It would have been much simpler if Massa Steinberg had opened with his claim about the Iranian threat to Israel instead of wasting time on the other specious claims. He could also have admitted in his opening paragraph that he was mouthing the position and poisonous propaganda of the Anti-Defamation League, which is virulently anti-Nation of Islam and many believe anti-Black.
The first problem Ole Massa Steinberg had was the Minister had the gall to actually sit with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York as world leaders met for the United Nations General Assembly, an annual gathering to consider the problems facing the planet and possible solutions.
Free Man; Free Will
Later on, Massa Steinberg expresses disdain for the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the beloved father of modern Pan-Africanism, and essentially concludes that Min. Farrakhan like Mr. Garvey is a “big talker,” who is teaching outmoded ideas about separation.
To begin, Min. Farrakhan is a leader who enjoys worldwide stature, global relationships and an international following. He is a free Black man, a Muslim and a citizen of the world. He is a spiritual guide and profound thinker, who is concerned with the condition of humanity-though his first work is to the suffering Black man and woman of America and the Western Hemisphere.
As a free man and a Muslim, and a leader, it is wholly appropriate for Min. Farrakhan to sit and dialog with his Muslim brother, just as the Zionists in America welcome and lionize Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister whose incendiary rhetoric about attacking Iran and challenges to President Obama to do something about Iran have even taken some in the Jewish state aback.
As for Mr. Ahmadinejad’s reputation in the West, as well as the Minister’s relationships and visits with Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, and the late revolutionary leader Muammar Gadhafi, a free man associates with whom he pleases.
But since Massa Steinberg objected to these relationships also, here is an answer from the Minister about dealing with those America does not like or actually hates:
“Evidently America is on the wrong side of history. If I am a friend of those who fight to deliver the masses from oppression, if I am a friend of those who suffer from the powers that refuse to acknowledge their service to the masses of the people, then I am a friend of Abraham and Moses and Jesus and Muhammad. But they too were hated by those in power because they spoke for the poor who have no voice. So I am in good company,” said Min. Farrakhan Sept. 26 during a Social Media Town hall meeting.
And while Massa Steinberg may not think much of Castro, Mugabe or Gadhafi, all are revolutionaries who freed their people from the grip of White rule and U.S. influence that was not in the best interest of their people. No slave master likes a freedom fighter, they prefer to side with oppressors.