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.
'George Bush doesn't care about black people.' -2005, Kanye 'broke person' West, another BET favorite.
I wonder what place OJ came?
Either the poll was "Freaked" or there are a lot of people stuck on stupid.
He's a "useful idiot" for the Marxist agenda. Period.
There, NOW the sentence is redundant.
WTF !?
For what.... ?
They just keep leading with their chin, don't they?
See my tagline for my response L0L
So who did the WET (White Entertainment Television) network name as their person of the year?
Isn't he the one that had a vision that Bush made that hurricane go into N.O. and distroy all the homeless, less forgotten black people????
Is this what it takes to become 'Person of the year'???? Gosh, Bill Clinton and his slimy wife should have been 'Persons of the Year' for years now....
I have this image of Louie and Jesse, back to back, and rotating around some fixed point like strippers working a pole. Same act, different dance.
Yeah, what about Michael Jackson, OJ Simpson, and of course Bill Clinton?
Can you imagine the outrage by Blacks if there were such a thing as the 'White Entertainment Network' and they named David Duke man of the year?
http://www.bet.com/News/personoftheyear_farrakhan.htm?wbc_purpose=Basic&WBCMODE=PresentationUnpublished&Referrer=%7B03CE5360-2620-42CB-AD7E-77E4249C5FB7%7D
"Min. Louis Farrakhan 2005 'Person of the Year'"
By Tracy Stokes, BET.com Staff Writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Posted Dec. 19, 2005 -- BET.com users have selected Minister Louis Farrakhan as the 2005 Person of the Year.
"An overwhelming percentage of our users agreed that Minister Farrakhan made the most positive impact on the Black community over the past year and chose him as the person most worthy to receive the honor of BET.com's 2005 Person of the Year," said Retha Hill, BET.com's vice president for Content.
They agreed that he has done what no other African American leader has: "mobilize 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," she said."
How can someone so divisive and racist win this? If there are such things as hate crimes, Farakhan is guilty.
Check out the NOI website. Click the Mohammed Farms link and read the letter titled "Dear White People" and you will see his true feelings, such as calling for "the elimination of the destructive species"
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