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Article: Farrakhan downplays Jesse feud // Says Jackson win would mean little
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 21, 1987
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Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, whose comments during the
1984 presidential campaign caused political problems for the Rev.
Jesse L. Jackson, is playing down talk that he and Jackson are
feuding.
"The world must know that if there is a difference between me
and Rev. Jackson, we will solve our problems behind closed doors,"
Farrakhan said in a speech Saturday night to hundreds of supporters
at a South Side church.
Farrakhan said that even if Jackson is elected president in
1988, his victory would mean little because he lacks an economic
base.
"Politics without economics is symbol without substance,"
Farrakhan said.
Farrakhan said blacks will never be free unless they gain ...