Michael the Black Man Trashes Obama

A former cult member crashed the UM rally.

A A A Comments (10) By Gus Garcia-Roberts Thursday, Sep 25 2008

Laura Massa

"He is not one of us," Michael the Black Man says of Obama. "He is the cat that was in the house with the master."

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Michael the Black Man, as he calls himself, steps from a brand-new pearl-white Mercedes, ponytail neatly crimped and big black pupils lazily regarding the world after a Sunday spent yachting. Maybe money does buy respectability. Because he now appears far saner than he did two days ago, spewing Old Testament bile as he was dragged from the BankUnited Center by the Secret Service. That is, until he opens his mouth to remind you that Oprah Winfrey has delivered Barack Obama to the cusp of world domination as part of her quest to wipe out mankind.

Last Friday afternoon, Michael Symonette — a.k.a. Maurice Woodside and Mikael Israel — and more than a dozen black minions clustered into a corner of the stands sat impatiently through the first five minutes of an Obama speech in Coral Gables.

Then, with Symonette leading the way, they stood and began chanting, "Barack, go home!" They unrolled signs featuring scrawled messages that seemed inexplicable: "Obama endorsed by the KKK," read one. "Jessie [sic] Jackson hates Obama for federal child support act," read another. Symonette's own sign announced the group: "Blacks against Obama."

"Hey, young people up there," said Obama, craning his neck toward the disturbance as his supporters tried to out-clamor the invaders, "it's no problem for you to put your signs up, but let everybody — let me finish what I have to say."

Prodded down the auditorium stairs by UM security guards and Secret Service agents, the men continued to scream about Obama, the KKK, and abortion. "All right, guys," said the candidate, looking bemused. "See ya."

Video of the protest was broadcast worldwide by MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, drawing intrigue as an anomaly. The same week, a Sun-Sentinel poll showed Obama garnering 88 percent of the Florida black vote, compared to McCain's two percent.

As with all campaign developments these days, portrayals of Blacks Against Obama depended upon allegiance.

"The smart blacks don't like Obama," wrote a conservative commenter on Propeller.com.

"If they were 50 percent less crazy, I'd be willing to bet their group leader would have been booked on Fox News tomorrow," wrote a pro-Obama blogger.

This isn't nearly the first time 49-year-old Michael the Black Man has made surreal headlines. For 20 years, he has thrived in that dangerous no-man's-land where insanity finds a following.

In the mid-Eighties, he was a budding career criminal with convictions for petty theft and trespassing when he was recruited by Hulon Mitchell Jr., alias Yahweh ben Yahweh, a black supremacist preacher's son turned cult leader. In 1992, Mitchell, Symonette, and 14 others were charged with conspiracy for their roles in several murders. Symonette was tried for his participation in the grisly decapitation of one Yahweh dissenter, Aston Green, and the attempted killing of another, Eric Burke.

Throughout the trial, Symonette was deferential to Mitchell, and remains so to this day. "You know why I wasn't scared?" he says of facing those charges. "Because Yahweh wasn't scared!"

Mitchell got 11 years. Symonette, who denies the cult ever committed murder or taught racial hatred, was one of seven acquitted.

But the weirdness continued. A singer-songwriter, he recorded music with Miami Vice star Philip Michael Thomas. In the early Nineties, he became, he says, the "first black guy to live on Palm Island" — before he was evicted from his $500,000 home in the midst of a 1995 bankruptcy. (He now claims to make a living as a club promoter and yacht refurbisher.)

Symonette commandeered an unlicensed radio station, BOSS 104.1 FM, which attracted a large audience, most of it in the village of El Portal. As an on-air ranter, he showcased an obsessive hatred for Democrats — or as he called them, "Demon-crats," "slave masters" who were aligned with the KKK. He labeled the black El Portal mayor, Daisy Black, a "devil" and called for her to be "set on fire."

During the election debacle of 2000, Symonette and a dozen followers interrupted a Jesse Jackson speech in much the same manner they did Obama's. Jackson was at the West Palm Beach Emergency Operations Center rallying for a chad count when Michael and friends began chanting, "Jesse, go home!" and deeming Jackson a "house negro."

They called themselves the "Black Power Republicans"— but that was mostly just to shock. In fact Symonette is more anti-Democrat, a party he equates with high taxes and atheism, than pro-Republican. Asked whom he voted for last election, Symonette responds, "I voted for God."

And when it comes to this election, Symonette doesn't care whom blacks choose — as long as it's not Obama. "McCain's the closest thing to God," he says, "so I'm going to go ahead and encourage my people to vote for that guy. At least he believes in God."

