Jay Electronica has received a new tattoo, inking the last name of The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan above his eyebrow. The tattoo was done by Olivier Tattoo of London.
“As my sweet mother would say… ‘Well son, fuckem,’” Jay Electronica said on Instagram.
Roc Nation’s Jay Electronica is Team Louis Farrakhan. The hip-hop artist has declared his support for the leader of the Nation of Islam a week after Facebook banned him from its service.
Jay Elect went to Instagram Friday with a salute to the iconic figure.
Last week, Facebook sent shockwaves through the media after announcing banning Farrakhan and other high-profile celebs.
Facebook announced Thursday afternoon that it had designated some high-profile people, including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who’s notorious for using anti-Semitic language, and right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, as “dangerous” and said it will be purging them from its platforms. On Thursday, Jones and InfoWars will be barred from Instagram as well. Other people banned on Thursday included Paul Nehlen, an anti-Semite who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2016 and 2018, and fringe right-wing media personalities Laura Loomer, Milo Yiannopoulos and Paul Joseph Watson. (CNN)
Facebook and Instagram took measures to ban Min. Louis Farrakhan from its social media services, lumping him with a pair of Right-Wing extremists who also were banned. Joining Farrakhan on the outs with FB and IG are Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos.
Facebook Thursday banned from its flagship social network and its subsidiary Instagram the Infowars site and its leader Alex Jones, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, saying their presence on the sites violated its policies against dangerous individuals and organizations.
“We’ve always banned individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. “The process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and it is what led us to our decision to remove these accounts today.”
Facebook last August cited violations of community standards in removing pages belonging to Jones and Infowars, notorious for peddling unfounded conspiracy theories. The action came amid a flurry of suspensions and content take-downs for Jones and Infowars, which were also booted from Google-owned YouTube, Twitter and other platforms.
The outlet adds that the services also banned Infowars contributor and “New Right” advocate Paul Joseph Watson, and right-wing activist Laura Loomer.
In 2018, Facebook removed a video of Farrakhan referring to Jews as “termites.”
The upcoming annual Chicago Women’s March has been canceled in light of national Women’s March co-president and board member Tamika Mallory’s ties with the Nation of Islam and Min. Louis Farrakhan according to local reports. Mallory recently attended the Nation Of Islam’s Saviour’s Day celebration where Farrakhan reportedly made comments about the Jewish community among other statements.
The annual January march in Chicago, which drew thousands of people to Grant Park the last two years, was nixed by organizers who cited high costs and limited volunteers.
But the announcement came after the Chicago chapter condemned and distanced itself the national Women’s March leadership for its ties to anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ statements from Minister Louis Farrakhan of the National of Islam.
The national group faced backlash earlier this year when co-president Tamika Mallory attended the Nation of Islam’s annual Savior’s Day gathering in Chicago, during which Farrahkan made inflammatory statements about “powerful Jews” he considered enemies.
Mallory later denounced the anti-Semitic comments, but said she had been attending the annual event since childhood after she received help from the Nation of Islam when she was in need.
While the march is off, a weekend gathering celebrating the anniversary of the event will take place on Jan. 19, 2018.
Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhanhas been on the hot seat in times past for views that many have deemed as anti-Semitic. Facebook recently took down a video where Farrakhan is heard referring to Jewish people as “termites” although the video still exists on Twitter so far.
The video was removed because of its violation of the Terms of Service. The video is still posted on Twitter, which, so far, has not removed it.
In the video, Farrakhan claims that he is not an anti-Semite, as some critics contend. Rather, he says that he is “anti-termite.”
“So when they talk about Farrakhan, call me a hater, call me anti-Semite. Stop it. I’m anti-Termite. I don’t know nothing about hating somebody because of their religious preference,” Farrakhan claimed in the video.
Farrakhan was most recently in the mainstream news when he appeared on stage as an honored guest at Aretha Franklin’s funeral. He was joined by former President Bill Clinton, among others.
The video can be viewed below, for now.
Twitter Reportedly Won’t Suspend Louis Farrakhan For Video Post Comparing Jews To Termitespic.twitter.com/tOy3Zgr93B
One of many voluminous things about the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is the beloved Nation of Islam leader’s secured relationship with Hip-Hop culture. Such nigh bond is put on display in the debut of Farrakhan’s long-awaited musical compilation project titled Let’s Change The World.
The project attributes a spectrum of eight musical genres including classical, gospel, jazz, folk, opera, reggae, calypso, and rap. Let’s Change The World is bejeweled with features from Grammy Award-winning legends in the likes of Chaka Khan, Stevie Wonder, Stephanie Mills, Deniece Williams alongside Hip-Hop luminaries Rick Ross, Snoop Dogg, and Common and several more music icons including the late Teena Marie and Damian Marley.
The highly anticipated project is a righteous deed of Farrakhan which took 14 years of grand devotion to create. Recording took place all over North America, hitting 16 studios including the one located at the Nation of Islam’s headquarters in Chicago, Mosque Maryam.
Let’s Change The World was released earlier this year on Feb. 23, the dawn of the Nation of Islam’s Saviours’ Day weekend and welcomed by a ravishing music reception in Chicago. Farrakhan dropped insight about the moment he made the project a determined idea during the ceremony, giving hefty kudos to the late renowned musician, Charles Veal.
“This has been 14 years in the making and it started in 2002 with a brother, he may be on the wall somewhere, Charles Veal … he helped me in my playing of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the symphony in Los Angeles. And he said, ‘Minister would you be willing to do an album?’ and I said ‘yes’ so we started,” recalled Farrakhan via NOI.org.
Let’s Change The World, is the Nation of Islam’s leader grand return to the creative calls of the life element of music. Before joining the Nation of Islam in 1955, Farrakhan was in the midst of a budding professional music career as a calypso singer known as “The Charmer” and owned a hit which reigned the Billboard charts for the following five consecutive years. Before touching the adept music scene of the ’50s, as young as 13 years old, the beloved young virtuoso was a skilled violinist and went on to participate and win national competitions and also played in college orchestras and collective symphonies.
Overall, on the Hip-Hop tip, Farrakhan has expressed his sentiments with Hip-Hop rappers and the power of their positions. In a 2015 interview with the Breakfast Club, he elaborated on why and how he sees rappers as being the leaders of the future:
I was with Brother Snoop, and I was telling my brother how you rappers are the new leaders. You’re the real leaders of the people. The rapper doesn’t think he’s a leader, but he’s got followers all over the world. The biggest preachers don’t have as many followers as one rapper. How can we get you to rap where intelligence is coming through the lyrics with a beat that begins to open the minds of people. Our people want better and they’ll do better if they are shown better.
The project is currently available in the form of a box set, which is a limited edition collector’s item retailing at $250. The elegantly packaged set features over 40 songs, 7 CD’s, and an approximately 100 paged book showcasing exclusive content including interviews and photographs. Farrakhan has surely introduced a supreme segment of sounds the masses will spend careful time dissecting.
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