The audience leaped to embrace the speaker while sitting still. They ate him up. His words were devoured the way seals snap at fish. You could see the words settle in the crowd's bellies; 25,000 satisfied customers packing New York City's Madison Square Garden last Monday night to hear Minister Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, bring his dual message of self-help and hate. The message of hate predominated. How the crowd hungered for that meal. At the words of defiance they stood and roared. At the in-jokes they laughed joyfully. At the derisive words they smiled and sneered....
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