[Vision2020] Obama's Farrakhan Problem

[Andreas Schou]

Obviously, according to the transitive property of blackness, Obama is
responsible for individuals whose beliefs he's specifically rejected, so
long as another person he knows holds the opposite opinion.

-- ACS

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:15 AM, No Weatherman <no.weatherman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Obama's Farrakhan Problem
> Posted by Mark Hyman on 10.16.08 @ 6:08AM
>
> Barack Obama has a Louis Farrakhan problem and not because of his
> endorsement from Farrakhan. Instead, it is because of Obama's
> more-than-passing association with Farrakhan and those who are close
> to the Nation of Islam leader.
>
> In spite of Farrakhan's long history as a racist, bigot and
> anti-Semite, Obama thought favorably enough of him to join Farrakhan's
> 1995 march on Washington, D.C. Reportedly, Obama joined Reverends
> Jeremiah Wright and Al Sharpton in organizing the march.
>
> Farrakhan's bona fides as a purveyor of hate are well-documented. He
> called Jews "bloodsuckers," Judaism a "gutter religion" and referred
> to Adolf Hitler as a "great man." Farrakhan said, "The God who taught
> me calls the white man the skunk of the planet earth."
>
> Farrakhan promoted the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that "the AIDS
> epidemic is a result of doctors, especially Jewish ones, who inject
> the AIDS virus into blacks." According to Farrakhan, blacks are
> prevented from progressing in the arts, sports, academia and politics
> because of Jews. "When I talk to the Jews, I am talking to a segment
> of that quorum that holds my people in their grip," he told the
> Chicago Sun-Times.
>
> Farrakhan claimed that the POWER line of toiletry products he launched
> in the 1980s failed to succeed because of pressure from Jews. Obama
> blamed the failure of Farrakhan's products on whites. In Dreams from
> My Father, Obama wrote "That the POWER campaign sputtered said
> something about the difficulty that faced any black business — the
> barriers to entry, the lack of finance, the leg up that your
> competitors possessed after having kept you out of the game for over
> three hundred years."
>
> This should not be quickly dismissed as merely guilt by association
> because the overall narrative is one of someone continually
> associating with a group of repugnant individuals. Consider Obama's
> 20-year close relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a long-time
> Farrakhan supporter.
>
> Wright's close friendship with Farrakhan goes back at least to the
> 1980s. Wright joined Farrakhan on a 1984 trip to Libya to visit
> Moammar Gadhafi. Wright predicted that once this became public
> knowledge "a lot of his [Obama's] Jewish support will dry up quicker
> than a snowball in Hell."
>
> In his 1996 book "When Black Men Stand Up for God," Wright called
> Farrakhan's black critics "'colored' leaders," "Oreos," "house
> niggras," and "enemies." Wright praised Farrakhan as recently as last
> year. "Minister Farrakhan will be remembered as one of the 20th and
> 21st century giants of the African-American religious experience," he
> said. "His love for Africa and African American people has made him an
> unforgettable force, a catalyst for change and a religious leader who
> is sincere about his faith and his purpose."
>
> Trumpet, a magazine operated by Wright and Trinity Church, honored
> Farrakhan in November 2007 with the "Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.
> Lifetime Achievement Trumpeteer" Award.
>
> Farrakhan was knee-deep in a racist and anti-Semitic scandal the year
> before his D.C. march. Senior Nation of Islam official Khalid Abdul
> Muhammad delivered three hours of remarks at New Jersey's Keane
> College that attacked whites, Jews, Catholics, homosexuals and white
> South Africans.
>
> Muhammad called Jews "the blood suckers of the black nation and the
> black community." He warned the audience of "Columbia Jew-niversity
> over in Jew York City." He called the U.N., the "Jew-nited Nations."
> He said Jews were named Reubenstein, Goldstein and Silverstein because
> they "[have] been stealing rubies and gold and silver all over the
> earth. That's why we can't even wear a ring or a bracelet or a
> necklace without calling it Jewelry . . . but it's not jewelry, it's
> Jew-elry." Muhammad argued Jews who perished in the Holocaust had it
> coming to them. He asked, "[D]on't nobody ever ask what did they do to
> Hitler?" Then he answered his own question with, "They had undermined
> the very fabric of the society."
>
> A public outcry erupted and several public figures implored Farrakhan
> to repudiate Muhammad. Instead, Farrakhan backed Muhammad at a rally
> saying, "We know that Jews are the most organized, rich and powerful
> people, not only in America, but in the world. They are plotting
> against us even as we speak." Then Farrakhan clasped Muhammad in an
> embrace on stage. Yet, this did not dissuade Obama from joining
> Farrakhan's march the following year.
>
> Obama admitted to showing interest in the Black Muslim faith when he
> was in his 20s. "I would occasionally pick up the paper [The Final
> Call, the Nation of Islam's newspaper] . . . sometimes because my
> attention was caught by the sensational, tabloid-style headlines
> (CAUCASIAN WOMAN ADMITS: WHITES ARE THE DEVIL)," he wrote in "Dreams."
> "Inside the front cover, one found reprints of the minister's
> speeches, as well as stories that could have been picked straight off
> the AP news wire were it not for certain editorial embellishments
> ("Jewish Senator Metzenbaum announced today. . .")."
>
> Renewed scrutiny of Obama's decades-long associations is not helpful
> to his candidacy especially considering the concerns of many in the
> Jewish community over Obama's ties to noted anti-Semites and critics
> of Israel. It has not gone unnoticed that it was not until after he
> began his presidential run that Obama first offered mild criticism of
> Louis Farrakhan.
> http://www.spectator.org/archives/2008/10/16/obamas-farrakhan-problem
>
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