You Don't Take One Out Unless You Can Put One In.
You Don't Take One Out Unless You Can Put One In.
"Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives
(1) condemns the speech given by Kahlid Abdul Muhammad as
outrageous hatemongering of the most vicious and vile kind; "
"It is the sense of the Senate that the speech made by Mr. Khalid Abdul Mohammad at Kean College on November 29, 1993, was false, anti-Semitic, racist, divisive, repugnant and a disservice to all Americans and is therefore condemned."
Congressional Black Caucus Backs Away From Farrakhan
By STEVEN A. HOLMES,
Published: February 3, 1994
Published: February 3, 1994
Bowing to pressure from his membership, the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus said today that his group was distancing itself from Louis Farrakhan and his black nationalist group, the Nation of Islam.
The chairman, Representative Kweisi Mfume, said that the 40-member caucus would back away from any working relationship with the black Muslim organization and Mr. Farrakhan until black members of Congress were satisfied that the Nation of Islam was moderating its views on whites, both Jews and gentiles.
A number of black politicians, including members of the caucus, have criticized Mr. Farrakhan in recent days for his failure to condemn anti-Semitic remarks by one of his chief lieutenants.
At a news conference today, Mr. Mfume said, "It is clear that the Congressional Black Caucus's ability to work for change with the Nation of Islam, as we do and will do with other organizations within the larger African-American community, is severely jeopardized as long as there remains a question by some of our membership about the Nation of Islam's sensitivity to the right of all people and all religions to be free from attacks, vilification and defamation."
Later this afternoon, the Senate voted 97 to 0 to condemn the anti-Semitic statements. The resolution was offered by Senators John C. Danforth, Republican of Missouri, and Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, as an amendment to an education bill. Possibility of Censure?
Mr. Mfume, Democrat of Maryland, hinted that Mr. Farrakhan might adopt a more conciliatory tone as early as Thursday, when he is to hold a news conference in Washington to comment on the speech by the aide, Khalid Abdul Muhammad, in which he attacked Jews, Catholics and homosexuals.
Without saying so, Mr. Mfume, who spoke with Mr. Farrakhan today, suggested that the head of the black Muslim group might censure Mr. Muhammad for remarks he made in November at Kean College in Union, N.J.
If Mr. Farrakhan does censure Mr. Muhammad, it would be a major shift for his organization, which has preached that whites are devils and that Jews were disproportionately involved in the African slave trade.
But some senior black members of Congress said that even if the Muslim organization moderated its views, the caucus would keep its distance. "There will be no future consideration of any kind of covenant with them," said Representative Major Owen, a Brooklyn Democrat.
Repeated calls to Mr. Farrakhan's office in Chicago went unanswered.
Today's statement by Mr. Mfume drew praise from the head of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the Jewish group whose publication of Mr. Muhammad's remarks helped prompt black leaders to denounce the speech.
"I think that Congressman Mfume did the right thing," said Abraham H. Foxman, the league's national director. "I think he should be commended for his efforts to try to bring about the change in Reverend Farrakhan's position. Although I believe in epiphany, I'm not sure it will happen."
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EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE SENIOR REPRESENTATIVE OF THE NATION OF ISLAM
Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to the order of the House of Tuesday, February 22, 1994, I call up the resolution (H. Res. 343) to express the sense of the House of Representatives condemning the
racist, anti-Catholic, and anti-Semitic speech given by a senior representative of the Nation of Islam and all manifestations and expressions of hatred based on race, religion, and ethnicity, and ask for its immediate consideration.
The Clerk read the title of the resolution.
The text of the resolution is as follows:
H.Res. 343
Whereas the United States House of Representatives strongly oppose racism, anti-Catholicism, anti-Semitism, and all forms of ethnic or religious intolerance;
Whereas the racist, anti-Catholic, and anti-Semitic speech given by Kahlid Abdul Muhammad of the Nation of Islam at Kean College on November 29, 1993, incites divisiveness and violence on the basis of race, religion, and ethnicity; and
Whereas Mr. Muhummad specifically justifies the slaughter of Jews during the Holocaust a fully deserved; disparages the Pope in the most revolting personal terms; and calls for the assassination of every white infant, child, man, and woman in South Africa:
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives
(1) condemns the speech given by Kahlid Abdul Muhammad as
outrageous hatemongering of the most vicious and vile kind;
and
(2) condemns all manifestations and expressions of racism,
anti-Catholicism, anti-Semitism, and ethnic or religious
intolerance.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Montgomery). The gentleman from
California [Mr. Lantos] is recognized for 1 hour.
Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, for purposes of debate only, I yield 30
minutes to the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hyde], and I ask unanimous
consent that he be permitted to control the time on behalf of our
Republican colleagues.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from California?
There was no objection.
Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
The purpose of this resolution is to express the sense of the House of Representatives condemning the racist, anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, homophobic speech given by a senior representative of the Nation of Islam and to condemn all manisfestations and expressions of hatred and divisiveness in our country.
Mr. Speaker, free speech is one of the greatest values of our free society, and all of us in this House are passionately committed to its preservation. The right to free speech, however, does not confer upon anyone the privilege of being immune from the free speech of others.
When freedom of speech is abused in a vile and vicious way to promote hatred and to incite murder on a gigantic scale, it is the duty of responsible legislative bodies to condemn such speech in clear and
uncertain terms.
That is exactly, Mr. Speaker, what our colleagues in the other body did, when the Senate acted unanimously, every single Republican and every single Democrat, to repudiate and condemn the evil hate-mongering of the then-national spokesman for the Nation of Islam on a college
campus.
The Senate resolution, which is parallel to my resolution, reads as follows:
It is the sense of the Senate that the speech made by Mr.
Khalid Abdul Mohammad at Kean College on November 29, 1993,
was false, anti-Semitic, racist, divisive, repugnant and a
disservice to all Americans and is therefore condemned.
This is the moment, Mr. Speaker, for Members of the House of Representatives to stand up and be counted on what must be one of the most criminally vicious public incitements to hatred and mass murder ever offered on an American college campus. To say that this rambling and hate-filled diatribe is racist, sexist, anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, and homophobic is true, of course, but it does not begin to
convey the murderous venom which drips from every utterance. Just to use one set of examples from a speech, the transcript of which takes 62 pages, let me quote relevant portions relating to racism. I will omit the abusive language for obvious reasons.
At a time when responsible black and white leaders in South Africa are engaged in the difficult task of building a democratic multiracial society, Khalid Abdul Mohammad issues a bloodthirsty call for mass
murder.
" We kill the women. We kill the children. We kill the babies. We kill the blind. We kill the crippled. We kill them all. We kill the faggot. We kill the lesbian. We kill them all.
Why kill the women? Because they lay on their back, they are the military or the army's manufacturing center. They lay on their back and reinforcements roll out from between their legs. So we kill the women, too.
You'll kill the elders, too? Kill the old ones, too.
Goddamit, if they are in a wheelchair, push them off a cliff in Capetown or Johannesburg. I said kill the blind, kill the crippled, kill the crazy. Goddamit. And when you get through killing them all, go to the goddamn graveyard and dig up the grave and kill them goddamn again, because they didn't die hard enough. They didn't die hard enough. And if you have killed them all and you don't have the strength to dig them up, then take your gun and shoot in the goddamn grave.
Kill them again. Kill them again, because they didn't die hard enough. "
Mr. Speaker, 62 pages of this dialog is not free speech. It is the
opposite of free speech. It is an attempt to incite hatred and division
in this complex, multiethnic, multireligious society, which has a
difficult time, without these incitements to hate and murder, to
function in a civil way.
But we are not just dealing with events in this country. We are
dealing with a daily diet of the evening news, mass rapes and ethnic
cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, where 200,000 innocent civilians
have been killed in the last 22 months because of words of hate and
bigotry spoken in a similar vein.
A few weeks ago, Mr. Speaker, six little children frolicking in the
snow in Sarajevo were killed because of words of this kind. And 2 weeks
ago, 68 innocent civilians, men, women and children, were killed in the
open market of the city of Sarajevo.
Now, there are colleagues in this House who might claim that these
are mere words. Let me remind them that the Holocaust did not begin
with the gas chambers. It began with words, words of hate and bigotry,
calling for mass murder. And mass murder they did.
Mr. Speaker, I ask that excerpts of the speech of Khalid Abdul
Mohammad be placed in the Record, and I urge my colleagues to see the
kind of vicious, hate-filled statements it contains.
Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam Claim They Are Moving Toward Moderation and Increased Tolerance--You Decide
" Brothers and sisters--the so-called Jew, and I must say so-
called Jew, because you're not the true Jew. You are Johnny-
come-lately-Jew, who just crawled out of the caves and hills
of Europe just a little over 4,000 years ago. You're not from
the original people. You are a European strain of people who
crawled around on all fours in the caves and hills of Europe
eating Juniper roots and eating each other.
Who are the slumlords in the black community? The so-called
Jew who is sucking our blood in the black community. A white
imposter Arab and a white imposter Jew, right in the black
community, sucking our blood on a daily and consistent basis.
They sell us pork and they don't even eat it themselves. A
meat case full of rotten pork meat, and the imposter Arab and
the imposter white Jew, neither of them eat it themselves. A
wall full of liquor keeping our people drunk and out of their
head, and filled with the swill of the swine, affecting their
minds. They're the blood suckers of the black nation and the
black community. Professor Griff was right when he spoke
here--and when he spoke in the general vicinity of Jersey and
New York, and when he spoke at Columbia Jew-niversity (sic)
over in Jew (sic) York City. He was right.
