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September 16, 1994 - Image 59

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1994-09-16

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Louis Farrakhan:
Views are skewed.

rakhan followers at a Chicago ar-
mory in 1984, he was joking with
some reporters at his home in
Chicago. "The bantering slowed
considerably when everyone eyed
several plates of pork chops and
grits being placed at the opposite
end of the table," writes Mr. Cur-
ry, who states that it "was diffi-
cult to imagine Jackson eating
pork — a food despised by the
Nation of Islam — just moments
before speaking to Muslims on
their most sacred day, the day
they celebrate the birth of their
founder ... A hungry Jackson was
oblivious to such considerations.
"Ever the clown away from the
public spotlight, Jackson said,
`As-Salaam Alaikum,' uttering
the Arabic greeting for 'peace be
unto you.' `No ham, cheese or ba-
con."'
Mr. Curry continues with this
anti-Jackson tone. "After dinner,"
he wrote, the presidential candi-
date "wiped the pork chop grease
from his mouth with a napkin
and disappeared upstairs to
change into a fresh suit — but no
bow tie," the Nation of Islam's
sartorial hallmark.
Mr. Curry also blames much
of the brouhaha over such inci-
dents as Mr. Farrakhan "warn-
ing" that a black-Jewish war
would erupt if Mr. Jackson was
hurt during his 1984 presidential
campaign to "the public's lack of
knowledge about the Nation of
Islam's ... leaders' traditional use
of hyperbole."
The second part of the series,
which is in Emerge's September
issue, centers on efforts by Ben-
jamin Chavis, the now-deposed
head of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, to unite black leaders. It
acknowledges that Jews "have
been some of the strongest and
most loyal supporters of civil
rights causes," but also states
that blacks and Jews never had
an equal relationship in the civ-
il rights movement. Mr. Curry
also speculates that major Jew-
ish groups' deciding not to protest
Mr. Farrakhan's presence at
black leadership summits in Bal-
timore this summer indicated
they were "interested in creating

a more fruitful working relation-
ship with mainstream black lead-
ers who had refused to ignore
Farrakhan."
In their dialogue on black anti-
Semitism, professors Gates and
Marable condemned anti-Semi-
tism as morally and politically
"bankrupt." Asked how blacks
should address anti-Semitism,
Professor Marable said, "We have
to say its a side show ... We have
to focus on what is real ... rather
than the politics of distraction."
And in his article on Khalid
Muhammad, Mr. Monroe tries to
figure out why Minister Far-
rakhan lets Khalid Muhammad
continue to make fiery anti-Se-
mitic, anti-white speeches around
the country. There may be, he
guesses "some sort of good cop-
bad cop charade in which Far-
rakhan gently rebukes Khalid,
but allows him to continue Far-
rakhan's anti-Jewish message.
But that raises the question of
just what that tactic accomplish-
es for Farrakhan, who has ap-
peared to be moderating his own
rhetoric ... The dilemma for Far-
rakhan ... is how to continually
distance himself from Khalid's
rhetoric but not offend his fervent
followers."

New Interest
In Yiddish

In The New Yorker, humorist
Calvin Trillin lets us know that
Yiddish is not the sole province
of nostalgia mongers, immigrants
or linguistic mavens.
Mr. Trillin (who is Jewish, de-
spite his WASP-ish first name) is
stunned that in a recent inter-
view, Latin American writer
Jorge Luis Borges used a Yid-
dishism when asked what he
thought of Sigmund Freud.
"Never liked him," stated Mr.
Borges. "Too schmutzig."
Not only was this "the first ev-
idence" Mr. Trillin has come
across that his thinking as a
youngster in Kansas City about
Freud was the same as Mr.
Borges since schmutzig means
“dirty.”.
But the New Yorker writer also
was surprised "that Borges would
use a homey Yiddish word ...
[that required Mr. Trillin] to
make some adjustments on the
image of him that I had been car-
rying in my mind. It was as if I'd
been informed that distinguished
literary personages who called on
Henry James in his London
drawing room were customarily
greeted with a cheery, 'Hey,
goombah."'
To Mr. Trillin, this revelation
about Mr. Borges' facility with
Yiddish equaled the recent dis-
covery that, in private corre-
spondence, Freud had called his
rival and former colleague, Carl
Jung, "mushuga."

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