Posted on 10/10/2011 4:54:59 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Farrakhan in Philadelphia: 'Build a new nation'
By Nancy Phillips
Inquirer Staff Writer
Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam came to the birthplace of America on Sunday and, to thunderous applause, urged thousands of his followers to work with him "to build a new nation."
Speaking before an enthusiastic crowd in a cavernous ballroom at the Convention Center, Farrakhan delivered a message of separatism and self-reliance, urging African Americans to unite and buy land and start banks and build businesses and schools. Together, he said, they should strive to create a better future for their children and their communities - apart from their white brethren.
"Come on out and go work and build a new nation," he urged his cheering audience. "We've got to get up and do something for ourselves."
Farrakhan, 78, was sharply critical of President Obama, whom he described as "living in the White House for a short time and about to get evicted."
He said the American government was "rotten to the core." He railed against a Congress that he said was too dependent on campaign money and compromised by the largesse of big donors.
He faulted the nation's leaders for leading the country into war.
"We should all conscientiously object to the war that is going on in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Pakistan, in Somalia, in Yemen, in Libya," he said, his voice rising. "We must not let our government send our babies to die on the basis of a lie."
Farrakhan accused the news media of "stoking the fuel for war in Pakistan and in Iran" and said, "As Muslims, never would we fight against our Muslim brothers for the Zionists of America that have locked down the government of America. Never will we die for the state of Israel."
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They can leave and do all that in Africa. I’m sure the Africans will appreciate their efforts.
Clearly, however; Obummer, not getting credit for his efforts.
And OK; will go back and read 'more'. . .
Clearly, however; Obummer, not getting credit for his efforts.
And OK; will go back and read 'more'. . .
I hear Guyana is nice this time of year...
Oh come on now, Louis.
Since when have Muslims needed outsiders to provide the impetus for killing other Muslims...
Don't Muslims usually fight against their Muslim brothers simply because, um, they're Muslims?
But they’re not perfect Muslims.
That’s why they get killed.
comrade obama about to be evicted.
“Speaking before an enthusiastic crowd in a cavernous ballroom at the Convention Center, Farrakhan delivered a message of separatism and self-reliance, urging African Americans to unite and buy land and start banks and build businesses and schools. Together, he said, they should strive to create a better future for their children and their communities - apart from their white brethren.”
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Separate but equal, right?
I agree.
The lost irony of it all....
WHO is he talking to? 75% out-of-wedlock birthrate doesn't sound like anyone in the black community is concerned at all about their "children"; except to get more handouts in food stamps, welfare money, etc. by increasing the size of the dependent numbers.
They can do all this NOW, but would rather live in government housing, deal drugs, shoot each other, rob "whitey", trade food stamps for cash for drugs, tatoo's, cars, guns, and bling.
I don’t need to read it.
It has happened.
Like in central Europe.
Like in South Africa.
Like in the the powers of Europe, france and england.
The “City” and Wall St” have ruined them all.
The USA is not for Americans now.
It is actually over.
Too late.
Okay, my mind is slipping, but didn’t a black leader in the last century urge the same thing, just ignore the white man and pull yourself up by your boot straps and get on with your life? Made sense then.
In fact, before the 60s riots, didn’t blacks have thriving business areas in many urban cities. What happened? I’m not saying they had it made, but still, I think in some respects they may have had it better in the days when they had to be self-reliant.
I understand LBJ, wanting to wipe out the abject poverty that some in this nation experienced. But, I think in his honest quest, he threw future generations into further poverty.
I am reminded of a show I saw some hears back. It was about an old black bluesman from the back woods in the south somewhere. The young white guys found him and got gigs for him around the country. Gigs that would pay say 3 grand a night. This old guy refused to leave his one room shack because it might upset his $130 a month check that he got from the government. In one night, he could have made more than two years of checks, yet the thinking was so in grained that he would miss out on the “freebie” that he was afraid to move forward.
So, really, if Farrakhan, as a dufus as he is, gets black citizens, who are stuck in a generational government poverty of the mind, to actually do something about it and free themselves, then who cares who the messenger is?
my two and a half cents.
passing buckets for donations for whose pocket?? lol
WHO is he talking to? 75% out-of-wedlock birthrate doesn't sound like anyone in the black community is concerned at all about their "children"; except to get more handouts in food stamps, welfare money, etc. by increasing the size of the dependent numbers.
They can do all this NOW, but would rather live in government housing, deal drugs, shoot each other, rob "whitey", trade food stamps for cash for drugs, tatoo's, cars, guns, and bling.
I think Louie has a good idea. I think they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and make a nation for themselves. They could have some of the land that the government owns. We’re not using it anyway.
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