Biden DOJ Pick Struggles to Defend Record on Black Panther Prosecutions
During confirmation hearing, Republicans pushed Kristen Clarke on her history of opposing civil rights cases against black defendants Kristen Clarke / Getty Images Kevin Daley • April 14, 2021 6:30 pm
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Justice Department nominee Kristen Clarke struggled to explain her criticisms of a civil rights case lodged against members of the New Black Panther Party during her confirmation hearing Wednesday.
Clarke tried to duck questions about her opposition to prosecuting two Panthers for civil rights violations in the 2008 election while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Republican lawmakers say the Black Panther case is a troubling indicator of her approach to enforcing civil rights laws.
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Biden administration pick Kristen Clarke has been weeks in the making, and tensions predictably ran high.
Kristen Clarke, an attorney tapped by President Joe Biden for a directorship at the Department of Justice, testifies at a Wednesday, April 14, 2021, hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Image via Courthouse News)
WASHINGTON (CN) From her satiric essay about racial superiority to her name on a flyer about how the “prison industrial complex” eats up Black Americans, Kristen Clarke’s student interests were dominant issues Wednesday as the Senate Judiciary Committee dug into her nomination to oversee civil rights prosecutions at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Sunday Times that Dr Lwazi Lushaba told first-year University of Cape Town political science students in an online lecture that Hitler “committed no crime” because “all Hitler did was to do to the white people what white people had normally reserved for black people”.
This article, which came out the day before Holocaust Memorial Day or Yom HaShoah, created consternation on social media and was seen by some to be yet another antisemitic expression of Holocaust denial.
After reading this account, I listened to the online lecture, which has been posted on Facebook, and it became very clear that the broader context of Dr Lushaba’s lecture had been ignored in the
Growing up, James Henson idolized the Black Panther Party. Drawn to the group s ideal of a self-sustaining Black community one trained in hand-to-hand combat and licensed to carry firearms he applied for his concealed pistol permit, began teaching self-defense classes and even donned the beret and leather jacket made famous by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
But seeing the death of George Floyd last year was the final straw for the 22-year-old Lansing resident. In response to injustices that ve been going on for a long time, he said, he formed a group in the original Black Panthers image: the aptly named Young Black Panther Party.
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