"Hate" list
or Hit list?
[See Morris
Dees in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB5b1QalWek]
Morris Dees' persecution
of the Nation of Islam
Once again, Black people
are confronted with the "hate" agenda of a segment of
politically and economically powerful white folks whose passion
is the perpetual enslavement of the Black man and woman. Last
week, the Southern Poverty Law Center of Alabama added the Nation
of Islam to its list of 474 "hate groups," which includes
the likes of the "skinheads," the militias, and the
Ku Klux Klan. You would think that one had to actually do
or say something "hateful" in order to make such
a list, but the question one must ask is, "Who is the Southern
Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and who authorized them to assign such
labels to Black freedom organizations?"
In 1971, Morris Seligman-Dees (left, who has dropped
the Seligman from his name) and Joseph Levin (right), founded the non-profit SPLC which they
claim to be "dedicated to seeking justice." Seligman-Dees
and Levin are white Alabama "civil rights" attorneys
which, they believe, qualifies them to grant titles like "hate
group" to Black organizations. But Seligman-Dees's own history
of hate has only recently been exposed and questioned. His deceitful
and unprincipled attack on an esteemed Black attorney and true
legal freedom fighter plainly disqualifies Seligman-Dees as self-appointed
overseer of negro interests.
The Hon. Fred D. Gray
was more than a civil rights attorney of the highest caliber,
he was the lawyer for Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, the Montgomery
Bus Boycott, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study victims, and the Selma
marchers, among many other front-line legal duties. When President
Jimmy Carter nominated Mr. Gray for a U.S. District judgeship
in 1979, his legendary record drew praise and respect from even
former enemies in the deep South. Coretta Scott King, Rosa Parks
and Parren Mitchell were among the movement's heroes testifying
at the Senate hearing on behalf of this legal giant. Then came
Seligman-Dees. Atty. Gray describes the incident:
The greatest disappointment,
which was totally unexpected, was Morris [Seligman-] Dees's appearance
and testimony in opposition to my nomination....I felt betrayed...
Gray was no stranger
to Seligman-Dees. Gray had filed the lawsuit that integrated Seligman-Dees's
own high school, and later, when Gray won a seat on the Alabama
Legislature, the reception was at Seligman-Dees's home.
Gray, and the justice-starved
Black community were denied the Gray judgeship, and Seligman-Dees
has never been held accountable for his part in the loss of a
powerful ally for legal justice in Alabama. His subsequent "apology"
to Gray was strange: "I'm sorry events led me to be called
in D.C. to testify," he wrote to Gray in 1991. What "events,"
Mr. Seligman-Dees? And, if you'll notice, he's not "sorry"
for his testimony, just for "events."
Well, this same slippery
fellow now calls the Nation of Islam a "hate group"
which authorizes law enforcement misbehavior and official harassment
and religious persecution of the Old Testament variety. Former
FBI Special Agent Tyrone Powers warned of the devious motives
behind this "hate group" designation and cautions Blacks
about the extralegal intrusion of these private spy organizations
into the legal process:
Groups like the ADL
(Anti-Defamation League) and the Southern Poverty Law Center
enjoy unusual and extraordinary access to FBI operations. They
are considered `reliable sources' by their friends at the FBI
which is all the FBI needs to trigger investigations which include
Hoover-like harrassment of Black people. Wiretaps, the bugging
of homes and cars, which are all illegal according to the 4th
Amendment, can all be justified by the government.
Additionally, warns Powers,
when the FBI designates a group a "hate group," a series
of "hate laws" are triggered which eliminate the civil
rights of the so-called "haters." These laws, which
were ostensibly proposed and passed to cripple the KKK and others,
are about to be applied in full force against the Nation of Islam.
But this doesn't mean
that "hate" in America will be arrested. Some of the
more illustrious practicioners are honored in every hamlet, in
every village. Elie Weisel, whose harrowing story of survival
in a Nazi camp, is respected and welcomed in every hallowed hall
worldwide despite his hate-filled philosophy:
Every Jew, somewhere
in his being, should set apart a zone of hate healthy, virile
hate for what the German personifies and for what persists in
the German. To do otherwise would be a betrayal of the dead."
