Farrakhan Furor
Same page, different article: “But on this 40-foot-long, gray and lavender bus, little but praise was heard whenever Mr. Farrakhan’s name was raised, and it was raised often.
“The survey of 1,047 participants in the Million Man March also found that it was the message and not Farrakhan that brought these black men and a handful of women and whites to the nation’s capital.”
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Jeff Greenfield wrote in Monday’s Sun-Times that he believed the march produced “more good feeling among black American men, and more honest conversation about the enduring American dilemma of race, than has ever taken place at one time in one venue.” Yet to dismiss Farrakhan’s “ramblings and ravings” would mean “ignoring the reality that the very antipathy most Americans feel toward Farrakhan makes him appealing to at least some of those who went to Washington.”
Now here is columnist Joseph Aaron of the weekly Chicago Jewish News. “For years now, there has been much discussion about the rift between blacks and Jews, about how two groups that had once worked so closely together had grown so far apart. I, for one, have felt pained by the separation, having always believed our two minorities had so much in common, shared similar histories, lived having to deal with similar realities. I thought the differences between us could and should be bridged.
“This black jury, in contrast, acted exactly as Mark Fuhrman would have acted. They didn’t do the right thing, but gave in to the wrong feelings…. Our Jewish values are clearly far different from their values.”
