Ummm, coathangrr
Why do you expect me to care about Farrakahn and think that someone shouldn't denounce him when he is a misogynist, and is anti-Semitic?
The above linked article:
Facing Complaints of Bias, Farrakhan Speaks to Women Only
Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam minister who angered many women when he barred them from attending a speech here last winter, returned on Wednesday night and delivered a speech that only women could attend.
Mr. Farrakhan faces sexual discrimination complaints filed with a state agency because women were kept from the city-owned theater where he delivered the speech on March 10.
On Wednesday night he told a thousand women packed into a stifling church that the complaints against him were just another effort by critics to silence his message.
"If I come to your city to try to talk to the black men causing the crime problem in your city, why do you want to oppose me?" Mr. Farrakhan asked.
'Happiness in the Home'
Mr. Farrakhan urged the women to embrace his formula for a successful family. He encouraged them to put husbands and children ahead of their careers, shun tight, short skirts, stay off welfare and reject abortion. He also stressed the importance of cooking and cleaning and urged women not to abandon homemaking for careers.
"You're just not going to be happy unless there is happiness in the home," Mr. Farrakhan said at the Mason Cathedral Church of God in Christ in the Dorchester section, not far from the Roxbury neighborhood where he was reared by a single mother. "Your professional lives can't satisfy your soul like a good, loving man."
In March, Mr. Farrakhan's barring of women from his speech angered city officials, who said the Nation of Islam had promised that his speech would be open to all.
On Wednesday, more than 1,500 women who could not find seats in the church went next door to an auditorium where they watched the speech on television.
Mr. Farrakhan drew the biggest cheers when he said, "Every woman that you see that's no good was made no good by a no-good man." And he warned the crowd not to put up with lazy men. "No matter how handsome he looks," he said, "handsome starts looking ugly when he's unproductive."
3 Complaints Filed
Last March, Robert A. Bennett and his wife, Marseline Donaldson, were among those angered that women were barred from the theater. "It was raining, and they wouldn't let my wife in," said Mr. Bennett, who is 61. "I couldn't leave her out there, so we both left disgusted."
They filed two of the three complaints with the State Commission Against Discrimination, which is negotiating with the Nation of Islam in an effort to reach a settlement without a public hearing. The settlement could be financial or involve an agreement by the Nation of Islam not to exclude women from any event it held in city-owned buildings.
Mr. Bennett and his wife, who are from the South, said the exclusion reminded them of the days of segregation. "It was kind of a flashback," Mr. Bennett said, "the feeling of somebody telling you you can't go in -- then because you were black, now it's because you're a woman."
The above linked article:
Facing Complaints of Bias, Farrakhan Speaks to Women Only
Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam minister who angered many women when he barred them from attending a speech here last winter, returned on Wednesday night and delivered a speech that only women could attend.
Mr. Farrakhan faces sexual discrimination complaints filed with a state agency because women were kept from the city-owned theater where he delivered the speech on March 10.
On Wednesday night he told a thousand women packed into a stifling church that the complaints against him were just another effort by critics to silence his message.
"If I come to your city to try to talk to the black men causing the crime problem in your city, why do you want to oppose me?" Mr. Farrakhan asked.
'Happiness in the Home'
Mr. Farrakhan urged the women to embrace his formula for a successful family. He encouraged them to put husbands and children ahead of their careers, shun tight, short skirts, stay off welfare and reject abortion. He also stressed the importance of cooking and cleaning and urged women not to abandon homemaking for careers.
"You're just not going to be happy unless there is happiness in the home," Mr. Farrakhan said at the Mason Cathedral Church of God in Christ in the Dorchester section, not far from the Roxbury neighborhood where he was reared by a single mother. "Your professional lives can't satisfy your soul like a good, loving man."
In March, Mr. Farrakhan's barring of women from his speech angered city officials, who said the Nation of Islam had promised that his speech would be open to all.
On Wednesday, more than 1,500 women who could not find seats in the church went next door to an auditorium where they watched the speech on television.
Mr. Farrakhan drew the biggest cheers when he said, "Every woman that you see that's no good was made no good by a no-good man." And he warned the crowd not to put up with lazy men. "No matter how handsome he looks," he said, "handsome starts looking ugly when he's unproductive."
3 Complaints Filed
Last March, Robert A. Bennett and his wife, Marseline Donaldson, were among those angered that women were barred from the theater. "It was raining, and they wouldn't let my wife in," said Mr. Bennett, who is 61. "I couldn't leave her out there, so we both left disgusted."
They filed two of the three complaints with the State Commission Against Discrimination, which is negotiating with the Nation of Islam in an effort to reach a settlement without a public hearing. The settlement could be financial or involve an agreement by the Nation of Islam not to exclude women from any event it held in city-owned buildings.
Mr. Bennett and his wife, who are from the South, said the exclusion reminded them of the days of segregation. "It was kind of a flashback," Mr. Bennett said, "the feeling of somebody telling you you can't go in -- then because you were black, now it's because you're a woman."