|
|
Article: MUHAMMAD DEFENDS MISSION CONTROVERSIAL MINISTER SAYS HE'S HERE TO `STIR BLACK PEOPLE UP,' NOT PICK FIGHT WITH WHITES.(Local)
- Article from:
- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- March 10, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Rocky Mountain News. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of Dialog LLC by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: Robert Jackson Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
Louis Farrakhan sent Jamal Muhammad to Denver 16 months ago with this assignment: ``Stir black people up.''
``That's why I came here,'' said the Nation of Islam minister, known until two weeks ago as Jamal X. ``Not to start fights with white people but to stir up the blacks to do something for themselves and start loving each other.
``And to start looking at each other differently instead of being inferior to white people.''
There is little doubt that the 37-year-old Muhammad has lived up to Farrakhan's directive.
He has become Denver's new-est media star in the wake of a ...