Jackson, MS – Some advocates for racial equality are criticizing the selection of Louis Farrakhan as the keynote speaker for an annual convention of civil rights veterans in Mississippi.
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Farrakhan leads the Chicago-based Nation of Islam, which published two books last year on what Farrakhan calls the “anti-black behavior” of Jews.
Leaders of two dozen churches and synagogues signed a statement Tuesday condemning this Friday’s keynote choice as “offensive” and noting Farrakhan’s past statements on Roman Catholicism, Judaism and homosexuality.
During the civil rights struggles of the 1960s in Mississippi, Christian and Jewish leaders played critical roles.
A spokesman for the Nation of Islam wasn’t immediately available for comment. Owen Brooks, director of the Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement, didn’t respond to requests for comment.
It is a bit strange for the “old” civil rights movement which had a high percentage of jewish leadership and funding is now honoring an individual that some consider to have made statments that are anti-semitic in tone.
Wasn’t there talk of Farrakhan exhibiting clear signs of mental illness? Choosing this crazed bigot to speak on behalf of human rights is akin to Libya heading the investigations into human rights abuses of countries at the U.N.
The oxymoron of humanity a Nazi type antisemite key note speaker for a civil rights organization. That is a topsy turvy view of social justice. Julius Streicher condemned in Nuremberg and Farakhan are akin except that Streicher was hanged in Nuremberg and Farrakhan contunues to spew forth his venom and hate.
only in america can an absolute insane person like farakhan spew such mindless trash,this i cant even call him human ill call him anthropod an animal in humanlike form utter bizzare and destructive speeches he farakhan is in a never never land of his own making cant even relate to reality may he suffer a terrible fate.
I thought he had cancer, which he blamed on the Jews. Probably, a Jewish doctor saved him.
Cursed be the Doctor who saved him……be he a Jewish doctor, xtian, or otherwise.
There is only one doctor that should be called in to help Mr. Fairycans, and his name is Jack. Jack Kevorkian.
Farrakhan is reincarnation of evil, hate and makes parody of civil rights
The discriminatees invite an evil, malevolent , vile discriminator as a speaker. An oxymoron of civil rights and an insult to the memory of a Jewish man named Schwerner who gave his life for those alleged discriminated individuals. I hope that is a lesson for others.