Minister Farrakhan and White Media’s Disconnect and Disrespect
White media has never covered the Nation of Islam or Black people fairly
It almost makes me laugh.
For the past sixty years white folks have been feeding fear to their people and, in turn, sending Black folks trembling.
The fear with them goes back thousands of years and we been trembling since we were made into beasts of burden — one is inherent, the other inbred.
We been made to say ‘how high’ to our former enslaver for as long as we’ve been in this country and any moment that we buck that, anytime that Black people stand up, we get harassed, attacked, coerced into ‘getting back in line.’
And what do we do? We scream ‘which line?’ At what point do we stop, reevaluate, and recognize — we are no longer their property, we are free, able, and can pick who we support?
A look at how the white media has historically handled Black people in general and the Nation of Islam in particular will show that this latest wave of Farrakhan bashing is nothing new — it’s the same blueprint that they’ve been working with for almost sixty years.
Not going to give you a history lesson on the Nation of Islam — maybe some other time. This is more of a lesson about the media. Correction. This is about the white media. The white media and their relationship with Black folk.
In the 30s The Nation of Islam was “new” as was Radio (as a medium, it was barely ten years old). At the time, local newspapers still reigned supreme — at least with white folks. We had our own (more about that later).
Nonetheless, when a sensational case happened in Detroit during the winter of 1932, it was all the stir in Motor City but there was hardly a blip of that news anyplace else. It would be the first mention of the Nation of Islam in Print but it wouldn’t be the model for future coverage — neither would the press’ coverage of the NOI’s (literal) fight to educate their own children a few years later.
Proof of that is unless you know what to look for, you will neither find out about either case via Google nor will you find that on a microfilm crawl. Neither incident shook the public Richter scale.
That, however, wouldn’t occur with the popularity of a “new” medium — television.
Ah. The 50s.
It’s an era that white folk return to often, longingly, with deep emotions of nostalgia. Radio was no longer used for news, comedies, and serials, it was now used for — gasp — music.
Advertisers left Radio and jumped into the newest most exciting medium to ever exist — television. Prior to television, the only time you saw moving images was in the Movie Theater. Going to “the picture shows” was a special night out. People got dressed up for the movies.
Television was different. Its place was in your living room. You could finally SEE what you only HEARD on radio. Baseball, boxing, news, you name it, you could see it.
Which made advertisers salivate. Yo…shows used to open with ‘sponsored by’ endorsements (same way many podcasts do today…).
I don’t want to steal or paraphrase this so I’m just going to quote it:
In 1951, microwave transmitters enabled coast-to-coast broadcasts of live network programming, and in 1956 video recording made it possible to air prerecorded commercials. By 1957, Americans were able to watch 450 stations across the U.S. on 37 million TV sets; by 1960, nearly 90% of households had a TV.
I said I wasn’t going to give you a Nation of Islam history lesson…I kinda lied. Here’s a little bit of one.
The 1950s was a productive time for the Nation of Islam as well. There a few factors that made that possible — highways, the rise of the automobile, the Korean War, the Pittsburgh Courier, and finally, television.
Of course, highways and the rise of the automobile go together. Many of us have never lived in a place where the main road is two lanes, probably don’t know how to pass on one, and never even consider that for most of America’s history that was how people got around.
The highway is a modern invention. The Interstate Highway System is barely sixty years old. I used to bug my dad on long car rides asking him questions about the signs on the side of the road and he would chew ice and keep himself awake by entertaining me. That’s how I learned about Routes…(He loved to tell me how Route 1 goes from Maine to Florida)…and that’s how I became fascinated with infrastructure.
What the highway meant to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was a means to get his Ministers from city to city quicker. Myth has it that Malcolm X created all these Mosques (known as Temples at the time) by his travels. He romanticizes about it in his book with Alex Haley. The reality is, there were a half of dozen or more men doing the same thing.
And they were doing it by taking to the highway. I can’t imagine what it was like for early pioneer Henry Majied to leave the East, drive on those old roads to San Diego back in the late 40s (where he first established Mosque #8).
Or what it was like for Majied driving up the 101 to Los Angeles and San Francisco and starting those Mosques (#27 & #26 respectively), but I do know that by the time that John Shabazz and Bernard Cushmeer made their trip from New York out west, they drove on smooth, fast, roads.
