Ghosts Of The Past

It is like a nightmare.
The ghosts of past militants and terrorists are back in the news.
The New Black Panther Party (NBPP), founded in 1989, is rallying in the streets of Jamaica, protesting the killing of Sean Bell in a 50-shot barrage of police bullets.
The NBPP, which has been denounced by the founders of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, is spewing some of the same calls for black power - the same inflammatory bigotry and anti-Semitic/anti-white/anti-police rhetoric from the 80's and 90's - and even pumping black-gloved fists into the air as a symbol of &#8220Black Power.” Their words, chanted under the guise of a search for justice, &#8220Off the pigs who kill our kids,” sound chillingly similar to those of the original militants 40 years ago.
At a rally following Bell's funeral, Dr. Malik Zulu Shabazz, chair of the NBPP, called on the black community to make someone pay. &#8220Start with 125th Street . . . If it [the store] isn't owned by someone who looks like you, then boycott every business. Someone has to pay. Stay out of the white man's store,” Shabazz said.
In a recent rally calling for a 50-day boycott of white businesses, Imam Akbar, national minister of justice of the NBPP said, &#8220We must close down traditional businesses and open them under Nubian management.”
We think the situation is volatile enough without the added fuel of racist hatred by this group. Pay no attention to them and maybe they will fade away once again.
Meanwhile, urban terrorist and convicted cop killer Joanne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur, an original member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army; and Guillermo Morales, a FALN bomb maker and murderer who blew off his own hands and one eye making a bomb in New York, hit the headlines and airwaves again.
Chesimard killed New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in cold blood - execution style with his own gun - and she wounded his partner, James Harper who survived his injuries.
Morales was a member of the violent Puerto Rican independence-seeking Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) group, responsible for at least 130 bombings including Fraunces Tavern near Wall Street on Christmas Eve in 1975 which killed four. In 1983, they bombed Police Headquarters, severely maiming several officers.
Both are wanted fugitives who fled the United States and are living in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
It turns out that they had a community and student center named for them at City College of New York. The Morales/Shakur Community and Student Center was named in 1989, after radical students took over the college's North Academic Center during a tuition hike protest. Nobody noticed for years until a student there finally wrote a letter to The Daily News Voice of the People column.
A storm of protest and finger pointing ensued and the offensive sign over Room 3/201 in the North Academic Center at CCNY in tribute to these two murdering terrorists is no more.
We hope the widows and children of those killed or maimed by this pair of cold-blooded killers will be able to forget this nightmare from the past.