Farrakhan Calls on Blacks to Boycott Christmas: ‘Bonanza for White Business’

Farrakhan Calls on Blacks to Boycott Christmas: ‘Bonanza for White Business’

by Pam Key 10 Sep 2015

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/09/10/farrakhan-calls-on-blacks-to-boycott-christmas-bonanza-for-white-business/

Thursday on TV One’s “News One Now,” the leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan called on African-Americans to boycott Christmas because it’s a “bonanza for white business.”

Discussing the “Justice Or Else” rally on October 10 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, Farrakhan said the meaning of “Justice Or Else,” was a reference to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1968 Memphis sanitation worker strike.

Quoting King, Farrakhan said, “He said ‘we have to find a way to redistribute the pain,’ He talked about going to businesses that benefited from black dollars and he said, ‘We have to now withdraw our economic support, so that those who give us pain can receive some pain in return.'”

He continued that African-Americans “have between $1.1 and $1.5 trillion in consumer power, which makes black people a carcass where all the vultures gather to suck the life out of us.”

Farrakhan said,”We intend to boycott Christmas, but not Jesus. We think that they have taken advantage of us and our consumer dollars by materializing the respect and honor of Jesus and making it a bonanza for white business.”

“So on Black Friday, we won’t be there,” he added “We choose not to spend dollars on Black Friday, Black Saturday, Black Sunday, Black Monday. We are not going to spend our money for the rest of that year with those that we have traditionally spent our money on.”

Nation of Islam

Louis Farrakhan is the acting head for the Nation of Islam, the organizer for the Million Man March, and awarded the 2007 Jeremiah Wright Jr. Trumpeter award from the Trumpeter Newsmagazine.

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List of famous UCC members

This section lists notable people known to have been past or present members or raised in the United Church of Christ or its predecessor denominations.

Politicians

• Daniel Akaka — Former U.S. Senator from Hawaii (Democrat)
• Max Baucus — Former U.S. Senator from Montana (Democrat)
• Jon Corzine — Former Governor of New Jersey (Democrat)
• Howard Dean — Former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, former Governor of Vermont (Democrat)
• Jim Douglas - Former Governor of Vermont (Republican)
• Mark Fernald — Former New Hampshire State senator^[61]
• Mills Godwin — Former Governor of Virginia
• Bob Graham — Former Governor and U.S. Senator from Florida (Democrat)
• Judd Gregg — Former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire (Republican)
• Hubert Humphrey — Former Vice President of the United States
• Jim Jeffords — Former U.S. Senator from Vermont (Independent)
• Bob Kerrey- Former Governor and U.S senator from Nebraska (Democrat)
• Mark Kirk - U.S. Senator from Illinois (Republican)
• Barack Obama — 44th President of the United States of America (2009–Present)
• Robert Orr — Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations
• Sally Pederson — Former Lieutenant Governor of Iowa (Democrat)
• William Proxmire — Former U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (Democrat)
• Kwame Raoul — Senator in Illinois State Senate (Democrat)
• George Smathers — Former Democratic Senator from Florida
• Washington Gladden — early leader in the Social Gospel and Progressive movements
• William H. Rehnquist — Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court ^[62]

Others

• Julian Bond — Chair NAACP (2004–2008)
• Walter Brueggemann — contemporary theologian, poet, and UCC minister, retired professor at Columbia Theological Seminary
• William Sloane Coffin — Late Presbyterian/UCC minister and activist; 'pastor, prophet, poet'; former Chaplain at Yale University and Senior Pastor of Riverside Church, New York City
• Common — Rapper, recording artist, member of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
• Donald Hall — United States US Poet Laureate^[63]
• George Heartwell - Mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
• Roger Johnson - CEO of Western Digital and head of the General Services Administration under President Bill Clinton
• Dean Koontz — American writer and author. Raised UCC, now is Catholic.^[64]
• Barry W. Lynn — UCC minister and executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State
• William "Bill" McKinney — Former president of Pacific School of Religion.
• Sherrill Milnes - Operatic baritone
• Bill Moyers - Journalist and host of PBS current affairs program Bill Moyers' Journal
• John Williamson Nevin — notable 19th-century theologian
• H. Richard Niebuhr — notable 20th-century theologian
• Reinhold Niebuhr — notable 20th-century theologian
• Leonard Pitts — Nationally syndicated Pulitzer prize–winning (2004) columnist
• Jackie Robinson — Major League Baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and first African-American to break baseball's "color barrier".
• Marilynne Robinson — Pulitzer prize-winning (2005) author of the novel Gilead
• Alex Ross - Comic book writer and artist. Son of UCC minister Clark Norman Ross.
• Philip Schaff — notable 19th-century theologian
• Max L. Stackhouse — public theologian and professor at Princeton Theological Seminary
• Jeri Kehn Thompson - wife of Law & Order star and former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Fred Thompson
• Paul Tillich — notable 20th-century theologian
• Meredith Willson - popular composer of "The Music Man", raised in First Congregational of Mason City, Iowa; longtime member of Westwood Hills Congregational, Los Angeles.
• Andrew Young — Civil rights leader, ordained UCC pastor, and former member of Congress, UN ambassador, and mayor of Atlanta, Georgia

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