Farrakhan reveals new details on Michael Jackson's life
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Georgia Black Farmers Win Lawsuit
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Selma, AL July 13, 2009
Black Farmers Awarded Over $14 Million,
Biggest Award Ever In Long Running Lawsuit
After a 10-year struggle, Black Farmers in Georgia were awarded $12,789,162 plus an undetermined sum for debt relief based on discrimination by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Reverend Charles Sherrod, one of the leading Black Farmers in the case, said, “Thank God this is finally over and Justice is done. Attorney Sanders never stopped fighting for us. Now we can move on to fulfill our dream.”
Shirley Sherrod who works for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, a farming organization that helps Black Farmers, and a leader in the case, said, “Losing the farm killed our dream turning it into a long nightmare. Now we can breath new life in the dream.” Rose M. Sanders, attorney for the Black Farmers, said, “It was such a long hard fight. This decision makes all the long hard hours worked and years of waiting and fighting worth it.”
The awardee was New Communities, Inc., a non-profit corporation near Albany , Georgia led by Reverend Charles Sherrod and Shirley Sherrod, long time civil rights leaders starting in the sixties. There were a number of families making up the New Communities Corporation. The group purchased nearly 6,000 acres in 1969 and 1970. As a result of the discrimination by USDA, they loss 4,387 acres in the eighties. The award included $8,247,560 for loss of land, $4,241,601 for loss of farm income and $300,000 for mental anguish to Charles Sherrod and Shirley Sherrod. It also included debt relief estimated at more than a million dollars.
The discrimination occurred way back in 1981, 1982 and 1983. The award was part of the Black Farmers lawsuit now known as Pigford v. Vilsack, a class action commenced in 1998. This is the largest award by far that any single claimant received in the lawsuit. The New Communities claim was tried by arbitration in 2002. The initial arbitration ruled against New Communities and was appealed. The two-step appeal took some seven years.
Attorney Sanders said, “We as attorneys will not receive one penny from the nearly $13 million dollars award. Every penny goes to New Communities except for $300,000 which goes to Charles and Shirley Sherrod. We will have to try to get some attorney fees from the Government but that is always a problem.”
Some 15, 000 Black Farmers have been collectively awarded nearly a billion dollars in the long running Pigford lawsuit. Most of the awards were in the $50,000 range. The New Communities award dwafts any other single award by a huge margin.
Contact Information:
Rose M. Sanders
(334) 875-9264 or (334) 327-9460
Charles & Shirley Sherrod
(229) 432-1338
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Farrakhan to speak on the Island of Bermuda
Minister Farrakhan to speak on the Island of Bermuda
According to a news article on the Royal Gazette website, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is scheduled to speak in Bermuda at a free public event at the National Stadium on Monday, July 20, 2009.
Here is an excerpt of the online article in the Royal Gazette:
Minister Farrakhan, who was banned from travel to the Island prior to his 1998 visit, will speak on peace and unity between the races at a free rally on Monday.
He was invited by the Emperial Group, who say his "message of Atonement has grown to embrace people and nations of all persuasions".
Said Emperial Group director Eugene Dean: "2009 has been declared by United Nations as the Year of Reconciliation and it is in that spirit that we are bringing Minister Louis Farrakhan to the Island.
"He has been following the media with regards to Bermuda and with that in mind, he has a real interest in coming."
The entire community is invited to attend the free event at the National Stadium on Monday.
The Minister is widely known as an advocate of black interests.
Said Mr. Dean: "He has evolved and his message is really about unification. At this time in Bermuda when our racial divide has grown and the negative social behaviour is constantly increasing, we need to come together in support of positive change.
To read the entire article log on to: http://www.royalgazette.com
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Louis Farrakhan: Michael Jackson Wanted to Regain His Own Position from Slaughter of Wicked Propaganda, Tour was to be His Last
Louis Farrakhan: Michael Jackson Wanted to Regain His Own Position from Slaughter of Wicked Propaganda, Tour was to be His Last
07/07/2009 01:40:00
Photo: Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan during his interview with The Tripoli Post in Tripoli, Libya, 4 July 2009. (The Tripoli Post photo by Mukhlus Al-Ajaili)
With tears in his eyes the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam in the United States of America, said Michael Jackson was his brother whom he knew well as a fighter who wanted to regain his own position from what he described as a wicked propaganda campaign leveled against him for so long.
At the end of an exclusive interview he gave to the weekly The Tripoli Post on Saturday in Tripoli, Libya, Mr. Farrakhan tearfully said "that is my brother. I knew him well. I love him much. He gave the world much and he’s gone too soon."
However, Mr. Farrakhan said Michael Jackson was never left alone by those who feared he would become Muslim and turn millions toward Islam.
Farrakhan said Michael Jackson's planned English tour was to be his last. "He went to England and said 'This is It'."
The tour was to be Michael's last battle which, according to Minister Farrakhan, he was to win it and then he was not to do tours anymore.
"I want you to watch his militant stand when he said 'This Is It'," Farrakhan said.
"He raised his fist because Michael was ready to fight, to regain his own position from the slaughter of wicked propaganda from those who feared Michael would become Muslim and turn millions toward Islam," Mr. Farrakhan told The Tripoli Post.
When asked how black and white America would view Michael Jackson's legacy, Minister Louis Farrakhan said "he was a man whose art, transcended race, culture, religious persuasion, ethnicity, his culture and his art united people of all races, all ethnic groups, and all religious affiliations."
"He was a magnificent soul, tortured, because he felt he never really had a childhood," Minister Farrakhan added.
Because of a skin disease, Farrakhan said, Michael Jackson went from black to white in what he described as a painful journey. "That was his awkward journey, but inwardly he was journeying from white to black," the Minister stressed.
Farrakhan said Michael Jackson was disappointed when two famous film directors, Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, and his other Jewish friends, refused to help him promote and produce his vision to show black people in America their actual heritage.
"Listen, Michael told me personally that he wanted to show Africans not in the way that Hollywood showed Africa with bones and noses, that they, I would say, the crude part of African culture. He wanted to show Africa as the mother and the father of civilization," Farrakhan said.
"When they refused him, he said I would do it myself," he added.
Minister Farrakhan strongly defended Michael Jackson against accusation of child abuse leveled at him in 1993.
"Michael Jackson, this is Farrakhan talking, never bothered children. Michael Jackson loved children. Michael Jackson took his money and built Neverland with all these rides, bomber cars etc. I went there as his guest and took some of my security people, and while I was talking with Michael in a private session, they were on the bomber cars enjoying something they may be never experienced in their childhood," the Honorable Minister Farrakhan told The Tripoli Post.
"When you go up in his theatre, he had a special place for children that were disabled, children that were under medication where they could lay with their IVs and look through a glass at the movies that were being shown.
"This is not a man who hated children to the point that he would ruin their lives sexually. This is a man who felt comfortable with children because children are not deceptive. He felt comfortable with animals not with grown up human beings who have hurt him all his life," Farrakhan added.
"But as a Muslim, I told his brother Jamine: Allah who gives life and Allah is the ultimate cause of death, and Allah says in the Qur’an, “wherever a misfortune befalls a believer, the believer says: Allah is my patron and to him is my eventual return,” concluded Minister Louis Farrakhan.
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