Posted on 03/09/2011 12:26:23 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Nationally syndicated radio host Bev Smith compares the Rev. Louis Farrakhan with Martin Luther King. Local Jewish leader David Ainsman likens him to a Nazi.
And those diverging views are creating quite a bit of controversy.
Rev. Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, is scheduled to speak Friday night at a town hall meeting organized by Ms. Smith on the subject of "The Disappearing Black Community." He was originally going to appear along with U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., and civil rights leader Melanie Campbell.
Rev. Farrakhan's planned speech has drawn criticism from both local and national Jewish groups, including a column in the Pittsburgh-based Jewish Chronicle that called him "a rabid anti-Semite" and questioned why Ms. Smith would invite him to speak.
On Monday, Ms. Smith learned that Ms. Campbell, president and chief executive officer of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, would no longer be appearing at the event.
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A spokeswoman for Mr. Clyburn said that he still planned to speak at the event.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
I’m ashamed that I’m represented by Clyburn.
Farrakhan is at the Bill Maher level of not having a clue.
Muslims aren’t the only ones that resist becoming Americans and assimilating into American society. Blacks also are taught to separtate themselves and their culture from mainstream America and to embrace their African heritage, holidays, names and their own style of music, etc.
As long as they identify themselves as “African-Americans” they’re putting another country ahead of America in their lives and allegiances. The Socialists, Marxists and Muslims have an interest in promoting those behaviors.
Why Pittsburgh?
The only connection at all I can see to Pittsburgh is that Bev Smith worked as a television reporter here 40 years and 60 pounds ago...
Did he look in the dumpsters behind Planned Parenthood?
First we lost the Superbowl
Then this..havent we suffered enough?
Farrakhan believes that the Spinx lost it nose when french solider shot it off because it showed the power of the black man.
And how can we forget the “Mothership in orbit on the darkside of the moon”?
If this person is considered a reseaonable voice in the black community, then all is lost.
You go girl..perfect response!!
You forgot the G8 summit. We don’t need this.
The world is going crazy...really. Even the heavens are showing their displeasure (varying reports of Friday having 4 to 6 inches or 6 to 8—depending on the forecaster).
Does the “Mother Ship” have four wheel drive?
**snow amounts**
Need to not multitask :(
ZING!
Sportutegrl..1.
Farrakhan....0.
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