Jag: I will attend one of his pleasantly suprising events when you attend one of those uplifting KKK rallies.
Please Jag. I know of you on this site and you seem to be intelligent, too much so to even begin to defend this slimeball racist.
12secGT, I like you had formed opinions about Louis Farrakhan, based on what I had heard in the main stream media, and based on cherry picked sound bytes. I had absolutely no desire to hear the man say anything whatsoever.
one year, my sister begged me to come with her, and hear the man speak for myself. I had absolutely no desire to do so, and felt as much revulsion to do so as I would to attend a KKK rally. The only reasons I went, were:1. I was doing it for my sister, 2. I knew I wouldn't be in any physical danger.
It was an incredibly eye-opening and mind blowing experience on sooo many levels. It was extremely revealing... not just about Farrakhan, but also about the main stream media, as well as powerful agendas at play who exert tremendous power & control over MSM, the government, and most aspects of our lives.
There was no anti-semitism, as I had come to expect, and Mr Farrakhan spoke about the problems he saw in the world, and more specifically the problems he saw within the black community.
I saw Blacks, Whites, Asians, Jews with yarmulkes, every race & nationality present at this talk. At the start of the talk I saw Jews hostile, defensive, and extremely stiff in their body language waiting to rip him to pieces. By the end of his talk, I saw these same Jews standing on chairs, cheering every word coming out of his mouth. His words were blunt, straightforward, and were not minced. He had some stinging rebukes for many. The majority of his criticism was aimed at the predominant demographic in the crowd; the Black community. I will freely admit that if anyone else said the things Farrakhan says about the Black community, ...it probably would not go over so well or be so well received.
It was standing room only. There were thousands turned away because the venues capacity (the harbourfront convention centre) only held so much, and organizers didn't want the event shut down due to a fire code regulation. As a result, his talk was broadcast through loudspeakers to the thousands outside.
Ironically, there was no publicity surrounding Farrakhan appearance. news spread by word of mouth, and within 48 hrs, thousands showed up. I found that pretty astonishing considering the fact that politicians can barely get a few hundreds to show up with months of advance publicity.
What I found especially shocking was the next day when his speech was reported on in the newspaper.
The photographer took a picture of the empty hall prior to the speech. The only person sitting in the hall at that time was a very pregnant NOI woman dressed in white garb, a mother of 4 with one on the way. I had met her earlier. A very nice lady with an incredibly extraordinary serene calmness about her. She had 4 small children all under 6, including a 10 month old baby in her arms, and she was 7 months pregnant. Rather than having her wait in line standing on her feet, they allowed her advanced entrance into the room. I distinctly remember her because I was awestruck by her family, and her regal "serenity" for want of a better word, and by how calm, well behaved, and disciplined her children were. I had never seen children so incredibly polite, respectful, and well behaved. It truly was a sight to behold and experience. Anyway, the artcile that accompanied the picture, said no one showed up for the talk, and that Farrakhan was left spewing his anti-semitic vitriol to the choir. And the picture showed a lone woman with an infant in her arms, and row upon row, upon row of empty seats. The coverage of his talk was a very eye-opening event for me. I was very glad I attended, and I was very glad I got to read the coverage of the event I attended. I vowed at that point to do my own investigations and never again to allow myself to be "informed" about others by the news media. I would do my own investigation.
I don't know how many of you were around or even politically aware at the time of the million man march, ...but for those of you who were... do you remember CNN's "non-existent" coverage of the event? Do you remember the rhetoric leading up to and surrounding the event? Do you remember Wolf blizter's demeanor at the start? Do you remember Wolf Blizter's demeanor at the end? That in itself was extremely revealing in and of itself.
