Farrakhan changes name of Million Family March

Farrakhan changes name of Million Family March

The Oct. 16th Million Family March has been renamed to Million Family Mobilization aimed at uniting...., Nation of Islam Leader Minister Louis Farrakhan said on Cliff Kelley's V-103 "Sunday Morning Live" talk show.

It isn't a march anyway, Farrakhan said referring to the upcoming event being held in Washington, D.C. where on Oct. 16, 1995, he drew nearly 2 million mostly Black men to that park area for reconciliation, atonement and forgiveness.

There, Farrakhan will unveil his national agenda, which has been presented to the presidential candidates, that includes affordable housing. "There is a reason why we should mobilize and leverage the power of our mobilization so that the gentrification that is going on in all the major cities that is displacing poor, Black and brown people....

"This should be addressed by us in a force that can bring some change.... If we don't mobilize...don't force government to address us properly, then the homelessness will continue. Right now, there are 5 million people in America homeless. This is a crime in a country that is the richest nation on earth," he said.

"This is a crime when you see $550 billion coming through our hands. That's why we should mobilize on that day." Farrakhan said on Oct. 16th, he is establishing a 1 million family mobilization economic development fund.

"We're going to press government that some of our tax dollars should be rerouted into a fund that will allow us to rebuild our own communities," Farrakhan said.

Turning a page in his own history when on Oct. 16, 1995 he held his first Million Man March, Farrakhan said: "We got Black men together for a specific purpose and the good of that purpose is still going on.

Referring to the Oct. 16th event, Farrakhan said: "It's more than a march. It is the beginning of a process of mobilizing our people nationally so that we can leverage that kind of mobilization and make it a force to change public and foreign policy," he explained.

Saying for the last 45-years of his life that he has concentrated his energy totally on the Black community, Farrakhan said: "The way we impact other nationalities or races have an affect on us.

"The enemy of the unity of us always like to pit the poor against each other. This is how the rich stay in power over the poor; so, the Black and the brown here in Chicago sometimes are at odds with each other and the brown family is in conflict with itself because of the gang problems in the Black community....

"You have problems with Arabs, Asians...with whites...." Farrakhan said if they're called in the same room and addressed the concerns Blacks have "in a way that maybe we (can) break down some of the barriers and form strategic alliances and leverage that power to bring something out of government that we deserve out of corporate America that we deserve...."

Referring to the Oct. 16th event, Farrakhan said it will be seen on satellite and website worldwide and that every word will be translated into French, Spanish and Arabic "so that we have a chance on one day with speech...culture, music with unity to affect a world that is now looking to the Black masses of America as a hope for themselves."

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