EXTRA: The ‘good’ from the ‘satanic?’

“I’m here to separate the good Jews from the Satanic Jews.”
--Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam

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What does Farrakhan need Facebook for?

And he seriously wonders why Facebook would lump him in with assorted right-wing bigots in banning his use of their medium on the Internet to spread his thoughts?

The Minister Louis Farrakhan of the South Side-based “nation” doesn’t exactly need Facebook to spread his thoughts. As it turns out, Rev. Michael Pfleger of the St. Sabina church opened up his Gresham neighborhood facility to Farrakhan to publicly discuss the issue.

THAT EVENT WOUND up getting national news coverage – with many people putting links to those stories on their own Facebook sites.

Personally, I find it intriguing to listen to Farrakhan try to defend himself against claims he’s bigoted against Jewish people by making such a silly statement as he did.

How would he react to the ignorance occasionally expressed by white people that they differentiate between “good” black people and “bad” black people. Or, if we want to be blunt about it, they probably substitute some racial slur for “black people” while attaching the labels “good” and “bad.”

I’d argue that with that one line, Farrakhan confirmed the worst suspicions of the rancid rhetoric that often gets thrown out against him.

YES, I’LL CONCEDE the point that Farrakhan has the right to spew whatever nonsense he chooses to think. But he doesn’t get the right to have the absolute last word.

We, the people, have the right to think he’s a babbling buffoon for spewing such trash talk. If he thinks referring to “good’ Jews and “Satanic” Jews is going to win over any converts, he’s got to be kidding.

If anything, it would sink Farrakhan and his followers to something along the level of the local government officials of Hoschton, Ga. That’s the municipality where it was publicly disclosed recently that a man who applied for a city administrator job was rejected solely because he was black. With the town’s mayor saying her lily-white community “isn’t ready for this.”

Just as we’re quick to dump all over that municipality’s officials for thinking we’re still in 19^th Century “Jim Crow” style Dixie, rather than the 21st Century, we’re going to call out Farrakhan’s nonsense-talk – even if he has a “right” to think it! For that is the “American Way” truly at work.

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