Obama met with Farrakhan at a Congressional Black Caucus meeting in 2005, Journalist Swore Secrecy
A journalist announced last week that he will publish a photograph of then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (D) and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan that he took in 2005 at a Congressional Black Caucus meeting, but did not make public because he believed it would have "made a difference" to Obama's political future.
The photographer, Askia Muhammad, told the Trice Edney News Wire that he "gave the picture up at the time and basically swore secrecy."
"But after the nomination was secured and all the way up until the inauguration; then for eight years after he was President, it was kept under cover," Muhammad said.
Asked whether he thought the photo's release would have affected Obama's presidential campaign, Muhammad said, "I insist. It absolutely would have made a difference."
Reached by TPM on Thursday, Muhammad said a "staff member" for the CBC contacted him "sort of in a panic" after he took the photo at a caucus meeting in 2005. TPM has published the photo above with Muhammad’s permission.
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If they had a picture of Trump smiling with David Duke everyone on earth would have seen it by now. Consider that Duke says nothing even remotely as hostile against blacks as Farakhan says against whites.
ReplyDeleteDuke doesn't say anything remotely as hostile to blacks as the average mainstream news outlet, or pop culture TV show says about whites at least once a week.
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