Malachi Smith's List: THE MEDIA

• FOX   NEWS HAS A VAN JONES PROBLEM
• By Cliff Kincaid
    October 1, 2009
    NewsWithViews.com
• With   good reason, the Fox News Channel (FNC) led by Glenn Beck spent many hours   exploring the far-left radical views of White House official Van Jones.
• The scrutiny resulted in Jones being forced out. But officials and hosts   of the cable channel clearly failed to “vet” Marc Lamont Hill,   who is being presented to the FNC viewing audience on a regular basis   as just “a Columbia University professor” with expertise on   a wide range of domestic and foreign policy issues.
• In fact,   Hill, a self-described public intellectual, is an acknowledged expert   on “hip-hop culture,” a category defined as including break-dancing,   rapping, graffiti writing, slang, and other such activities.
• Much   less well-known is Hill’s record of involvement in “revolutionary”   causes, including support for convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur, a member   of the terrorist Black Liberation Army (BLA) now living as a fugitive   from justice in Communist Cuba.
• David Horowitz’s revelation of Hill’s   embrace of the terrorist apparently caught FNC officials by surprise.
• But   desperate to appear “fair and balanced,” the popular cable   news channel has already given Hill the special status of “Fox News   contributor,” making him one of the select few who are paid to appear   regularly on several different FNC programs.
• Hill’s performances   on FNC have been featured on the air for several months now. But Hill   will not discuss how much he is being paid to pontificate on issues far   beyond his area of expertise, such as Obama’s foreign policy on   Iran.
• On the   other hand, Hill did reportedly give an interview to “Davey   D’s Hip Hop Corner,” where “he talked honestly about   the types of mindsets many of his colleagues like Glenn Beck and Sean   Hannity have when it comes to dealing with the Left” and praised   Bill O’Reilly for not accepting some of the “outlandish claims”   about President Obama.
• In the   same way that Van Jones was exposed originally by New Zealand blogger   Trevor Loudon by using Internet search engines to look into his controversial   background and writings, over the course of just a few days Accuracy in   Media has been able to determine the following about Hill from public   sources:
• He called the notorious anti-white, anti-Jewish Khallid Muhammad a “mentor,   teacher, and revolutionary hero,” and believes that the black racist   died not from a brain aneurysm but was assassinated. Muhammad was so extreme   that he was ousted from the Nation of Islam because of his hatred of Jews.
• He gave a lecture on “The Importance of   Ideological Training in the New Millenium (sic)” at the Polymathematic   University’s “Political Education Program for the Poor Righteous   Communist Party.”
• He declared on a “MySpace” page that   the people he’d like to meet personally include Assata Shakur, Louis   Farrakhan, Fidel Castro, and Mumia Abu Jamal, another convicted cop-killer.
• He speaks on “The Importance of the Nation   of Islam to Hip-Hop Culture” and says that he once belonged to something   called the Ansaaru Allah Community, an Islamic sect with doctrines similar   to the Nation of Islam that has been accused of being a religious cult.
• Hill’s “MySpace”   page features a slide show of such figures as Assata Shakur, Fidel   Castro, Che Guevara, and Ella Baker, who just happens to be the namesake   of the Ella Baker Center, founded by Van Jones.
• The Marc Lamont Hill website includes a graphic   and obscene “Sex   With Timaree” segment that features advice from a “Sexpert”   on how to enjoy the “Land o’ Anal” or anal sex.
• Hill   told   me in an interview that while he supports Shakur (his Twitter page   is plastered with police photos of the fugitive), he was not the author   of an article under his by-line and on his website that hails her escape   from prison and grant of political asylum in Cuba. However, the article   concludes with the name of “Marc.”
• There   is no confusion about Hill’s speaking engagement at Polymathematic   University (PU). He is so proud of it that he includes the appearance   on his publicly available 9-page Curriculum Vitae.
• But   PU is not an ordinary “university.” PU describes   itself as “an institution built on the solid foundation of the   revolutionary program of the Five Jewels and Restrictive Laws and the   ideology of Polymathematics.
• In this day and time of intense class contradictions   between the world’s working classes of color and the white U.S.   empire and their lackeys, the necessity for a revolutionary institution   that focuses on the education and training of revolutionaries is extremely   important.
• PU is a direct alternative to the bourgeois universities of   the old world of decadent Capitalism, guiding the poor ghetto children   of color into the new world of Righteous Communism (Peace.)”
• PU,   which is an institution of the “Poor Righteous Party of the Black   Nation,” has 25   different teachings.

