Barack Obama to Khalid Muhammad: Two Degrees of Separation

Power-Line ^ | 3/10/2012 | John Hinderaker

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John Podhoretz and Patterico highlight a close connection between Barack Obama and Khalid Muhammad. Obama, as we know, was a disciple of Derrick Bell; in the video that Breitbart.com released a few days ago, he urged his listeners to open their hearts and minds to Bell’s teachings. So, what were Bell’s teachings?

Bell was a fervent admirer of Louis Farrakhan and Khalid Muhammad of the Nation of Islam. Podhoretz quotes a 1994 interview in which Bell said, “We should really appreciate the Louis Farrakhans and the Khalid Muhammads while we’ve got them.” Our readers are well aware of the repellent Farrakhan, but who was Khalid Muhammad? Patterico gives us Muhammad’s “Kill the Cracker” speech, in which Muhammad, whom Derrick Bell so admired, advocated genocide:

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Show me your friends and I will tell you what kind of person you are, barack!!!!!!

[BRK]

I read somewhere that Jerimiah Wright was a big buddy with Farrakan too and that his church was sort of the Christian branch of the Nation of Islam basically teaching the same hate-blame-whitey word. I’ll take it back if it’s not true. Anybody else hear that? An awful lot of religion is really all about politics these days. I guess it has always been that way.

[Fred Hayek]

The murderous lunatic Charles Manson had the idea of a “race war”. Now most of us know about psycho Bernadine Dohrn’s “dig it” comment approving of Manson’s actions. What do Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn have to say about that? The two who were just neighbors of Obama, who just happened to launch Obama’s career.