Louis Farrakhan calls on Obama to apologize for calling Baltimore youth ‘thugs’

Quoting the 4.3.1968 speech, @LouisFarrakhan says that MLK said Blacks must redistribute the pain. Please read and/or listen to that speech!

Tonight’s meeting at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., marked the first stop on Minister Louis Farrakhan’s #JusticeOrElse tour, on which the 82-year-old will discuss plans for the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March this October. One significant change announced tonight: the 2015 march will include women as well.

That certainly wasn’t all Farrakhan had on his mind. He also called on President Obama to apologize for calling the youth of Baltimore “thugs,” when the members of the #BaltimoreUprising are more closely comparable to the members of the original Boston Tea Party — not the first time we’ve heard the rioters and looters compared to the founding fathers.

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