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Militant Black Groups Plan Armed Rally, Call for Vigilantism

The and New Black Liberation Militia (NBLM) are planning an armed rally in Sanford, Fla. later this month, Hatewatch has learned.

Speaking via phone from Jacksonville, where his group was holding a press conference with NBPP area spokesman Mikhail Muhammad, NBLM head Minister Prince Najee Shaka Muhammad today told Hatewatch that the armed rally, planned for April 21, is part of a crusade to obtain 鈥渏ustice鈥 for Trayvon Martin, the black teenager whose shooting death in Sanford at the hands of a neighborhood watch volunteer has caused waves of outrage across America.

His hope is that today鈥檚 press conference will help mobilize 鈥渙ur people,鈥 with the intent of 鈥渂uilding up a black army and black militia鈥 to 鈥減rotect鈥 the black community from aggression by 鈥渨hite supremacists鈥 鈥 which is, he said, 鈥渁 trend.鈥 Major topics of discussion at today鈥檚 gathering, he said, were the arrests yesterday of two white men in connection with a deadly and apparently racially motivated that left three black people dead and two injured in Tulsa, Okla., and the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement鈥檚 (NSM) announcement that it planned to undertake of Sanford. (Such patrols reportedly have not yet taken place.)

Jacksonville may not the only place where black separatists are rallying. According to a flyer posted on the Facebook page of Tampa NBPP chapter president Clarence Steven Jones (who also goes by 鈥淎li Muhammad鈥), NPBB National Chair was to speak today at noon at an undisclosed location in the Tampa area. Both the Tampa and Jacksonville events are connected by last week鈥檚 announcement that today was to be a day of 鈥渁ction and absence鈥 to 鈥渄emand the arrest of George Zimmerman for the murder and racial profiling hate crime of Trayvon Martin.鈥 (The shooting has not been declared a hate crime or even a crime at all 鈥 Zimmerman claimed self-defense and an investigation into allegations that he acted unlawfully is still under way.)

The NBPP and NBLM have been front and center among the many outsiders vying for the spotlight in the wake of Martin鈥檚 death in Sanford. As of late March, the NBPP was for Zimmerman鈥檚 鈥渃apture,鈥 while the NBLM has announced plans to undertake a 鈥渃itizen鈥檚 arrest鈥 of Zimmerman.

NBPP had reportedly planned to conduct 鈥渟elf-defense鈥 training for blacks in the Sanford area on the evening of April 7, but in an E-mail to Hatewatch, Sanford police said there were no reports confirming such activity.

Spokesmen for both NBPP and NBLM told Hatewatch they think Zimmerman was getting special treatment because his father is a former judge who is reportedly Jewish.

They also said they were not interested violence or vigilantism 鈥 denials which rang hollow in light of words like these, from Mikhail Muhammad to Hatewatch: 鈥淚f you don鈥檛 do justice by the people, eventually people take justice into their own hands. 鈥 We live in a society where you either use the laws fairly and squarely or there aren鈥檛 going to be any laws that will be respected.鈥

The NBLM鈥檚 Najee Muhammad, a former NBPP 鈥淣ational Field Marshall鈥 who told Hatewatch he founded the NBLM in 2010 because he felt constrained by the NBPP鈥檚 restrictions on military displays, was blunter. 鈥淲hen I found out about the [Jewish] background of that [Zimmerman] family, I said, 鈥楿h-oh, ain鈥檛 nothing going to happen to that family unless we do it.鈥欌

The militia leader, who bragged about 鈥渞olling鈥 with members of the Crips and the Bloods and 鈥渞umbling鈥 with police as a teen, grew up in Cleveland among radical black militants, many of them members of the , a black separatist hate group whose rhetoric today is positively mild compared to that of the NBPP. He reminisced fondly about his father鈥檚 brother 鈥淯ncle Ahmed,鈥 better known as Fred Evans, a black militant who died in jail after famously leading the 鈥,鈥 a 1968 Cleveland sniper attack on police that left several dead and caused a 5-day riot that the neighborhood in ruins.

Asked if he wanted to see another such event, Najee Muhammad equivocated. Insisting he respects authority and would not personally instigate violence, he said, 鈥淯prising is going to happen by the nature of the cause.鈥

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