I spoke too early about a week ago when I announced that there had not been any flak to speak of in response to a couple of ZGrams of mine where I made the point that politically mandated racial mixing hurt society - followed by a response from someone who spoke from an interracial point of view.
In fluttered a small flurry of scolding letters about "race traitoring" - and I'd be lying if I pretended that they didn't affect me and hurt me.
My point is this - and it is simple: The idea and perhaps ultimate solution of nation-states is not something that only "white supremacists" are fond of dreaming about; it is attractive to other people, too.
Read what Minister Louis Farrakhan has to say in a 'Meet the Press' transcript Sunday, October 18, 1998:
MODERATOR/PANELIST: Tim Russert - NBC News (Please note that the segment is copyrighted 1998 by the National Broadcasting Company, Inc. and is offered here for educational and illustrative purposes only)
(Videotape, referring to the Million Man March):
MIN. FARRAKHAN: There's still two Americas - one black, one white, separate and unequal.
(End videotape)
MR. RUSSERT: Three years later, what has changed for black America? And what does Minister Louis Farrakhan think of the president's moral behavior and his possible impeachment? We'll ask him."
(I am cutting out here a segment about Farrakhan's religious/moral assessment of the Monica Lewinsky affair - and how America will pay.)
The interview then goes as follows:
MR. RUSSERT: Do you believe the president's moral behavior should bring about his removal from office in any way?
MIN. FARRAKHAN: Let me tell you, sir, to be very frank, if the moral behavior of every president of this United States was put on the line for morality, every one of them should be turned out. George Washington, the father of this country, was a slave master. The people that wrote the Constitution were slave masters. They had mistresses and babies out of wedlock. Surely, sex was not considered a high crime and a misdemeanor to these men. John Kennedy did not have high morals, neither did Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And when you look at Monica Lewinsky and say, "Oh, what he did in the Oval Office," from the Oval Office - kings and rulers have been ordered to be murdered from the Oval Office, unjust wars have been sanctioned from the Oval Office. So Monica Lewinsky is nothing compared to the evil that has come from that office to the poor of this nation and the poor and the weak of the world.
MR. RUSSERT: As always, whenever you are our guest here, I read what you've said and I'd like to share it with our viewers and get your reaction to it. This is an interview with Final Call, your newspaper. "Looking at President Clinton's desire to put pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to give up more land on the West Bank to the Palestinians, the Zionists, in my judgment, used what they know of the weakness of President Clinton, and Monica Lewinsky was introduced." You went on, '`I look at all the Zionists that are a part of the insertion of the woman, the taping of her phone conversations, the manifestation of what was on that tape by certain magazines and newspapers." Monica Lewinsky was a Zionist plant?
MIN. FARRAKHAN: Sir, Mr. Jeff Greenfield of CNN said on national television, or he raised the question: Could this have been a conspiracy to insert her for foreign power? I'm not quoting him exactly, but nothing else was said. I look at Lucianne Goldberg, Linda Tripp, Monica Lewinsky, and I ask myself, "Why was this introduced at this time when Netanyahu was being pressured by the president to give up more land on the West Bank," and at the same time, in the Jerusalem Report, a writer wrote these words, "Whenever Israel was threatened, women rose in defense of Israel. Such a woman was Deborah, such a woman was Queen Esther, such a woman is Monica Lewinsky." I think we need to look deeper into this than just what appears on the surface. (...)
MR. RUSSERT: As you know, whenever you talk about Zionists, many people get very concerned and even outraged. A fellow black, Julian Bond, head of the NAACP, had this to say. And let's take a look at the screen and get your reaction. "The NAACP has its origins in cooperation between whites and blacks, Jews and Gentiles. Today, that cooperation is threatened by a variety of forces including increased conservatism from some American Jews and increasingly vocal anti-Semitism from some in black America. Most prominent among the latter is Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan who attacks Jews as slavemasters and exploiters of black America repeating the old and long-discredited libel about a Jewish master plan for world domination." That's Julian Bond.
