Posted on 03/05/2013 9:07:48 AM PST by Tailgunner Joe
A splintered black community will not see an end to the violence afflicting inner cities. White people must accept responsibility for their role in destroying the black community.
And America needs to start targeting the unseen gun runners selling guns to gang bangers.
All those were among the messages controversial Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered to a packed house at St. Sabina Catholic Church on Friday.
“Our children are out there killing themselves and one another. My beloved brother lost his daughter to senseless violence,” Farrakhan said of Nathaniel Pendleton — father of 15-year-old murder victim Hadiya Pendleton — sitting in a front row. “And the two young men they have are just babies — crazy, irrational, savage with a gun in their hands.”
“Most of the weapons that are in our community are illegal weapons sold to our children by enemies who know how they are going to use them,” he said. “They put boys in jail, but what about those bringing the guns in? Those who bring them in should be decapitated.”
Only days after his annual Saviour’s Day speech drawing thousands of the Muslim group’s followers, Farrakhan closed out St. Sabina’s Black History Month Speaker’s Series before an audience of 1,000 — equally mixed with members of that congregation and the Nation.
In a 90-minute speech, lines between the Quran and the Bible became blurred as Farrakhan, whose group brought an anti-violence presence to the streets of the South Side last year, urged blacks — historically predominantly Christian — to ignore differences in religion.
“Only somebody who’s confused would pit one against the other. A man who knows the root knows we’re all speaking the same language,” he said of Christianity and Islam.
“Jesus himself said, ‘Of myself, I can do nothing.’ ‘I’ can’t do anything, but ‘we’ can. It’s going to take all of us to change the reality of our situation, all of us working together to solve the problems that we face. So I am both a Christian and a Muslim.”
Fiery and humorous — immaculate in charcoal gray, pin-striped suit and crisp white shirt, gold tie and kerchief — Farrakhan seemed at home among the trappings of Catholicism.
There was no mention of the Jewish religion that has brought past controversy.
And the unity theme carried over in references between the 78-year-old minister and his host, activist priest the Rev. Michael Pfleger, himself no stranger to controversy.
Pfleger described Farrakhan as “my friend, my brother, a mentor,” and “one of the most lied upon people by people who want to demonize him so that you won’t hear his message.”
Farrakhan praised Pfleger’s recent efforts to help area gang members change their lives, through a basketball league, G.E.D.’s and jobs, calling him “a true disciple of Christ.”
Farrakhan skimmed the trajectory of black history, laying accountability for many ills at the foot of white people, with comments that have led some whites to label him racist.
“They say, ‘Farrakhan, you people have called white people devils.’ Now white folks have not been saints. Would Christ approve of slavery, Jim Crow, lynching, racial injustice? Well if Christ wouldn’t do it, how can you as a Christian sanction that?” Farrakhan said. “White people know that they have raised hell on this planet. But guess what? They made us just like themselves. We are all messed up. But Jesus said, ‘Behold. I make all things new.’ So all of us have access to the mercy and forgiveness of Jesus.
Farrakhan criticized blacks for many of the ills, particularly for non-existent or bad parenting. And he said the ignorant youth wreaking havoc with guns could learn from the Nation’s example — men who exude power, without carrying weapons. But America should target the harshest punishment to those who are the source of those guns, he maintained, “I have the right to feel that way when I see 500 of our babies dead in one year,” he said.
The man’s a racist pig. Here’s my middle finger salute.
For this segment of the Black community, the problem may not be that they hate Whites so much, rather—they hate themselves. Whites can’t fix that and I for one, no longer care to bother.
Did you see all the weapons Morgan had stockpiled during the zombie apocalypse.
Rick showed him where they were.
Blacks are just trying as hard as they can to start anti-black vigilantism. Your case was mild but with the Travons and the flash mobs it may be inevitable.
Gosh I hope her car didnt suffer any serious damage after that. I know it would have if I was there
What, 15 16 percent of the population and blacks are responsible for a disproportionate percentage of the killings and crime in America and somehow this piece of excrement says it’s the white devils fault?
What a dumb ass this all clown is and always has been.
How about the lack of a two parent home in most cases with regards to blacks???
Exactly......
Yes, people have had about all they’re going to take. I know I have.
Well, considering it was a pink spray-painted Crown Victoria with hot pink wheels, anything inflicted would have been an improvement.
My husband shook his head and said, “That car should have told you how it would turn out.”
Ironic, coming from the man who ordered the hit on Malcolm the Tenth.
frankly, and this is wrong to say, but I don't care what the feral animals do to themselves....they are beyond help....
dad worked a steady low paying job and worked two part time jobs to bring in extra money...my mother in her "spare" time picked apples while raising 6 kids....and helped my father with his extra jobs too...
my husband and I have never ever rec'd big money or bonuses or lawyered money nor had free college for our kids or any thing given to us..our jobs are steady, our work hard, but that is the white way I guess....its the immigrant/farm heritage...
I think we’re going to have to start giving back, don’t you?....boy do I think of ways to do that....
(grin)
I gave a little back yesterday...lip-wise, anyway.
And there's a bunch of us... really.
White people sneaking into black neighborhoods - telling them to do BAD things. And they listen to us. Total trust. We say, "kill the children', and they do... We tell blacks not to snitch to get them to undermine police being able to help them. Keeps the criminals and gang bangers running the community...
We tell them gun control works so they can't defend themselves against thugs... that keeps the gangs in charge... and we tell them the reason grocery stores don't set up in their neighborhoods is because of white people. That gins up their hatred - and softens them up for the gangs...
And last but not least, we tell them the mess they've made of their own neighborhoods is fault of other people. Then they can see themselves as hopeless victims - and that further sofens them up for democrat scammers... Yep, we do it all. Farrakhan's right on this one.../s
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