How's this for an invited speaker?

It never ceases to amaze me at the kind of speakers that are invited to Universities. Here's a report about some of the speakers brought in to Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University. One of them was Malik Zulu Shabazz, leader of the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense.

Declaring his intention to “pin the tail on the racist honkies at Carnegie Mellon University,” Mr. Shabazz—standing before a backdrop of lynching photographs and flanked by several “security guards”--asserted that the city of Pittsburgh was “racist as hell” and that racism at CMU “drips to the core of this university.” Encouraged by shouts from the audience and his entourage, Mr. Shabazz adduced several arguments, among them that Jesus was black, Moses “lifted” the Ten Commandments from the ancient Egyptians, the Anti-Defamation League was established by gangster Meyer Lansky to bring “illegal alcohol, dope and drugs” into America, blacks and not Israeli Jews are true Semites, Israel is a “terrorist” state and Theodore Herzl has “blood on his hands.” Other observations Mr. Shabazz broached were that George Washington raped black women, the word “picnic” originated from “pick a nigger to lynch” and that he himself was not an anti-Semite. He provided no evidence to support his claims.

During the question and answer period, Mr. Shabazz asked Jews in the audience—about a third of which was white—to identify themselves. When several raised their hands, he asked if they believed in Jesus, and when they said no, asked “See, how can we accept you?” According to several eyewitnesses, including Jeffrey Cohan, Director of Communications and Public Affairs for the Pittsburgh branch of United Jewish Federation, the talk took on the attributes of a “hate rally.” Although Mr. Shabazz wore a black suit and fur overcoat, “his guards were dressed in paramilitary jumpsuits with berets and acted like they were carrying out military drills,” Cohan says. “They marched up and down the aisles, chanting and shouting.” A few minutes into the speech, the electricity was cut off, pitching the room into a darkness barely lit by audience members who turned on the lights of their cell phones. As one young CMU faculty member remarked, “It was the most terrifying thing I have ever experienced.”