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...between himself and the Jewish community. He did not indicate what he wanted to tell them, but he did insist that he wanted peace, that he had been seeking a dialogue." Yet in November when top aide Khallid Abdul Muhammad made a venom-soaked speech at New Jersey's Kean College, a state- funded school, Farrakhan rebuked him only for his "mockery" and said he could not disavow the anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic and anti-gay "truths" his aide had spoken. Indeed, Farrakhan repeated some of them in an interview with TIME last week...
...appear on a New Jersey campus again, at Trenton State College next week. Governor Christine Whitman will counter with free screenings for college students of the Holocaust film Schindler's List to show "in a very, very graphic way what happens if the kind of attitudes expressed at Kean College are left unchecked...
Farrakhan himself offered to come to Kean College this week as a gesture of "healing" and to waive his customary fee of $15,000 to $20,000. College officials expressed surprise when told of the offer and said it would violate their rule of ensuring administrators two weeks' notice of such appearances. He will have two broader opportunities to redeem himself, however, on Arsenio Hall's syndicated TV talk show Friday and in his annual Savior's Day speech in Chicago on Feb. 27. Many moderate black leaders hope, like Chavis, that Farrakhan will edge toward them, partly because...
Considerable good is likely to flow from the outpouring of attention on the Nation of Islam and its relationship to the black political establishment. First, Khallid Abdul Muhammad's notorious, hateful speech at Kean College and Louis Farrakhan's affirmation of its substance (though not its style) demonstrated anew that racism resides at the core of the Nation of Islam. Bigotry is not one of its peripheral features but is instead a central element of its identity and appeal. Second, an issue of fundamental importance has been raised: Should racism expressed by African Americans be openly repudiated by other African...
When Louis Farrakhan's aide Khallid Abdul Muhammad spoke to students at Kean College in New Jersey, he blamed the Holocaust on its victims and attacked Jews for "sucking our blood in the black community." It was not only the November speech but the reaction to it from Jewish and black leaders that set off charges of complicity and double standards. TIME asked six leading writers and scholars to comment on Farrakhan, his message and the strained relationship between blacks and Jews...