Black Caucus capitulations won’t stop Farrakhan, say analysts and activists
26th March 2018 · 0 Comments
By Richard B. Muhammadand Charlene Muhammad
Contributing Writers
(Special from FinalCall.Com) — The Jewish stranglehold on Black political leaders was manifested when some Congressional Black Caucus members caved in to demands by the Republican Jewish Coalition that they denounce Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan.
Analysts and activists called the denunciations signs of the weakness of Black politicians amid Jewish efforts to isolate the Minister. They predicted the efforts would fail.
A flood of half-truths followed Min. Farrakhan’s late-February address closing the Nation’s Saviours’ Day convention in Chicago.
The RJC called on Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Danny Davis (D-Ill.), Andre Carson (D-Ind.); Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Al Green (D-Texas) to resign. The congressmen should step down for meeting with or dialoguing with Min. Farrakhan, the RJC said.
By March 8, Davis had joined Lee and Meeks in disavowing the Minister.
Dr. Boyce Watkins spoke candidly about the congressional cave- ins: “It’s a lack of power. It’s fear! A lack of discipline, a lack of self-respect, which leads to no respect.”
“What’s interesting to me is that they will condemn the words of Minister Farrakhan and say we condemn hate speech of any kind, so you’re going out of your way to attack another Black person on behalf of white people… but in your quest to allegedly condemn hate speech of any kind, you never once condemn the Jewish community for running these record labels where every other rapper is calling Black people the N-word, and every other rapper is promoting Black genocide, which has been more insidious, more effective, longer lasting than the genocide imposed on the Jews during the reign of Adolf Hitler,” argued Dr. Watkins.
“What the Jewish community is going to have to confront is the fact that you have been our Hitler. You have mass-promoted, through media, the extermination of Black people through Black-on-Black crime, the complete disrespect of Black women and Black families in your music, and not once have you ever condemned that as hate speech,” Dr. Watkins said. “So, you condemn us. Well, we condemn you.”
Charles Steele, SCLC national president, recounted how the Minister gave money to keep SCLC doors open when the group was broke.
Min. Farrakhan didn’t ask questions and wrote a check to support work in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, Dr. Steele said.
Philadelphia activist Pam Africa said the Jewish influence on Black life shows Blacks have gotten nowhere in the Black-Jewish relationship.
Blacks have been relegated to kiss-ups and suck-ups to what is wrong as indicated by the lawmakers’ denunciation of Minister Farrakhan, she said.
“They’re the Judas that Jesus Christ dealt with,” she said.
With discontent over President Trump and controversies that could turn off female voters, pressure on Democrats, activists like Tamika Mallory and the “Farrakhan controversy” are designed to weaken Democrats, anti-Trump activists and lessen possible GOP losses in 2018 mid-term elections, said some analysts.
Donald Trump, Jr. attacked Min. Farrakhan via Twitter. Ari Fleischer, a RJC board member and former spokesman for President George W. Bush, joined the anti-Farrakhan Twitter attacks supported by Sean Hannity, his other Fox News colleagues and Alan Dershowitz.
Jewish billionaire Sheldon G. Adelson, RJC board chairman, gave multi-million dollar donations to the Trump campaign and inauguration.
The Executive Council of the Nation of Islam March 9 expressed via an open letter “deep disappointment” in Black Caucus members who bowed to Jewish pressure.
Congressmen Lee, Davis and Meeks joined Ellison, who had been the lone CBC member to publicly denounce Minister Farrakhan.
Rep. Carson told an Indianapolis TV station: “That organization (the RJC) doesn’t have any credibility with me. I know they have a political agenda. The Congressional Black Caucus is asking that organization to condemn (Israeli Prime Minister) Benjamin Netanyahu and the (Israeli) government for discriminating against Africans who are migrating, who are fleeing dictatorships, who are fleeing oppression. There’s a great deal of bigotry and racism happening right now they fail to condemn.”
Minister Farrakhan called his Jewish detractors to a public debate. Similarly in a 2010 open letter, Min. Farrakhan urged Black leaders to review the book, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Part 2 which documented how Jews gained control of the Black economy and benefitted from their paternal relationship with Blacks.
“I am asking you to stand down and let them come out to me to defend their record and history of their relationship with us that we compiled from that which was written by their own scholars, historians, and Rabbis,” he wrote.
The Anti-Defamation League attacked the Minister with Jewish, right-wing and mainstream media joining the assault.
Activist Tamika Mallory was denounced for attending the Minister’s speech in Chicago. In an op-ed published on newsone.com, the Women’s March co-chair said, “I am the same woman who helped to build an intersectional movement that fights for the rights of all people and stands against hatred and discrimination of all forms. I am the same person today that I was before Saviours’ Day.”
On Twitter, Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL chief executive officer, falsely charged Minister Farrakhan with scapegoating Jews and attacked Ms. Mallory.
“If you’re Black and you’re a powerful person, elected, corporate, whatever, if you are doing the bidding of white people, you are a super slave, that you have power and you’re exercising that power against your own people,” said Professor Raymond Winbush of Morgan State University in Baltimore.
It’s a tragedy that Blacks have elected leaders whose constituents strongly support Minister Farrakhan but politicians don’t because of influential lobbying groups, he said.
Dr. Tony Monteiro, former Temple University professor, said Min. Farrakhan attracts Black and poor people “as a voice of Black America and its struggle against the forces of right-wing authoritarianism and racism, as well as a consistent voice against Israeli oppression of the Palestinians.”
Final Call staff contributed to this report.
This article originally published in the March 26, 2018 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper.
