NPA FEATURE COlUM
and min?
Is Ameriallistming ItO '?
� has 10 I«Id
1M MV)', and Ic«p our
sokmn \lOw.
Lillk is btin, dOM 10
right i� wrongs
IndividUtJIs 0/ wttzItlt o/tm
an less about tltt
hun�/1uonp
SIan 10 g« involved
and�afuss
TdJ Ammaz cares about
Ihe � of us
E\If!f"YOM let's �
our YOia 10 speak
No more turning of
lhe other cheek
Individuals united cannot
�wazk
Now is lhe lime 10 take
our stand. We'Ye
Got 10 make America
better land.
,.
America .says fWfe.
� and pursuit of
.1vzppiIw:ss"
Meanwhile I � 100 much
IMf and S«Int!s.s
£nev, inflation, and
unmrpIoymmt liNs
Riots in sdrools, no food
left on 1M viMs
/1JC()fM IQXI!S loing 1tigh6
and higher
, Chi/dmr's homes bMg
destroyed by fue
America why don't �
above the muck
'Jesseneedn't apol ogi ze'
A defiant B1 c uslim Minis- Mr. Reagan and Mr. ondale,
ter Louis Fanakhan declared he at this time, neither of them \
does not 0 e J an apology have displayed the vision needed
and rted that J J c n to Americ safely through
I
do not either. He told jam- these next four years and urged
packed ne conference recently Blac to u their vote , there
at the ational Pre Club in fore, "carefully, cautiou y and
ashington, DC that Jackson judiciou y."
should never have apologized for In the que' on- nd-answer
remarks that he, Farrakhan made period, Farrakhan °d: h did
bout Je and I el, or the not think his upport hurt Jac -
off-the-record Hymie" and "Hy- son' campaign; that Geraldine
mie-town" remarks I ckson made Ferraro's selection as the fi1st
that ere reported by Blac oman in history to be vice
Washington Po reporter, Milton pre idential candidate of major
Coleman. party, ' honors Americ and
In a stem-winding speech that honor women," but "here again,
he read ith articulated clarity, Black go down in the trenche
Farrakhan ed rhetorically: and hites get the victory ...
''Who will pologize for the e erybody climb on our b c
conditio (under which) Black to get here they are going."
people have suffered and still I He said he underst nds th t
uffer in this country after more America and the Democratic and
than 400 years? I think it is the Republican parti "do not like
hypocrisy of tho who want us, or want u . You do not care
to take Black leadership and cow that e who helped build your
them down before the majesty country, who fought and bl d
of Jewish and white American and died to keep it free for you,
do not get justice in your soci ,
economic and political y em.
So if you on't gi us ju ice,
you mu let' u go to form a
ate nation." He admitted
however that no more than Iive
percent of American Bl c favor
hi separatist vie s, at pr nt,
"but in five year' time they
will." America, he . d
never dealt fairly and traight
forwardly with Blac here.' e
who are victims of Americ '
hatred and bigotry are being
charged with her crime.
Rev. Jackson ho w sch-
eduled to appear with Farrakhan
in Detroit officiating at
the funeral of the Rev. C.L.
Franklin at the behest of the
late minister' daughter, oul
singer Aretha Fraklin, Farrlcahan
said.
Security w tight at the
National Pre Club, the tighte
veteran reporters h ¥ witn d
in years of attending pre con
ference there. The gallery
packed. A forest of TV camer
lined the ba waD. Lunch on
gue s were forced to walk
through a metal detecting door,
similar to tho u d a airport ,
and undergo arches of their
brief and handbags .. Serio
looking, mu ular but young
Fruit of Islam curity force,
bow-tied courteou but f1f111,
were everywhere. Blac women
in traditional u lim headre
and wearing long dre es dotted
the re rved table. Applau
rang out after Farrakh n's peech,
but also a fe b os one p i
cularly strident by an elderly,
hite man with white hair ho
claimmed up after a fe of the
uslim security force and the
club manager mo d in hi direct-
po er - to force Black men of
strength to pologize. I will
De er bend my knee (in apology)
he said.
"Ho do you' ric ," he
. continued, "treat your friends
which other do not like? You
don't repudiate them. Loo
at the friendship you have with
South Africa. You admit that
that government. . . ha deprived
millions of Blac people of life,
liberty and the pursuit of happi
ne ,but you have not repudiated
them.
He charged that Walter on
dale had slapped J Jackson
and all Blac in the f ce by
refusing to acknowledge their
crucial pport in the primary
campaign and thus award them
a larger share in the decision
making proces of the coming
campaign. (That day, however,
Mondale named e York Rep.
Charles Rangel as co-chairman
- the third - of hi campaign.
But Farrakhan later Id that
"is step, but much more need
to be done."
Farrakhan re ffirmed hi pre
vious statement that Israel had
no peace in forty years and
there could be no peace struc
tured on injustice, lying, thie
very and deceit, using God's name
to shield your dirty religion
"
He said that Jewish. leadership
spiritually blind, ne
solutions are needed, olutions
that will help not the middle
cl Black , for they will do all
right in America, but the little
people who need jobs and need
them no. He charged that
Blac people "live in fear of
tomorrow becau we ha no
curity today."
He said, after listening to both
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