pure nonsense. The federal government and FBI created a special unit to tackle and take down black hate groups, panthers, new black panthers, etc. It has never been socially acceptable.
My mother used to tell me, "sometimes you have to consider the source.....and just move on." Louis Farrakan is a jack ass and so is the whack job who is the former black panther party leader. Why is this even news? Do you honestly think that they represent even a few percent of the black community?
not certain, but i bet this was done because of communist ties and not hate speech. although, the concern about communist ties is basically about revolution which gets back to the first post.
Perhaps we should ask news people why it's news. I agree that he is probably a blip for the most part, however, "On Wednesday (June 24), Farrakhan went in on the U.S. flag while speaking at the Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C. “We need to put the American flag down,” he told the crowd after letting them know that America doesn’t care about the nine people killed in a historic black Charleston church. “What flag do the police have?” Farrakhan wondered. “What flag flies over the ‘non-Justice’ Department? What flag flies over the White House where a black man lives that’s called nigger every day?” His angry comments were met with wild cheers and applause.” “We fought in wars under that flag,” he continued. “And came back and were hung and were murdered and brutalized under that flag.” Lowering his voice, Farrakhan said, “Well now, “we’re gonna pull the flag down.,” while going on to tell the audience it’s “as easy as pulling your pants down.” “We want justice under that flag,” he added. “What the hell is the use of us paying allegiance to a flag under which we get no justice?” Metropolitan is a prominent, well-attended, and highly respected church in DC. He was speaking alongside other religious and civil rights leaders. His comments were met with cheers and applause. There is no denying that black churches are the heart of the community and politics play there. Clinton was genius to use them during his campaign. So why is a jackass in the pulpit?
Not stupid at all. If white men went around championing rights of whites like Jessie, Lewi, and Fooey (Al S) do, you can dam sure bet they'd be labeled racist. Not even a doubt. Not even going that far, I'd like to see how long a "White Miss American" pageant would last.lol
For the very same reason that every other jackass stands up behind that pulpit......money. On this we agree. I could really care less what he had to say at any church on any Sunday. People like him are irrelevant to me, much the same way that radicals from the right like David Duke. They are going to say inflammatory things because it gets them into the news and riles enough people to cause us to discuss it on this forum and, most importantly, gets them invited onto shows where they make money and stay in the public eye. By acknowledging this article and, thus, what the lunatic said, we have justified the writers and publishers of the article who purposely write and report inflammatory remarks because they are able to fill the 24 hours news cycle.
and I think this is what @TwistedTiger was getting at, that this loon can spout off whatever the hell he wants, that jerimiah whats his name can say "God Damn America" and other stuff like that while barry listened with a smile on his face and I'm sure it was only covered on one network. No one else really cares But they should If a white guy/gal started saying these types of things if would be hells come to breakfast. In the light of things that have happened recently the majority of the news outlets are acting as if we are back to 160 years ago and that is simply not true.
Fighting for civil rights and hate speech are 2 different things. The people of topic was Farrakhan, who is pretty much labeled a racist and anti-Semite. Jesse and Al Sharpton did some good for a while, when guided by MLK and Ralph Abernathy, they are a shell of themselves, but dont go around preaching hate.
white guys do preach this kind of thing. David Duke got a considerable amount of votes in Louisiana as recent as the 1990s for the governorship. He preaches hate So what are you talking about exactly?
