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Speaking in a Detroit church Friday night, Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam said that he plans to visit former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in prison Saturday as he tried to portray him as a victim of white racism.
“I’m going to visit him tomorrow in Milan, Michigan,” Farrakhan, 80, said to loud applause.
Addressing a packed audience inside Fellowship Chapel in Detroit, Farrakhan said that while Kilpatrick may have committed some mistakes, white politicians have committed similar acts and gotten away with it.
“I know he didn’t do everything right,” Farrakhan said of Kilpatrick, who was convicted of several corruption charges. But, he added, “do you think white folks in office weren’t playing a little on the side?”
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