Posted on 10/17/2007 8:04:39 AM PDT by Froufrou
In a rare public appearance, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan urged black Americans on Tuesday night to separate from mainstream culture to establish and support their own community.
Nearly eight months after delivering what was thought to be his farewell speech, a smiling Farrakhan strode onstage at the Atlanta Civic Center to an applauding and cheering audience of nearly 5,000. He warned the crowd not to be distracted by the successes of recent decades.
"We have to come out of the thinking of a slave and come into the thinking and acting of free men and women," Farrakhan said. "We cannot depend on others for what the horrible condition of our people demands now that we do for ourselves."
Farrakhan, 74, ceded leadership duties last year because of illness after nearly three decades. He had surgery for prostate cancer in January.
Tuesday night's address was the keynote speech for Farrakhan's Holy Day of Atonement, which also commemorated the 12th anniversary of the Million Man March, held Oct. 16, 1995 in Washington.
Farrakhan cut a healthy-looking figure Tuesday in a gray and gold pinstriped suit, a wide smile flashing often under the trademark side- part in his wavy, black hair and thin-rimmed glasses.
The fiery orator spoke for nearly 2 1/2 hours, touching on issues including the disparities blacks face in areas such as education, health care, voting and incarceration, the Jena Six case in Louisiana, last weekend's arrest of Atlanta rapper T.I. on federal weapons charges, the war in Iraq and the Michael Vick federal dogfighting case.
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I am so excited..by the math of fairacan.....my $5,000 in savings makes me millionaire!!!! Yahoo!!!
No. No you haven't. And your grammar is terrible.
And I didn’t parse his sentence correctly, d’oh.
Yes his followers do need to stop being slaves.
and the racist aspirin industry for forcing people to pick cotton to get at their product.
Imagine any white man said, “You know, we really need to reject other races, and concentrate on helping out only our own kind, based on their skin color.” You think the NAACP, the ACLU, and the Democratic Congress would have anyting to say about it?
Calypso Louie. I gotta hand it to him. He is a success story. And all he had to do was become leader of a phony cult and “blame whitey” for everything. Works every time.
YAWN!
He passed the trash cans and walked away with millions in donations that are illegal to collect on the mall.
Not only was the Million Man March a failure, half the men left before Farrakhan spoke.
I lived on Capital Hill during it, all the local stores closed and barred their storefronts during the march. Funny thing the WAPO didn’t notice this little bit of profiling by its hometown residents. BTW most residents on Cap Hill are very liberal. They are also scared to death of black people. Weird.
Reminds me of the IQ tests in the 50s...I saw something today on drudge to the tune of ‘Africans not as intelligent’ and I was thinking, “here we go again!”
“We have to come out of the thinking of a slave and come into the thinking and acting of free men and women,”
And he thinks their freedom includes the right to isolate themselves in their ‘own community’? Has he ever heard of ‘Brown v. Board of Education’? Doesn’t he know that ‘separate but equal’ is illegal? Does he have the slightest clue what he’s talking about??
Stand in the Gap got twice the number of men down on the mall and zero publicity.
They revisited Stand in the Gap a couple weeks back. About 10,000 men came.
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