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Article: A black man's minister; PROFILE: Louis Farrakhan
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 21, 1995
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1995 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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If you happen to be black, there's a curious sense of seeing
this week's coverage of America's Million Man March through a
looking glass. White commentators vied with each other to describe
the march organiser, Louis Farrakhan, and his Nation of Islam
movement as "grim" and "forbidding". Farrakhan's adherents were
characterised as young, angry, deprived or deluded. The picture was
of a vicious cult leader who has built a following by cultivating
communal hatreds.
From the other side of the mirror it looks very different.
Anyone who uses the subways or bus stations in the black areas of a
major US city will be familiar with the sound of Minister
Farrakhan's voice blaring out from a ...