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...even if Muhammad's association with Farrakhan were not reason enough to refuse funding the minister's lecture, Muhammad's past statements should have been enough to hint that he wasn't stopping by for the weekend to talk music but to bring anger and prejudice to a boil and preach the passionate polemics of hate...
...research speakers receiving Foundation grant money would be asking too much, I suppose, from the student group. SAC Members recall little, if any, debate accompanying the rapper/racist Chuck D/Conrad Muhammad project proposal at the group's February 10 grants meeting...
...fact, the meeting lasted for six or seven hours, and many members who now claim they would have argued against funding a talk by a Nation of Islam leader left the committee gathering before the grant came up for discussion. Those who stayed said the Muhammad grant met with much less resistance than other proposals on the table...
...suggest in its grant guidelines the submission of a "short biography...to help us better evaluate the project." But apparently this portion of the application, if included, rarely embarks upon anything more than the speaker's title and place of residence. In any case, if SAC members did have Muhammad's biography during their meeting, then they have exhibited even greater irresponsibility and insensitivity than if they had simply approved the Nation of Islam grant unaware of Muhammad's past...
...CONRAD MUHAMMAD spoke only a month and a half ago in the Philadelphia Civil Center, introducing Louis Farrakhan before a Martin Luther King Day crowd of 16,000. Muhammad was featured in national headlines--ranging from The Washington Post to the Cable News Network--for his role in bringing Farrakhan to speak at the University of Pennsylvania less than four years...