Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has hit a new low. Now he has sent a letter to Jewish leaders accusing Jews of historically hurting black people. The story is linked below (JTA).
http://jta.org/news/article/2010/06/30/2739839/in-letter-farrakhan-accuses-jews-of-hurting-blacks
A couple of points. I won't spend much time describing what a sick and hateful person Farrakhan is. His history is well-documented. His is a ministry of hate toward whites and Jews. We all get it.
Of course, Farrakhan ignores the history of the US Civil Rights movement when Jews were some of the strongest allies blacks had.
But now I want to know what Farrakhan's documented friends are going say in reaction to these statements.
What say you, Jeremiah Wright?
What say you, Al Sharpton?
What say you, Father Michael Pfleger?
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Not a squeak about Sudan Darfur victims of Muslim leaders, ditto zimbabwe etc.
He has Muslims incite via books they write by deceit. Then he shouts about so called details of events hundreds of years ago.
Then he condemns an entire race including Yeminite Jews, Afro-American Jews, Ethiopian Jews, etc. Sammy Davis Jr. etc.
What happened to his call for 8 separtate states. I guess it's easier to attack jews than Whitey after all. If this doesn't drive Jews into Republican camp I don't what.
Yet you completely avoid commenting when your "documented friend" Findalis says absolutely insane things.
Maybe those people you listed will simply say something along the lines of, "Hey if you want to fight it out with Farrakhan fine, but don't look at me to throw him under the bus!"
Anonymous number 2.
You are correct. If you want to debate with Findalis, have at it, don't come crying to me.
"Mommy mommy, Johnny called me a bad name."
So why exactly do you expect a higher standard of conduct from those you criticize than how you even conduct yourself? You're being a hypocrite.
Anonymous,
And just how do I conduct myself-especially on this topic?
I don't go around condemning an entire people as does Farrakhan.
And why am I a hypocrite because I don't condemn what Findalis says because you are apparently incapable of engaging in a debate with her?
You're a hypocrite because you play these guilt-by-association games yet can't even directly address the crazy things that Findalis says. You're doing the EXACT SAME THING that you accuse Wright, Sharpton, and Pfleger of!
Correction Gary, I choose not to debate those called Anonymous. I prefer to deal with people who at least will use a pseudonym.
As for Farrakhan, I find him to be the equivalent of Snooky. Dumb and not worthy of media attention.
As for Darfur, it is time the world turns away from the fake crises called Gaza and address the true Genocide known as Darfur.
Findalis,
Much to the consternation of Lance and Anonymous, you are spot on.
Much to the consternation of Lance and Anonymous, you are spot on.
Broken clocks, Gary...broken clocks.
A good friend of mine in the Spartanburg, SC area was one of the first eight students to integrate a middle school previously reserved for students with a congenital melanin deficiency, and she has no use at all for Farrakhan. I don't either.
Farrakhan is, like most modern source of anti-Semitic utterances, glossing petty rivalries in ahistorical nonsense.
As far as African Americans go, in the succeeding waves of ethnicity that swept through urban American neighborhoods, it fell out that Jewish populations were often just leaving a neighborhood bequeathed to them by Italians, as African Americans began moving in. Thus, Jews were often the landlords and store keepers -- always a source of friction for anyone, even if such people look just like their tenants and customers.
These Jews were also Ashkenazi, whereas the very limited involvement of Jews in the trans-Atlantic slave trade was exclusively a Sephardic concern, generally in close collusion with Muslim merchants and closely related to Sephardic collusion with the Ottoman Empire.
There are no pure bloodlines. God knows how many bloodlines are joined in the person of Louis Farrakhan. And don't forget, this is the man who said Malcolm X deserved death, so he deserves to be shunned by African Americans generally.
Siarlys,
In my book on papiamentu, I did some research on the slave trade because Curacao was a major slave depot and also the site of an important Sephardic Jewish colony-once the most important in the Americas. In my view, Jews were no more or no less involved in the slave trade than gentiles.
Interesting to note that Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X's widow always believed that Farrakhan was involved in the killing of her husband.
We're not in disagreement. The involvement of Sephardic Jews was minimal, while the availability of a continental slave trade in Africa, which Europeans tapped into, was largely the work of Arab merchants.
My point was that the Jews Farakkhan was likely to have any contact with, or his followers likely to have practical disputes or friction with, were descended from people who were eking out a living in Poland or Russia at the time of the slave trade.
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