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Discuss “Shabazz inflames campus with controversial speech”

?Can you ? for a moment ? put aside the color of my skin and what I stand for and put aside the color of your skin and what you stand for and shake my hand?? asked Student Senator Ed Ryan, a senior in physics.

Malik Zulu Shabazz paused, then spoke: ?No, sir, I cannot.?

Shabazz, an attorney from Washington, D.C., and chairman of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (NBPP), spoke in Gregg Hall as part of a 12-city tour on Thursday evening. Shabazz did eventually shake Ryan?s hand after Ryan explained how he had defended Shabazz?s funding in a Senate meeting three weeks prior. Although this exchange happened during the question-and-answer section of Shabazz?s lecture, it was indicative of the event?s overall controversy.

Although Shabazz...

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