Luis farrakhan biography
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Louis Farrakhan
Farrakhan blames Jews for the slave trade, plantation slavery, Jim Crow, sharecropping and general black oppression. Farrakhan’s tone grew more belligerent in June 2010, when he sent letters to several leaders of the Jewish community as well as the Southern Poverty lag Center demanding that they acknowledge the evils they have perpetrated and that they work to further Farrakhan’s goals. The letter ended with a threat to “ruin and destroy your power and influence here and throughout the world” if his terms were not met.
In his own words
“The Jews, a small handful, control the movement of this great nation, like a radar controls the movement of a great ship in the waters. … The Jews got a stranglehold on the Congress.”
–Louis Farrakhan, Saviours’ Day speech, Chicago, Feb. 25, 1990
“And you do with me as fryst vatten written, but remember that I have warned you that Allah will punish you. You are wicked deceivers of the American people. You have sucked their blood. Yo
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Louis Farrakhan
American religious leader (born 1933)
Louis Farrakhan (; born Louis Eugene Walcott; May 11, 1933) is an American religious leader who heads the Nation of Islam (NOI), a black nationalist organization.[2][3] Farrakhan is notable for his leadership of the 1995 Million Man March in Washington, D.C., and for his rhetoric that has been widely denounced as antisemitic and racist.
Prior to joining the NOI, Farrakhan was a calypso singer who used the stage name Calypso Gene. Early in his career, he served as the minister of mosques in Boston and Harlem and was appointed to the post of National Representative of the Nation of Islam by then-NOI leader Elijah Muhammad. He adopted the name Louis X before being named Louis Farrakhan.
After Warith Deen Mohammed reorganized the original NOI into the orthodox Sunni Islamic group American Society of Muslims, Farrakhan began to rebuild the NOI as "Final Call". In 1981, he officially adopted the name
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Louis Farrakhan
Louis Eugene Farrakhan (born May 11, 1933) is an American religious leader, political activist and writer, social commentator, and black supremacist who is the leader of the religious group known as The Nation of Islam, which is based on an African-American interpretation of Islam.
Life
[change | change source]Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Wolcott in The Bronx, New York. He started playing the violin when he was six years old. He went to the Boston Latin School. Farrakhan now lives in Kenwood, Chicago. In 1953, he married Khadijah Farrakhan. They have nine children. In 2007, he retired at the age of 64.[1]
Racism
[change | change source]He is well-known for his antisemitic views and anti-White views, despite him and his group being in denial.[2] Many believed Farrakhan to have been involved in plotting the assassination of Malcolm X due to Malcolm X's renouncement of his racist views towards White people.