And now he uses Jesse Jackson as an unwitting ally. He connects an infamous declaration the reverend made during an O'Reilly Factor commercial break — "I wanna cut [Obama's] nuts off" — with the fact that Jackson pays child support. Suddenly, he is on Symonette's side.

This sort of scavenger logic dominates his rhetoric. He calls Obama "The Beast," he explains, because the candidate is an apocalyptic figure warned of in the Bible: a proponent of infanticide and extreme partial-birth abortion "where you stick a needle in a baby's head — partly out of the womb — and suck its brains out and collapse the head!"

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nadine 10/22/2008 9:48:00 AM

is that man on crack,to me it sounds like he is demon posses. he needs to shut up. or if he claims he is a chritian how dare he judging Obama. mney is his god and hatred lives in his heart.perhaps he is a christian if God can forgive him and be redeemed for despectible acts, God can do it for Obama.
givemeabr8 10/21/2008 10:06:00 PM

FRANK MARSALL DAVIS COMMUNIST AND MENTOR OF BARACK OBAMA Frank Marshall Davis: Who Am I? "[A] Poet Named Frank Who Lived In A Dilapidated House In A Run-Down Section Of Waikiki. He Had Enjoyed Some Modest Notoriety Once, Was A Contemporary Of Richard Wright And Langston Hughes During His Years In Chicago�." (Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father, 1995, p. 76) "Frank,' You See, Was None Other Than Frank Marshall Davis - A Notorious Member Of The Communist Party�'" (Carter L. Clews, Op-Ed, "Identity Thrall," The Washington Times, 7/30/08) Facts About Me and Barack "Takara Has Written Extensively About A Nearly Forgotten Historical Figure, Frank Marshall Davis, A Black Poet, Newspaper Columnist And Labor Activist, Who Moved To The Islands In 1948. In The '70s, A By-Then-Elderly Davis Was A Friend Of Barack Obama's Grandfather And Would Proffer Advice To A Young Barry, As He Was Called Then." (John Heckathorn, "What The Heck?" Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 6/29/08) What Barack Says About Me Obama: "What had Frank called college? An advanced degree in compromise." (Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father, 1995, p. 97) This from a Newsweek article by Jon Mecham; "As he had grown older, Obama had struggled to see himself as a black man, though his experience was far from that of the typical African-American. Hawaii helped; there, his grandfather had introduced him to one of the most intriguing mentors of his youth, Frank Marshall Davis. Davis had been a leading black activist and writer of the 1930s and 1940s�a contemporary and friend of Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, Langston Hughes and Paul Robeson. Davis grew up in Kansas, where he was nearly lynched by a group of schoolchildren at the age of 5. He took up a career as a journalist and poet with a strong voice for racial justice, working in Chicago before moving to Hawaii with his second wife, who was white. His political activism, especially his writings on civil-rights and labor issues, prompted a McCarthyite denunciation by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Davis was an eccentric but engaging figure by the time Obama met him in the 1970s. "I was intrigued by old Frank, with his books and whiskey breath and the hint of hard-earned knowledge behind the hooded eyes," wrote Obama. It was around this time that Obama started his own course of reading black literature�Wright, Hughes, Du Bois and Baldwin. "It was almost as if Obama had wandered into a museum," says Dr. Kathryn Takara, a Hawaii-based political scientist who first met Davis at the same time and is now writing a biography of the poet-activist. "It was an electrically charged intellectual atmosphere, with culture all around. There was always music and news, and the TV was never off. The house was full of books and records, old albums and old furniture. He had a porch that was almost on the sidewalk and you could sit out there and hear the jazz from the living room. People would walk up and he invited conversation. There was always something going on." It was Davis who delivered one of the most enduring lessons of Obama's teenage years. After his grandparents argued about a black panhandler who scared his grandmother, Obama visited the poet, shared some whiskey, and recounted the story. When Davis told him his grandmother was right to be scared, that "black people have a reason to hate," Obama realized how distant he was from his closest family. "The earth shook under my feet, ready to crack open at any moment," he wrote. "I stopped, trying to steady myself, and knew for the first time that I was utterly alone." "The story of the rest of his life�a story that is, obviously, still unfolding�is how Obama, now necessarily self-sufficient and wary, always surrounded himself with those with whom he felt secure�though he knew, and knows, that any one of those people might eventually disappoint him. In Chicago he found his way to the Trinity United Church of Christ, and to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. When Wright's "God Damn America" clips emerged earlier this year, Obama's friend Jim Wallis sent him a note of condolence. Late one night, Wallis received an e-mail in reply, something like: "God has his purposes." "I was quite astounded," says Wallis, the left-leaning evangelical writer, activist and founder of Sojourners. "Here's a 46-year-old, which for me at 59 seems young, and he says something like that. This is not what politicians think and do. Politicians want always to be predictive and controlling." "Obama's reply to Wallis reflected a kind of Lincoln-esque fatalism. It is a sad but inescapable fact of life that people�in Obama's case, people close to you�often fail you. Wright, obviously, was far from the first man to disappoint Obama. "Dwight Hopkins, a professor of theology at the University of Chicago and a member of Trinity, believes that Obama was drawn