Word: farrakhan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late '60s. In the late '70s, the 100-member organization turned to political militancy and religion. The leader, Jeff Fort, 40, regularly presided over meetings from an immense, high-backed throne atop a pedestal, surrounded by outsize posters of himself and Gaddafi. Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan hailed El Rukns as his "divine warriors." In 1985 he invited the group to a Chicago rally featuring a live satellite broadcast in which Gaddafi urged blacks serving in the U.S. military to desert and join his forces. Last year El Rukns' "generals" produced a videotape pledging their allegiance to the Libyan...
...summer, I attended a speech by the rabid Black nationalist and Muslim leader, Louis Farrakhan. After a very personal frisking, I found that I was one of three white spectators in a crowd of 3000. I had expected to be outraged by some of Farrakhan's usual anti-Semitic rhetoric, but there was none that...
...agreed with some of Farrakhan's indictments of the historically white power structure and his call for Black economic power. When Farrakhan lashed out at Mayor Andrew Young for having attained power without using it to help Blacks at the bottom, the mostly middle-class audience cheered...
...Farrakhan was right to deplore the fact that there are two disparate and separate Black worlds in the city. While some Blacks attain top jobs, virtually all of the lowpaid ones, cleaning floors to cashiering at Arby's, are done by Blacks...
...would be appropriate to beat or even kill such speakers, Professor Kennedy replied that it was "a close call, something I'd have to think deeply about." Has our deep thinker considered that there are many students who would find abhorrent the appearance on campus of a Louis Farrakhan, Angela Davis, or a spokesman for the current Nicaraguan regime? Professor Kennedy doubtless does not believe that such speakers "represent an advocacy that is beyond the pale," but his utterances are an invitation to disruption by those who do. It is saddening that an officer of the American Civil Liberties Union...