Word: farrakhan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Louis Farrakhan, radio broadcast March...
...simply, Jackson's campaign is morally bankrupt, and little he does now can redress the damage caused by his handling of the "Hymie" controversy and the racial demagoguery of campaign supporter Louis Farrakhan...
Jackson's continued ranting about Jewish influence-peddling and his recent Newsweek interview on Black-Jewish relations show that the public uproar over the "Hymie" remarks and Farrakhan's statements has done nothing to change Jackson's myopic stereotypes...
...make the traitor beg for forgiveness . . . One day soon we will punish you with death! . . . This is a fitting punishment for such dogs." Coleman's wife, he promised, would "go to hell . . . the same punishment that's due that no-good, filthy traitor." The speaker: Louis Farrakhan, leader of the black Nation of Islam and an important supporter of Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign. His target: Milton Coleman, a veteran black reporter who has covered Jackson for the Washington Post. When asked about the threat, Jackson conceded that it was "wrong." But he declined to condemn...
...Farrakhan and Coleman, Jackson said, are "two very able professionals caught in a cycle that could be damaging to their careers." He was trying to set up a peace conference for this week. Last Thursday Farrakhan phoned Coleman at the Post. "There have never been threats," the Muslim leader claimed, "and never will be threats to your life." Coleman remains wary. Says he: "I would look forward to meeting [with] Jackson and Reverend Farrakhan as soon as the threat to me and my family is removed. But the way it stands now, that threat remains." Indeed, Washington police have stationed...