Obama Campaign Removes Black Panther Endorsement from Website

Only one day after delivering his address on race relations to reporters and selected supporters in Philadelphia on Monday Senator Obama's website no longer contains an endorsement from the New Black Panther Party.

Hat Tips to Stop the ACLU and Gateway Pundit who cached the original website layout which appears here and here.

Gateway Pundit also links to Fox News which depicts the original page and provides quotes from the NBPP platform.

The Party, demands slavery reparations, the release of all black prisoners from American jails, trials of blacks only by all-black juries, an end to all black cooperation with police departments, exemption for blacks from the all-volunteer U.S. military and a separate country for African-Americans.

“We believe that Black People should not be forced to fight in the military service to defend a racist government that holds us captive and does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like Black People, are being victimized by the white racist government of America,”

There are some slight exceptions but these sound like the talking points of the Reverand Jeremiah Wright.

Previously: Obama to make speech on race relations today

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