It's just that the New Black Panther party sometimes, whatever we do, we just tend to do it kinda strong. You know what I mean? (laughs) Sometimes whatever we do, sometimes we just do it REAL strong.
said Malik Shabazz.
Yeah, lighten up! They were just doin' Black Pantherish stuff, havin' a little fun! What's the big deal?
Now, this part was really special:
And so what happened was, one of our men and one of our brothers...was just a little bit too strong and he was caught out there with a night stick at the polling place. [Voice getting increasingly louder now...] And the JOHN MCCAIN CAMPAIGN road up on him with some cameras and some poll watchers and jumped all over the issue and all over the brother." [Oh my gosh, is the poor guy OKAY after that video assault?]
The United States Justice Department -- still under George Bush...immediately charged and sued the New Black Panther Party...in federal court...charging us for violating the Civil Rights Act and with voter intimidation [I mean, all they did was stand in front of the entrance of the polling place and stare menacingly at people with a billy club! Come on!] Bush, it appeared, finally had his way in his last days...
Yep, that McCain and Bush, they're just haters. That's the REAL story.
Malik goes on with his incisive analysis:
And so, the justice department changed hands...into the Obama Administration, and the justice department leadership changed into the hands of a BLACK man (his emphasis) by the name of Eric Holder. And they took a look at it and they threw most of everything out. They said King Samir [the Black Panther who intimidated voters] can't go back to the polling place until 2012. And I'm sure King Samir don't give a !@#$%^&*! [he laughs, crowd laughs] He don't believe in the white man's voting system anyway, so he don't give a !@#$%^&*! And for the record, King Samir is welcome back in the New Black Panther Party. King Samir is welcome. [Applause]
Um, yeah. I think we've got it.
Here's a video tape of the Black Panther duo in front of the polling place. You might want to make sure no children are in the room to see what the terrible video tapers did to these poor, defenseless (except for a billy club) men:
