The Nation - News from Feb. 27, 1985
Jesse Jackson said Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi’s call for blacks to form their own army and rise against white America goes against “our concept of progress.” In denouncing Kadafi’s call for sedition, Jackson said in Chicago: “The idea of a separate state and armed struggle is undesirable and untenable.” Jackson added: “Not one black American in history has ever been convicted of treason against the United States.” Kadafi spoke Sunday by satellite to the 1985 Nation of Islam International Savior’s Day Convention in Chicago and urged the 400,000 black soldiers in the U.S. Army to leave the military and create a separate force.
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