Mary Sanchez: The antisemitism Kyrie Irving spread – and why an apology isn’t enough
Louis Farrakhan is surely smiling. The Nation of Islam leader has led a decades-long campaign to draw more Black people into his scheme, the one where he labels Jews“ The Synagogue of Satan” and tries to convince that they were responsible for 9/ 11, for originating lynching, sharecropping and a host of other horrors. Better yet, it’ s a basketball star, the Brooklyn...
by Mary Sanchez, Tribune Content Agency
Nov 10, 2022
3 minutes
Louis Farrakhan is surely smiling.
The Nation of Islam leader has led a decades-long campaign to draw more Black people into his scheme, the one where he labels Jews “The Synagogue of Satan” and tries to convince that they were responsible for 9/11, for originating lynching, sharecropping and a host of other horrors.
Holocaust denial and blaming Jews for the slave trade are probably Farrakhan’s greatest splits from historical fact, although there’s a long list of that.
And now, another Black figurehead, a man
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