Farrakhan Promotes Washington D.C. Rally; Men’s Effort to Improve Black Lives
Minister Louis Farrakhan promoted his plan for 10,000 men to improve the lives of African Americans at a rally at Chicago State University.
“Ten thousand men will have to clean up our house,” Farrakhan told a crowd last Thursday night at the college at 9501 S. King Drive.
Farrakhan suggested he wants men to join in an effort of protecting black communities and engaging in a variety improvement projects in troubled neighborhoods.
At his rally, the Nation of Islam leader also called for a boycott of retailers during the Christmas holiday and for people to attend his 20th anniversary commemoration of the Million Man March.
The “Justice or Else” rally will be Oct. 10 in Washington, D.C.
In the call for a boycott, Farrakhan said, “this Christmas, we need to let them feel some pain.”
Farrakhan said the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was an activist who engaged in economic boycotts.
“He is as relevant today as the day he was killed,” Farrakhan said of the civil rights leader who was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tenn.
He criticized the nation’s criminal justice system to protect unarmed African Americans from police.
He also said blacks, themselves, were killing other blacks too often.
“The killing of us is increasing,” Farrakhan said.
As he has in the past, Farrakhan stressed family values, saying today’s clothing styles show too much of a woman’s body. He said men needed to “ask women to cover up.”
“Sisters, you are heaven for a man,” Farrakhan said.
At the same time, Farrakhan said men shouldn’t be violent toward their mates.
“No man should strike a woman,” he said. “That is like striking yourself.”
Women, should also be patient with African American men, Farrakhan said.
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