All over America, Mosques were started by mobile Ministers. Others, however, were started by Korean War vets. If you ain’t know, the Korean War took place between 50 and 53 and was the first integrated War. Black folk got to spill their blood right next to white people.
But when they came back to America just like War Vets before them, they had to fall back into the Jim Crow laws of the south and the unspoken discrimination of the North. That ain’t sit well with these men. They were young, angry, and militant. And they found just the voice for that — the voice of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
Ironically enough, these trained soldiers went on to join an organization that historically has never carried as much as a pin knife and doesn’t advocate fighting in wars.
For the record, this isn’t to be disparaging or to belittle Malcolm X’s role, quite the contrary, this is just to tell the story straight. Long before people had heard of Malcolm X, they learned Islam via the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s column, Mr. Muhammad Speaks, in the Pittsburgh Courier (and other Black publications, more on that later ).
These young men, fresh out the American armed forces, gravitated to the message in those articles, memorized them, and started teaching people…based on those articles. This is how Islam spread in cities from Newark to Atlanta, from New Orleans to Cleveland.
The Ministers in the Nation of Islam prior to the 50s were former Christian ministers or Masons, these young men were different. Some came from the streets, some from the military, and others came from the schools. And these were some powerhouses. The aforementioned John Shabazz (who many thought would lead the Nation one day), I also mentioned Bernard Cushmeer, but there was also Lonnie Shabazz, Bob Allah, Earl Allah, Louis X, etc, etc.
These men would build Study Groups, groups that grew from living rooms to rented halls. After they had a consistent and steady membership, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad would send Malcolm X to their city to get the Study Group’s order in line with the rest of the Nation of Islam, and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad would assign these Study Groups a number.
Prior to 1959, that was Malcolm X’s primary role. Then came television.
If the center of television had of been Hollywood and not New York, we may have been talking about John Shabazz (Now Abdul Allah Muhammad) instead of Malcolm X. Just as articulate as Malcolm, John Shabazz was recruited to lead the Los Angeles mosque and was known for his ability to explain the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in a clear and succinct matter that left little for debate.
This is how Jet Magazine described Shabazz:
Shabazz…knows all the gang leaders, many of them former convicts. Most of the poor people in the community know him by sight and admire him because of his concerns with their problems (whether they agree with his religious philosophy or not). Charles E. Brown, Jet Magazine, Sept 16, 1965
Nonetheless, that wasn’t the case.
Television, historically, has been a New York-centered universe. And in 1959, WTNA was struggling to compete with other independently owned stations in the area. The way to beat the competition was with syndicated programming — shows that were created in and around New York but viewed by people all over America. One such program was the Mike Wallace hosted, News Beat.
Google’s got nothing on the show and it probably would have disappeared into obscurity had it not been for the five-part series The Hate that Hate Produced.
I’m not going to go all into the description of the program just yet, clink on the hyperlink to watch the show in its grainy entirety, but suffice it to say that this is the program that made Malcolm X a celebrity rivaled by very few and it is what put the Nation of Islam under the radar of white media.
If you were to go to the library and grab a bunch of Index: Newsweek, Time, Life, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, etc, you’ll see what I mean. Before 1959, not nare mention of the Nation of Islam, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, or “The Black Muslims.” Then, come 1960, the entries explode. Fifteen to thirty of each topic, exploding to hundreds by the mid-60s.
90% of them were negative.
You know how you see FOI carrying and selling The Final Call on every corner in America, well, before the Nation of Islam started Muhammad Speaks in 60, the men of the Nation instead sold The Pittsburgh Courier, The Amsterdam News, & The Los Angeles Dispatch.
Those newspapers were all apart of the Negro Associated Press, an organization founded by a Tuskegee grad, Claude Barnett, that distributed National and International News (the NAP had corespondents throughout Africa as early as 45) to all of its members.
Those Black Newspapers in their time were more than local, they were the voice of Black America.
Beginning in the Summer of 56, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s column and the distribution team that accompanied it thrusted those above mentioned papers to the top of the newspaper circulation food chain.
