Election 2008

Obama receives praise from Nation of Islam figure

Farrakhan Sings Obama's Praises

In his first major public address since a cancer crisis, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the "hope of the entire world" that the U.S. will change for the better. Farrakhan – in case you haven’t noticed – has a long history of demonizing “white” America.

• The 74-year-old Farrakhan, addressing an estimated crowd of 20,000 people at the annual Saviours' Day celebration, never endorsed Obama outright – but spent most of the nearly two-hour speech praising the Illinois senator.
• "This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better," he said. "This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow.”
• “If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."
• Farrakhan compared Obama to the Nation of Islam’s founder, Fard Muhammad, who, like Obama, had a white mother and black father.
• "A black man with a white mother became a savior to us," he told the crowd of mostly-black followers. "A black man with a white mother could turn out to be the one who can lift America from her fall."
• Farrakhan also made small jabs at Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama's rival for the Democratic nomination, suggesting that she represents the politics of the past and has engaged in dirty politics.

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Our Take

The 74-year-old Farrakhan has in our opinion often run the gamut from outspoken and outraged minority leader to unrepentant “reverse” racist, holding so-called “White” America” responsible for all the ills that afflict the modern world. Is this endorsement for Obama a warning to the electorate? What sort of leader would the young Senator from Illinois make? What would he do if we handed him the reins of power, in a nation as massively diverse as the great U.S. of A, which, like it or not, does include Farrakhan’s so-called “white” America?