Well, I must have gotten someone's attention with the Ali Shamsid-Deen Chronicles. Our good friend Adam Lynch over at the JFP interviewed Mr. Shamsid-Deen. Want to guess what the first topic was? His old Jackson Advocate columns. Mr. Lynch asked "As a Jackson Advocate editor, you made statements some might describe as anti-white, such as saying that then-Mayor Kane Ditto had a “slave-owner mentality.”
How did the learned jurist respond? Mr. Shamsid-Deen replied:
"Well, keep in mind that those articles were published almost 20 years ago. What may have been true then may not necessarily be true now. All of us who have any amount of intelligence have the power to adapt to the times and the situations we’re living in. You have to take into account the context of things that were happening at that time. It was a different world then. My attitude toward Kane Ditto then, for example, may not be the attitude I have toward him and his policies now. I haven’t spoken to Mr. Ditto in ages."
Well, let us post some of what he wrote because it wasn't just about Mr. Ditto:
"He is one of the "Spooks who sat by the door Ne****s". We know the one's. "I'm Black and I made it. My race didn't keep me back." (On Clarence Thomas)
"Sister Souljah knows just like the rest of us know that African American gang members know how to stay on the side of the law enforcement and that is by victimizing the African American community."
"Mayor Kane Ditto's attitude is typical of that slave-owner mentality. He is smart enough to realize that his political future in Jackson and indeed Hinds County depends upon how well he is perceived in the African American community. He is like the old slave owner who put African American overseer over the rest of the slaves because he thought that this would make the slaves work better for him."
"In his political thinking and this solution to this situation is to simply fire a xxxxxxx and hire another xxxxxxx. His thinking is that all we see is skin color anyway and not result. Well, we intend to prove Mayor Ditto's thinking wrong."
"Once again the Clarion-Ledger quoted their trusted Negro intellectuals to add support to their deceitfulness. These Nexxxxxs are used to try and convince the rest of us that white is always right. These intellectuals are supposed to be experts in using reason, yet they stare facts in the face and come up with totally illogical conclusions to aid the white folks cause."
On Grace Simmons, current Editor of the Clarion-Ledger, when she was a reporter at the newspaper:
"It is absolutely shameful that we as African-Americans have to endure this type of attitude from the caucasian media and it is pitiful of an African-American such as Ms. Simmons to be so caught up in imitating the 'white folks' that they are of no use to us. They act as if everything that we as African-Americans do is wrong and that everything that the 'white folks' believe is right. They really believe that they are different from the rest of us just because 'white folks' say so....
Wake up Grace, you are chasing the dream of being excepted by the 'white folks' too hard. This will cause you to lose credibility with everybody, including the white folks that you are in awe of."
There is plenty more of where this came from in Mr. Shamsid-Deen's columns, which I've made available on this website. Mr. Shamsid-Deen has no business whatsoever being a Circuit Judge. What Mr. Lynch should've asked him is if he thought Grace Simmons was still an Uncle Tom or if the newspaper still uses "trusted Nexxx intellectuals". He might have asked him if he thought Harvey was a tool of "caucasians" or asked him why he used the N word.
I write this post as a supporter of Jeff Weill. Make no bones about it. I think out of all the candidates, he is the best one for the job by far. However, there is a difference between a the typical opponent who simply holds different positions than Mr. Weill and a racial bomb-thrower such as Mr. Shamsid-Deen. Reading those columns gives one the sense that not only would whites not get a fair hearing in his courtroom but neither would blacks that he thought weren't "black enough".
Judicial races are boring for the most part as the candidates are handcuffed in what positions they can take. However, few, if any, candidates in recent memory have written things on the same level as Mr. Shamsid-Deen. Any regular reader of this site knows he would be called out for his columns regardless of whom I support. Someone should put his columns in front of him and ask him point blank if he still agrees with all of these quotes posted above. There is a place for Mr. Shamsid-Deen in our society but it is not on the bench, despite all the whitewashing (pun intended) by certain publications
Thursday, October 14, 2010
The Ali Shamsid-Deen Chronicles: The JFP Rehab Tour begins
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Can you imagine the fury if Weill had written anything even close to being as racist and just plain loony Mr. Shamsid-Deen's rants? The JFP would probably produce a special edition.
