{"id":4890,"date":"2012-01-04T13:23:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4890"},"modified":"2012-01-04T13:23:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:23:32","slug":"paul-and-farrakhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2012\/01\/04\/paul-and-farrakhan\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul and Farrakhan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ta-Nehisi Coates draws a very apt comparison<\/a> between what Ron Paul and Louis Farrakhan have offered their youthful supporters.<\/p>\n

As surely as Ron Paul speaks to a real issue–the state’s broad use of violence and\u00c2\u00a0surveillance–which the America’s political leadership has failed to address, Farrakhan\u00c2\u00a0spoke to something real, something unsullied, which black America’s political leadership\u00c2\u00a0failed\u00c2\u00a0to\u00c2\u00a0address, Both Paul and Farrakhan, in their glamour, inspired the young, the disaffected, the disillusioned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d never drawn this parallel in my own mind until reading this piece. \u00c2\u00a0But when I think back to the early\/mid 90s and my friends who were drawn into the orbit of the NOI, or who traveled to the Million Man March – they weren’t there for Farrakhan’s crank theories and anti-Semitism any more than most of Paul’s younger supporters are there for his effective support of homophobia and racism.<\/p>\n

But as sure as the followers of Farrakhan deserved more than UFOs, anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories, those of us who oppose the drug-war, who oppose the Patriot Act deserve better than Ron Paul[.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ta-Nehisi Coates draws a very apt comparison between what Ron Paul and Louis Farrakhan have offered their youthful supporters. As surely as Ron Paul speaks to a real issue–the state’s broad use of violence and\u00c2\u00a0surveillance–which the America’s political leadership has failed to address, Farrakhan\u00c2\u00a0spoke to something real, something unsullied, which black America’s political leadership\u00c2\u00a0failed\u00c2\u00a0to\u00c2\u00a0address, Both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t