http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/some-students-offended-louis-farrakhans-uc-berkele/nLQPB/
http://www.dailycal.org/2012/03/10/louis-farrakhan-gives-speech-at-uc-berkeley/
"Farrakhan told audience members that before they interact with Jews, they should read “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews,” a book that connects Jews to African American enslavement in the Western Hemisphere."
Maybe before they interact with Jews, they should educate themselves about people like Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, two civil rights workers, who, along with black co-worker James Chaney, were murdered in Mississippi in 1964 while participating in the civil rights movement.
I did a fair amount of research into the African-Atlantic slave trade when I was writing my book on the history of Papiamentu. Jewish involvement in the slave trade was probably no greater than that of Gentiles. Farrakhan might also do well to research how his own co-religionists were involved in the African slave trade- long before and long after the West abolished slavery. It would be an education for him.
And this from UC President Mark Yudof:
"In a statement released Saturday, UC President Mark Yudof called Farrakhan a “provocative, divisive figure with a long history of racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic speech.”
“It was distressing in the extreme that a student organization invited him to speak on the UC Berkeley campus,” Yudof said in the statement. “But, as I have said before, we cannot, as a society or as a university community, be provoked by hurtful speech to retreat from the cherished value of free speech.”
Some readers might be satisfied with this, but I am not. This is what Yudof has been saying for years about anti-Semitic speeches on UC campuses. As I have said, this appearance merited much more from Yudof and Berkeley chancellor Robert Birgeneau. They both should have gone to that hall and after the speech, they should have stood up and personally confronted Farrakhan with his hateful comments about Jews, whites, Asians and homosexuals. They should have admonished the Black Student Union for offending practically every other group on campus.
Of course our UC administrators, includinng Mark Yudof, are so invested in multiculturalism that they tolerate explicitly intolerant (and avowledly unicultural - There is NO God by Allah and Mohammed is His messenger - with no Jewish or Christian counterpart or such exclusivity) before they tolerate ANYONEA pointing out THEIR intolerance.
ReplyDeleteThe anti-Semitic, anti-White, anti-Zionist, anti-America, Farrakhan should not have been invited to speak at UC Berkeley in the first place, by the Black Student Union. If the Black Student Union feels that they need to hear Farrakhan's message of hate, they are guilty of supporting this hate monger.
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In addition to Arab Muslims who were involved in the African slave trade, I seem to recall that at least some black Africans, whether Muslim or otherwise, were also involved in selling other black Africans at the time. I further understand, correctly or otherwise, that although slavery has not existed in the U.S. for about 150 years,it still around in Africa and elsewhere, consisting primarily of people of color holding other people of color in capitivity, no??
ReplyDeleteWhen I was about half way to the age required to vote, the students at a campus where my father taught decided to invite George Lincoln Rockwell to speak. The students weren't even particularly sympathetic, it was sort of a lark, bringing in someone controversial to see what he might say. Most faculty signed a published letter, saying they respected the student government's decision, but wanted to register their disapproval of the choice. Then, most of them picketed the speech.
ReplyDeleteIt was in an article about this presentation that I read Rockwell's line "You can't fight communism if you don't understand that it is Jewish. I am not saying that all Jews are communists, but I am saying that all communists are Jews." (A fair number of communists have been Jews, but then, a fair number have been Roman Catholic also, not to mention Anglo-Protestants).
Farrakhan makes up his own mythology. It has as much substance as the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Friction between Jews and blacks, to the extent that it exists, long post-dates slavery. It derives from the fact that in the long sequence of urban neighborhoods turning over from one ethnic group to another, Jews tended to be the last occupants before the migrations from the south. Therefore, they were the landlords and corner store owners encountered by the new arrivals, always a source of friction in any divided community.
Some Sephardic Jews fleeing persecution in Spain and Portugal became allies of the Dutch at a time when the Dutch were taking over a good part of the slave trade and sugar plantation development in northeastern Brazil. That ended when northeastern Brazil reverted to Portuguese rule. Most Jews in the United States are Ashkenazim, who mostly arrived long after the civil war.
farrakhan in his true satanic visage as seen at U.C. berkeley: http://proisraelctu.blogspot.com/
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