Farrakhan:
HAMBURG W. GER - In
a wide-ranging, typically hard­
hitting intervie in the June
10th . ue of Der Spiegel, the
e German new magazine,
Lou' Farrakhan of the
JUL V 1 - 7, 1985 THE CITIZEN
�Blacks
are the chosen people'
ation of Islam proclaimed
anew that "Blacks are God's
cho n people!"
But he dded that 'when a
people are cho n they are not
nece rily better. They are
'/Ider urI WeNaFe Mothers
to get ilWolved
Editor:
Once gain Istre , we
mothers on elfare mu t try
to unite to organize a Welfare
Rights Organization. We mu t
be heard and should be heard.
e can . t at home and com­
plain about the attitude of
the way we're treated by orne
ca wor ers, the food stamp
cut, the budget cut. The
majority of uskegon Heights
and Mus egon i on welfare.
There hould have been a
much better tum out at the
meeting held June 17, at us­
kegon City Hall. A subcom­
mittee was there from the
Department of Social Services
to hear complants and needs.
I wa very glad to hear and
see 0 many Black mothers
come from all parts of the
State to give testimony to
their need. If you don't peak,
come to the meetings, because
I surely do believe in speaking
my mind.
e know the hardship of
r i ing children on welfare. But
we need to let our State Re­
pre ntative hear this. Plea e
get in ouch with the following
BEAHS AHD RICE
PERFECT PROTEIH
Every gun that is made, every
warship launched, every rocket
fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft
from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not
spending money alone .
It is spending the sweat of
its laborers,' the genius of
its scientists, the hopes of
its children ... This is not a way of life at
all in any true sense. Under the cloud of
threatening war, it is humanity
hanging from a cross .of iron.
person covering trying to
organize a Welfare Rights
Organization:
-Lansing Welf re Rights
Organization, 200 . Fo terl
Rm. 212, Lansing, MI 48912-
office hr. - 9-5, area code
(517) 372-4250.
-Pauline Common, Co-chair­
person, office (517) 372-42501
home (517) 484-6439'
-Chairperson, ary Held,
133 Fairview, Lansing, MI
48912, (517) 373-6873.
Theodora Smith
chosen to perform a service or
a duty to God and others.
"Jews were chosen but the
knowledge that Moses gave them
they kept to themselves. God'
punished them for their failure
to live up to the convenant.
So it is with the Arab today.
So it is with the Christians
who claim Jesus but brought
Jesus to the world in the wake
of e ploitation of the darker
peoples of the earth.
"There was o rid ar I,
orId War II, and it was not
over Jesu Christ, but over the
spoils of Africa."
He indic ted that Jews, Arabs
and the Christian nations, in­
cluding America are experienc­
ing difficulties and guilt feel­
ings because of the oppressive
way they used their own special
calling from God. But B1 c
American , he said, "have no
such guilt and no history of
being oppressors, but rather be­
ing victimized by the worst
form of slavery. Yet there
is a heart still, and a compas­
sion to love all people."
The German interviewer
asked Farrakhan about the con­
troversy. that swirls bout him.
The inister, now al 0 called
Farrakhan uhammad Ali, said
he didn't
eek
but didn't
mind the controversy: ' Con­
tro ersial - Je us was that;
Moses was that; oharnmed wa
that. artin Luther, Columbu ,
Galileo, and all of your great
men and women who advanced
human society: They had to go
against popular notions.
E pecially when popular notio
were false."
In the hour and forty-five
minute interview given in Boston
in April Min. Farrakhan field­
ed questions on hi $5 million
loan from Libya for hi ne
P.O.W.E.R. (people Organized
and Working for Economic Re­
birth) organization; Je J ck­
son, race relations, the Blac
youth; and many other subject
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