By the Fall of 56, the coverage of the Nation went beyond The Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s column and extended to NOI events beginning with an “Huge Assemblage” that took place in the Historic Shaw Temple formerly located on Atlanta’s Historic Auburn Avenue (22 Sept 56).
Later that year (15 Dec 56), The Pittsburgh Courier also carried an article by Malcolm X, “We Are Rising From the Dead Since We Heard Messenger Muhammad Speak.”
In both instances, the paper deals with the Nation of Islam with a great level of respect. Their coverage is journalistic in tone and comes across as mere exposés into another aspect of Black life (the Editor’s Note to Malcolm X’s article doesn’t even lead with the “views are not ours” message which is common now).
Of course, there were some criticisms. Some of us, offended by various aspects of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s teaching, would write letters to The Courier (which were aptly published) but that didn’t affect the working relationship with the NOI and The Courier (or any of the other papers).
The papers and the Nation grew together over the next three years. Like most things in the Black world, white folks ain’t know or didn’t care. What went on in the Black world didn’t concern them.
So that…that is the context that existed as we roll into the Summer of 59. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation raised the eyebrows of Black and white Washington, DC by attracting 10,000+ people to a 31 May rally at the Uline Arena entitled ‘Spiritual Feast’ (note: the way that it’s reported now is that it was a gathering of just NOI members but a simple search of Getty Images will prove otherwise).
Then News Beat dropped that Hate doc. and from then on it was eleven years of fear-mongering press. Every article had some mention of hate or rebellion. Every column opined about “the anger” of the ‘Moslems.’
It didn’t matter if it was the US News & World Report or Life Magazine — Black reporter or white one — every piece of media covering the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam, and Malcolm X, all had the same slant as that Mike Wallace piece.
The Pittsburgh Courier was pressured into dropping Mr. Muhammad Speaks.
And then things suddenly changed.
I wasn’t alive yet and my older brother was barely three months old when Fortune Magazine posted a small, little article in their January 1970 issue entitled “Black Capitalism in the Muslim Style” and the tone was completely different. The slander was minimal and the article was more about the wealth that the Nation of Islam had amassed. Check this excerpt:
The efforts of the nation (sic) of Islam, better known as the Black Muslims, came to notice when the group purchased nearly a thousand acres of Alabama farmland for more than a quarter of a million dollars and ran into oppostion from local white supremacists. The parcel is an addition to sizable Muslim land holdings already yielding fruits, poultry, produce, and livestock in Michigan and Georgia… Fortune Vol 81, Jan 1970, pg. 44
Neither hate nor anger are mentioned once in the article.
The 70s saw a new breed of Black folk joining the Nation. It was no longer people who were dissatisfied with their lot in life. No. Intellectuals like Sonia Sanchez were becoming members, performing artists like Joe Tex (Yusef Hazziez) put their careers on halt and added on. The Nation of Islam was now an established institution. The media and local governments reflected that.
Newark designated Feb 3–9 “The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Week,” Mayor Tom Bradley declared February 4th “Black Community Fair Day” in honor of the Elijah Muhammad. Compton proclaimed February 3rd, Gary, Indiana, Atlanta, Ga, and Berkeley all did the same. Yo…Mayor Daly…yes, Mayor Richard Daly led the charge declaring March 29, 1974 “Honorable Elijah Muhammad Day” in Chicago and all of Illinois.
You’ll find more articles praising the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam between 1970 and 75 than you’ll find ones that are critical. And it got better. When the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was pronounced dead on 25 Feb 1975, Muhammad’s son, Warith Deen Muhammad became the media’s darling: dropping the dress code, allowing whites into the Mosque, embracing the US Flag, and dismantling much of his father’s work.
A reset button had to happen.
A while back I made a questionnaire.
I asked (Black) Muslims various questions about the year 1976, the first being, “If you wanted to join the Nation of Islam in July of 1976, where would you have gone?”
It was a trick question.
The Nation of Islam as it had been known was no more. Imam Warith Deen Muhammad, son and successor to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was in the process of changing everything about the community that his father once led. The name was no exception — in 1976 it was known as the World Community of Islam.
