The Question of 'Integration' vs. 'Separation'By the Honorable
Minister Louis Farrakhan | Last updated: Dec 18, 2012 - 1:28:56
PM [Editor’s note: The following article contains excerpts of
the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s July 20, 1980 message
of the same name delivered at the Institute of Positive
Education in Chicago, Illinois. To order this message in its
entirety, please call 1.866.602.1230, ext. 200.] In The Name of
Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful. “Integration” vs.
“Separation”: Which Way Should We Go?” For some of us, the word
“integration” conjures up a lot of the pictures of the “1960s”
when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and so many of our Black
leaders and a host of young men and women went into the streets
and marched for integration of public places such as
restaurants, hotels, motels, restrooms, etc.; marching and
suffering for a “Voting Rights” Bill because these wonderful
brothers and sisters and these well-meaning leaders of our
people felt that it was time that Black people share in