Word: farrakhan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaker while sitting still. They ate him up. His words were devoured the way seals snap at fish. You could see the words settle in the crowd's bellies; 25,000 satisfied customers packing New York City's Madison Square Garden last Monday night to hear Minister Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, bring his dual message of self-help and hate. The message of hate predominated. How the crowd hungered for that meal. At the words of defiance they stood and roared. At the in-jokes they laughed joyfully. At the derisive words they smiled and sneered...
...hasn't the press observed that he reminds them of Jesus, demanded Farrakhan to cheers, applause. "Jesus was hated by the Jews. Farrakhan is hated by the Jews" (more cheers, knowing laughter). "Who were the enemies of Jesus?" (cries of "Jews!"). "The Jewish lobby has a stranglehold on the U.S. Government" (cries of "Yes!," "Tell 'em, Brother!"). "I am your last chance, Jews." It will be too late "when God puts you in the oven" (ovation, delight...
When Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan added a taint of anti-Semitism to Jesse Jackson's 1984 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, many black leaders seethed--but in silence. No longer. After Farrakhan laced a + speech in Los Angeles last month with racist remarks, Mayor Tom Bradley condemned the Black Muslim's "dangerous" anti-Semitism and said he and the minister were "poles apart." Before Farrakhan was to speak this week in Madison Square Garden, a coalition of the city's black and Jewish leaders denounced him. Said black City Clerk David Dinkins: "When (Farrakhan's) opinions express...
...Farrakhan has made some friends too. In Los Angeles, Thomas Metzger, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who heads a racist group called the White American Political Association, attended Farrakhan's speech and kicked in a $100 donation. Metzger, a self-described white separatist, likes some of Farrakhan's ideas, but says, "I don't see myself moving any closer to him since that would defy logic...
...reverend's own record demonstrates a more opportunistic view. He takes the political high road when it comes to agricultural interests, he takes the economic high road when it comes to the Arab connection, and he takes the rational high road when it comes to his affiliation with Farrakhan and New York Jews...