All of the change was too much for some followers — sending many back into their old lives — a few even started their own splinter groups, none with much success; that is, until Minister Louis Farrakhan decided to stand up and rebuild the work of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
Unless you’re a student of Black history or were alive in that era, you may not know that Minister Farrakhan had rose to be one of the most popular Black leaders in the late 60s to mid 70s. His voice was heard on radios all over the US, he attracted crowds wherever he spoke (For Black Family Day held on Randall’s Island in 1974, Minister Farrakhan addressed a crowd of 70,000), and its said that people would leave their own Mosques and take trips to New York just to hear him.
He was a big deal.
That’s why a power struggle was predicted when it was reported that The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was deceased. It never happened. Minister Farrakhan went with the changes for as long as he could but it became too much for him and he thought that he would go back into entertainment (Minister Farrakhan used to be a calypso singer).
But that wasn’t to be.
Between 1976 and 1977, Minister Farrakhan traveled the earth. He visited Mecca, he went to Mexico, he attended FESTAC 77, a month-long international festival in Lagos, Nigeria, with over 56 African nations and representatives of the diaspora, and wherever he went, whoever he talked to, the affects of white supremacy wielded its ugly head.
He was torn.
Then, in September of 1977, Minister Farrakhan was given a book by Bernard Cushmeer (now Jabril Muhammad) and it solidified what he had been thinking — he had to Rebuild the work of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
Over the next two months, Minister Farrakhan met with various Black organizations and enlisted the help of Chicago activist and scholar Haki Madhubuti. Madhubuti and others formed a group to aid Minister Farrakhan’s efforts.
The group, we never named ourselves, organized into committees and began to orchestrate the “official” coming out of Minister Farrakhan. Our committees consisted of security, publicity, public-speaking, etc. We pooled our monies and went to work… … We worked hard (to) have him interviewed by key newspapers and journals. We scheduled his first talk to the community for November 15 1977 at the Institute of Positive Education. Haki Madhubuti, Claiming Earth, pgs. 84–5
There was no white media coverage of any of this. Nor was their white media coverage when Minister Farrakhan spoke the next day in Rutgers making the same announcement. And there was no white media anywhere to be found as Minister Farrakhan crisscrossed the Nation speaking in churches and auditoriums, drawing hundreds of thousands. Not one peep from any of the major (or minor) media outlets.
Instead, coverage of Minister Farrakhan’s efforts were handled by Sepia Magazine, interviews were done in Haki Madhubuti’s black books bulletin, and following the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s example, Farrakhan published a column, The Final Call, in the Amsterdam News.
The first mention of Minister Farrakhan by the white media was nearly five years after the Rebuild began. That article, entitled “Nationalist Faction of Black Muslim Movement Gains Strength,”is a nuts and bolts journalist piece. Absent from that piece is color commentary.
The writer, Nathaniel Sheppard, mentions how “rallies in California and New York also have attracted thousands of people, including prominent black entertainers and politicians.” But what is also absent is the fact that between the years 1977 and the time of the article (1982), Study Groups had popped up across the country, Minister Farrakhan’s goings and comings were known via word of mouth and Black publications, and that a great change was taking place.
There would be no mention of Minister Farrakhan in mainstream media for another TWO YEARS.
People who tell lies do so because they believe they won’t be caught. They bank on the fact that either you won’t question them, won’t do research, or that you simply believe whatever you’re being told.
If you’ve followed any of my writings, I expose those lies often in music. Well, the same applies here. The most modern lie surrounds the origins of the ADL’s problem with Minister Farrakhan.
The way the story is told now is that Minister Farrakhan sullied the waters of Jesse Jackson’s 84 Presidential Campaign.
Quite the contrary.
Here’s the Philadelphia Inquirer describing that union:
Minister Farrakhan’s endorsement gives Jackson a highly dedicated and disciplined core of supporters and volunteers from 61 temples and study groups… …Although he has shunned publicity and is virtually unknown by whites, Minister Farrakhan is one of the most electrifying figures in black culture today. Tom Masland, A Muslim Joins Jesse Jackson’s Campaign, Philadelphia Inquirer, 29 Jan 1984, pg 1.