"Well, keep in mind that those articles were published almost 20 years ago. What may have been true then may not necessarily be true now." Blah blah blah...
...MAY not necessarily be true NOW? It sounds as though he wishes the reader to believe he has changed, although he apparently believes the evil white oppressor hasn't changed one iota. It's a one-way street with him.
What a load of doublespeak.
Lynch and the JFP pulled more punches in that interview than all thrown in Hearns-Leonard '81.
Once again the JFP is exposed as the fraud most in the community understand it to be.
What do you expect? A serious journalistic approach or puffery? I would expect the latter.
Will the JFP grant the same sort of forgiving leeway to, say, David Duke, since his nastiness was also over 20 years ago? I'll hold me breath while waiting to see that happen ;-)
Although Lynch is a tool he did publicize the upcoming benefit for Herman Snell happening this coming Sunday from 3 - 7 pm at Hal & Mal's, with a $10 cover charge, a copy of Herman's book of collected columns for sale, lots of entertainers, and proceeds going to his funeral expenses and family. His music postings and articles were the only thing in the JFP I took seriously.
Do you think the JFP will let us spam their website with something from JJ?
12:31 some things don't translate well as email or internet postings, or maybe you're just dumb as a box of rocks.
1) I despise the JFP, as the first 5 words at 12:14 should make plainly obvious to anyone with an IQ over room temperature.
2) I have nothing to do with the JFP; this is not spam "from" the JFP.
3) This is a community celebration of the life who gave a lot to Jacksonians. As the last line at 12:14 makes perfectly clear (or should) he had nothing to do with the moronic tripe from the rest of the JFP.
4) It is CLEARLY stated this is a benefit for the funeral expenses and his family, especially his 15-year-old son who was extremely close to his dad and is now dealing with the sudden and unexpected loss. Decent people try to support those left behind after a devastating loss; if you don't understand that you are hopeless.
5) The JFP is a "closed shop" as far as posting anything, as anyone who frequents this blog could tell you.
I don't mind his mentioning the celebration at all. Mr Snell was well-thought of by many people and such an event deserves its share of publicity.
Never read his work, but the compassion I have for the situation is not lost.
Oddly, that was also the first thing I thought of when I read it. I thought "Dang, Kingfish really stepped on someones feelings."
Awesome. I wonder if His boss, Lumwumba has renounced his Republic of New Africa nonsense as well. Can someone ask him?
KF, take a look at JFP 'Meet the Judicial Candidates' article.
"Judicial candidate Ali ShamsidDeen (pictured) has drawn fire for apparently anti-white statements he made in The Jackson Advocate. Those remarks were revealed by a local blogger paid hundreds of dollars to do web work for his opponent Jeff Weill. You decide"
Thought it was a little funny that he was the only one pictured. I guess there was no more room to put pictures of every other candidate they listed....
Its true. No big secret. I've written on here more than once I support Jeff Weill. I created his website for him. No different than candidates going to WLBT and WJTV to have commercials produced.
The columns I came up with all on my own. The logs at the department of archives will bear that out. Weill also bought an ad on this website and to show I don't discriminate, I sold one because he asked. I would've sold one to Ali or any other candidate as well, unlike another conservative blog in this town which rejected an ad from Green (1st Cong. District) even though he wanted to pay for it.
No problem, no explanation was needed. Just noticed their blurb and wanted to pass it along.
Appreciate you pulling those columns and publishing them. I don't care who is for or against any of the candidates, but those columns needed to be put out there.
KF, in the interest of full disclosure and to take the wind out of the JFP windbag, why not post the specific amount you were paid.
@4:07 who cares. Thanks KF for doing the research on a candidate.
JFP has no wind in anything. (I think that's the kindest thing I can say about them, others have put it a little more to-the-point.) Their little jab is just another attempt to try and change focus ie don't-look-at-those-columns! dont look over there, don't read that stuff!
No, Kingfish has been very kind to Weill. He avoided reporting on the throwing of Bill Brister under the bus despite reporting extensively on the now discredited study that Weill used to claim that JPD's civilian ranks were overstaffed. Weill's early campaign lit even featured this now false claim. Kingfish should indeed report how much he was paid. Of course, if he is happy to be a shill well, then, that is his choice.
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