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Article: Behind the Farrakhan show. (Louis Farrakhan)(Class Notes) (Column)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- April 1, 1994
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The latest installment of the Louis Farrakhan media sideshow is less news than soap opera. Who will repudiate him next? Who will refuse to do so? How should we judge each response? What will Farrakhan do about Khalid Muhammad? How will Khalid respond? Who will pop up in the cycle of soliloquies of pain/hurt/fear/grave concern? Who will take the stage next to lament the harm "black anti-Semitism" does to the "historic alliance" of blacks and Jews?
The whole spectacle is quite like the other mass-mediated melodrama, the one sociologist Francesca Polletta has characterized as a version of the underclass morality play. I mean, of course, the saga of the deserving ...