Tuesday 8 March 2011

The Black Separatist Movement

This blog site features the NBFSN (National Black Foot Soldier Network), part of the black separatist movement. They state that they do not advocate violence. The network has groups in a number of US cities. In this site, there is mention of three black men killed by police in Portland (Oregon), Muskegon (Michigan) and Los Angeles, in 2009. The following three links give information about these incidents.

http://nationalblackfootsoldiernetwork.baywords.com/

http://www.demotix.com/news/511273/police-officer-frashour-fired-aaron-campbell-murder
http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2009/09/investigation_into_julius_john.html
I couldn't find a Julius Jackson with regard to a shooting but I found a Julius Johnson, so assume there was a mistake on the link.
onpost.com/tag/oscar-grant-shooting

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/black-separatist

The SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Centre) is based in Alabama. They say they are a non-profit making organisation dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and seeking justice for vulnerable members of society. They clearly see the black separatists stand as being as racist as white against black racism. They quote Martin Luther King who said “violence begets violence”. They want to see sense and morality cut off the chain of hate. One paragraph in their site talks about Farrakhan, the leader of the black separatist group, The Nation of Islam:-
A leading example of a black separatist group is the Nation of Islam led by Louis Farrakhan. In 1997, and in less explicit ways since then, Farrakhan made clear that he had renounced none of the anti-white, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic and anti-gay views of the previous Nation leader, Elijah Mohammed. Those beliefs include the view that Yacub, a renegade black "scientist," created whites 6,600 years ago as an inherently evil and ungodly people — "blue-eyed devils." Farrakhan has described Catholics and Jews, who he said practice a "gutter religion," as preying on blacks. He regrets the "tone" of a former principal subordinate who called for slaughtering white South Africans, but agreed with the message. He called for racial separatism and inveighed against interracial relationships.
It is hard to argue with the desire of many to see sense and morality break the chain of hate, but along with that has to be eradication of discrimination, which obviously some members of the active black community, do not see getting any nearer.

Jill Glazier

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