Women’s March co-president Tamika Mallory refused to condemn rabid anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan in a Monday appearance on ABC’s “The View.”
The Farrakhan subject was first brought up by co-host Sunny Hostin, who asked Mallory if she thought it was “problematic” to be associated with Farrakhan and calling him “the GOAT [Greatest of All Time].”
Mallory responded by lauding Farrakhan for “what he’s done in black communities”:
Women's March President Tamika Mallory defends calling anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan the "greatest of all time"
"I didn’t call him the greatest of all time because of his rhetoric I called him the greatest of all time because of what he’s done in black communities" pic.twitter.com/C07I6t2x7f
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) January 14, 2019
“View” co-host Meghan McCain followed up by asking Mallory about Farrakhan’s myriad anti-Semitic statements.
“I don’t agree with many of Minister Farrakhan’s statements,” Mallory said.
“Specifically about Jewish people?” McCain replied.
“As I said, I don’t agree with many of Minister Farrakhan’s statements,” Mallory said.
McCain then asked if Mallory condemned them, prompting Mallory to reiterate, “I don’t agree with these statements.”
“You won’t condemn it,” McCain interjected.
Mallory replied by saying that Farrakhan’s rhetoric is “not my language.”
“It not the way that I speak, it is not the way that I organize, and I think that it is clear over the 20 years of my own personal activism, my own personal track record, who I am and that I should never be judged through the lens of a man,” Mallory said.
Women's March leader Tamika Mallory on The View today refused to condemn Louis Farrakhan's past remarks about Jewish people
Watch as she is pressed repeatedly on the issue by @MeghanMcCain pic.twitter.com/ikZFoFyLFz
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) January 14, 2019
Mallory was widely criticized for her remarks and McCain was applauded for questioning her about Farrakhan:
As a queer Jew of color, this isn’t heartbreaking any more, this is a spit in my face. Rise up, people of conscious, help us fight this pic.twitter.com/e2gtjCiHC7
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) January 14, 2019
“Do you condemn this remarks?”
“I don’t agree with many of Minister Farrakhan’s statements”
“specifically about Jewish people?”
“As I said I don’t agree”
“Do you condemn them?”
JUST FCKING SAY THESE WORDS. JUST SAY IT FFS pic.twitter.com/6NPf7mIXht— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) January 14, 2019
Thank you, @MeghanMcCain, for finally asking the questions nobody else in the media will.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 14, 2019
This is @MeghanMcCain at her best. And if liberals are to condemn bigotry and antisemitism by those on the “right” then we must do so even stronger when it’s coming from those on the “left.” https://t.co/ATZkSVGPoS
— Scott Stenholm (@ScottStenholm) January 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1084877325773275137
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1084881114089644032
Mallory is a total disgrace. @LouisFarrakhan is nothing more than an updated Hitler. She should resign immediately. I call on liberals and progressives to do the right thing. https://t.co/hxSWScGXSF
— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) January 14, 2019
The National Organization for Women (NOW) announced on Jan. 2 that the New Orleans Women’s March was canceled because of the anti-Semitism controversy plaguing the national Women’s March leaders; other Women’s Marches have been canceled for other reasons. Other local Women’s Marches have distanced themselves from the national leaders.
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