The DeBeers mines, Oppenheimer, our people, our brothers
and sisters in South Africa, hundreds of them lose their
lives. Sometimes thousands in those mines. Miles underground
mining diamonds for white Jews. That's why you call yourself
Mr. Reubenstein, Mr. Goldstein, Mr. Silverstein. Because you
been stealing rubies and gold and silver all over the earth.
That's why we can't even wear a ring or a bracelet or a
necklace without calling it Jew-erly We say it real quick and
call it jewelry, but it's not jewelry it's Jew-elry cause
you're the rogue that's stealing all over the face of the
planet earth.
You see everybody always talk about Hitler exterminating 6
million Jews. That's right. But don't nobody ever ask what
did they do to Hitler. What did they do to them folks? They
went in there, in Germany, the way they do everywhere they
go, and they supplanted, they usurped, they turned around and
a German, in his own country, would almost have to go to a
Jew to get money. They had undermined the very fabric of the
society. Now he was an arrogant no-good devil bastard.
Hitler, no question about it. He was wickedly great. Yes, he
was. He used his greatness for evil and wickedness. But they
are wickedly great too, brother. Everywhere they go, and they
always do it and hide their head.
We don't owe the white man nothin' in South Africa. He's
killed millions of our women, our children, our babies, our
elders. We don't owe him nothing in South Africa. If we want
to be merciful at all, when we gain enough power from God
Almighty to take our freedom and independence from him, we
give him 24 hours to get out of town, by sundown. That's all.
If he won't get out of town by sundown, we kill everything
white that ain't right (inaudible) in South Africa. We kill
the women, we kill the children, we kill the babies. We kill
the blind, we kill the crippled, (inaudible), we kill 'em
all. We kill the faggot, we kill the lesbian, we kill them
all. You say why kill the babies in South Africa? Because
they gonna grow up one day to oppress our babies, so we kill
the babies. Why kill the women? They, they . . . because they
lay on their back, they are the military or the army's
manufacturing center. They lay on their back and
reinforcements roll out from between their legs. So we kill
the women too. You'll kill the elders too? Kill the old ones
too. Goddamit, if they in a wheelchair, push 'em off a cliff
in Cape Town. Push 'em off a cliff in Cape Town, or
Johannesburg, or (inaudible), or Port Sheppston or Darbin,
how the hell you think they got old. They old oppressing
black people. I said kill the blind, kill the crippled, kill
the crazy. Goddamit, and when you get through killing 'em
all, go to the goddam graveyard and dig up the grave and kill
'em, goddam, again. `Cause they didn't die hard enough. They
didn't die hard enough. And if you've killed 'em all and you
don't have the strength to dig 'em up, then take your gun and
shoot in the goddam grave. Kill 'em again. Kill 'em again,
'cause they didn't die hard enough.
We found out that the Federal Reserve ain't really owned by
the Federal Government . . . But it ain't owned by the
Federal Government. The Federal Reserve is owned by, you just
touched on it a little while ago. (Jews.) It's owned by the
Jews.
Brother. I don't care who sits in the seat at the White
House. You can believe that the Jews control that seat that
they sit in from behind the scenes. They control the finance,
and not only that, they influence the policy-making.
No white Jews ever in bondage in Egypt for 400 years.
You're not the chosen people of God. Stop telling that lie.
Let's go a little further with this. Many of you put out the
textbooks. Many of you control the libraries, Lie-braries.
NBC, ABC, CBS, you don't see nothin', or makes sure we don't
see, Warner Brothers, Paramount, huh? Hollywood, period.
But [they] also are most influential in newspaper,
magazine, print media and electronic media.
These people have had a secret relationship with us. They
have our entertainers in their hip pocket. In the palm of
their hand, I should say. They have our athletes in the palm
of their hand.
Many of our politicians are in the palm of the white man's
hand, but in particular, in the palm of the Jewish white
man's hand.
The Jews have told us, the so-called Jews have told us, ve
(sic) ve, ve suffer like you. Ve, ve, ve, ve marched with Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Ve, ve, ve were in Selma, Alabama.
Ve, ve were in Montgomery, Alabama. Ve, ve were in
Montgomery, Alabama. Ve, ve, were on the front line of the
civil rights marches. Ve have always supported you. But let's
take a look at it. The Jews, the so-called Jews, what they
have actually done, brothers and sisters, is used us as
cannon fodder.
Go to the Vatican in Rome, when the old, no-good Pope, you
know that cracker. Somebody need to raise that dress up and
see what's really under there.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
(Mr. HYDE asked and was given permission to revise and extend his
remarks.)
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