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NEW: Top Democrat Caught Applauding Speech Labeling White People ‘Demons’

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March 28, 2025

Louis Farrakhan is the gift that keeps on giving for Republicans.

The infamously antiwhite and antisemitic African-American religious leader has been a bogeyman for decades as his name has wound its way through electoral controversies dating back to the 1980s. Although 91 and now retired from public life, the prejudicial pastor has resurfaced in the New Jersey governor’s race, where the leading Democratic candidate appeared at his side in 2004.

Video from a religious service at the time shows Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a progressive and frontrunner in the Democratic primary, inviting Farrakhan to address the congregation and applauding approvingly as he encouraged churchgoers to “break the necks” of white people everywhere.

In the clip, Baraka can be heard calling Farrakhan “the leader of every black person.”

“I don’t think that there’s any man today, present today, that has the kind of moral authority or spiritual strength,” Baraka said. “Not president, not community leader, not political international activist, nowhere that has the moral authority, the historical and political framework, that the Minister Farrakhan has, that. Who can stand where he stands and truly say that he is the leader of black people anywhere and everywhere.”

On two occasions, Baraka can be seen giving Farrakhan a standing ovation as he rails against white “demons” while denouncing the nonviolent civil rights movement of the 1960s.

“We didn’t believe in no non-violence. The cracker hit you on your jaw, you break his neck. That’s the way we think,” Farrakhan can be heard shouting in the clip, which is still available on the Nation of Islam’s website, according to Fox News.

Baraka rises a second time after Farrakhan called white people “the enemy.”

“Now the enemy comes in. You, the Crips, and the Bloods, they’ll send people in to give you rumors about your brother over there. These demons will even kill a policeman and then blame it on you. You dealing with a devil, man. You’re not dealing with righteous people. This cracker is the real devil. And you better wake up and realize that,” said Farrakhan.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the Nation of Islam preacher condemned interracial marriages and criticized any black Americans who join the military.

“I better not catch you in no d— Army uniform fighting for the enemy,” he shouts in the clip.

It wasn’t the only time that Baraka invited Farrakhan to spew hateful rhetoric in a public setting.

In 2012, when the Democrat was a principal at Central High School in Newark, he invited Farrakhan to address more than 1,000 students at an assembly, according to an online publication maintained by Farrakhan. As mayor, Baraka organized another Farrakhan speech in 2017 titled “Separation or Death.” In it, Farrakhan slammed the civil rights movement of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and instead called for reparations and for African Americans to secede from the U.S.

Asked by The Jewish Insider whether he plans to remain in the race, Baraka sounded a defiant tone.

“I will not be cowed into denouncing my lifelong work for peace, equality, and equity,” Baraka said. “These latest accusations and insinuations aren’t just false—they’re a reflection of the fear my candidacy is provoking in the political establishment.”

“The Nation of Islam holds deep respect in many parts of the Black community because of the work they’ve done to reduce violence and support self-determination in neighborhoods that have been ignored and abandoned for generations,” he added.

The Anti-Defamation League lists Farrakhan as “one of the most prominent antisemites” in American history and maintains a long list of quotes attributed to him denigrating Jewish Americans.