2006
Tired Of Farrakhan and Friends Condemning America
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by Rabbi Aryeh Spero
America’s Rabbi
Louis Farrakhan, leader of America’s Black Muslims, said the other day at what he calls the Black State Of the Union Address that "America Should Burn." Well, Minister Farrakhan — actually, Imam Farrakhan — if you don’t like it here, why don’t you take your torch and live somewhere else.
I and tens of millions of Americans are getting weary of people living here constantly deriding America. Nowhere will one find a land of greater freedom, true liberty, one with people of such good will and decades of civil peace and predictability.
From all over the world people are risking their lives and praying to get here. Yet all we hear from you and Jesse, Al and Harry, Danny and Julian is how bad this country is. What have you and the aforementioned professional complainers offered outside of decades of resentment, bitterness, and agitation? All this, after this country has bent over backwards to Do The Right Thing. Around the globe, the tormented yearn and praise America while you scorn her.
America owes you and your followers not a wit more than it offers anybody else: the right to get up in the morning and seize the opportunities found in a free society. It guarantees no outcome, but it provides life and liberty to all, and the pursuit of happiness to those willing to put in the hard work and sacrifice that enables a person to do what he can with his life.
You can vote; you can walk any street; one set of laws governs us all. There are no white laws or black laws, Jewish laws or Hindu laws, nor a set of laws for farmers different from those who dwell in the city. Nowhere in the world is the concept of equal justice under the law practiced more consistently than in the United States.
My family came here decades ago without a penny and not knowing the language. They asked for nothing but to be free to worship as they wished and be responsible for their own livelihood. So stop the carping and the hate-filled speeches. Instead of scapegoating Whites and Jews, how about some good citizenship, and start speaking of the hope and opportunity that is America.
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