Word: farrakhan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even so, the results demonstrated that Jackson's black supporters had not been discouraged by rising attacks on his association with demogogic supporter Louis Farrakhan, nor by a financial scandal involving a key figure in his national campaign. He looked more than ever like a force to be reckoned with at the San Francisco convention. Said Jackson: "The success of my campaign means that those who are poor must be focused on because they are making a difference in these elections...
Jackson's continued refusal to disavow Muslim demagogue Louis Farrakhan still poses a problem for would-be party unifiers, but even he has decided to concede some of his previous policy demands to prevent infighting at San Francisco. His recent well publicized love-in with Party Chairman Charles T. Manatt was an important symbolic step...
...Republicans naturally hope that Jackson will drive Jewish voters right out of the Democratic Party. Vice President George Bush, acting in his role of G.O.P. stalking horse for '84, was quick to condemn not only Farrakhan and Jackson but Mondale and Hart, neither of whom made much of an issue of the ethnic slurs in order to avoid offending black voters. Bush's ploy was "a great political stroke," admitted a Mondale aide. "It was simple, crude and effective...
...threat by Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan against Reporter Milton Coleman. I immediately recognized it as religious metaphor. But it was dangerous language because of the ability to misinterpret it. I think it was more out of naiveté than meanness...
...Farrakhan's contributions to the Jackson campaign. He has played a great role in helping to resurrect many people who had politically died or dropped out. In New York, for example, a large segment of the black community had a philosophy against voting. When we marched in Harlem, there were huge numbers of people who had never voted before; Farrakhan was a great factor in making that happen...