Farrakhan and Belafonte; daylight come and nobody home.

There was a 2006 National Black Peoples Unity Convention back in March.

Louis Farrakhan, some kind of a luminary in the Nation of Islam, a loopy but poisonous flea market jumble of ideas about Islam, alien abduction, crop circles, and White Perfidy, had this to say:

Black people all over America and all over the world, there is something wrong with the way we have been trained in a white supremacist, racist environment.

Mr. Farrakhan omitted any comment on the collapse of the black family and the persistence of opposition among black students to "thinking white." See, for example, our post about an African American's dismay at answers from young blacks to his question about their career goals.

Better examples exist. Check with Bill Cosby for starters. He's probably another race traitor in the eyes of Mr. Farrakhan.

Singer Harry Belafonte "repeated criticisms of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other black members of the Bush administration, who he said had not publicly questioned White House decisions in the war in Iraq or policies that have hurt the poor."

He then stated:

It means nothing to me if they are black if they are dishonorable.

Nothing like having the freedom to turn differences of political opinion into proof of a character defect.

"Belafonte, Farrakhan speak at Gary gathering." Associated Press, 3/11/06 <-- Free Republic.