Malik Zulu Shabazz pins tails on racist honkies

Mike over at Clear and Present links to an article at Front Page Magazine that details a recent speaking engagement at Carnegie Mellon University by Malik Zulu Shabazz:

On February 17th Malik Zulu Shabazz, leader of the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense, came onto the campus ostensibly to talk about “black empowerment in education.” Instead, the firebrand lawyer, rap singer and follower of former Nation of Islam official Khalid Mohammad presented a rambling exegesis on black victimization, the crimes of white America and the perfidy of the Jews.

Declaring his intention to “pin the tail on the racist honkies at Carnegie Mellon University,” Mr. Shabazz—standing before a backdrop of lynching photographs and flanked by several “security guards”--asserted that the city of Pittsburgh was “racist as hell” and that racism at CMU “drips to the core of this university.”

Encouraged by shouts from the audience and his entourage, Mr. Shabazz adduced several arguments, among them that Jesus was black, Moses “lifted” the Ten Commandments from the ancient Egyptians, the Anti-Defamation League was established by gangster Meyer Lansky to bring “illegal alcohol, dope and drugs” into America, blacks and not Israeli Jews are true Semites, Israel is a “terrorist” state and Theodore Herzl has “blood on his hands.” Other observations Mr. Shabazz broached were that George Washington raped black women, the word “picnic” originated from “pick a nigger to lynch” and that he himself was not an anti-Semite. He provided no evidence to support his claims.

Shabazz's speaking fee was paid by SPIRIT, an association of black students, and anonymous donors. The anonymous donor thing seems odd to me: does anyone know who these donors are; better yet, does anyone care?

John Quiggin recently commented on America's apparently declining university enrolments, speculating that university was simply too high priced for most parents. Cost may be partly responsible for declining enrolments but I'll continue to argue that having morons like Shabazz and Ward Churchill speak at universities must give parents cause to doubt the value of higher education.