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Roy
Innis Warns Bush Cabal
About Potential Muslim
Terrorists
By Junious Ricardo Stanton
A post came
over the Web from TheBlackList sharing an article that appeared
on the Website NewsMax.com dated October 26, 2002. Roy Innis the
head of the assimilationist civil rights organization Congress
of Racial Equality (CORE) sent a letter to the White House
requesting a meeting with the Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge
to warn about what the article termed "a breeding ground for the
perpetrators of the next wave of terror attacks against the U.S." Innis felt it was his appointed duty to
warn Ridge, Bush, Rice et al about the "clear and present
danger" that terrorists like al-Qaeda may take advantage of
anti-AmeriKKKan sentiment within what Innis called
"non-spiritual" Muslim communities.
I have never been an Innis fan, perhaps
because unlike Malcolm or Martin Luther King Jr. he was not a
spellbinding orator. He seemed clumsy in public and to me he
gave off as we used to call "bad vibes". Subsequently
CORE fell out of the news and relevancy as the Black Power,
Community Control, Black Is Beautiful and Nationalist movements
emerged but Innis stayed on as head of the organization and I
guess in an effort to reinvent himself and the organization he
has flip flopped from the conventional Civil Rights begging for
validation and crumbs from the oppressors to being a
neo-conservative spokesman. As AmeriKKKa shifted more to the
right Innis shifted with it to keep the funds flowing from
whites because CORE has lost much of its luster and vitality
within the black community.
I think Innis, while being a bit
alarmist and self serving may have a point; not so much that
black Muslims are a potential fifth column; but given Bush's
crusade against Islam AmeriKKKa may very well use this to
profile and target Africans in AmeriKKKa who have converted to
Islam or non Muslims who wear African style clothing or jewelry
thinking they are unpatriotic or potential terrorists. The media
promulgated psy-ops the AmeriKKKan public has been subjected to
is relentless and it has induced a percolating anxiety, an
intellectual numbness which discourages critical thinking and
analysis and a passivity that allows the ruling elites and their
lackeys to bum rush invasion of privacy and civil liberties
limiting legislation that many feel is setting the stage for a
Big Brother type scenario. Innis may be afraid blacks will be
the unwarranted targets of profiling, arrests and detention. I
don't think for a minute Innis believes black Muslims are a
potential threat. If he does, it shows just how out of touch
with the pulse of the black community he really is.
But he does have a point, remember The King
Alfred Plan and Rex 84, blacks were prime suspects and targets
and that was thirty-forty years ago! I think Innis is an
opportunist who is using this situation as a way to ingratiate
himself with the Bush cabal at the expense of brothers who have
converted to Islam. While I am no fan of Islam given Arabs used
it to conquer huge tracts of African territory and they were the
ones who institutionalized the African slave trade with its
mutilation and castration of African men and the rape of African
women, which still goes on today, hundreds of years before the
arrival of the Europeans; I realize many blacks in AmeriKKKa
reject Christianity because they see its hypocrisy, moral and
ethical bankruptcy and many view it as "the white man's
religion". People choose their religion for a myriad of
reasons.
It is well known that joining the Muslims
while in prison is a form of protection against physical attack
by other inmates. If that's what a man feels he has to do to
protect himself, so be it. If the conversion is based on
meditation, study and personal choice, so be it. Who is Roy
Innis to pass judgment on anyone's motives or determine who is
or who is not "spiritual"? "Ye shall know them by
their fruits" and that goes for Roy Innis too. Methinks his
motives are more self serving than he lets on.
The Nation of Islam was critical of
AmeriKKKa long before Minister Farrakhan came on the scene. Its
founder Elijah Muhammad counseled his followers not to bear arms
against another Asiatic nation during WW II. He even went to
jail for his convictions. I notice Mr. Innis has not given any
major interviews about all the brothers who went to Vietnam or
Gulf War and returned traumatized by both the war and the double
bind of living in AmeriKKKa after putting their lives on the
line so people like Paul Wolfowitz, George W. Bush and Dick
Cheney can push their fascist agenda on another generation of
unsuspecting citizens.
I haven't seen him give interviews about the
Army spying on the NAACP during its formative years or about
COINTELPRO or Operation Chaos during the late '60's and '70's.
If Mr. Innis had any real empathy for our people or wasn't
blinded by fear or self-interest he would know Muslims aren't
the only ones who refuse to go for AmeriKKKa's okie-doke.
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