighting againstthe most blatant racism seen in America...
Originally posted by wylekat
We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And, as our political objective, we want NATIONAL LIBERATION in a separate state or territory of our own, here or elsewhere, a liberated zone (New Africa or Africa), and a plebiscite to be held throughout the BLACK NATION in which only we will be allowed to participate for the purposes of determining our will and DIVINE destiny as a people. FREE THE LAND! UP YOU MIGHTY NATION!
1. We want freedom. We want the power to practice self-determination, and to determine the destiny of our community and THE BLACK NATION.
2. We want full employment for our people and we demand the dignity to do for ourselves what we have begged the white man to do for us. We believe that since the white man has kept us deaf, dumb and blind, and used every dirty trick in the book to stand in the way of our freedom and independence, that we should be gainfully employed until such time we can employ and provide for ourselves.
We believe that this wicked racist government has robbed us, and now we are demanding the overdue debt of reparations. A form of reparations was promised 100 years ago (forty acres and a mule) as restitution for the continued genocide of our people and to in meaningful measure and repair the damage for the AFRICAN HOLOCAUST (Maangamizo/Maafa).
We believe our people should be exempt from ALL TAXATION as long as we are deprived of equal justice under the laws of the land and the overdue reparations debt remains unpaid. We will accept payment in fertile and mine rally rich land, precious metals, industry, commerce and currency.
4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings, free health-care (preventive and maintenance). We believe since the white landlords will not give decent housing and quality health care to our Black Community, the he housing, the land, the social, political and economic institutions should be made into independent UUAMAA New African Communal/Cooperatives so that our community, with government reparations and aid (until we can do for ourselves) can build and make drug free, decent housing with health facilities for our people.
Originally posted by ronnieray123
Where is all the outrage against the black panthers from the black community???
Why all the silence??
Could it be that because way deep down inside they are not really against them, at least to the point that they wish they would go away? ....kind of like Don't Ask, Don't Tell, in the military.
It's bad enough you have to fear the government now days....do I have to fear every black person that comes my way as well??
Originally posted by MountainLaurel
I think people confuse having pride and affection for one's race and heritage is somehow racist, lol, and heck most of us are mixed in someway anyways.....Life is way more fun when we share and learn about each other through all our combined heritages....cause one thing we all have in common is the desire for peace.......
Originally posted by wylekat
reply to post by beezzer
"Any other group finds them an embarrassment. I have yet to find anyone of any colour that endorses this tripe."
You nailed it with the "knee jerk" comment. Black panther knee jerks Billy Bob, who goes to stock up on guns at Wally World. Meanwhile, Jose la Raza who has enough of Billy Bob AND Black Panther, gets his family and friends together to go after Billy Bob and Black Panther, who wants to eradicate the other 2- Billy Bob is tired of black panther and la raza, and...well, you get the picture.
This is what I see. The rest of us may point and laugh, but when the bullets and looting and riots begin, we dont want it in OUR yards.
Congress appropriated $100,000 in 1819 for the establishment of Liberia (and resettlement of freemen and freed slaves from North America) by the American Colonization Society, led by prominent Americans such as Francis Scott Key, George Washington's nephew Bushrod, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Presidents Monroe (for whom Liberian settlers named the capital, Monrovia), Adams, and Jackson. The first group of settlers arrived in Liberia from the United States in the 1820s. The United States, which officially recognized Liberia in 1862, shared particularly close relations with Liberia during the Cold War.
Liberia, "land of the free," was founded by free African-Americans and freed slaves from the United States in 1820. An initial group of 86 immigrants, who came to be called Americo-Liberians, established a settlement in Christopolis (now Monrovia, named after U.S. President James Monroe) on February 6, 1820. Thousands of freed American slaves and free African-Americans arrived during the following years, leading to the formation of more settlements and culminating in a declaration of independence of the Republic of Liberia on July 26, 1847. The drive to resettle freed slaves in Africa was promoted by the American Colonization Society (ACS), an organization of white clergymen, abolitionists, and slave owners founded in 1816 by Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister. Between 1821 and 1867 the ACS resettled some 10,000 African-Americans and several thousand Africans from interdicted slave ships; it governed the Commonwealth of Liberia until independence in 1847.
b) In order to preserve, foster and maintain the positive Liberian culture, values and character, only persons who are Negroes or of Negro descent shall qualify by birth or by naturalization to be citizens of Liberia.
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by paxnatus
This is just another example of free speech.
It's only classified as hate speech if people act on it.
They are, in a sense, like Westboro Baptist. They will say imflamatory things, hateful disgusting things. Then step back and cry "victim" if anyone acts against them. They are irrelavent. They are a waste of space.
They are an embarassment.
But they only become important if we elevate them to a level of importance.
They deserve nothing but our scorn, and our silence to their voices.