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"Some of us hard-liners think he is a gangster living in a palace," said Rivers. "If Lou starts messing up, we'll mix it up."
Rivers stressed that the march was bigger than Farrakhan and labeled him as an entrepreneur taking advantage of the vacuum of black leadership.
Along with local pastor and black activist Rev. Eugene Rivers, West talked about the roles that he and Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan played in the march, which attracted more than 400,000 people to Washington to hear prominent members of the black community speak on issues facing black...
West said he cooperated with Farrakhan in planning the gathering, while Rivers criticized Farrakhan and his "opportunistic" domination of the event.
THE PREDICTIONS WERE STARK AND frightening. Opponents of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide foresaw serious consequences if the radical priest, ousted in a September 1991 coup d'etat, ever returned to power: rivers of blood would flow through the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and dozens of the...