Louis Farrakhan

Re “Farrakhan Blows His Chance for Respect,” Commentary, Jan. 31:

How dare Armstrong Williams charge Minister Louis Farrakhan with being a racist. This man who lists Sen. Strom Thurmond and Patrick J. Buchanan as personal friends. Farrakhan has more respect among African Americans than Williams will ever have. Moammar Kadafi is Farrakhan’s Islamic brother, nothing more nothing less. The “Million Man March” lost no prominence after the minister’s meeting with his Libyan brother.

The day Farrakhan starts to control the education, economics, entertainment, politics, labor, law, religion, sex and war of white people will be the day I will then agree with labeling him a racist.

REGINALD J. GUILLARY

Los Angeles

* What a silly article. One would think after reading Williams that Farrakhan is a creature from some unknown planet. Farrakhan, I am afraid, is strictly home-grown and American and is feared and hated because in his preachments he reflects the worst of what America has been and maybe still is.

The silliest thing he says is at the very end where he apparently wants to banish Farrakhan to, I guess, oblivion, never to return. The second silliest thing he says is that Farrakhan is a racist. What is a black racist? George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were racists because they expressed the view that the white man was superior to the black man, thus giving the white man life and death dominion over the black man. When has Farrakhan expressed a similar view? For that matter, when has any nonwhite group expressed such an attitude throughout all of history?

Your newspaper could do us all a great favor by devoting some time and space to defining and clarifying the isms: e.g., racism and sexism.

SAMUEL N. LAMBERT