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Saturday, October 15, 2005
Keith Boykin Banned from Speaking at the Million Man March by Willie Wilson
Pam Spaulding sent me the
<http://www.pamspaulding.com/weblog/2005/10/boykin-banned-from-stage-at-millions.html>breaking
news. From
<http://www.metroweekly.com/mwblog/2005/10/boykin_blocked_from_speaking_a.html>Metro
Weekly's blog:
Posted by Sean Bugg at 10:37 AM
Breaking news from Metro Weekly's Will O'Bryan, who's on-site at the
National Black Justice Coalition's "We Are Family" Unity Rally at Freedom
Plaza in D.C.
A month-long effort by the National Black Justice Coalition and the D.C.
Coalition to secure a speaker at the Millions More Movement commemoration
event that met with apparent success mid-week, was quashed this morning.
When NBJC president Keith Boykin and vice-president Donna Payne reported to
the event on the Mall, they say, they were blocked from speaking by MMM
organizer Rev. Willie Wilson.
Boykin was supposed to represent the black LGBT community at the event.
Back at the Freedom Plaza rally, Payne said that when she and Boykin
arrived at the MMM site, Wilson said, "They will not be speaking."
"I'm so angry, so angry," Payne said.
From Gay.com:
"In our previous conversations with Minister Farrakhan, he has consistently
kept his word. Rev. Wilson, however, has not been cooperative. We call on
Minister Farrakhan to fulfill our agreement," the statement said.
Wilson is executive director of the Millions More Movement. He is also
pastor of Union Temple Baptist Church in Southeast Washington, the
District's largest Black congregation and has a record of homophobia.
In July Wilson, warned his congregation that "Sisters making more money
than brothers and it's creating problems in families . . . that's one of
the reasons many of our women are becoming lesbians."
In the July 3 sermon entitled "You've Got to Fight to Be Free" he also
said, "Lesbianism is about to take over our community. I'm talking about
young girls. My son in high school last year tried to go to the prom. He
said, 'Dad, I ain't got nobody to take to the prom because all the girls in
my class are gay. Ain't but two of 'em straight, and both of them ugly.'"
Wilson went on to say, "I ain't homophobic because everybody here got
something wrong with him," he said. "But . . . women falling down on
another woman, strapping yourself up with something, it ain't real. That
thing ain't got no feeling in it. It ain't natural. Anytime somebody got to
slap some grease on your behind and stick something in you, it's something
wrong with that. Your butt ain't made for that.
This was Willie Wilson acting in bad faith. Hopefully this will be all the
television news coverage of this issue. It would have been no national news
with Keith Boykin speaking. Now it will be National News with this.
I'd like to talk to Minnesota activists who went to this March.
The Spokesman Recorder has some coverage of logal organization for the
Millions More March:
http://www.spokesman-recorder.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=61974&sID=13
The actual observance of the march is on October 15, where the Honorable
Minister Louis Farrakhan will ask organizers from various cities to have
commemorative programs in those respective cities," according to NOI
Minister Jason Muhammad, who took the time to talk with the MSR about the
upcoming MMM.
How is the Millions More Movement going to be different from the Million
Man March?
"With the Million Man March, the Minister [Farrakhan] called for one
million people, and nearly two million showed up. After that we began to do
tremendous work: we began to adopt children, stay at home, take on better
jobs, education, we began to clean up crime in our communities and be
better husbands to our wives. But unfortunately, as we went to work, other
forces, opposing forces, went to work as well to counteract, and make the
work that we were doing become counterproductive. Therefore, we began to
see that we started on a death march. We began to see that violence began
to increase again, we began to lose jobs again, and our homes began to
become impoverished as a community once again, because the more we strive
to become a more respected and more community oriented people, than that
threatens the position of those that are actually trying to keep us
impoverished, and those that are trying to make us out of hope.
"What we mean is that, when we are in a process of striving to overcome the
difficulties that are in our way, and when you have people who have
invested money and invested time, so that the so-called 'American Negro' is
kept down, to see that he never threatens the position of those that are in
authority today, we must be kept as drug addicts, we must kept as
alcoholics, we must - as the men - kept unemployed and uneducated. That's
all an investment of the powers that be so that we can never threaten the
position of power that exists today," said Mohammed.
Are you saying that the collective misery we experience in the U.S.A. is a
necessary condition of this power system?
"That is correct. Our condition as a people stems from 400 years of slavery
and oppression that has been put on us as a people. There was a Caribbean
slave owner named Willie Lynch, and Willie Lynch had it in his letter to
other slave owners about how to break and keep your slave a slave, and this
would be a perpetual thing for three hundred or four hundred years. How he
did it was to instill that type of thinking in the Black woman, who as the
primary teacher of the children, would instill inferior teaching and fear
in the Black children, and therefore we suffered from that as a result.
How are organizers getting people getting to the March from the Twin Cities?
"We actually have buses that are leaving from New Salem Baptist Church on
October 14 that will be getting to Washington, D.C. on the 15th. It going
be a round trip, leave from New Salem and get to D.C. on the 15th in time
for the rally, then get back on the bus and head for the Twin Cities. It's
not going to be overnight; it's a trip there and a trip back," said Mohammed.
How many buses?
"We have three buses that have been locked in thus far, and we are
drastically striving to fill those buses up so that we can get people to
the Millions More Movement. We've invited several different churches to
come on board, but unfortunately, some of the other churches haven't signed
on as of yet, however, we have faith that the more we push, the more we
talk, the more we strive, it should go straight to the spirit of those who
are spiritual people, and help them to understand the necessity of this
struggle," said Mohammed.
What other constituencies do you anticipate to have a large presence at the
Millions More Movement? We know that Min. Farrakhan has invited the GLBT
community to participate in this, as well as other groups who have been
traditionally left?
"Okay, let me make a correction: He never invited the gay and lesbian
community. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan opened up the doors and
he said that whomever comes, come as you are, whether you are gay or
lesbian. But he did not make a direct invite to the GLBT community,
however, whoever comes are welcome to come," Mohammed stated.
To reserve a seat on a bus destined for the Millions More Movement, or for
more information, call 763-443-8112, 612-436-5404, or visit
www.millionsmoremovement.com.
Reporters can call Jason Mohammed for comment at: 612-436-5404 on Monday.
posted by lloydletta
EY: Willie Wilson is on CSPAN right now.
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