Posted on 01/02/2006 5:56:34 AM PST by Hadean
Firebrand Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has been named "Person of the Year for 2005" in an online poll by the Black Entertainment Television network, beating out Oprah Winfrey, Sen. Barack Obama and BET founder Robert L. Johnson.
"An overwhelming percentage of our users agreed that Minister Farrakhan made the most positive impact on the black community over the past year," BET.com vice president Retha Hill told FinalCall.com, Farrakhan's own web site.
The BET.com VP credited Farrakhan's Millions More March last October with mobilizing "hundreds of thousands of blacks around the issues of atonement and empowerment, and to convince the masses of our people that we must be the primary catalysts and engines for positive change in our communities."
During his Millions More March address, Farrakhan urged African-Americans to bring a class action suit for "criminal neglect" against the U.S. on behalf of Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans and demanded that America "acknowledge her wickedness to the indigenous peoples of this hemisphere."
For weeks before the march, the controversial minister touted a theory that the Bush administration had blown up the levees in New Orleans. Farrakhan said he came to that conclusion after a private meeting with Mayor Ray Nagin, who told him there was a 25-foot crater beneath the levees.
Farrakhan told BET.com that he was "greatly honored and extremely humbled" to be chosen as their 2005 Person of the Year.
"I accept this great honor as encouragement to work as hard as I can in the twilight years of my life to facilitate the success of this ongoing struggle,” he added.
I thought he was the galactic alien of the year.
A Black Muslim freep proves online polls aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
suspicions confirmed
What happened to Michael Jackson?
Well, beam me up, Scottie!
Leni
He's not black.
So how many showed up for the Millions More March for Entitlements?
I sometimes watch BET on Sunday nights for their Christian programming, but I see it was pre-empted last night for typical BET music videos and other trash. Maybe the Christian pastors knew about this award and yanked their programs from BET? I could see them doing this; they have no respect at all for FaraCON.
Calypso Louie is a bow-tied, grinning, muslim who wants to kill us.
Or Tookie?!
What a rip off. Tookie killed WAY more people, and contributed more to thug culture than Racistkhan.
lol !
what a freaking joke.
Sorry General Honore, looks like taking charge of and evacuating New Orleans after one of our greatest natural disasters..didn't make enough of a positive impact on the black community.
Or maybe holding up Louis Farrakhan as a positive role model just shows that BET audience is "stuck on stupid". But then, nation of islam bodyguards DO have more medals and frills on their uniforms than does General Honore.
Damn. I voted for jesse jackson
How galling for Oprah and Obama.
hehehe
the thousand man march for handouts !
They should have realized the results of their poll were flawed. Foolish to defend it.
Just goes to show you where their heads are at (up their butts.)
No fair! The phone number they used forthe voting was a local call for those on the space craft!
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