Ex Farrakhan Aide Says Obama & Farrakhan Ties Run Deep

If you are an African-American in Chicago, and you want to successfully run for office, you will NOT succeed without the blessing of Nation Of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. The Chicago machine includes Jesse Jackson and Rev. Jeremiah Wright as well, and you will go nowhere in Chicago politics without their support.

Yesterday, Newsmax reported that a former top deputy of Farrakhan says that Barack Obama’s ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run DEEP, and that for many years the two men have had “an open line between them” to discuss policy and strategy, either directly or through intermediaries. Dr. Vibert White Jr., who spent most of his adult life as a member and ultimately top officer of the Nation of Islam, said:

“Remember that for years, if you were a politician in Chicago, you had to have some type of relationship with Louis Farrakhan. You had to. If you didn’t, you would be ostracized out of black Chicago,”

Earlier this year, a pro-Clinton blog run by former CIA officer Larry Johnson unearthed a 2004 photograph showing Michelle Obama and Farrakahn’s wife, Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, at an event hosted by Jesse Jackson’s Citizenship Education Foundation.

White left the Nation of Islam in 1995 and is now a professor of African-American history at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. White tells Newsmax that Obama was very much a “part of the Chicago scene” where Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and radicals would go to each other’s events and support each other’s causes.

In 1995, the Chicago Reader ran an extensive piece on Obama. It noted that he “took time off from attending campaign coffees to attend the Million Man March in Washington, D.C.” The march was organized by Farrakhan and Rev. Jeremiah Wright. At the time, Obama was running for the Illinois Senate from Chicago’s South Side. He won that seat after getting his supporters to challenge the signatures on the nominating petitions for his main rival -incumbent Alice Palmer.

Obama spoke with the Chicago Reader after returning from the march, saying

“What I saw was a powerful demonstration of an impulse and need for African-American men to come together to recognize each other and affirm our rightful place in the society. These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a ‘lock ’em up, take no prisoners’ mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress. Historically, African-Americans have turned inward and towards black nationalism whenever they have a sense, as we do now, that the mainstream has rebuffed us, and that white Americans couldn’t care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing.

“Black nationalism” is the theology that was and is fundamental for Farrakhan, Wright, Malcolm X and the Black Panthers among other radicals. Obama spoke of his attraction to black nationalism at length in his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father.”

Obama said in a Feb. 25, 2008, presentation to a Jewish community meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, that his pastor Wright “does not have a close relationship with Louis Farrakhan.” However, just a few months earlier, Wright’s Trumpet magazine gave Farrakhan its Lifetime Achievement Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award, and said that Farrakhan “truly epitomized greatness.”

In addition to the support for black nationalist ideas Obama has expressed, White believes that Obama owes much of his success as a public orator to speaking techniques that Farrakhan developed over the years, and has used for years to great success. White elaborates, saying:

“If you listen to the rhetoric and you take away Obama’s political jargon, you hear a religious tenor to it that is very much Nation of Islam-like. I don’t know if anyone has ever touched on it, but Obama’s speaking style is very Malcolm-like, very Farrakhan-like. As a former minister of the Nation of Islam, I know how they speak. I don’t know who was training Obama. But that style is not a ministerial style like in the Christian church. It’s a Nation of Islam style. If the Nation of Islam can’t do anything else, it can train people how to speak. And nobody can outspeak a Muslim minister.”

If you listen to early radio or television interviews of Obama can hear just how much Obama’s speaking style has changed since he became a United States senator. In clips from 2001 and even early 2004, Obama speaks haltingly, with long, rambling sentences packed with legalese and wonky academic rhetoric. Not now.

White was known initially as Brother Vibert L.X., and later as Minister V.L. Muhammad before he parted ways with Farrakhan not long after the Million Man March, after nearly 25 years within the organization. His 2002 book “Inside the Nation of Islam” provoked death threats by Farrakhan’s followers, so White had to leave Illinois and move to Florida.

Despite his efforts to convince Jewish Americans that he is pro-Israel, Obama’s longstanding ties to Farrakhan, Wright and Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi, among others, have disturbed many in the Jewish community. Farrakhan has called Judaism a “gutter religion”, has called Jews “bloodsuckers,” “satanic” and accused them of running the slave trade.

Only after Hillary Clinton called him out for being a beneficiary of Farrakhan’s support did Obama “denounce” Farrakhan’s comments, but he DIDN’T denounce the man. Farrakhan endorsed Obama in a videotaped speech to his followers at his Mosque in Chicago in February. “You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth,” Farrakhan said. He told the crowd that Obama was the new “messiah.”

Here is that video.

White reminds America that “Even though Chicago is the third-largest city in the country, within the black community, the political and militant nationalist community is very small”. Indeed.

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