Zulu Sharod: A Hustler in a Panther Costume (2021)

 

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This is a brief reply to a March 31, 2021 Instagram post made by Shaka Zulu aka Zulu Sharod (ghostwritten by Tom Watts aka Xing Eela), concerning the Dec 2020 split of the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party (RIBPP) with him and Tom Watts, who continue to call themselves the New Afrikan Black Panther Panther (NABPP). I only recently became aware of Shaka’s post because he long ago blocked me and others in the RIBPP from his IG and FB pages.

 

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In his March 31st IG post, Shaka claimed he was a target of lies and that the FBI and a group of “career wreckers” were to blame for my and the RIBPP’s split with him and Tom Watts as the only two remaining members of the NABPP. Shaka claimed the split made him a stronger revolutionary and prepared him to start over alone.

One thing Shaka knows of me—which is why he’s blocked me from his IG and FB pages—is I’m not liberal (1), and will confront and expose lies when they are told, which is actually a rule in the RIBPP (and previously in the NABPP—rules which I wrote). Which prompts me to answer his post.

 

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One of the few things he says that is true, which the split made rather obvious; he was compelled to start over ALL BY HIMSELF. The very fact that EVERYONE who previously organized alongside you was compelled to leave you, speaks deafening volumes about your character and conduct. In Shaka’s case, it was his own abusive behavior and posing as a revolutionary. A role he CAN’T abandon because it is his bread and butter, it’s his hustle. So he’s continued with this farce.

Unlike the RIBPP’s outside leadership, Shaka hasn’t held a job since he got out of prison in Jan 2019. Indeed, he’s survived using money and resources he’s used his Shaka-centered rendition of “The Panther Revolution” to hustle from the people, often misusing for his own benefit money he solicited or was donated for supposed NABPP work.

Misappropriating NABPP money is one of the specific reasons the RIBPP purged him. Neither the FBI nor any “wreckers” had anything to do with him stealing money for himself that was raised or donated for NABPP work.

In fact, his and Tom’s inclinations to spout lies like this, and falsely portray themselves as embattled revolutionaries is another reason we split with them.

Take for example, this claim that the NABPP and UPM were beset by a group of “career wreckers.” In fact, I resigned from the NABPP’s Central Committee and Politburo in Nov 2020, after Tom falsely signed my name to a paper I had no prior notice of that he published on Nov 8, 2020 in the name of the Politburo, where he totally invented a false narrative about the people he called wreckers.(2)

In that paper, TOM QUOTED A ZIONIST BLOG (Canary Mission), that doxes Palestinian activists, as a credible source for an ‘investigation’ he supposedly made of these people [!!??]. Based on that source, Tom claimed the so-called “career wreckers” were part of a Philly chapter of a pro-Palestinian college group called the Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee (RSCC), that they destroyed back in 2016.

In reality, at the time of the RSCC’s existence and dissolution, only one of the numerous UPM members that Tom claimed wrecked the RSCC, were ever involved with the RSCC or even lived in Pennsylvania. Tom just made the whole thing up, because it fit a narrative he invented of some intricate plot being hatched within the UPM to undermine him when he was criticized by the UPM for making transphobic remarks. Which fits with Tom’s flair for inventing intrigue and exaggerating minor achievements to sound extraordinary. THIS was the supposed FBI plot to destroy the NABPP they continue to claim.

During early Dec 2020, Shaka and Tom were confronted and given a written statement from four of the people they’d slandered as “career wreckers,” demonstrating that Tom’s claims against them were entirely bogus.(3) They requested a discussion on the matter with the NABPP. Tom and Shaka never responded and continue even now to use this lie to heap slander on these people and to posture as victims of pig intrigue.

While I certainly know the pigs have been busy monitoring and acting to disrupt revolutionary work, (I have been the only one between me, Shaka and Tom, facing the brunt of pig repression and abuse), Tom’s and Shaka’s inventing bullshit like this only diverts attention away from and undermines credible investigations into and shields actual counterintelligence activities from being exposed. Not to mention that it does the pigs’ work of wrecking independent political organizations and work by falsely bad jacketing people.

So, our split with the NABPP has taught Shaka and Tom nothing, except to make Shaka more determined in his work of hustling the people, and did nothing to improve his integrity.

Dare to Struggle Dare to Win!
All Power to the People!

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  1. For analysis of liberal practice and the error of revolutionaries engaging in it, see Mao Tsu-tung’s, “Combat Liberalism.”
  2. The Nov 8, 2020 article by Tom was titled, “Position of the Politburo of the NABPP on the UPM: Reassessment, Rectification and Reorganization.”
  3. The statement from the alleged “career wreckers,” refuting Tom’s article about the RSCC, which was sent to Tom and Shaka during early Dec 2020 by Comrade Garlic, who is now the RIBPP’s Justice Minister, (I had Garlic send them the statement to ensure they received it), stated as follows:

“The purpose of this document is to correct claims in a statement released November 8, 2020 signed by Shaka Zulu, Tom Watts, and Kevin Rashid Johnson (Rashid verbally revoked his signature from the document after its release to UPM). [I never saw the document before it was released. Tom put my name at the end of it as though I signed on to it. I publicly expressed my disagreement with the document and that it had not been released upon democratic-centralist agreement of the Politburo. This prompted a dispute with Tom and my resignation from the Politburo and Central Committee on Nov 11, 2020. – Rashid]

“This November 8, 2020 statement asserts, ‘In December of 2019, a conference was held in Newark, with several members of a newly-formed group calling themselves the Maoist Revolutionary Party, who were formerly known as the Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee (RSCC).’

“Where the newly established Philadelphia’s Maoist Revolutionary Party (MRP) attended the revolutionary congress in Newark and placed themselves under the leadership of the NABPP, the authors ofhe November 8, 2020 statement are curiously misguided in the assertions that:

“1) the MRP was comprised of RSCC-PHL members, and

“2) that the members of RSCC-PHL simply changed their names to MRP.

“The first problem with these claims is that the Philadelphia chapter of the RSCC—and other chapters—collapsed in April of 2016 due to unresolved internal gender contradictions.

” Secondly, MRP was founded in December of 2019, the same month MRP members attended the congress hosted by the NABPP in Newark. Contrary to claims made by the authors of the November 8, 2020 statement, MRP was not comprised of former RSCC-PHL members, only Kelsey Hollenbach was a former member of RSCC-PHL.

“The 4/5 comrades who would later form MRP in December of 2019 (Elaina, Sam, Will and Mason) were living scattered across the continental United States, none of whom lived in Philadelphia or Pennsylvania during the period when RSCC existed.

“Excluding Kelsey Hollenbach, the remainder of former MRP members agreed to testify to this non-involvement with RSCC-PHL by signing this document.

“Mason Bliss

“Willy Chino

“Sam Palmer

“Elaina Letner”

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