New Black Panther Party Official Statement
on Trenton Shooting

THE NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY
NATIONAL MINISTRY OF CULTURE
PO BOX 25332, NEWARK, NJ 07101
201-602-0780
www.newblackpanther.com
June 8, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!

Statement on Trenton Shooting

The National Central Committee of the New Black Panther Party wholeheartedly condemns the outrageous reckless shooting that took place in Trenton June 7th that was at the behest of our national youth minister Divine Allah.

Tragically, but most true, in this state and in much of this region, our party has had to spend more time on this issue than all of the other issues we are known to address combined. Just as tragically, it is an issue that is marked by the youngest and most vital sector of our community mindlessly and senselessly using illicit firearms on each other and often, as in this most maddening case, taking out innocent bystanders like this 12 year old young lady, along the way.

We will stand boldly and proudly with our Bro. Divine as he seeks to reestablish peace in his community. We call on our community leaders in the area to do the same. We will stand boldly and proudly with the family of the young daughter, Tamrah Leonard, who was senselessly killed as they come to grips of with the sense loss of their loved one. We will stand boldly and proudly with that community in their bold and necessary pursuit of peace.

The Bible’s New Testament says “Blessed are peacemakers for they are children of god,” and the Quran says “God will not change a condition of people unless they first willing to change themselves.”

To all of our young men who think they are doing something ‘powerful’ by using firearms because ‘you got’em’. You are doing just the opposite. You are losing your own community, losing any support and respect you believe you deserve from your community, and much too many of you are losing your lives either by being on the wrong side of the gunplay or doing time for perpetrating it! Weapons are to be had and to be used only as a last resort to protect your community not because ‘you got’em’.

The great Chinese revolutionary Mao TseTung who organized nearly a billion people for power, nationhood and independence , said it best “Strength without discipline breaks its own back!”

Enough of this madness!

It’s time to wake up! Clean up and stand up!

Black Power!
Min.Zayid Muhammad,
National Minister of Culture, New Black Panther Party
cc:Malik Zulu Shabazz, Esq.
Nat’l Chairman, New Black Panther Party