Trying to resurrect the glory days of Ferguson.
Via Charleston Post and Courier
“This is much bigger than Walter Scott, but this is the last straw,” [Malik] Shabazz said. “This is the last straw, listen to me well and understand why we have traveled here and why we will remain here. Mr. President, you have a problem that has gotten out of control.
“We’re not going to be hunted down like deer and hunted down like dogs and sit here crying and whining — we’d rather die and have somebody else in self-defense die than take this kind of abuse in the hells of North America, do you understand?”
Shabazz shot down any criticism that he may be making “too much” out of Scott’s death by asking anyone to show him where in America “white men are dropping like flies.”
“We are at war,” he declared, later clarifying to say he meant philosophically at war. “The black man is an endangered species. It’s almost like some kind of whale about to be extinct, some kind of rare animal or rare bird that is nearing extinction, hunted without protection and we are shot and killed again like dogs or like deer — target practice. Soon we going to start shooting back.”
After a long pause, he added, “in self-defense.”