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Louis Farrakhan Named 'Person of the Year'
newsmax ^ | Jan. 2, 2006

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2005review; bet; blackmuslims; blacks; farrakhan; islamicsupremacy; manoftheyear; millionmanmarch; nationofislam; noi; robertjohnson
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To: SmoothTalker

'George Bush doesn't care about black people.' -2005, Kanye 'broke person' West, another BET favorite.


41 posted on 01/02/2006 7:28:45 AM PST by Sender (Team Infidel USA)
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To: Sender

I wonder what place OJ came?


42 posted on 01/02/2006 7:30:28 AM PST by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: 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,

Either the poll was "Freaked" or there are a lot of people stuck on stupid.

43 posted on 01/02/2006 7:37:51 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: Hadean

He's a "useful idiot" for the Marxist agenda. Period.


44 posted on 01/02/2006 7:38:51 AM PST by RoadTest (The reason we adopt dogs is that we can't make them ourselves.)
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To: Hadean
I'll bet that the typical BET poll respondent has never heard of Thomas Sowell or Walter E. Williams.
45 posted on 01/02/2006 7:48:45 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?")
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To: FerdieMurphy
Calypso Louie is a bow-tied, grinning, [black] muslim who wants to kill us.

There, NOW the sentence is redundant.

46 posted on 01/02/2006 8:09:36 AM PST by solitas (So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
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To: Hadean

WTF !?
For what.... ?


47 posted on 01/02/2006 8:14:44 AM PST by traumer
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To: Gay State Conservative
What happened to Michael Jackson?

He turned white.
48 posted on 01/02/2006 8:19:26 AM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: Hadean

They just keep leading with their chin, don't they?


49 posted on 01/02/2006 8:29:20 AM PST by Old Professer (Fix the problem, not the blame!)
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To: Old Professer
If I posted what is rattling around in my head, I'd be branded as a racist and banned from FR. But maybe, our forefathers had the original Constitution correct. Some people are too stoopid to make their own decisions.
50 posted on 01/02/2006 8:39:10 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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To: Hadean

See my tagline for my response L0L


51 posted on 01/02/2006 8:49:20 AM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Hadean

So who did the WET (White Entertainment Television) network name as their person of the year?


52 posted on 01/02/2006 8:54:49 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Democrats are guilty of whatever they scream the loudest about.)
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To: Hadean

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....


53 posted on 01/02/2006 9:34:18 AM PST by HarleyLady27 (My ? to libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?" "Grow your own DOPE: Plant a LIB!")
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To: FerdieMurphy

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.


54 posted on 01/02/2006 10:26:30 AM PST by billhilly
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To: Hadean

Yeah, what about Michael Jackson, OJ Simpson, and of course Bill Clinton?


55 posted on 01/02/2006 10:57:20 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (To those who believe the world was safer with Saddam, get treatment for that!)
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To: Hadean
At this rate next year they may as well name Bin Laden as man of the year and all those who were 'mar-turd' taking down the two towers...as their men of the decade.
56 posted on 01/02/2006 11:07:42 AM PST by joesnuffy (A camel once bit our sister.. but we knew what to do.. we gathered rocks and squashed her!)
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To: Hadean

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?


57 posted on 01/02/2006 11:48:22 AM PST by SeaBiscuit (God Bless all who defend America and Friends, the rest can go to hell.)
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To: backhoe; piasa; All

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."


58 posted on 01/03/2006 12:17:10 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Hadean

How can someone so divisive and racist win this? If there are such things as hate crimes, Farakhan is guilty.


59 posted on 01/17/2006 1:40:07 PM PST by rfreedom4u (Native Texan)
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To: Hadean

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"


60 posted on 01/17/2006 1:42:35 PM PST by rfreedom4u (Native Texan)
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