This is some highly selective editing, why did you leave out the related part of this story from the end of the very same Wiki page you cited? This type of selective editing is incitement rather than dissemination of information.austinrealtor wrote:Zee wrote:Not strange for Quannel to say at all, if you know Quannel. A black person is dead. A non-black person killed them. That's all Quannell needs to know to come after the non-black person.
Some snippets from his wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanell_X" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
In 1995, Quanell X was quoted in the New York Daily News as saying,
"I say to Jewish America: Get ready … knuckle up, put your boots on, because we're ready and the war is going down. … The real deal is this: Black youth do not want a relationship with the Jewish community or the mainstream white community or the foot shuffling, head-bowing, knee bobbing black community. … All you Jews can go straight to heck.
From Wikipedia article cited above:
Apologies
On January 28, 2008, after taking a tour of the Holocaust Museum Houston, Quanell said he became enlightened and apologized for his past statements on Jews.
"I seek the forgiveness of every survivor who has heard the words I've said. I did not say them in the proper manner to make the point I was trying to get across. I can see and understand how they might be utterly paranoid (of) a person such as myself."
He has been challenging those within the community who sympathize with Osama bin Laden.[24]
I do volunteer work at Holocaust Museum and I've spent time speaking and visiting with Quanell on some other projects, when you write "if you know Quanell" somehow I doubt you know him any better than you know G. Bush, B.H. Obama, Tiger Woods or Peter and Lois Griffin outside of what you know from media reports. I may not agree with every stand he takes, yet I also understand the need for people to address their constituencies, this is no different than our Governor Hairdo who does the very same thing. As a Black Muslim, Mr. X has some very interesting comments about the Eastern (Arab) Muslims that I found very gutsy, this man is not afraid to swim against the current. He's a much more complex individual than media sound bites indicate.
My objection here is how his comments about Jews were cited while neglecting to mention the latter part of the same story: his rehabilitation and courage to issue public apologies, regardless of what his primary constituency may think of his comments. Not many public figures can do that. Trust that I will be one of the first so speak out against and publicly challenge antisemites and my work has been well documented.