"We came in peace, we came in unity, we came in love, they changed all of the rules, and stop asking me about the Jews being the bloodsuckers of the Black nation, the no-good bastards. They are the bloodsuckers of the Black community. How many say they are the bloodsuckers of the Black community?"
Khalid Abdul Muhammad first stepped into the political sphere when he became the national spokesman for the Nation of Islam and an assistant/advisor to Minister Louis Farakhan, who is presently still the leader of the Nation of Islam. Muhammad appears to have deeply been involved in various Muslim communities, serving at mosques in New York City and Atlanta throughout the 1980s.
Much of Muhammad's rhetoric is intensely anti-Semitic and homophobic. In his speeches he frequently evoked imagery of Nazis and Hitler, claiming that, "There is a little bit of Hitler in all white people." He was also critical of conservative and middle class African Americans, declaring them traitors who were contributing to the oppression of themselves as well as others in the black community. It is also important to note that much of Muhammad's rhetoric is deeply steeped in religious ideology, not political ideology. His extremist views eventually led to his being stripped of his Nation of Islam positions and membership.
Muhammad became the national chairman of the New Black Panther Party in 1997. He is likely the most influential member the party has had to date, and can be credited with bringing the party into the public eye in the 1990s. He was the first to mobilize members in a large-scale display of power in a "Million Youth March" in New York in 1998. The march had been initially condemned by then-New York City major, Rudy Giuliani, because he feared the organization would promote nothing but violence and "hatred against whites." The march did, in fact, turn violent, which hindered the subsequent marches Muhammad attempted to organize.
Khalid Abdul Muhammad first stepped into the political sphere when he became the national spokesman for the Nation of Islam and an assistant/advisor to Minister Louis Farakhan, who is presently still the leader of the Nation of Islam. Muhammad appears to have deeply been involved in various Muslim communities, serving at mosques in New York City and Atlanta throughout the 1980s.
Much of Muhammad's rhetoric is intensely anti-Semitic and homophobic. In his speeches he frequently evoked imagery of Nazis and Hitler, claiming that, "There is a little bit of Hitler in all white people." He was also critical of conservative and middle class African Americans, declaring them traitors who were contributing to the oppression of themselves as well as others in the black community. It is also important to note that much of Muhammad's rhetoric is deeply steeped in religious ideology, not political ideology. His extremist views eventually led to his being stripped of his Nation of Islam positions and membership.
Muhammad became the national chairman of the New Black Panther Party in 1997. He is likely the most influential member the party has had to date, and can be credited with bringing the party into the public eye in the 1990s. He was the first to mobilize members in a large-scale display of power in a "Million Youth March" in New York in 1998. The march had been initially condemned by then-New York City major, Rudy Giuliani, because he feared the organization would promote nothing but violence and "hatred against whites." The march did, in fact, turn violent, which hindered the subsequent marches Muhammad attempted to organize.