to Wright as a father figure. If Trinity was the large, extended family Obama never had�"people are walking around talking, shaking hands, saying, 'How's your child?', 'How's the cancer?' " Hopkins says�then Wright was the paterfamilias." "Much has been written about the "Africentrism" of Trinity: the African-American Last Supper that hangs in the church lobby and the kente cloth that drapes its altar. But Wright's ideas about Africa were more than decorative. Wright taught that African- Americans should be proud of their African heritage, of the stories of slavery and freedom handed down by their grandparents and great-grandparents. He also preached that people should feel a financial and social responsibility to their brothers and sisters in Africa, especially those without food and water, those with chronic or incurable disease, those without any education. "There were other churches Obama could have joined when he moved to Chicago after law school. The Rev. James Meeks runs the Salem Baptist Church of Chicago, 10 blocks away from Trinity�another huge African-American church on the South Side where the Rev. Jesse Jackson has made frequent appearances. But no other Chicago church would have given Obama such a strong connection to Africa. "Here's what Meeks can't offer," says Wallis. "Barack has an African father and I'm speculating that the connection to Africa might have appealed to him." "In an interview with NEWSWEEK's Lisa Miller, Obama characterized his relationship with Wright this way: "He was my pastor. And he was a friend." He disputes the characterization of "spiritual adviser": "I cannot recall a time where he and I sat down and talked about theology or we had long discussions about my faith. If I met with him, it was after church to have chicken with the family and we would have talked stories about the family. But he certainly strengthened my faith." "How close were they, really? The Rev. Obery Hendricks, a good friend of Wright's, says the two men were not that intimate. "He wasn't buddies with him," says Hendricks, author of "The Politics of Jesus" and a professor at New York Theological Seminary. "[Wright] has some close people, and Obama wasn't one of them." "The Rev. Stephen Gray is the conference minister of the Indiana-Kentucky conference for the United Church of Christ. In meetings with Wright when Obama was in the Senate, Gray twice recalls Wright's leaving the room to take a call on his cell phone from Obama. "All I can tell you is there was a big smile on Jeremiah's face as he ended those conversations," Gray remembers. " 'That was our senator,' he said. We asked him, 'What kind of a fellow is he?' 'Well, I trained him. He's a pretty good fella'." "That anecdote foreshadowed the grandiosity that led to Wright's fall from grace with Obama during the presidential campaign, when the minister went to the National Press Club in the wake of the release of clips of controversial sermons. At the Washington luncheon, Wright treated the media to a racially charged stemwinder in which he defended some of his most controversial statements. Obama had tried to stand by Wright, initially refusing to repudiate him, but the National Press Club was too much. "The origins of the clash are generational. "Their racial politics are very different," says Hendricks. "Barack, because of his experience, didn't have the same perspective, the same level of resentment as so many in Jeremiah's generation. And so Jeremiah comes from another era, closer to my own, when segregation was still the law of the land. He still carries that, his outrage at those injustices. Barack, of course, is sensitive to that, but he did not experience it." "Wright's friends talk about how difficult things have been since Obama's repudiation. "One of the pains is�remember, Barack grew up without a father," Hendricks adds. "To jettison your pastor, it's like being abandoned all over again." But there is a lesson here for those who underestimate Obama. He tried to save Wright, standing by him until it became untenable. And when he struck, he struck, and the turbulent pastor was cast out. "In his earlier days in Chicago politics and in the legislature in Springfield, some people thought Obama talked a bit too much about his Harvard Law degree. But Harvard is essential to understanding Obama. "From what he had learned about his dad, he was overidealistic, not practical, and that ended up in his not achieving anything effectively," says Jerry Kellman, Obama's community-organizing boss in Chicago. "Law school was a means to a kind of security. He spoke of it [his decision to apply to law school] in terms of what it meant in terms of him being effective." "It was not just law school that Obama was interested in�it was Harvard Law School. "If he was going to go to law school, he was going to go to the best law school," says Kellman. "It was very utilitarian: 'If I'm going to do this, this is where I'm going to form the right relationships'." That he was matching his father�and, by winning the Law Review presidency, surpassing him�is in keeping with the arc of Obama's life. He knew what he wanted: political stardom, not highbrow legal celebrity. Shortly after the Law Review election, David Wilkins, one of his professors, told him that he would be happy to talk about which Supreme Court justice Obama would like to clerk for. "He said to me, 'Professor Wilkins, thank you, but I'm not very interested'," Wilkins remembers. "And he said something like, 'I'm going to use these 15 minutes of fame to get a book contract' � and then he said, 'I'm going to go back to Chicago, continue the work I was doing beforehand, and then I want to run for elected office'." Time for the people to stand up to the marxist movement taking place in our country. This has been on slow burn since the sixties and now the activist from that time have moved into "respectable positions" in order to take the power away for our Constitution.
Khalil Amani 10/08/2008 1:12:00 PM

