Sunday, July 11, 2010

Another Malik Shabazz visited the White House

Not the infamous one you've been seeing on FNC lately, especially on Geraldo Rivera. Nope, it was another one who shared the same name. Yep. From the White House website, entitled "Transparency like you've never seen before." Yeah, most of us would agree with that statement.
A lot of people visit the White House, up to 100,000 each month, with many of those folks coming to tour the buildings. Given this large amount of data, the records we are publishing today include a few “false positives” – names that make you think of a well-known person, but are actually someone else.  In September, requests were submitted for the names of some famous or controversial figures (for example Michael Jordan, William Ayers, Michael Moore, Jeremiah Wright, Robert Kelly ("R. Kelly"), and Malik Shabazz).  The well-known individuals with those names never actually came to the White House.  Nevertheless, we were asked for those names and so we have included records for those individuals who were here and share the same names.

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  1. 100,000 come to the White House, but only a small number of them come to the personal quarters of the President, like Malik Shabazz. Is it impossible the Whitehouse has "accidentally" misled the press/the people by including Shabazz as a "false positive"?

    "Malik Shabazz" is, of course, the name of Malcom X, and there are others who have strong affinity for Malcom X that have taken that name. If the White House has not misled us, I suppose the simple truth is that it is merely some other admirer and/or emulator of Malcom X that was brought into the president's quarters.

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