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Minister Louis Farrankhan, head of the Nation of Islam, has called for fellow African-Americans to join him in our nation's capital in order to protest the policies of the United States government. A promotional pamphlet promises, "The whole world will be watching to see if this march will produce civil unrest and strife. The world of investors will be watching to see if it is safe to invest in the economy of America. We say to the world you will be witnessing the power of Allah's (God's) Own Hand on the children of ex-slaves whose...
Preceding West's speech were the cautionary words of the Nation of Islam's New York Minister, Conrad Muhammed. Speaking to cheers from a crowd of 350, over 65 percent of whom were Black, he said. "You don't have to worry America, because if Louis Farrakhan can call one million black men to D.C., he has already gained notoriety in America...
That Farrakhan's power is well-established within his community we should not doubt. But should we refrain from worrying about this concentration of authority in so evil an organization as the Nation of Islam...
...word of a mostly Black jury, then, is acceptable, though that of a white one is not. Such a deduction is far from revelatory--the Nation of Islam has been Black separatist for years. But even worse for our nation's future than such segregationist tendencies are the invectives that roll off the tongues of Nation ministers. Muhammed told students at Emory University in 1991 that "AIDS and cancer are white plots against the Black people." Indeed, Farrakhan and troops seem to be drawing the line for a race...
While the message appears decent, its bearers are anything but. Even granting that Farrakhan's Jew-hatred ought to be ignored in this instance, the leader of the Nation of Islam has proved himself uniquely capable at dividing the black community along just about every line possible. As it stands right now, black Baptist churches across America are boycotting the event, along with such mainstream organizations as the NAACP...