Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s Ties to Louis Farrakhan Resurface

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s link to controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is coming under scrutiny as he makes a bid to become New Jersey’s next governor.

Farrakhan, 91, has been labeled an extremist by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center for allegedly making antisemitic, anti-white and anti-gay comments.

“You and I are going to have to learn to distinguish between the righteous Jew and the Satanic Jews who have infected the whole world with poison and deceit,” Farrakhan said during a speech at a mosque in 2018.

But Baraka praised Farrakhan as a role model and strong “moral” leader when he introduced the minister during an event in Newark 2004 while serving as Newark’s deputy mayor.

“I don’t think that there’s any man today, present today, that has the kind of moral authority or spiritual strength,” Baraka said of Farrakhan at the time.

“Not president, not community leader, not political international activist. No one that has the moral authority, the historical and political framework that the Minister Farrakhan has who can stand where he stands and truly say that he is the leader of black people anywhere and everywhere,” Baraka gushed.

At the same event, Farrakhan called white people “cracker” and “the real devil” and claimed the government was using the prison system to give black men AIDS and kill the black community and used a gay slur.

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