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April 21 Outburst
Former Farrakhan Aide, Khalid Muhammad
Urges Mouie
Killing White Folks So Hard
The Blood Is Flowing Into The Popcorn
San Francisco State College
Anti-Semitic Diatribe
By Lori Eppstein
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Standing before an oversized swastika, a former aide to
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan spewed anti-Semitic
and anti-white invective to an enthusiastic crowd of more
than 400 at San Francisco State University, urging them to
“use violence when necessary."
“1 want to see a movie that shows us killing white folks so
hard the blood is flowing into the popcorn." said the Far-
rakhan follower, Khalid Muhammad.
“After all, it's only a movie," he added, and smiled.
Muhammad pulled out all the old canards against jews
during his two-hour tirade on Zionism and even invented
some new ones. While he never specifically ordered
the audience to commit violence, his thinly veiled
missives and drver turns of phrase did little to dis-
guise his promotion of violent warfare against all
whites, especially Jews.
He referred to “hook-nosed, bagel-eating, lox-eat-
ing, perpetrating-a-fraud so-called Jews" who pro-
moted the slave trade, prostituted their own women
and planted AIDS in Africa. Maintaining that
“blacks are the true Hebrews," he said “so-called
Jews" control Hollywood, the media and the Federal
Reserve.
Muhammad claimed the Talmud promotes
apartheid and black murder. He dubbed Israel a
“criminal settler colony," and the Anti-Defamation
League an “international spy and terrorist organiza
tion"
Rabbis, he said, his voice rising to a shriek, cir-
cumcise young boys by biting off their foreskins and
sucking blood from their penises, “according to the
Jerusalem Post ”
Muhammad shifted from graphic epithets to comedy and
Martin Luther King Jr.-style preaching as he glided across
the stage in a dark, double-breasted suit and a striped bow
tie in traditional Rastafarian colors. Four glaring body-
guards, in a kind of stiff square dance, kept pace with the
fiery Muslim who, in a previous appearance, was shot
onstage.
Another contingent of security men ringed the auditorium
and guarded the exits.
Deputizing the audience into quadrants in case a gunman
was among them, Muhammad urged, “Let’s get ready to
rumble. They may get me, but don’t let them get away alive ”
While some faculty say black-Jewish relations over the last
year have been calm on a campus widely known for its anti-
Semitic rhetoric, Muhammad’s appearance followed a flare-
up after another address the former Farrakhan aide delivered
to a state conference of black student associations in April.
Members of the S.F. State Pan Afrikan Student Union had
just returned from that conference when they booked the
campus’ McKenna Theater for the May 21 Muhammad visit.
In a May 8 editorial, the college’s newspaper, the Golden
Gater, denounced PASU for retaining a known hate-monger
with student body funds.
In the same issue, the newspaper reported that a statewide
alliance of black student organizations had petitioned to
remove PASU from its ranks for being too extreme.
Incensed by the article and editorial, PASU members
allegedly dumped some 10,000 copies of the papers from
newsstands. The harsh words have flowed from both sides
ever since. ’ .
During Muhammad’s speech, the mostly African-Ameri-
can crowd cheered wildly. Fans gave him a standing ovation
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Photo — Brmm Goodwin
Ranked by bodyguards
State University.
and thrust their fists in the air to show solidarity.
“I grew up with him. I don’t agree with the language, but
he speaks the truth," said U.C. Berkeley graduate James
Jones.
Kenyan emigre David Kironji said he wasn’t too sure about
Muhammad’s message but agreed with him that whites try to
divide the black nuclear family.
S.F. State student Edna Evans said she “loved it"
Many black listeners refused to talk with this Jewish Bul-
letin reporter, stating that they “don’t talk to Jews"
The speech angered the handful of Jews in the audience.
Only 10 minutes into the speech, as Muhammad was
denying the Holocaust, Irv Reuben, national chairman for
the Jewish Defense League, began screaming, “Liar!" He was
ushered out.
Reuben also was angry that PASU charged “discriminato-
ry prices" for admission. Prices, printed on the tickets them-
selves, were $7 for students, S10 general admission and $15
for “racists." The JDL chair said he was asked at the door to
pay $20 because he was a “Zionist."
Gadi Meir, a member of a San Francisco African-Ameri-
can and Jewish relations group called The Isaiah Project,
managed to attend the event but found it difficult to listen.
“I am horrified," Meir said.
Jeff Sattfis, Peninsula director of the Jewish Community
Relations Council added, “I felt like I was at a Nuremberg
rally in 1936. The overwhelming majority of the people in
the audience were supporting Nazism.”
A Jewish listener who asked not to be named said
Muhammad’s S.F. State speech reached new lows in con-
demning Jews. It surpassed even the infamous 1993 address
at Kean College in New Jersey that forced Farrakhan to dis-
miss him from his position as an aide.
Reaction on campus has been mixed. S.F. State President
Robert Corrigan defended Muhammad’s right to
speak, but said his “misrepresentation of informa-
tion" would earn him an “F" in class.
Black student groups have held anti-Zionist rallies
since the speech, but they were thinly attended.
By week’s end, campus Hillel provided the only
levity, producing a satirical flier in which the group
jokingly admits to controlling everythin * from
campus affairs and prime-time TV to the weather
and starting the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
“Everything that bothers you, everything that you
feel is unjust, we've had some hand in,” the flier read.
“We’re the monsters under your bed. We’re your
shadow when there is no sun... However, we’re over-
booked. We’re looking for your help. If you have any
suggestions as to how we should set Central Ameri-
can policy for the next five years, please dial our hot-
line; (800) Go Zion 1."
Jewish studies program director Laurie Zoloth-
Dorfman didn’t attend the speech, after faculty were
“advised to stay home.”
The Jewish teacher said the increasingly inflammatory
rhetoric at S.F. State is somewhat similar to the casual anti-
Semitism of 18th- and 19th-century Germany, which culmi-
nated in the Holocaust.
“We need to be alert to the moment that it could turn seri-
ous," she said.
Zoloth-Dorfman says she has been encouraged by the
support of colleagues as well as non-Jewish students since
Muhammad’s visit. As a result of his speech, two students
have decided to pursue minors in Jewish studies.
“Ninety-nine percent of the student body does not adhere
to [the hate speech],” Zoloth-Dorfman said. “S.F. State
doesn’t want to be a 1960s theme park anymore. This is silly.
It’s narishkeit [foolishness].” -
Lori Eppstein is a Jewish Bulletin of Northern Califor-
nia staff writer.
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