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Until his incendiary words burst into national headlines, Farrakhan, 50, was-to whites, at least-the obscure leader of a fringe movement. A onetime nightclub singer known as the Charmer, Farrakhan in 1955 joined the puritanical (no smoking or drinking) Nation of Islam, a black separatist group founded by Elijah Muhammad in the 1930s. Once 250,000-members strong, the Nation of Islam split apart upon Muhammad's death in 1975. His son Imam W. Deen Muhammad renamed the group the American Muslim Mission, rejected many of his father's teachings and began admitting whites. Farrakhan formed...
...doctrine articulated in the report also carries a note of naivete, for it fails to address the problem that the College and minority students have consistently interpreted events differently, and will probably continue to do so. What the administration views as "separatist," students may consider simply "pluralist" or "diverse"--goals the College has forcefully supported...
Last spring, minority students went head to head with the College over whether or not to list minority orientation events on the freshman week calendar. The College considered the events "separatist;" the students did not. While Fox's report goes a long way toward clarifying the administration's guiding philosophy on racial issues, it fails to offer administrators a better means of hearing--and understanding--student views...
...separatist tendencies of this letter are truly appalling. They state, "We condemn as racist any white who would dare judge the decisions of Blacks regarding the inclusion or ostracism of anyone from our community." First, I am hopeful that a decision taken by Louis Farrakhan does not represent the vast majority of American Blacks, especially in light of his most hateful statement to date, calling Adolf Hitler a "great man." Secondly, it is certainly the right and even the obligation of any American to comment on wrongful actions towards any other American, such as the ostracism of Milton Coleman...
Because approximately 98 percent of the faculty and 80 percent of the students are not of the majority separatism cannot exist, said Senior Admissions Officer David E. Evans "Where could a person go if he is separatist. It is not even near to being a realistic phenomenon...