If he is really bound and determined to draw attention to the activities of Jewish people during the 18th. and 19th. centuries he might have mentioned that in many British North American colonies Jews were forbidden to vote or run for political office. Also, he conveniently omits the enthusiastic participation of black East African communities (where Barack Obama's ancestors lived) in the slave trade for financial profit.
Whenever Mr. Farrakhan is on a romp of fantasy, which is 98% of the time the other 2% being devoted to shaving and visiting his tailor and The Very Silly Tie Shop, he always manages to add to his list of complaints even more grievances which, quite frankly, are not really his own.
Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ( legislation, by the way, brought about in part by the overwhelming support and activities of the Jewish community) America has spent 46 years and hundreds of trillions of dollars trying to create a level playing field. This goes conveniently unnoticed, as well as unappreciated, by Mr. Farrakhan because it contradicts his accusations of prejudice and inequality without which his own existence would be threadbare if not entirely pointless.
If Mr. Farrakhan wanted to be taken seriously in his request for a "sensible and intelligent dialogue" he would not have accepted the 1996 "Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights" founded by the Libyan dictator, Muammar Al-Gaddafi, whose hands are stained and drenched with the blood of countless victims. Any conversation with Mr. Farrakhan, or Colonel Gadhafi for that matter, about justice or human rights is bound to subtract from the entire sum of knowledge on those subjects.
"On what basis do you charge me and us as being anti-Semitic...?", Mr. Farrakhan plaintively and disingenuously asks. Let me count the ways. A cursory reading of Mr. Farrakhan's speeches reveal that they are laced with anti-Semitic remarks. His speeches readily available on YOUTUBE contain references to "satanic Jews". No less a personage than Barack Obama, in one of the Democratic debates with Hillary Clinton, moderated by Tim Russert in 2008, said: "...I have been very clear in my denunciation of Minister Farrakhan's anti-Semitic comments. I think they are unacceptable and reprehensible..." The list is endless. Many of the anti-Semitic remarks and condemnation of Jews are on video for everyone to see, but like every ingratiating cult leader throughout history Mr. Farrakhan seeks to exclude evidence he dislikes. Chutzpah is an old Yiddish word but then so, of course, is schmuck!
If Mr. Farrakhan wanted to be taken seriously in his request for a "sensible and intelligent dialogue" he would not have accepted the 1996 "Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights" founded by the Libyan dictator, Muammar Al-Gaddafi, whose hands are stained and drenched with the blood of countless victims. Any conversation with Mr. Farrakhan, or Colonel Gadhafi for that matter, about justice or human rights is bound to subtract from the entire sum of knowledge on those subjects.
"On what basis do you charge me and us as being anti-Semitic...?", Mr. Farrakhan plaintively and disingenuously asks. Let me count the ways. A cursory reading of Mr. Farrakhan's speeches reveal that they are laced with anti-Semitic remarks. His speeches readily available on YOUTUBE contain references to "satanic Jews". No less a personage than Barack Obama, in one of the Democratic debates with Hillary Clinton, moderated by Tim Russert in 2008, said: "...I have been very clear in my denunciation of Minister Farrakhan's anti-Semitic comments. I think they are unacceptable and reprehensible..." The list is endless. Many of the anti-Semitic remarks and condemnation of Jews are on video for everyone to see, but like every ingratiating cult leader throughout history Mr. Farrakhan seeks to exclude evidence he dislikes. Chutzpah is an old Yiddish word but then so, of course, is schmuck!
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I agree that Farrakhan is anti-semitic and says some crazy things, but your response to the fact that some Jews participated in and sometimes helped bankroll slavery is entirely unconvincing.
ReplyDeleteYour invocation of 'hallucinations' and 'historical revision' suggests your denial of this shameful piece of our history (along, perhaps, with the support many Southern Jews had for slavery and the confederates during the Civil War).
You would be wrong to deny it. And certainly don't respond by saying "some Africans did too." Some Jews collaborated with the Nazis. So what?
You lose credibility by failing to admit and condemn that history while condemning Farrakhan.
B.S.
ReplyDeleteYour comment is total B.S. You're grasping at straws just like Mr Farrakhan. Your comment looks like it came straight from David Duke's Jew Watch. Good Christians were involved in the slave trade. Muslims too. Other Africans sold each other. You lose credibility by posting nonsense and focusing your condemnation on Jews. It's the same reason that rational beings know Farrakhan is a nut.