Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who planned a prison visit Saturday with Kwame Kiklpatrick, casts the ex-mayor as a victim of white racism as well as personal missteps.
Minister Louis Farrakhan
[Photo by Hassan Muhammad]
The 80-year-old minister spoke Friday night at a west-side Detroit church, an event Niraj Warikoo covered for the Free Press via a live broadcast online.
Addressing a packed audience inside Fellowship Chapel in Detroit, Farrakhan said that while Kilpatrick may have committed some mistakes, white politicians have committed similar acts and gotten away with it. . . .
“They hide their crap under the rug. But anything we do, they expose to destroy your love and confidence in one another.”
Speaking of Kilpatrick’s federal corruption prosecutions, Warikoo writes, the visiting clergyman told Detroiters: “The enemy that charged him is a liar from the beginning.”
At the church on West Outer Drive, Farrakhan also reinforced his reputation for attacking Jews.
During his speech, Farrakhan also made some anti-Semitic remarks, talking about what he called “Satanic Jews” and the “Synagogue of Satan” supposedly controlling major institutions. . . .
He said that he loved President Barack Obama, but said “he surrounded himself with Satan . . . members of the Jewish community.”
