Kamau Kambon

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Kamau Rashidi Kambon (born Leroy Jefferson) is an American black supremacist, academic and activist who, on October 14, 2005, stated that: "We have to exterminate white people off the face of the planet". His speeches were largely unreported in the mainstream media and without consequences for Kambon himself, which may be contrasted with when a white person says something only mildly offensive and/or racist regarding somebody of another ethnicity.

Biography

Dr. Kambon holds a bachelor of arts degree in education and history, a master's degree in physical education, a master of arts degree in education/administration, and an Ed.D. in urban education/curriculum and instruction from Teacher's College Columbia. Kambon taught at St. Augustine's College, a private North Carolina college, from 1982 to 2000 and at North Carolina State University from 2001 to 2005.

He has appeared on numerous television and news programs discussing such topics as: "Kwanzaa", "The Unsolved Murders of Black Women-Are the Police Doing All They Can?", "Food and Health of Black People", "Academic Achievement of Black Children; the Role of Parents in Education", and "Community Development". Kambon is the author of several books, and has run the BlackNificent bookstore since 1994.

African Studies Professor

At North Carolina State University, he taught a number of Afrocentric courses, including "Africana Studies 241", listed as "Introduction to African-American Studies II,", described as "Second in a two-semester sequence in the interdisciplinary study of sub-Saharan Africa, its arts, culture, and people, and the African-American experience.” Another course he taught was "AFS 240: African Civilization," described as: “An interdisciplinary study of centers of African civilization from antiquity to the 1960s. Such centers include ancient Egypt, Nubia, Axum, Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Kilwa, Malinda, Sofola, Zinzibar and Monomotapa.”

Controversies

Kamau Kambon made controversial remarks in a 2001 interview with UNC-TV, mentioning The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and suggesting "it could have been the Israelis" when enquired about the Oklahoma City bombing.

On October 14, 2005, Kambon stated during an address to a panel on "Hurricane Katrina Media Coverage" that: "The problem on the planet is white people ... We have to exterminate white people off the face of the planet, to solve this problem." He also stated that "we are at war." His 10-minute speech aired uninterrupted on the cable television network C-SPAN. It ended with the words:

Now, how do I know that white people know that we are going to come up with a solution to the problem? I know it because they have retina scans, they have what they call "racial-profiling", DNA banks, and they're monitoring our people, to try to prevent "the one" person from coming up with "the one idea". And the one idea is, how we are going to exterminate white people because that, in my estimation, is the only conclusion I have come to. We have to exterminate white people off the face of the planet, to solve this problem.

Applause from a number of black nationalists in the audience followed.

Reaction

Because of race censorship, Kambon's speech went largely unreported. Its only non-Internet exposure came from its mention on minor political dissident radio, such as Republic Broadcasting Network. As these were the early days of Internet video streaming, with YouTube having just launched earlier that year, it circulated to only a small audience that way.

Reference to the incident remains forbidden by the mainstream media: 0 references to the call for extermination are found in The New York Times and The Washington Post archives. The online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which previously provided an article on Kambon,[1] today does not even so much as mention his name once in any of its articles.

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