News photographer kept this 2005 photo of Obama & Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan secret for Obama's entire political career because it would have “made a difference” to Obama’s political future. pic.twitter.com/zLIgp9WZrR
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) January 25, 2018
The Obama-Farrakhan photo has gone viral. And it confirmed everything we had suspected about his affinity for racist Black Nationalist hate groups. But the photo doesn't just show Obama meeting with one bigot.
The photo, by Akusia Mohammed, shows Obama with Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, and his family members and associates. The Nation of Islam is a racist hate group with a long track record of anti-Semitism. But along with key Farrakhan people, it also apparently includes a Farrakhan ally, Willie F. Wilson.
Rev. Willie F. Wilson is the pastor of Washington, D.C.’s Union Temple Baptist Church, an Afrocentric church (this should be ringing bells after Jeremiah Wright) and has quite a track record. Think him as Washington D.C.'s answer to Al Sharpton. Like Sharpton, Wilson became notorious after leading protests against an Asian business owner who had defended himself after being threatened by a customer.
Here's a description from Fred Siegel's book, "The Future Once Happened Here."
"Addressing a crowd of supporters, some of them yelling, "F___ the Chinks," he compared himself to Jesus, Martin Luther King and Gandhi. Mixing the by then empty rhetoric of nonviolence with threats, Reverend Wilson then told reporters that he wanted Chan out of Anacostia, with no discussion, although he added that he was a forgiving man.
"We forgave Mr. Chan," he explained. "If we didn't forgive him, we would have cut off his head and rolled it down the street."
Reverend Wilson went on to outline his economic vision, a vision to combat what he called the, "psychospiritual AIDS" brought on by pursuing integration.
These are the sorts of racists that Obama felt comfortable keeping company with. It's no wonder that his administration became notorious for racist and anti-Semitic policies. We're often told that Trump is a bigot by a media that has refused to challenge Obama's comfort level with Sharpton, Farrakhan and Wilson.
In late 1999, local Jewish leaders criticized Williams for nominating Rev. Willie Wilson, pastor of the Union Temple Baptist Church in Anacostia, to the University of the District of Columbia board of trustees, noting Wilson's racially divisive past.
Wilson has appeared on stage in the past with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and in 1989 he sponsored an unsuccessful recall effort against three D.C. Council members who withheld support from a resolution praising Farrakhan's anti-drug work in D.C.
In the 1990s, Wilson referred to then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and two representatives on the congressional committee overseeing the District as the "Ku, Klux and Klan."
Hate and change. That's the real Obama legacy.