Interesting article about links btw. Pfleger, Farrakhan, Axelrod, Black Panthers
Sen. Barack Obama’s chief political strategist sits on the finance committee of the Chicago church led by controversial pastor Michael Pfleger, who claimed in a sermon last weekend Sen. Hillary Clinton cried in public because she thought being white entitled her to the Democratic presidential nomination. […]
Pfleger hosted Farrakhan at his church a number of times, including a one-hour sermon last May, his first public appearance since Farrakhan announced in 2006 he had been suffering from prostate cancer and was seriously ill.
According to reports, Pfleger, a public defender of Farrakhan’s, spent hours with the Nation of Islam chief during his illness. Pfleger previously enlisted Farrakhan’s support for several of his initiatives, including an anti-gun protest last year.
Pfleger’s sermons at St. Sabina’s routinely include rants against the U.S. government, white people and the Bush administration and calls for reparations for slavery, according to a profile of the parish featured in Trumpet Magazine, which was founded by Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
“I got very educated by the [Black] Panthers – very educated,” Pfleger told Trumpet.