New Black Panther Leader: A Black Man Can't Be a Racist

Reverse racism is still racism. I firmly believe in reparations too. The US Treasury should pay a million dollars to any black person who has proof that he was a slave. Otherwise, if blacks can demand reparations, then I want reparations from Italy and the Vatican for my British (Britannic) ancestors being enslaved by the Romans 2000 years ago. "But that was a long time ago", you say. Yea, so was over 144 years ago. It's just a matter of time!

Racism is racism, regardless of the ethnicity of the hater. There isn't a black man in America today who has ever "taken a whip from a slave master." Is racism alive and well? The answer is yes, on both sides of the question. If you discriminate against someone because of his or her race, it doesn't matter what color you are; you're a racist.

I respectfully disagree. Slavery ended 145 years ago. The Civil Rights Movement ended Jim Crow laws. Anyone who defines people as "good" or "bad," worthy or unworthy of respect and decent treatment, solely on the basis of skin color is racist. People who reserve to themselves & those like them the "priviledge" to hate, the perogative of using "different language," and the justification to threaten and commit violence are no better than the Klan members who participated in lynchings. Bigotry is bigotry, regardless of the skin color of the bigot.

That explains alot. He needs to realize that he was never a slave and that no white man alive today ever owned slaves. Hate is hate just the same as a rose is a rose. I do not wish him or any of his people any harm. All I can do is pray for him.

You have a better chance of being hit by lightening five times while standing in the same spot kissing a supermodel, then ever meeting any of these people. Isn't there a cat stuck in a tree somewhere that would be more relevant?

how wrong were the Fourfathers about these Creachers of god

This is 2010, isn't it? The ignorance tolerated from this so-called "community activist" is astounding.

Guys, you cannot define racism by looking in the dictionary. In this conversation, it is the connotation of the word being dicussed, not the denotation. While I do not fully agree with Mr. Shabazz (certainly there can be black men who are racists), I do understand from where he is coming. African Americans have experienced a level of discrimination in this nation like no other group could understand (institutionalized chattel slavery, dehumanization, forced segregation, social pariah-ship). In many ways, Blacks have earned the right to a little racism.

The definition of racism from dictionary.com:

"hatred or intolerance of another race or other races."

It says no where in there that only one race can be racist or that a specific race is essentially "immune" from being racist. On a side note, Jews have had it pretty bad in the past....Just some food for thought.

Thanks for covering this story. The same hatred. When were the black panthers slaves? Who were their slave owners? A bad time in US history, but time to move on.