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| New Black Panther Chairman: Hillary ‘Not The Great Champion Of African-Americans' |
| 2016-09-26 |
| [Breitbart] NEW YORK - Babu Omowale, the national chairman for the People's New Black Panther Party, is not excited about the candidates in this year's presidential election, stating that neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump represent the interests of African-Americans. Omowale reserved most of his invective for Hillary Clinton, declaring she is "not the great champion of African-Americans" before criticizing Bill Clinton's criminal justice policies. The New Black Panther Party leader also slammed President Obama on race relations, stating America's first black president "has not done anything for the black community." Omowale was speaking on "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio," this reporter's Sunday talk radio program broadcast on New York's AM 970 The Answer and NewsTalk 990 AM in Philadelphia. Asked about his attitude toward Hillary Clinton, Omowale said: "Hillary Clinton is not the great champion of African Americans. If you look at your history when her husband was president in the '90s, there were more African Americans to be locked up in this country than any other time because of some of the laws that he signed into law. Specifically, the drug laws of cocaine. "So if a black man has a couple grams of crack versus a white man having a couple of grams of powder cocaine, black men where receiving sentences three and four times longer than that of his white counterparts. So we look at these as unjustifiable laws that were implemented up under the Clinton regime. "So no. Hillary Clinton would not be a representative of the black community. Nor would Donald Trump be a representative of the black community. As far as black people are concerned, we really do not have a representative in this 2016 election year." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #18 Backlash: then & now. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-09-26 17:38 |
| #17 g(r)omgoru "You miss the point completely." Clearly, Which is why I asked, hoping for clarification, not pontification. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-09-26 17:29 |
| #16 if a black man has a couple grams of crack versus a white man having a couple of grams of powder cocaine popularist background on the drug preference Noteworthy origins Grom. I enjoy the deflections. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-09-26 17:06 |
| #15 "Everyone understands in his own way" - Vladimir Vysotsky. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-09-26 16:12 |
| #14 That's because you never made it clear what your point was. |
| Posted by: JHH 2016-09-26 15:58 |
| #13 You miss the point completely. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-09-26 15:21 |
| #12 So the White Democrats figured out things while Grant was president and Grant in a democracy was unable to prevent Them. I don't see how that is Grant's fault. The situation of African Americans has gotten worse under Obama and it actually is his policies at fault. I don't see the connection and I think it's rather rude to go on the way you did over an honest question. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-09-26 15:17 |
| #11 It's the Zero year concept of socialism. Destroy the past, fabricate a future. See - Venezuela |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-09-26 13:50 |
| #10 Why the f*ck an Israeli born in SovU have to lecture you Americans on your own history? Because the U.S. public school system hasn't taught history - actual history and not the fairy tales they have today - for a very, very, long time. To my school post-civil war history was all about the carpetbaggers. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-09-26 13:00 |
| #9 Can't we all just get along? |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-09-26 12:39 |
| #8 They were the only ones voting because voting required oath of allegiance to the Union. So, for a few years, former slaves ruled the South. Then, what Grant expected happened and whites started swearing. And once they had the power back, 100 years of Jim Crow. p.s. You might look up "The original KKK" pp.s. Why the f*ck an Israeli born in SovU have to lecture you Americans on your own history? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-09-26 12:30 |
| #7 Weren't blacks originally given the right to vote (under Grant??) but the Democrats removed that right when they later had control of congress? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-09-26 12:21 |
| #6 Because Jim Crow was a response to what's been going under the reconstruction, read your history - focus on "oath of allegiance". Just as what's coming is a response to what's been going under Obama. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-09-26 12:21 |
| #5 Why link to Grant? Grant was good for African Americans while they have declined in every measurable category under Obama. "President Ulysses S. Grant supported Radical Reconstruction and enforced the protection of African Americans in the South through the use of the Enforcement Acts passed by Congress. Grant suppressed the Ku Klux Klan, but was unable to resolve the escalating tensions inside the Republican party between the Carpetbaggers and the Scalawags (native whites in the South)." |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-09-26 12:12 |
| #4 America's first black president "has not done anything for the black community." How can you say this Babu! IMO, Baraq did almost as much for 'black community' as Ulysses S. Grant |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-09-26 11:48 |
| #3 ...stating that neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump represent the interests of African-Americans. Methinks Babu Omowale (that can't be his real name) hasn't figured out that, in an ideal world, you don't want the government or politicians 'representing your interests'. |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-09-26 11:04 |
| #2 Just needing more of those SorosBucks... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-09-26 08:46 |
| #1 The American people anxiously await your write-in candidate. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-09-26 05:07 |