The Racist Behind the Mask
Here's what Katherine Kersten wrote in
her column:
Posted Thursday, June 8, 2006 12:43 AM
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Imagine that a Republican seeks his party's endorsement for the U.S. House of Representatives, despite having been allied with a white supremacist organization just a decade earlier. Imagine that this candidate had once sarcastically proposed setting aside certain states for white citizens and had shared a stage with a speaker known for excoriating Jews as "bloodsuckers." You're right. That man wouldn't get his party's endorsement. He would probably want to go into hiding after the howl of negative media coverage.You can't deny that such a candidate would be run from the stage at every appearance he mad in public. Unfortunately, we don't have to imagine such a candidate, though he isn't a racist Republican. He's Keith Ellison, the DFL-endorsed candidate to replace Martin Sabo in MN CD-5. In fact, Ellison hasn't been booed off stage; he's been elected by Democrats. Let's take a look at Mr. Ellison's record.
Ellison's background is, shall we say, unorthodox. He is a former outspoken supporter of Louis Farrakhan's notorious Nation of Islam, a virulently anti-white, anti-Semitic organization once led by Black Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad.That isn't just "unorthodox". That's a record only a Democrat could get away with. And it isn't just here that such a Democrat has gotten away with such racist attitudes. Let's not forget Cynthia McKinney's accusations that President Bush knew in advance of the 9/11 attacks. There's more to Mr. Ellison's bio.
- Ellison came to public attention in 1990, when, using the name Keith E. Hakim, he defended Farrakhan in a Minnesota Daily article while a law student at the University of Minnesota. In another 1990 Daily column, Ellison claimed that splitting America into two nations, with five Southern states set aside for blacks, would be preferable to "liberal social programs." "Black-white interaction would be voluntary instead of compelled," he wrote.
- In 1995, Ellison helped organize Minnesota participation in the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., which the Nation of Islam convened. At a fundraiser for the event, he shared the stage with Khalid Abdul Muhammad, who described himself as Farrakhan's "flamethrower." In 1994, according to the Washington Post, Khalid had called Jews "the bloodsuckers of the black nation."
- In 1992, he spoke at a Minneapolis protest rally after a Los Angeles jury acquitted police of beating Rodney King. "Black people do not live under a democracy," he told the crowd. "You don't have an obligation to obey a government that considers you to be less than human."
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