• They include:

   

  •   “That so called African people and their family (Black, Brown, Red,   and Yellow) are the aboriginal people of the Planet Earth.
• “That so called African people and their   family (Black, Brown, Red, and Yellow) are the fathers and mothers of   civilization.
• “That so called African people and their   family (Black, Brown, Red, and Yellow) are righteous by nature as shown   by historical development.
• “That the broad masses of dark-skinned   people of the world majority are one people, the Original people, who   share a common origin, a common destiny and a common enemy wherever they   are at in the world.”
• An associated   website is “the   web blog of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation” where   “you can find news, reports, analysis, statements and updates relating   to the polymathematic revolution happening in the world today   led our Party (sic).” It features photos of such figures as Mao   Tse Tung, Lenin, and Malcolm X.
• Hill’s   tribute to black racist Khallid Muhammad is featured   on his web page in an article under his by-line that includes personal   references.
• He writes, “Of course, many will remember Dr. Khallid   for his anti-Jewish remarks at Kean College, his Congressional censure,   his bitter departure from the Nation of Islam, or his contentious Million   Youth March. I, however, will remember Dr. Khallid for what he truly was:   mentor, teacher, and revolutionary hero.”
• “I   love you and miss you Dr. Khallid,” it concludes.
• In the   Kean College speech, Muhammad “referred to Jews as ‘bloodsuckers,’   called for the genocide of white people, and demeaned both Pope John Paul   II and homosexuals,” according to one   report.
• Hill   goes on to say, “I first met Dr. Khallid when I was a 16-year-old   activist working in Philadelphia. Khabyr Haddas and Hiram Ashantee, two   Philadelphia activists to whom I looked up, introduced me to Dr. Khallid   when he spoke to a community group at the West Philadelphia YMCA.”   Ashantee was a leader of the New Black Panther Party.
• While   Hill says that he and Muhammad had different views on some issues and   went in “drastically different directions” in their lives,   he nevertheless goes on to say, “The thing that I remember and treasure   most about Khallid Muhammad was his profound love for Black people. Although   the media attempts to portray him as a hate monger, Dr. Khallid exuded   a palpable love for Black people that permeated every aspect of his being.   In all honesty, I did not truly understand what it meant to love Black   people before I met Khallid Muhammad. After meeting him, I couldn’t   help but do anything else.”
• Hill   writes that, “Although I believe that his death was an assassination   rather than an accident—as Dr. Khallid would say, ‘another   story for another time’—Dr. Khallid’s legacy taught   me that you can kill revolutionaries, but not revolutions. For that, I   am eternally indebted and grateful.”
• He doesn’t   explain who or what was behind this alleged assassination attempt. Perhaps   they were the same forces who convicted Shakur of the murder of New Jersey   State Trooper Werner Foerster.
• Hill   maintains that Shakur is innocent but refers in the controversial article   on his website under his by-line to the positive role played by “the   ancestors” in her escape.
• This is presumably a reference to members   of the BLA who worked with the Weather Underground to free the terrorist.
• The term “ancestors” has been used on other occasions by Hill   to refer to important black figures in history.
• The   term “ancestors” takes on added significance because it is   also used extensively on   a website devoted to Assata Shakur, where the United States is labeled   the “United Snakes.”
• A poem on the site declares, “Rise   up, O Afrikan Ancestors, and let our enemies be scattered! And give us   the wisdom and the boldness to deal with our oppressors and those who   would hinder the liberation and empowerment of our people.”
• Polymathematics   is also featured on the Assata Shakur website, where questions and answers   on the subject are posted. Were all of the “ancestors”—“all   original people—Black, Brown, Red and Yellow people”—Polymathematicians?   The answer is, “YES! they did not call themselves that, just as   there are Polymathematicians out there that don’t call themselves   that. But the word Polymathematician is a label for a phenomena (sic)   that is Universal and Eternal.”
• There   is no available public record of what Hill said when he delivered his   PU lecture on “The Importance of Ideological Training in the New   Millenium (sic),” but there is an account at www.peacecomrade.org   of what members of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation did when   they “participated in an interaction program organized by the Black   Student Union of West Chester University.”
• According   to the   account, someone named “Comrade Ingiaye” discussed the   use of the party “as a revolutionary project against our open enemies,”   while “Proctor Styles” declared that Black Panther Huey Newton   was “one of the greatest and most important people in the history   of our people” and recommended Mao’s Little Red Book, also   known as “Quotations from Chairman Mao TseTung,” for reading.
• One   of Mao’s most famous quotations is “Every Communist must grasp   the truth, ‘political power grows out   of the barrel of a gun.’”
• In this   context, an   Internet slide show associated with someone or something called “Polymathematic”   includes photos of books such as Negroes With Guns, by Robert   F. Williams, a black communist who fled to Castro’s Cuba and then   communist China. Other recommended books include Assata: the autobiography   of Assata Shakur; The Black Panthers Speak; Che Guevara Speaks; and   Black Bolshevik.
• Hill   says that he doesn’t support violence or terrorism but has declared   that “I believe that my work also follows in the tradition of Dr.   Khallid’s revolutionary struggle for Black liberation.”
• His   “work” is now being paid for and facilitated by the “conservative”   Fox News Channel.
• He must be laughing all the way to the bank.
• ©   2009 Cliff Kincaid - All Rights Reserved

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