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'''Stokely Carmichael''' was a black-supremacist and activist. He was the head of the [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]] (SNCC), and later the [[Black Panther Party]]. He was also involved with the [[Nation of Islam]]. Carmichael later changed his name to Kwame Ture, in an attempt to honor socialist African dictators [[Kwame Nkrumah]] and [[Sekou Toure]]. | '''Stokely Carmichael''' was a black-supremacist and activist. He was the head of the [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]] (SNCC), and later the [[Black Panther Party]]. He was also involved with the [[Nation of Islam]]. Carmichael later changed his name to Kwame Ture, in an attempt to honor socialist African dictators [[Kwame Nkrumah]] and [[Sekou Toure]]. | ||
| − | Carmichael was a [[racist]], a [[socialist]], an [[anti-American]], and an [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semite]]. Unlike other civil rights leaders, such as [[Martin Luther King]], Carmichael rejected nonviolence and racial integration, instead campaigning for "Black Power", or violence and racial separatism. | + | Carmichael was a [[racist]], a [[socialist]], an [[anti-American]], and an [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semite]]. Unlike other civil rights leaders, such as [[Martin Luther King]], Carmichael rejected [[nonviolence]] and [[racial integration]], instead campaigning for "[[Black Power]]", or violence and [[racial separatism]]. |
| − | He regularly spoke on college campuses, his speeches full of anti-Semitism and historical inaccuracies.<ref>http://www.adl.org/Sih/SIH-Overview.asp</ref> | + | He regularly spoke on college campuses, his speeches full of [[anti-Semitism]] and historical inaccuracies. <ref>http://www.adl.org/Sih/SIH-Overview.asp</ref> |
He died of [[prostate cancer]] in 1998. | He died of [[prostate cancer]] in 1998. | ||
Revision as of 03:18, August 19, 2007
Stokely Carmichael was a black-supremacist and activist. He was the head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and later the Black Panther Party. He was also involved with the Nation of Islam. Carmichael later changed his name to Kwame Ture, in an attempt to honor socialist African dictators Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Toure.
Carmichael was a racist, a socialist, an anti-American, and an anti-Semite. Unlike other civil rights leaders, such as Martin Luther King, Carmichael rejected nonviolence and racial integration, instead campaigning for "Black Power", or violence and racial separatism.
He regularly spoke on college campuses, his speeches full of anti-Semitism and historical inaccuracies. [1]
He died of prostate cancer in 1998.
Quotes
"The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist"[2]
"I have never admired a White man, but the greatest of them was Hitler"[3]
