Louis Farrakhan heads the Nation of Islam, a group he has led since 1977 and that is based on a somewhat bizarre and fundamentally anti-white theology. Farrakhan is an antisemite who routinely accuses Jews of manipulating the U.S. government and controlling the levers of world power. Read
…and this is why I do not trust the Left. It’s clear who they care about and who they don’t. Leftist identity politics will never include us; the Left’s just-so story about skin color and modern European colonialism as the root of all oppression can’t make sense of us. Universalist humanism is the only principle that has ever worked for our liberation along with others’. There would be no “liberatory” politics or philosophy at all without the Enlightenment, whatever you want to say about the specific views on race and gender of Enlightenment thinkers. It’s the ideals of the Enlightenment at the heart of all liberatory and anti-oppression politics, but they haven’t been improved by all the group particularism (I blame Hegel, which is usually a safe move).
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