No "right-thinking" black man would trash another black man, even if he's of a different party. Michael the Wack Man aka MTBM aka Must Take a Bowel Movement is the rotten fruit that fell from Yahweh ben Yahweh's tree! A real idiot who is so steeped in biblical mythology that he doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground! Yeah, negro! You know who this is! Yahweh ben Yahweh and your mother, Johnnie Mae Simmons, if they were alive, would be sorely displeased with you rhetoric and pseudo political rantings! Get a job and pay your child support!
Lorraine Rodgers 10/02/2008 8:24:00 AM

"Michael The Black Man," is a paid slave to the highest bidder. He has been selling his soul and pimping hatred for years. Spewing hate and fear among the races pays well in Miami. Michael spends his Sundays having roucus huge events in residenual neighborhoods. Events that should be held in commercial venues. If you really want to know what scum Michael is check Miami Dade police records and you'll decover he makes his living from terriorizing residenual neighborhoods with large events that hustle women, booze, jerk chicken, and barbecue. Valet parking and charging guest to park on his neighbors property... Michael is not fit to dump Obama's trash. He was also evicted from a Office building in Miami Gardens where he had his radio station. Michael is no more than a stepping fetcher scratching clown who you have to laugh at to keep from crying he is such a pitiful character. Pity the fool that dares assault a larger than life person like Barack Obama. As they say let a fool be a fool... LOL
Marc 10/02/2008 1:46:00 AM

Should be embarrassed. Your actions are totally unsolicited and reflect an ignorance that you'll never see until you step back and finally look at yourself. And the nerve to find others and have them think the way you're thinking? Instead of calling individuals Uncle Tom get your lame ass out and vote: for or against. Instead you need to make a spectacle of yourself and bring shame to the name of the Holy Father through your past ties with The Nation Of YHWH. You misrepresent the teachings of our Nation. Get out and vote or sleep in your car!
GS George 09/26/2008 1:55:00 AM

I'm Black! All his noise & anti-Obama rhetoric...what is he doing to help black people? Driving around in his expensive car? Crabs in bucket....I know oprah does way more 4 people than he does....Screw this guy...It will always be a black to bring another black down...
ssupersax 09/25/2008 9:06:00 PM

Checkout www.michaelwarns.com Blacks that Obama.
jorge 09/25/2008 7:51:00 PM

i think we should give obama a chance---lets seeee----whats the worse that can happen. look at bush- and we voted a second term with him and now is when people dont like him----lets be real-------
Glenn61 09/25/2008 2:53:00 PM

Good job Michael,,you got the Leftist peeing in their pants. The Democrat's agenda is a fast track to totalitarianism. The upcoming election is a comparative choice. And we gotta pick one or the other,,,voting for a third party is just like not voting at all. I believe it will be more a referendum on Obama than anything else I still feel that enough people in this country will chose the often corrupt and incompetent Republicans over the European style SOCIALIST RATS that are the Democrat party. It's sad that we have such a lack of leadership at the Federal level,,,,let's see how it plays out.......G61
Lane 09/25/2008 12:22:00 AM

He is bought and paid for. I will always he was compensated to disrupt the Obama rally. We accept Obama before we accept his Uncle Tom behind. He can afford the Mercedes because he takes payment to sell out. It is okay to disagree but to be a part of politics for sale is unacceptable. Everyone should turn their back to him. Scum!!!!!!!!!!