Not a Parody
Not a Parody After O.J. and the Farrakhan-led Million Man March: Is Healing Possible? A dialogue between Michael Lerner and Cornel West Lerner: I'm told that you physically embraced [Louis...
...Lerner: I strongly disagree with your assessment of Farrakhan, but I do respect your thinking and agree with you that this kind of dialogue that we have been conducting is an important part of the process of healing to which we are both committed...
...West: Anyone I physically embrace in private I embrace in public too...
...We are going to have to do lots more talking and encourage lots more dialoguing between our communities...
...West: I physically embrace people whom I've spent quality time with across the board...
...Lerner: Doesn't it trouble you that this is someone who is perceived by many Jews as an anti-Semite, many women as a sexist, many gays as a homophobe, and that this is the man you . . . are associated with...
...West: I want to affirm your deep empathy for Black suffering...
...A dialogue between Michael Lerner and Cornel West Lerner: I'm told that you physically embraced [Louis Farrakhan...
...West: In dialogue with, to push, to challenge...
...West: The dialogue should happen...
...Lerner: When I broached this in shul...
...Lerner: What do you think would emerge from a meeting between Jews and Farrakhan at this moment...
...No matter what color or gender or sexual orientation...
...I've witnessed that throughout the years we've been dialoguing together...
...I was suddenly surrounded by angry liberal Jews who were saying to me, "How could you possibly doubt what Farrakhan stands for now that he has repeated this 'bloodsuckers' remark...
...And my sister . . . said, go to the Yellow Pages and look up under "Get a backbone...
...Lerner: This was in public and was seen as a public symbolic act...
Vol. 1 • December 1995 • No. 15
