Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/nation-of-islam/555332/

This is a bit of a long read (*groan*) but totally worth it. People need to have a little more nuance and a little less bumper sticker.

Some quotes:

“In this era of mass incarceration, the Nation [of Islam] still maintains a presence in the prisons, where we have too many people of color locked up, too many men, they are in many of our communities. So the unsparing critique of racism that he provides has a certain appeal.”

(Maybe we should begin to wind down the prison-industrial complex (or “mass incarceration in private prisons” to use a less loaded phrase).)

Denouncing the marginalized Farrakhan can seem ridiculous to those who feel like white people put their own Farrakhan in the White House.

and

But watching Farrakhan bask in the media attention, as yet another generation of black leadership faces public immolation on his behalf, it is impossible to see him as worthy of her loyalty.