Pandora’s Box
Obama’s election has let slip the evil spirits.
My youngest child came home from school, and said to me, “Are you and Barack cool?” I said, “Of course we are. Why do you ask that? I just heard some kids talking at school.” I said, “No, that’s a media thing.”
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Their intention was to use me as a weapon of mass destruction to destroy that man’s candidacy. Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Barack Obama, their successes individually should not lull us to sleep to think that now it’s all over, everything is solved. This was some serious structural problems that keep people locked into poverty.
“President-elect Obama has energized all segments of the depressed, downtrodden, rejected and despised,” he said in a 90-minute speech at Mosque Maryam on the city’s South Side. “Now it is up to us to take the new energy that he has given us … and channel that energy into making ourselves better.”
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Farrakhan, who said Obama draws a “oneness of spirit” from all people, admitted he stayed quiet about his support for Obama during the past few months out of fear his words would harm the Illinois senator’s bid for the White House.
“November 4 has passed, and like Oprah, I’m unleashed. Free at last!” he said.
Actually, he went further and mocked Martin Luther King, Jr., saying “Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty…!”
Nothing of the hatred and bile we’ve come to associate with these spiritual advisors of the president-elect—but that will come.