And here’s the Chicago Tribune:
Minister Farrakhan, the ascendant apostle of the Nation of Islam, has begun to step out from the shadows of Chicago’s South Side and into the glare of national attention as an energetic political soul mate for Jesse Jackson and a religious standard bearer for downtrodden black Americans. Bruce Buursma, Black Muslim Leader Sharing Jackson Limelight, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb 1984, sec 4, pg 1
What’s unsaid here and in normal dialogue is that what takes place in the Black world almost always goes unnoticed to white people until it affects them. White media had nothing negative to say about Minister Farrakhan because they weren’t paying attention to Minister Farrakhan.
Even when he agreed to aid Jesse Jackson, white media had nothing. And Black people? Black people greeted Farrakhan with open arms in churches, at conventions, and his work went unhindered.
The lie is that it was Minister Farrakhan’s alleged “anti-semitism” that caused Jesse Jackson problems. But that’s not how it occurred. Jesse Jackson got caught making a derogatory remark about Jewish people, death threats ensued, and Farrakhan came to his defense.
In that defense, Minister Farrakhan made a distinction between the religion of Judaism and the politics of Zionism and he’s carried the Scarlet Letters (A.S.) since. That term is thrown around with the same frequency that ‘hate’ and ‘rebellion’ were used in the 60s.
Jesse Jackson isn’t remembered for his slur because he went on an apology campaign followed by what has become the political litmus test — Jackson “denounced” Farrakhan and he did so in ADL approved language calling Farrakhan’s statements “reprehensible and morally indefensible.”
Check the New York Times:
The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s disavowal of the anti-Jewish statements made by Louis Farrakhan was regarded by Democratic leaders today as a major step toward redeeming his political standing in the Democratic Party.
Spokesmen for a number of Jewish organizations joined Democratic leaders, including Walter Mondale, the party’s expected Presidential nominee, in praising Mr. Jackson for his denunciation of Mr. Farrakhan’s latest statements.
But there’s one more interesting tidbit in that article:
Henry Siegman, executive director of the American Jewish Congress, said Mr. Jackson should now take “the next step and repudiate not only Farrakhan’s ideas but Farrakhan himself.” Phil Gailey, New York Times, Democrats Hail Jackson Shift on Muslim Leader, But Fear Persists, 30 June 1985, pg 1
Damn….
Pressure was then put on Black Mayors to do the same with the thought being that doing so would squelch whatever momentum Minister Farrakhan had been building up to that point.
Los Angeles Mayor, Tom Bradley refused to comment until after Minister Farrakhan’s appearance there, Chicago Mayor Harold Washington snarked, “For the record, I denounce all forms of racism and anti-Semitism whether they come from within or without the city council,” recognizing the “phony litmus test” straightaway.
That same summer of 1985, Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam introduced a proposal — POWER (People Organized Working for Economic Rebirth) — a company that would sell household detergents, soap, and toothpaste. Johnson Products was set to manufacture the said products. But the pressure was too much for them, afraid that their association with Minister Farrakhan would deem them anti-semitic.
With no one to manufacture the product, that was pretty much the end of POWER…but not the end of Minister Farrakhan. His influence continued to grow and he became the voice of the so-called Hip-Hop Generation, his voice was sampled, and his name was mentioned in countless Rap songs. Farrakhan became our champion.
That became more than evident when 25,000 Black folk filled Madison Square Gardens. It was an event that was covered by every media outlet in America. White folk were shook. This is the New Republic:
The appearance of Louis Farrakhan at Madison Square Garden on October 7 demonstrated, without a doubt, that he now America’s preeminent black leader. Benjamin Hooks of the NAACP could not have filled the Garden. There would not have been people standing against the wall on every level of the arena to hear John Jacob of the National Urban League. Jesse Jackson might just have filled the Garden. But Farrakhan filled not only the 20,000 plus seats, he also drew another 3,000 to 5,000 people to watch the whole event on closed circuit television in the Felt Form next door. Julian Lester, The New Republic, Farrakhan in The Flesh, 28 October 1985, pg 11
This line from the Amsterdam News, however, is the most applicable to this writing, “Blacks Expressed open dismay at the new trend of white politicians telling them who they should like and listen to.” (Abiola Sinclair, Amsterdam News, 12 Oct 1985, pg 21)
It was then that white media realized that their negative coverage didn’t hurt but instead helped Minister Farrakhan. They thought that he had went away until ten years later when Farrakhan made a call for a million men to come to Washington.
