Article: MUHAMMAD DEFENDS MISSION CONTROVERSIAL MINISTER SAYS HE'S HERE TO `STIR BLACK PEOPLE UP,' NOT PICK FIGHT WITH WHITES.(Local)

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 ...

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