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Special to the Jewish News

Councilwoman JoAnn Watson hands
Rev. Farrakhan a city proclamation.

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his typical mix of black empowerment
and anti-white rhetoric.
"We cannot be carbon copies of our
former slave owners," Farrakhan told
the crowd of 100 people in council
chambers. "We can never duplicate
their corruption and immorality.
What they can get away with we
shouldn't even try ... You'll only be a
carbon copy of that which God has
already set his hand against."
And then he made an appeal to a
huge conspiracy with unnamed evil
behind it: "A few greedy ones have
taken control of the government of
the United States of America" and
become "the stewards of human life,"
he said to the approving crowd.
Mayor Kilpatrick sat in the first row,
attentive and quiet, as Farrakhan gave
him campaign advice. "Don't come
into office like the white mayors," he
told Kilpatrick, who sat with his chin
in his palm as the audience applauded.
After damning the news media and
educational system — "You can't tell
your kids to stay in school, it's like
telling your kids to stay in the crack
house" — he urged Kilpatrick to stand
on his record and suggested a new
model of governance and education
that, while generally unclear, clearly
had Farrakhan right near the top.
Then came the obligatory denial of
being anti-Semitic, anti-white, anti-
American and homophobic even
though this is what "they" call him.
Betsy Kellman, Michigan Director of
the Anti-Defamation League, said it
was "painful to see the city of Detroit

hen Nation of Islam leader
Rev. Louis Farrakhan came
to Detroit on Aug. 15-16
to build support for the launching of
the Millions More Movement at a
rally in Washington, D.C., set for
Oct. 15 — the 10th anniversary of
the Million Man March — Detroit
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick seemed to
be everywhere with him.
According to press reports, both
Farrakhan and Kilpatrick attended a
clergy meeting at Bethany Baptist
Church, a special session of the
Detroit City Council, a gathering of
3,000 people at Detroit NAACP
President Rev. Wendell Anthony's
Fellowship Chapel and a meeting of
political leaders and activists at the
Charles H. Wright Museum of
African American History.
At the council session, now being
rebroadcast almost daily on Detroit's
cable Channel 10, Kilpatrick present-
ed Farrakhan with the key to the city,
saying he was "spiritually filled" after
hearing him and telling him, "You not
only have the key to the city, but the
key to our hearts and minds as well."
The meeting began with council
member JoAnn Watson heaping
superlatives while presenting
Farrakhan with a proclamation
endorsing his Millions More
Movement and giving him a Spirit of
Detroit award. Fellow council mem-
bers Kenneth Cockrel Jr., Alberta
Tinsley-Talabi and Alonzo Bates
attended with Watson.
Farrakhan used the forum to peddle

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