Again, they pulled out the same tricks.
See a pattern?
Whenever there appears to be progress being made by Minister Farrakhan, white media hurls out the same accusations as if it is on a readied conveyer belt. Although I don’t know what the perceived progress is now, I’m not surprised by the current “attacks” on Minister Farrakhan.
It wasn’t like no one could see through it in the past. The man who provided the Reagan Administration with its tax policy, the late Jude Wanniski, had this to say:
What you see is a media image based on his complaints about Jewish political leaders who are trying to destroy the Nation of Islam, out of concern that Farrakhan’s political power is a threat to the state of Israel.
And while that led to Wanniski being ostracized by the Republican Party, he maintained his support of Farrakhan until his death in 2005.
Father Michael Pfleger is someone else who has unwavering support for Minister Farrakhan. Father Pfleger is an ardent advocate for gun control who has lived and worked in St. Sabina, Chicago’s largest Black Catholic church, for forty years.
The Illinois General Assembly enacted a law in 1999 that established a Commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes. A decade ago, the Commission found out that a member, Sis Claudette Marie Muhammad was a supporter of Farrakhan. When she refused to denounce Minister Farrakhan at their insistence, two Jewish members quit in protest. To which Father Pfleger, also a member, stated, “good riddance.”
Pfleger went through a period of suspension from his diocese at St Sabina as a result but weathered the storm, was reinstated, and continues in his support of Minister Farrakhan.
Those are just two examples and those two examples are mentioned because they are white men. Some would argue that they are able to stand in support of Minister Farrakhan for that reason — that their defiance against the so-called power structures is just white men exhibiting privilege.
While there may be an ounce of truth to that, we are talking about two individuals who are established and stable. The same can be said of “Jews for Farrakhan,” a group of Hasidic Jewish leaders that stand by The Minister.
But what isn’t said is that these men like everyone who refuses to “denounce and repudiate” Farrakhan, realize that if they weren’t made by the so-called power structure that threats against them are just that, threats.
Earlier this year, the “controversy” of a supposed “hidden” photo of President Obama and Minister Farrakhan taken in 05 made its rounds through the media cycle.
“Why would Obama meet with Farrakhan?”
“How could even be in the same room with him?”
“He’s even smiling!”
Next, the heat got turned up as Women’s March Activist and Co-Founder, Tamika Mallory, refused to “denounce and repudiate” Minister Farrakhan. Appalled that she would attend the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviours’ Day, members of the Women’s March board stepped down.
Mallory’s response:
Where my people are is where I must also be. I go into difficult spaces. I attend meetings with police and legislators — the very folks so much of my protest has been directed towards. I’ve partnered and sat with countless groups, activists, religious leaders and institutions over the past 20 years.
In that statement, Mallory also speaks about how when her father was murdered it was the Nation of Islam that was there in support of her.
And therein lies the dilemma.
The white media wasn’t there for that. No more than they are there when most things happen in the Black community. Minister Farrakhan has been able to exist in large part because the people he has worked to empower are not important to white media.
Minister Farrakhan has been addressing the Congressional Black Caucus for over thirty years now and the reason that a photo can “appear” out of “no where” with President Obama and Minister Farrakhan is because white media has historically ignored the going ons of the Congressional Black Caucus (except the last time back in 94 when the same accusations were hurled at Minister Farrakhan).
The white media picks and chooses when we are important to them and it usually falls under two categories: we’re entertaining them or we’re a perceived threat. To them, we are like a spoiled child’s toy. Forgotten about, discarded. We’re only remembered when we bring joy…or act free.
So our disgust with white media shouldn’t be just over how they handle Minister Farrakhan, disrespect and take his words out of context, our disgust should also revolve around the total disregard for our lives. We should be disgusted about how the majority of the time they don’t care about us but then suddenly want us to jump the second they are offended by something.
If anyone should be offended, it should be us. By the way, we still haven’t seen any referendums urging the man acting as President to “denounce and repudiate” white supremacist who have actually murdered people. Just…saying…
