Farrakhan: A wise voice? Maybe.

[Bluzmann57]

The so called "Compassion forum" was irritating me so I started flipping channels and came across Frrakhan on a local public access channel. The sermon was taped in Chicago in February and is the one where he "endorses" Obama, although as usual, the comment was taken out of context by the MSM. Anyway, Farrakhan is an egotistical bastard but he does make some sense. He talks about the tax cuts for the wealthy, the illegal occupation of a sovereign nation, and the economic crisis this country is currently facing. I have no intention of converting to his version of religion, but I will continue to listen to him to listen and learn if nothing else. I do know he tears into bush and he is talking about every American's viewpoints in this particular sermon. Not black, not white, but all of us. Unless one is Pat Robertson or someone like that.

[Warpy]

1. I find Farrakhan's record to be a little better than the

proverbial stopped clock. In fact, I find him to be right more often than he's wrong, especially when he's talking about class issues. He just gets a little lost when he doesn't realize that black folks aren't the only ones suffering a battering under all these conservative administrations, that class trumps race, and the reason most black folks have a rough time is that they're automatically ASSumed to be poor and ignorant, to belong to the same class as the toothless hillbilly spitting tobacco juice at the dawgs half under the porch.

Yes, his rhetoric is difficult for a po faced suburban cracker like me to listen to, but there's a grain of truth in even the worst of it.

He proves Franklin's adage, "Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults."

[malaise]

2. Well said

He has some views I don't share but unlike the loony fundies, it's obvious he reads and understands social issues.

[rockymountaindem]

3. But he's still a craven anti-Semite n/t

[SteinbachMB]

4. Anybody can say a few things that are sensible

...now and again, but Farrakhan gets no traction with me. And the NOI theology is a little crazy, to say the least.

[leftynyc]

5. Very few people are ALL bad

But you'll have to excuse me for thinking that anybody who calls Judaim a gutter religion and Jews bloodsuckers can kiss my ass.