Speaking on the recent African-American uprisings in the United States, Farrakhan attempted to appeal to the youth by praising the Black Lives Matter movement, saying they represent the future. America, we can’t breathe, ‘ Mallory said, echoing the phrase that Garner uttered while being held in a chokehold by police in July 2014 and that has been appropriated by the civil rights movement.
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He asked: ‘What good are we if we don’t prepare young people to carry the torch of liberation to the next step?’
In a speech at the event, Farrakhan said that black men and women should foresake foul language and violence against each other.
Waving flags, carrying signs and listening to speeches and songs, people mingled as they wove their way through security barricades and around loudspeakers and souvenir vendors at the U.S. Capitol and down the Mall on a sunny, breezy day.
“There’s a long history of folks across the spectrum of black politics organizing and advocating around issues of fair and safe policing”, she said.
“It means the world to me”.
“Find me a Jew that forgives Hitler”, he said to thunderous applause. “And so I like to think that over the last 20 years I’ve been doing my part in keeping the promise of the spirit of the original Million Man March”.
“These are not just young people who happened to wake up one morning”. He said a lot hasn’t been realized, but he hasn’t given up hope. Acts relevant 20 years ago, including Snoop Dogg and Puff Daddy were present.
He continued, “We have strategies and plans to address numerous issues, but we’re challenging the government in a country that speaks of fairness and justice and equality to, in fact, flesh that out in terms of what it does”. “Talk to our children, tell them to get an education”. “Because we are all one”. “But hopefully this time they won’t forget”.
He was among about 50 people from Shreveport and Monroe who traveled by bus to Washington Thursday to commemorate the 20th the anniversary of the Million Man March.
“The youth in Ferguson and the youth in Palestine are united together to remind us that the dots need to be connected”, Wright said.
The event marked the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March in 1995, when hundreds of thousands of black men rallied on the Mall. Women, whites and other minorities were not invited to the original march, but organizers say that’s not the case this weekend. The National Park Service estimated between 450,000 and 600,000. The National Park Service has refused to give crowd estimates on Mall activities since.
Mark Wilson/AP Participants in the Million Man March gathered on Capitol Hill and the National Mall in 1995.
The minister spoke from behind a bullet-proof glass as there were rumors and reports of possible violence against the African-American leader who is seen as controversial by many Americans, especially far-right anti-Islam groups, a few of whom organized armed counter-protests.
But the unemployment rate for black men in the U.S. has remained around 8 percent since 1995, twice that of white men.
“Everybody is of like mind or trying to build their mind to be about the cause”, said Paul Miller, a nondenominational Christian from Auburn, N.Y., and CEO of a charter school of mostly African-American males.
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According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation quoted by the media, the number of blacks arrested by the police, however, decreased with 2.5 million in 2013 against 3.5 million in total in 1994, 28% of all arrests against 30.9%.
