Farrakhan Demands Reparations from Jews

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Big Peace:

Louis Farrakhan recently sent a three-page letter along with two books to the heads of sixteen Jewish organizations.

Dated June 24, 2010, the letter is resplendent with a crescent-and-moon flag and Farrakhan’s impressive-sounding title (”National Representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam”). In it, he announces that the books (volume two of The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews and Jews Selling Blacks: Slave Trade by American Jews) present

an undeniable record of Jewish anti-Black behavior, starting with the horror of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, plantation slavery, Jim Crow, sharecropping, the labor movement of the North and South, the unions and the misuse of our people that continues to this very moment.

Farrakhan challenges the recipients of his letter – who range politically from Jeremy Ben-Ami (of J-Street) to Lee Rosenberg (of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) to Morton Klein (of the Zionist Organization of America) –

to find one act committed by me or those who follow me that has injured one Jewish person, stopped Jews from doing business, hindered their education, injured their families, sullied or desecrated their synagogues.

“You will not find one,” declares Farrakhan, who then asks: “on what basis do you charge me and us as being ‘anti-Semitic’?” Quite the contrary, Farrakhan avers, “we could now charge you with the most vehement anti-Black behavior in the annals of our history in America and the world. We could charge you with being the most deceitful so-called friend, while your history with us shows you have been our worst enemy.” Farrakhan could also dwell on the fact that Jews are “sitting on top of the world in power, with riches and influence, while the masses of my people here in America, in the Caribbean, Central and South America and elsewhere in the world are in the worst condition of any member of the human family.”


He could make these points, he notes, but he chooses not to: “I do not write this with vitriol, hatred, bitterness, or a spirit of vengeance.” Instead, he hopes to establish ties with Jews: “I have pleaded with you over the years for a sensible, intelligent dialogue. You have rejected me.” Despite prior failures, the publication of these two books inspires Farrakhan to try anew: “I again ask you for a dialogue.”

For Farrakhan, dialogue equals reparations. Because Jews “are in a position to help me in the civilizing work that The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was given to do by Allah (God).” More specifically: “This is an offer asking you and the gentiles whom you influence to help me in the repair of my people from the damage that has been done by your ancestors to mine.” In other words, after years of unsuccessfully demanding reparations for blacks from the U.S. government, he is now looking to Jews to make amends for their alleged past injustices.

Farrakhan presents this moment as both a unique opportunity for Jews (”This is a wonderful way of the present generation of Jews to escape the Judgment of Allah”) and as an ultimatum:

you may either gather your forces for an all-out struggle against me, the Nation of Islam, and the truth that I and we speak and write, or as an intelligent and civilized people, we can sit down and carve out a way forward that can obliterate the stain of the past and render us, Jews and Blacks … in a new, honorable, and mutually respectful relationship.

Should Jews spurn this offer, Farrakhan threatens “disgrace and ruin”:

should you choose to make our struggle to our people more difficult, then I respectfully warn you … that the more you fight and oppose me rather than help me to lift my people from their degraded state, Allah (God) and His Messiah will bring you and your people to disgrace and ruin and destroy your power and influence here and throughout the world.

He signs off with “Respectfully and Sincerely Submitted, The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, Servant to the Lost-Found Nation of Islam in the West.”
________

Th-th-th-that's all, folks!

[righteousmomma]

Surreal!

[NCTexan]

The Onion couldn't make this stuff up...

[SrWoodchuck]

Florid taqiyya from Farrakhan & the "Lost Tribe" of Israel..........now of the Great Ummah of Ebony Jihad.

 

"May we pay you tribute in lead?"

[Valin]

The Onion couldn't make this stuff up...

 

 

Pity the poor satirist.

[Casino67]

The Onion couldn't make this stuff up...

 

 

Pity the poor satirist.

