Did Louis Farrakhan Say He’s an Arab? (February 25, 1996)

At his four-hour-long “Saviour’s Day” address for 1996,* Louis Farrakhan seemingly told his amassed followers that while the northern Sudanese Arabs “look like me and you,” the blacks of the south were “very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very dark!” Meaning, supposedly, that American blacks are much closer biologically to the Arabs, and not the deep ebony people of today’s South Sudan.
The background of this bizarre statement was the issue of slavery in Sudan.†
As the reality of modern-day black slavery in Africa began to trickle through the media in the 1990s, Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam mounted a vicious PR campaign to discredit abolitionists attempting to free the slaves.
Here, Farrakhan recounts a 1994 meeting with the late leader of the black Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), Dr. John Garang, in which he fraudulently claims that Garang and his wife never mentioned the crisis of Arab militiamen enslaving black women and children during their long meeting. Farrakhan probably wasn’t listening, because by 1996 - astoundingly (even by Farrakhan’s standards) - he was actively assisting Khartoum’s war effort against the blacks in the south by obtaining money from the dictatorships of Nigeria and the former Zaire. What he did tell Garang, according to witnesses, was that he, as a black man, would support his fellow black people against his fellow Muslims; once again, he was lying.‡ In addition, just as he was betraying the black slaves of Sudan, Clarence Page of the “Chicago Tribune” revealed that Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam had received millions in Arab funding.§
This was why only about three weeks later, on March 14, 1996, Farrakhan flat-out denied again that slavery was happening in the Sudan.‖
To learn more about instances of modern-day black slavery in Africa which both Louis Farrakhan and the “human rights community” fail to combat, please visit www.iabolish.org.
Watch Farrakhan’s 1996 Saviour’s Day speech (the relevant portion begins at 3:15:10): cs.pn/31WN3Pj.
† Read the American Anti-Slavery Group’s report on slavery in Sudan today: www.iabolish.o....
‡ Read how Louis Farrakhan denied the existence of modern-day black slavery, and actively betrayed the very black Africans suffering its torments: www.iabolish.o....
§ Read Clarence Page’s January 31, 1996, “Chicago Tribune” article here: www.chicagotri....
‖ Watch Farrakhan deny slavery in the Sudan in 1996: • Louis Farrakhan Denies... .

[@abdullas100]

The short answer is "No" ......I did not hear anything in the clip that would suggest the Minister is referring to himself as an Arab.

[@AliBaba-it9tk]

Somali

[@kano3030]

The Minister said that the Sudanese ppl of the South are very Dark and those of the North are different like us and himself ... The Minister didn't say that! But I will say this, research the definition of an 'Afro Arabian' and it will point to Sub Saharan Africa where African Americans and most Africans Originated!!!

[@josuerico4560]

No?

[@fyabun]

What's with the very very very very very very very very very very very very very (let me shake my head to emphasise) daaaark! The man has colour issues. That's why he conks his hair.

[@Thedetoxman]

Youre so intelligent. LOL