Progressive Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, one of the best democratic candidates for the Governor of New Jersey, was caught on Video Applauding and embraced Radical Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan While he calls white people “demons” and calls violence in retribution.
Farrakhan, 91, is a long time Stady anti -Semite Preacher known for making inflammatory statements against Jews, white people and LGBTQ individuals. He has also praised Adolf Hitler as a “big man” and has become one of the most controversial religious figures in the United States because of his derogatory Comments about Israel.
The video – taken in 2004 in a Newark -Church – shows that Baraka Farrakhan introduces to the congregation by calling him a great personal inspiration and “the leader of every black person”.
The full speech is visible on the Nation of Islam website.
Progressive Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, one of the best Democratic candidates for the Governor of New Jersey, was left on video that applied and embraced the radical nation of Islam -leader Louis Farrakhan while he calls white people ‘demons’ and for violence. (Getty Images)
“I don’t think there is a man today who is present today that the kind of moral authority or spiritual power,” said Baraka. “No president, no community leader, not a political international activist, nowhere that the moral authority, the historical and political framework has, that the minister has Farrakhan, that. Whoever can stand where he stands and really says that he is the leader of black people everywhere and everywhere.”
During the speech, what was First reported Because of the New York Post, Baraka got up to give Farrakhan a standing ovation twice. The first is after Farrakhan denounces the non -violent protests of the civil rights movement and said: “We did not believe in no non -violence. The cracker hit you on your jaw, you break his neck. That is the way we think.”
Baraka applauds again after Farrakhan demonizes white people as ‘the enemy’.
“Now the enemy comes in. You, the crips and the blood, they send people to you to give you rumors about your brother there. These demons will even kill a policeman and then blame it. You go with a devil, man.
During the speech, Farrakhan also criticized Afro -Mamicans Participate in the armySaying: “I shouldn’t catch you in no D — Army uniform fighting for the enemy.” He also disdained white women in particular and closed interracial dating.
Mayor of Newark Ras Baraka and Nation of Islam -leader Louis Farrakhan Embrace, after the now Gubernatorial candidate introduced the preacher as a “moral authority” during a 2004 address. Baraka, who wears a brown sweater, applauded Farrakhan Mid -Speech.
This was not the last time that Baraka organized Farrakhan and gave him a platform to speak.
A Farrakhan-Uitdelgelde Nieuwszaat called The last conversation It reported in 2012 that Baraka organized Farrakhan to give a speech to more than 1,000 high school students at the Central High School in Newark, where he was director.
The New York Amsterdam News It reported in 2017 that Baraka as Newark mayor organized another Farrakhan address, entitled “Separation of Death”. According to the Outlet, Farrakhan Bas the United States and the civil rights movement during this address. He also evoked that Afro -Mamicans received reparations and break off the nation to form a separate state.
Weather in 2018, Essex News Daily Reported that Farrakhan gave another speech in Newark, this time directly to support Baraka and said: “I came here tonight to stand in front of my brother; to stand in front of his mother; to stand in front of his family; to stand for you. That’s why I’m here tonight.”
After the videos have surfaced, Baraka told the Jewish Insider That he “will not be bullied or remain silent to run away from the struggle for justice.”
“I will not be grown to expose my lifelong work for peace, equality and fairness,” said Baraka. “These latest accusations and insinuations are not only false – they are a reflection of the fear that my candidacy provokes in the political establishment.”
“The nation of Islam has deep respect in many parts of the black community because of the work they have done to reduce violence and support self -determination in neighborhoods that have been ignored and abandoned for generations,” he added.
Farrakhan is notorious for his hateful comments against white people and Jews, who have been closely followed by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for several years. The ADL, who has called Farrakhan ‘one of the most prominent anti -Semites’, mentions dozens of his quotes on its website, including various from previous speeches by Saviors’ Day. SPLC has classified Nation of Islam as a hate group.
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On 2 February 2025, Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark, after the Democratic Gubernatorial Debate at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Mike Catalini)
Fox News Digital has various Democrats exposed In recent years for their embrace of Farrakhan, including several pastors, democratic staff members and left-wing activists, including the left-wing hip-hop caucus events and field coordinator Terence MuhammadSenator Elissa Slotkin’s top employee Dr. Defoe EarthAmong other things.
Baraka’s campaign website calls on voters to “come up with New Jersey again”, as a state “where we come together, regardless of postcode, or race, or gender or nationality.”
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His website also contains a comment he made on the New Jersey Globe In which he said that as a governor, he would “deconstrate the state budget and put it back with equality like our North Star; assessing every decision as a step towards fairness or a step in the direction of inequality.”
Baraka did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request to comment at the time of publication.