 

Here is another quote the Onion would not have touched. It is the intellectual Sheila Jackson Lee speaking at the NAACP convention:

 

"And I thank you professor very much. I’m going to be engaging you with those very powerful numbers that you have offered on what the tea party recognizes, uh, or is recognized as. Might I add my own P.S.? All those who wore sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and started wearing [applause], uh, clothing, uh, with a name, say, I am part of the tea party. Don’t you be fooled. [voices: "That's right.", applause] Those who used to wear sheets are now being able to walk down the aisle and speak as a patriot because you will not speak loudly about the lack of integrity of this movement. Don’t let anybody tell you that those who spit on us as we were walking to vote on a health care bill for all of America or those who said Congresswoman Jackson-Lee’s braids were too tight in her hair had anything to do with justice and equality and empowerment of the American people. Don’t let them fool you on that [applause]…."

 

She must have forgotten the esteemed Senator Byrd, who must have bravely lifted off his white sheet to declare he was a Democrat. Probably just slipped her mind.

 

[source)

[Valin]

The Onion couldn't make this stuff up...

 

 

Pity the poor satirist.

 

Here is another quote the Onion would not have touched. It is the intellectual Sheila Jackson Lee speaking at the NAACP convention:

 

"And I thank you professor very much. I’m going to be engaging you with those very powerful numbers that you have offered on what the tea party recognizes, uh, or is recognized as. Might I add my own P.S.? All those who wore sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and started wearing [applause], uh, clothing, uh, with a name, say, I am part of the tea party. Don’t you be fooled. [voices: "That's right.", applause] Those who used to wear sheets are now being able to walk down the aisle and speak as a patriot because you will not speak loudly about the lack of integrity of this movement. Don’t let anybody tell you that those who spit on us as we were walking to vote on a health care bill for all of America or those who said Congresswoman Jackson-Lee’s braids were too tight in her hair had anything to do with justice and equality and empowerment of the American people. Don’t let them fool you on that [applause]…."

 

She must have forgotten the esteemed Senator Byrd, who must have bravely lifted off his white sheet to declare he was a Democrat. Probably just slipped her mind.

 

[source)

 

 

IM(not so)HO the words "intellectual Sheila Jackson Lee" should never, I repeat NEVER be used in the same sentence.

 

 

Bad Casino67...Bad Casino67! Go stand in the corner and thing about what you've done.

[Guest AnneV]

Dear Mr. Farrakhan,

 

You have had all the reparations you're going to get...he resides in the White House.

Time for you to STFU

 

Sincerely,

pissed off of Colorado

[Casino67]

The Onion couldn't make this stuff up...

 

 

Pity the poor satirist.

 

Here is another quote the Onion would not have touched. It is the intellectual Sheila Jackson Lee speaking at the NAACP convention:

 

"And I thank you professor very much. I’m going to be engaging you with those very powerful numbers that you have offered on what the tea party recognizes, uh, or is recognized as. Might I add my own P.S.? All those who wore sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and started wearing [applause], uh, clothing, uh, with a name, say, I am part of the tea party. Don’t you be fooled. [voices: "That's right.", applause] Those who used to wear sheets are now being able to walk down the aisle and speak as a patriot because you will not speak loudly about the lack of integrity of this movement. Don’t let anybody tell you that those who spit on us as we were walking to vote on a health care bill for all of America or those who said Congresswoman Jackson-Lee’s braids were too tight in her hair had anything to do with justice and equality and empowerment of the American people. Don’t let them fool you on that [applause]…."

 

She must have forgotten the esteemed Senator Byrd, who must have bravely lifted off his white sheet to declare he was a Democrat. Probably just slipped her mind.

 

[source)

 

 

IM(not so)HO the words "intellectual Sheila Jackson Lee" should never, I repeat NEVER be used in the same sentence.

 

 

Bad Casino67...Bad Casino67! Go stand in the corner and thing about what you've done.

 

Sorry, won't let it happen again. Obviously I was thinking of Cynthia McKinney.