MIN. FARRAKHAN: That's a slave talking. Who was he talking to? He was talking to his masters. Sir, I am not the least bit disturbed by that. Any time the Jewish philanthropists financed the NAACP, they have a stake in what the NAACP does. So the leaders of that organization have to kowtow to those kinds of powers. That's what I'm angry about. I'm not hateful of Jews, I'm hateful of their inordinate control over black politicians, black intellectuals, black organizations, and I will fight to destroy that kind of control as long as God gives me health and strength. We will never be free until we are free of that kind of control that limits our ability to state exactly what we think and what we feel.
MR. RUSSERT: Why do you only single out Jews?
MIN. FARRAKHAN: Because they are the greatest controllers of black minds, black intelligence. They write the scripts - the foolish scripts on television that our people portray. They are the movie moguls that feature us in these silly, degrading, degenerate roles. The great recording companies that portray our people in such a filthy and low-rating way, yet they would not allow such a man as Michael Jackson to say one word that they thought would besmirch their reputation, but they put us before the world as clowns and as purveyors of filth. No, I will fight that.
MR. RUSSERT: In August, as you know, the United States retaliated for the blowing up of our American embassies in Africa by launching missiles into Sudan. Jesse Jackson supported President Clinton on that. Let me show you what Sandy Berger, the national security adviser, had to say: "Let me be very clear about this. There is no question in my mind that the Sudanese factory was producing chemicals that are used - can be used - in VX gas, that this was a plant that was producing chemical warfare-related weapons and we have physical evidence of that.''
MIN. FARRAKHAN: But they are not yet willing to produce that physical evidence before the United Nations. The arrogance of the United States of America to bomb the Sudan, to bomb Afghanistan - this is worse than (the) Monica Lewinsky thing from the Oval Office, for the president used that to take attention away from his own misdeeds, to punish innocent people that he knew could not fight back. Why not have an investigation'? Why not send scientists in the Sudan to see whether, in fact, that was a chemical - a factory to produce weapons of mass destruction? That is a bald-faced lie to justify America's wickedness against that Muslim nation.
MR. RUSSERT: You went very far and called the president of the United States a terrorist.
MIN. FARRAKHAN: Absolutely, that was terrorism. He said he's going to fight terrorism by sending smart bombs into Sudan in the middle of the night, when that pharmaceutical factory was surrounded by residential districts, killing innocent people? You're trying to terrorize the nations of the world with your inordinate power. Terrorize God with the floods, the tornadoes, the hailstones and the soon-to-come earthquakes that will destroy whole cities in America. You're in trouble, America, and you can't put it on the weak. You're going to have to atone for your wickedness and your sins and come clean before God, or he will wipe this nation from the face of the Earth.
MR. RUSSERT: Reports in U.S. News & World Report today that Jesse Jackson is thinking of running for president in the year 2000. Would you support Reverend Jackson?
MIN. FARRAKHAN: No, I will not. Support him for what? Support him for what? What is Jesse Jackson going to do? Jesse Jackson is a brilliant man. He knows he can't win any election against whoever the Republicans will put up. But so to gather more people to get in the process and then turn them over to Mr. Gore or somebody else, we're tired of these games that people play. Either you're going to do something for our people, or let us go. Don't play with us anymore. Clinton moves to the right. The country has moved to the right. Blacks have been pushed out. I'm talking about the masses of black people. So if you're not going to give us justice, don't play with us. Let us go, and let us do something for ourselves. (...)
MR. RUSSERT: Two weeks from Tuesday, Election Day in America. After your Million Man March, more black men voted in the November elections than ever before. How would you advise blacks to vote two weeks from Tuesday, for Democrats or Republicans running for Congress?
MIN. FARRAKHAN: Oh, to advise somebody to vote for Satan or Lucifer is to still keep you in hell. The Democrats have been disloyal to the needs of black people and the Republicans don't give a damn. So why should we vote for either one? If you don't give us justice, it's time for us to separate and do something for ourselves.
MR. RUSSERT: Separate black states, separate black territories?
MIN. FARRAKHAN: We're going to have to do something. We can't sit around waiting for benevolent white people to give us handouts. We have the blessing of knowledge, wisdom, understanding, billions of dollars coming through our hands. We have to get up now and do something for ourselves because white folk and benevolent Democrats and Republicans are not going to do for us what we should be uniting to do for ourselves."
Thought for the Day:
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
(Benjamin Franklin)