Because I split my time between Connecticut and NYC (Bronx, baby) I’ve been following the developments in the Sean Bell case closely. When I learned that the police involved in the shooting were a diverse rainbow of law enforcement, including Black and Latino officers, I dared to hope that the powder keg of racial tension that lays beneath New York would not explode into violence. However, those more powerful than me hope for a different outcome, and the attacks on the Black and Latino officers are more vicious than if they were white.
The usual suspects began stirring the cauldron of racial hatred early, even enlisting a high school social studies teacher to propagandize to her students and try to get them to “resist the police occupation” of inner cities. Charles Barron called for violence more than once in the following days, though he’s been careful to couch his rhetoric in euphemism and allow more radical elements to do the heavy lifting. Suitably Flip covered the anti-NYPD rally yesterday, and posted the disturbing video on YouTube. His thinly veiled call for an intifada against the police ala France starts just before the 2:00 mark.
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NYC Indymedia has their as usual inane coverage which devolves into several anti-semitic hate rants and an asinine argument that the “New” Black Panther Party is more racist then the old B.P.P. To get an idea of how radical groups interact in NYC there is no better text to read.
To be honest, the commies are right about the new Black panthers, as you can clearly see from their statement of 9 Local Objectives on their website. Notice how they put the word Jew in quotations – that’s the chic new anti-semitism that’s getting big in NY. The Southern Poverty Law Center thinks they’re basically an all Black Ku Klux Klan, but it is only fair to point out that much of the criticism of the B.P.P comes from those who are competing with them for support from the Black community.
I’ve been told the anti-cop rally was put together by the Black Men’s Movement, which I can’t find much info on, but I think sprang forth form the Black Men’s Movement Against Crack, which despite its seemingly benign name was just another communist front group that sprang up in the 80s. Under their full name, Azania Black Men’s Movement Against Crack NY are listed as part of the World Wide African Anti-Zionist Front for example, a Jew hating conspiracy mongering hate cult that serves as an umbrella organization for Black Nationalists.
The rally has plenty of Communist support despite the racist nature of the groups involved. The predominantly white radicals must feel as if their Party card would act as a shield against the violence that people like Barron are trying to create.
New York is an odd place, especially if you compare it to other areas nearby. NYC has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, certainly stricter then Connecticut, yet is plagued by an endless wave of firearms-related crime. It is the most ethnically diverse city in the Northeast, yet is the most segregated. And when tragedy strikes, there is always a group of people willing to make things worse.
Perhaps emboldened by the successful occupation of parts of France by inner city youth, anti-American groups are hoping to replicate the European intifada, and begin dismantling our country one city at a time.