Farrakhan by James McQuiston:
C-SPAN is seemingly one of the more boring channels on Cable TV. However, if you go and stay up late, you will really see more interesting speakers from farther to the left and right of the political spectra. One night, Citizen Action, and Ralph Nader, were speaking to a group, and another night, the Minister Louis Farrakhan was making an interesting speech.
Most of the mainstream media is whole-heartedly against Louis Farrakhan, but in all reality he is a hell of a speaker. He is the modern day Marcus Garvey, even down to the armed guard next to him. Skillfully tying in religion with current issues and popular culture, he is even more slick and addictive then many of the most popular preachers and orators of the day. In this particular speech, most of the rhetoric espoused by Farrakhan is typically to the right, as he calls for a return to a moral state, but some of his ideas travel across the political mobius strip to the extreme left side. The major thing that was to be taken from his speech was that there might have been a shadow government directing the attack of September 11th, which is tied to the 2000 movie "The Long Kiss Goodnight".
Another idea that makes extreme sense to myself is the idea that no Muslim leader could ever muster the 1.8 billion practicers of the religion in any sort of holy war against the United States, as they do not have the divine ordained power. Farrakhan does say that President Bush has the ability to bring the whole Muslim nation against the West if he acts a certain way in this whole semi-war. Farrakhan is steadfastly against the war, and denounced Bush as a tyrant, wanting the "army always with him". He brings up the idea that is ever-present in the Siegfried Sassoon poem "Base Details", and that none of the major leaders are going to war, but are sending black, brown, and poor black men to "be all they could never be". Attacking the idea of first-world supremacy, as whether it is right to have biological or nuclear weapons while not allowing other nations, he makes the point that no nation should have weapons of mass destruction.
To not believe in the United States government is another main tenet of the speech, as Farrakhan details the attack of Iraq by the United States. However, Farrakhan does a downward spiral when he denounces homosexuals, and calls for religious people to force their beliefs on the government. Cum Grano Salis is the best idea to hold when listening to speakers, as they aren't all going to be right. Criticize my writings, attack me, do anything to my work if only it will make you more steadfast in your own beliefs.