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From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Jesse and Farrakhan - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 25-Jul-84 23:04:56 EDT
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Comparing the Reagan/Falwell relationship to Jackson/Farrakhan???

Come on!

I don't often agree with Falwell on many items, but compared to
this:

Louis Farrakhan is the self-proclaimed successor to Elijah Muhammad (sp)
who advocated black supremacy (read: racism), achieved if necessary
through violent means.  Mr. F's threat to physically harm the reporter
who revealed Jackson's 'hymie' gaffe indicates clearly that he has
not changed much from his mentor's philosophy.

Essentially, Farrakhan is leading a sector that is the black equivalent
of the KKK.  Jerry Falwell may be many things, but hardly an advocate
of violently (or otherwise)
achieved supremacy of the people he represents, wheher
by race or religion.

Can you imagine the uproar if Reagan had conferred with and accepted
support from the Imperial Wizard (or whatever they call him) of the
KKK, and had him at his side at public presentations?

Why don't the news media refer to "Louis Farrakhan, who threatened
the life of a reporter" the way they used to refer to "James Watt, who
made a comment about '..." or "Roberto D'Aubuisson, who has been linked
with right-wing death squads".  (Ooops; getting into another topic; see
'selective reporting' on most of these same newsgroups!)

-- 
Ray Simard
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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