By Lincoln Anderson

Could the cookie be crumbling for Lafayette French Pastry bakery owner Ted Kefalnios?

After concocting a bizarre batch of “Drunken Negro Face” cookies allegedly “in honor” of President Barack Obama, Kefalnios has been receiving death threats, and now a group of militant black activists is vowing to “shut him down” for good.

Last Saturday afternoon, about 20 members of the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense rallied long and loud in the freezing cold outside the 80-year-old Greenwich Ave. pastry shop, which was closed for the day.

“Ray-cist Lah-fay-ette!” they chanted as they circled round and round inside a protest pen police had set up.

“Brick by brick, wall by wall — we’ll stay out here and make you fall!” they cried.

“You’re a coward and a racist, that’s why you closed the bakery today,” a female Panther bellowed at the store’s shuttered gate. “We’re going to shut you down Ted Kefalnios! You think your gates are closed now — we’re gonna keep you closed!”

Shaka Shakur, their leader, vowed they will be back every Saturday until they “get results.” They’ll be checking the store “to see if the cookie is there,” another Panther added.

“We want to get this pushed all the way to being a hate crime,” Shakur told The Villager. “As far as we’re concerned, it’s the same as a lynching. Kefalnios said, ‘Obama is going down the same path as Lincoln and he’ll get his’ — that’s a threat.

“Would I be allowed to operate a bakery if I made a swastika cookie, if I made any kind of anti-anything cookie?” Shakur asked. “This is our president, so this is a double attack. This was a deliberate act. Kefalnios knew what he was doing.”

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