From: ROSSERJB-AT-jmu.edu
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 17:15:30 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: the Christian Coalition and the NOI, again


    I would like to reinforce Doug H's comments.  Both
Buchanan and Farrakhan appeal to people who are hurting
and have legitimate grievances.  In the end, however, both
fall back on fundamentalist religions which are sexist, racist,
homophobic, etc.  Actually Islam is NOT racist, but the 
heretical sect that Farrakhan belongs to IS.  That is why
they had to off Malcolm X after he became an anti-racist
Muslim after visiting Mecca.  For that matter, before Peter
Burns gets on my case, Christianity is at least in principle,
if not always in practice, not racist either.  But in the
U.S. South the practice tends to be pretty racist.
     Also, although I have seen no figures, I would lay odds
that the average income of people attending the Million Man
March is higher than that of Buchanan supporters in the
Louisiana caucus.  Buchanan actually makes more of a working
class pitch than does Farrakhan, whose only cards are race
and religion (and patriarchy, etc.).
Barkley Rosser


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