As for consorting with election thieves and abusing protestors, Ole Massa Steinberg need only look at the 2000 presidential election with the ballot box trickery in Florida, which determined the fate of the election in favor of the presidential candidate whose brother ruled the state.
Not to mention widespread disenfranchisement of Black voters by laws that took away voting rights from felons and the outright denial of the right to vote to Blacks in Florida.
Then there were the similar shameful tactics in Ohio in 2000, and this year a Pennsylvania lawmaker declared that new voter I.D. laws should tip the state to Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney as the votes of Blacks and others likely to support the Democratic Party are curtailed. Anyone who wants to steal an election can easily take a page from the playbook of the respected GOP.
For abuses of protestors, Ole Massa need only look at the University of California Davis, where the school is seeking a near million dollar settlement after campus security pepper-sprayed non-violent students and alumni at a demonstration in New York where a suit against police for violating rights of Occupy protestors is moving forward. So while Massa Steinberg may want to throw mud on Iran, it appears there are plenty of abuses of demonstrator’s right here in the good ole USA.
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Then there was Massa Steinberg questioning where the Minister has led the Nation of Islam. Well to be honest, he brought the Nation of Islam back from death at the hands of the U.S. government’s Counterintelligence Program, which was an FBI illegal undercover action that targeted Black leaders and organizations for destruction, and related targeting by local law enforcement. Only the Nation of Islam, by Allah’s (God’s) grace, has been able to come back from government infiltration, disruption, disinformation campaigns, set-ups and murder.
The Minister has led the Nation along a healthy path as an Islamic community. He has led his followers and admirers to high levels of civilization, community building and peacemaking. He has established a model of independent and effective education as urban school systems suffer from 50 percent dropout rates among Black males. He has offered a way to peace and progress for young Black males locked out of American society and locked inside U.S. penal institutions. He has done all of this while under constant assault, overt and covert.
As for the philosophy of separation, the reality is racial segregation exists today-and Chicago is one of the most racially segregated cities in the country when it comes to housing patterns. Late night news doesn’t show White mothers agonizing over the gang-related deaths of their children or White men protesting how jobs in their neighborhoods are taken by men who don’t look like them.
So the question is not whether the races will be apart, but under what conditions; Chinatown is its own distinct and separate entity but because of cultural unity and self-love, it is a healthy community able to maintain itself and enjoy healthy relationships with others.Black people should enjoy the same type of autonomous reality given that the society remains unequal and hostile to our interests.
Like Mr. Garvey, the Minister has been subjected to government surveillance and infiltration and plots. And Negro leaders have spoken against Min. Farrakhan, when prodded or ordered by Whites, but things change with time. W.E.B. DuBois was a critic of the Garveyite “Back to Africa” movement, but Mr. DuBois eventually moved to and died in West Africa-fed up with the hypocrisy and hatred found in America. So today’s critics may be tomorrow’s disciples.
To close Mr. Garvey was man who plowed ground and gave Blacks in America and the Diaspora a powerful vision. The enemy was able to overcome him and destroy his movement. His sacrifice and his unjustified suffering was part of a price paid to redeem Black people. But his work won’t be wasted, this is the time of the fall of every tyrant by the power of Almighty God and the rise of Black people.
So despite opposition to Farrakhan and slander, he won’t lose and neither will those who stand with him.
Article Appeared@ http://noirg.org/slave-master-mentality-at-sun-times/
This Article Appeared in The Black Truth News Volume 3 Issue 12 Dec. 18, 2012