(Legends of Our Time [1968]), pp.177-78).
If this statement were
uttered from the mouth of someone of the wrong religion,
that one might end up on the hit-list of the SPLC. But Mr. Wiesel
is safely on the white end of this uniquely American double standard.
Contrarily, Minister
Louis Farrakhan, the alleged racist, has just returned from an
overwhelmingly successful world tour. On the front page of the
March 10 issue of his organization's newspaper, The Final Call,
is Farrakhan himself with his European friends, resplendent in
a robe and scepter given to him by these white Russians in the
Caucasus region of Eastern Europe. They call Farrakhan their leader.
But this is too heady
for these redneck Alabama "civil rights" attorneys.
Could one imagine a KKK leader in a kinte cloth robe and crown
surrounded by adoring Ibo in Nigeria? Not hardly. Even as America's
intolerance for free-thinking and -acting Black people has reached
fever-pitch, the world community greeted Min. Farrakhan with open
arms everywhere from Red China to White Muslim Russia, Black Africa
and the Caribbean, and this is why white America is being stampeded
by the ADL and the SPLC to make Min. Farrakhan America's Enemy
#1. 
The traditional civil
rights establishment is not going to be able to sit this one out
as their "allies" attempt this hateful assault on the
Black community. NAACP executive Uncle Tom Julian Bond colleagued
with both Seligman-Dees and Levin in the early days of the SPLC.
In fact, Bond is listed as a co-founder. This action, on the part
of his comrades clearly crosses the line and places ALL of the
Black community in dangerous waters. All organizations, but especially
Bond's NAACP, need to speak up and strongly rebuke the actions
of the Southern Poverty Law Center and all those who seek to manipulate
the Black agenda by remote control.
Southern Poverty
Law Center, Guide Star Pages (The National Database of Nonprofit
Organizations) "Financial Info: Fiscal Year: 2000. [from
http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/blapol.htm]
Assets: $147,441,903. Income: $32,520,416
... Chief Executive: Mr. Joseph J. Levin, Jr." (President
and Chairman of the Board). [What about the Southern Poverty Law
Center, famed fighter for the impoverished and African-American
rights, especially in the South? It is based in Montgomery, Alabama,
and in 1996 the local Montgomery Advertiser printed an embarrassing
expose about the Center. The salary, noted the paper, for SPLC
president and CEO (as well as SPLC co-founder) Joseph Levin was
$137,798 a year. Not bad for a fighter on behalf of those mired
in poverty. The Center's Legal Director, Richard Cohen, made $151,420.
But that's not all. The Advertiser further noted that "One
thing remains a constant at the nation's wealthiest civil rights
charity, the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center: All
the top-paid, top-level management jobs are held by whites."
[What percentage Jews?] [RICHARDSON, SANDEE. CIVIL RIGHTS CHARITY
CONTINUES TO HAVE WHITES IN TOP-PAYING JOBS. ASHVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES/MONTGOMERY
ADVERTISER, 8-29-96, p. D7] In SPLC's 25-year history "no
black person has held a top-level management position, and only
one black staffer has ever been among the top five paid positions."
In SPLC's team of five lawyers, one was African-American. [RICHARDSON,
S., 8-29-96, p. D7] The next year, an editorial writer, Rose Sanders,
expressed outrage that the SPLC publicly condemned Louis Farrakhan
of the Nation of Islam (a hero in large parts of the Black community)
as a racist. She pointed out the hypocrisy of the charge, noting
that "Joseph Levin says he is not a bigot, but how does he
explain the bigotry evidenced by the employment practices at the
Poverty Law Center? An example of the Center's racial prejudice
is illustrated by its racial tolerance program. The program did
not have a single black employee. No black person helped shape
or design the program." [SANDERS, ROSE. CENTER'S CONDEMNATION
UNJUST, THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER., 9-22-97, p. 7A]