Louis Farrakhan "Florida Forum" Interview (September 9, 1984)
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FLORIDA FORUM
DATE RECORDED: 9-7-84
DATE AIRED: 9-9-84
MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN - NATION OF ISLAM
MARK WOLIN - 7 NEWS
MARK LODNER - 7 NEWS
LARRY BURNS - MIAMI HERALD REPORTER
Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Walcott on May 11, 1933, in The Bronx, New York City, the younger of two sons of Sarah Mae Manning (1900-1988) and Percival Clark, immigrants from the Anglo-Caribbean islands. His mother was born in Saint Kitts, while his father was Jamaican. The couple separated before their second son was born, and Farrakhan says he never knew his biological father.
In a 1996 interview with Henry Louis Gates Jr., he speculated that his biological father, "a light-skinned man with straight hair from Jamaica", may have been Jewish.
After his stepfather died in 1936, the Walcott family moved to Boston, where they settled in the largely African-American neighborhood of Roxbury.
Walcott received his first violin at the age of five and by the time he was 12 years old, he had been on tour with the Boston College Orchestra. A year later, he participated in national competitions and won them. In 1946, he was one of the first black performers to appear on the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour,[20] where he also won an award. Walcott and his family were active members of the Episcopal St. Cyprian's Church in Roxbury.
Walcott attended the Boston Latin School, and later the English High School, from which he graduated. He completed three years at Winston-Salem Teachers College, where he had a track scholarship.
Louis and Khadijah Farrakhan
In 1953, Walcott married Betsy Ross (later known as Khadijah Farrakhan) while he was in college. Due to complications from his new wife's first pregnancy, Walcott dropped out after completing his junior year of college to devote time to his wife and their child. Farrakhan is the father of 9 children and grandfather of basketball player Mustapha Farrakhan Jr.
Career and activities (1953-1996)
In the 1950s, Walcott began his professional music career as a singer billed as "The Charmer". At this point, earning $500 a week, Walcott was touring the northeastern and midwestern United States, sometimes also using the nickname "Calypso Gene". In 1953-1954, preceding Harry Belafonte's success with his album Calypso (released in 1956), he recorded and released a dozen cheeky, funny tunes as "The Charmer" in a mixed mento/calypso style, including "Ugly Woman", "Stone Cold Man" and calypso standards like "Zombie Jamboree", "Hol 'Em Joe", "Mary Ann" and "Brown Skin Girl". Some were reissued: "Don’t Touch Me Nylon" has mild, explicit sexual lyrics as well as "Female Boxer", which contains some sexist overtones and "Is She Is, Or Is She Ain't" (inspired by Christine Jorgensen's sex change operation).
In February 1955, he was headlining a show in Chicago, Illinois, called Calypso Follies. There he first came in contact with the teachings of the Nation of Islam (NOI) through Rodney Smith, a friend and saxophonist from Boston. Walcott and his wife Betsy were invited to the Nation of Islam's annual Saviours' Day address by Elijah Muhammad. Prior to going to Saviours' Day, due to then-Minister Malcolm X's media presence, Walcott had never heard of Elijah Muhammad, and like many outside of the Nation of Islam, he thought that Malcolm X was the leader of the Nation of Islam.
In 1955, Walcott fulfilled the requirements to be a registered Muslim/registered believer/registered laborer. He memorized and recited verbatim the 10 questions and answers of the NOI's Student Enrollment. He then wrote a Saviour's Letter that must be sent to the NOI's headquarters in Chicago. The Saviour's Letter must be copied verbatim, and have the identical handwriting of the Nation of Islam's founder, Wallace Fard Muhammad.
After having the Saviour's Letter reviewed, and approved by the NOI's headquarters in Chicago in July 1955, Walcott received a letter of approval from the Nation of Islam acknowledging his official membership as a registered Muslim/registered believer/registered laborer in the NOI. As a result, he received his "X." The "X" was considered a placeholder, used to indicate that Nation of Islam members' original African family names had been lost. They acknowledged that European surnames were slave names, assigned by the slaveowners in order to mark their ownership. Members of the NOI used the "X" while they were waiting for their Islamic names, which some NOI members received later in their conversions.
Hence, Louis Walcott became Louis X. Elijah Muhammad then replaced his "X" with the "holy name" Farrakhan, which is a corruption of the Arabic word فرقان furqan, which means "The Criterion". On a very different tone from his calypso songs, he recorded two tunes as Louis X, criticizing racism in A White Man's Heaven Is a Black Man's Hell, a record album which was issued on Boston's A Moslem Sings label in 1960.
OMG!!!!!!!OMG!!!!!!!! The Minister whipped their A$$……….no other way to put it. He is undoubtedly the GREATEST Preacher and defender of Freedom, Justice and Equality in my lifetime…and I’m 53
True
Absolutely CORRECT and true
Yes he did.
Lol, whatever.
He destroyed those neuter genders but he is undefeated and GOD is The Greatest!
- Don't believe I've seen this one before - Thank you - 👈🏼
Ya GOTTA love the Minister. He's the best definition of #TooCool the way he handles and conducts himself in the midst of opposition. I encourage us all to study his methods and debating abilities.
