Dr. Malik Zulu Shabazz, the current Chairman of the New Black Panther Party, hit back against FOX News and its current coverage of the 2008 voter intimidation scandal. In an interview with Russian TV, Mr. Shabazz said FOX was “at war with Obama and the Justice Department” and had no intention of “being fair and balanced”.
The chairman claimed the current focus on the Black Panther story by FOX News was not surprising because Mid-term elections were coming up and extreme right wing Republicans were determined to provoke racial fear throughout the country. Mr. Shabazz asserts that racial fear is the technique Fox News uses “to stir up the Tea Party movement and the anti-Obama vote” in an attempt to manipulate the outcome of the elections.
Mr. Shabazz said the New Black Panther party is “ready to rumble” and “deal with all these right wingers.”
According to Mr. Shabazz, FOX has been so successful because their audience consists of mainly whites, white republicans, confederates, hard right wingers, racist organizations and dissatisfied whites who he claims want to “take their country back”. Mr. Shabazz clarified, “we interpret that as ‘take our country back from this black man who happens to be the president’”.
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