Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has spoken up in defense of controversial hip-hop star Kanye West and West’s recent comments regarding President Barack Obama and his supposed lack of connections to powerful Jews.
“Man, let me tell you about George Bush and oil money and Obama and no money,” West said. “People want to say Obama can’t make these moves or he’s not executing. That’s because he ain’t got those connections. Black people don’t have the same level of connections as Jewish people. Black people don’t have the same connection as oil people.”
The Anti-Defamation League responded to Kanye’s statement with a press release from its national director, Abraham Foxman. Foxman blasted West for perpetuating Jewish stereotypes and said he should apologize. But, Min. Farrakhan said West should do no such thing.
“Did he lie?” Farrakhan said during an interview posted on The Final Call’s YouTube page. “No. He told the truth and the ADL, Mr. Foxman issued a press release.”
Farrakhan wants to speak directly to Foxman.
“You wouldn’t put that small-time stuff over on me that you put on scared-to-death Negroes that if they mention ‘Jew’ and you call them ‘Anti-Semetic’ they start bowing to you and your pressure,” Farrakhan says. “Kanye West, don’t bow to the pressure to bow to apologize to anybody. You said nothing wrong.”
“‘Who are you, Farrakhan, to tell him that he said nothing wrong?’” Farrakhan says. “I am directly from the Christ and the Messiah, so what I tell ‘ya has more weight than anything that these enemies might want to say. You have nothing to apologize for. It is their fear of the truth and that’s why it gives me pleasure to defend my brother.”