These men look like they drunk and tobacco smoke filled zealots talking to a unique black man
This is why I love the minister he explains so well. He wiped the floor with them..
Masterful statesmen! The Minister’s words regarding the Israeli/Palestinian from nearly 40 years ago were prescient and as apropos today as they were then. May Allah bless the Minister as he steadfastly remains on his post!
❤Ameen ya Allah.
The reporter on the left was left writhing un controllably with anger & frustration to the point where her couldn't even cast his eyes in the direction of Mr. Farrakhan! Quite amusing and telling 🤔
The whole entity of the press continued to lie and twist The Minister's words ..."Judaism is a gutter religion" (their words) and "Hitler is a great man" (their words out of context)...I admire Minister Farrakhan's great self control because I would have been so sick of having to explain against their lies over and over...I would probably have cussed them all out, could easily see their following an orchestrated script to try to take down a mighty man! God Bless Minister Farrakhan.
Strong and true Brother,Love our Minister Farrakhan ❤
Absolutely CORRECT and true
You just gotta love this guy, Farrakhan. 💕
They brought three reporters in to handle Farrakhan in hopes of laying some pressure on him but he laid the pressure on them.
They didn’t know what to do with his excellent speaking skills that he just left them speechless. Dumbfounded if you will and he left out of there unscathed and ready for his next assignment!
Exactly 💯
The power of TRUTH.
He laid pressure and destruction on all 3, they could not do the job they were sent to do and left with shame
❤❤ They are truly terrified of Brother Farrakhan. He is so ABOVE them and ANYTHING they KNOW. All praise is due to Allah.
Honorable Minister Farrakhan Is Our Instructor, and We Must Implement His Teachings To Our Lives..
The Minister Is Speaking To His People To Use The Knowledge, and Implement..! 🙏🏾💯
Thank You Again Honorable Minister
Louis Farrakhan 🙏🏾
The ws Showed Their Frustration, Guilt, Racism, Lies, and Hatred Towards The Minister, and the host Broadcasted..📺 His Hatred On Live Television..!
Look at The host, and His Constituents Body Language.. 🤨
Thank You Again 💯
Honorable Minister
Louis Farrakhan 🙏🏾
All Praise To Allah 🙏🏾
Absolute masterclass in how to expertly handle hostile parties.
#FOICombatives
❤Absolutely CORRECT
Brilliant.
Fast forward to 2023.....Farkan was on point 100
Especially Isreal
"Travel safely" sounded like a flat warning.
The Minister Farrakhan has complete Mastery of The English Language!! And Complete mastery over His Emotions!! Elijah said...."Everywhere you see him...look at him"!!
He neutered those to the point their voices were shaking as they tried to spin their questions…
Powerful message
The Khan cooked 'em good!
I remember this time. Chicago with Mayor Harold Washington , Gus Savage and them was the epicenter. During this climate, A Student of The HEM and a Student of MLK were exciting Black America. Jesse, running for President and out debating the button down collar opponents, and milking cows in Iowa , retrieving A captured Black Airman from Syria, with The Minister and Akbar making the outreach ect was a threat, dissing Reagan/Washington’s failed attempts to get the Airman . Jesse had to be stopped. The publishing of the off the record comment was the way. The Minister took His weight ( and imo, saved his life- after real threats were made in Jesse and dead animals left at his Chicago house threatening his still young family). Imo, The Minister could not remove the “smear “ that the press put on him, no matter how much he explained it. Overall, both Men did not get hurt physically and pursued their mission. Thanks for this post.
❤ this great black leader
Dr.tyrone of Chester PA
I love Minister Farrakahn. These clowns "interviewing" THE Minister, make this look like a SNL skit.
😂😂😂..I know right..Reminds me of Damon Wayons doing Farrakhan on In Living Color.
Our Divine Leader Teacher and Example on Planet Earth!
I didn’t see this one I was 4 years old when this interview took place.
Still relevant today.
Thank you!
❤ May Allah reward the Nation of Islam ameen.May Allah forgive and accept us ameen.
I love what he said, forgive does not come first repentance comes first...wow, this answered my question whether we should forgive white America for all the evil they have done towards us.
Wow i love this
You can see the uneasiness on the moderater interviewing Min. Farrakhan.
Great Content ❤keep posting
Yes absolutely CORRECT
🙌🏽🙌🏽🤲🏾
Love u brother
This being 40 years ago he did a good job of speaking 🔊 but looking at this today he could have said thing better , again 40 yrs in passing
Just watching this video and the manner in which the Brother Minister presented himself, his defense(against accusations of being called an anti-xxxxxe...as if it were really necessary to do so) and represented black people the world over makes me proud. Nevertheless, the host and his cohorts were annoying and unreasonable.
The Great Minister
Milton Coleman broke with the tenents of the 4th estate and broke the law of black supply
The Minister is Master over these low thinking individuals
No sir, best part about it, Farrakhan handled them with kids gloves.
Lol..i wonder what was said after the program ended...
The Honorable Minister Farrakhan, wearing these white folks out on their own turf, with knowledge and wisdom!
They become pink
Powerful message