Farrakhan: Politicians prostituting themselves

Speaking at the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March in Washington on Saturday, Minister Louis Farrakhan bemoaned the glut of money in the American political system, saying it has turned leaders into prostitutes.

Farrakhan, one the speakers at the original march in 1995, turned his fiery disdain on the 2016 GOP field.

“The Republicans have, I don’t know how many, is it 17? Well it was,” Farrakhan said on the National Mall. “And they are really like the pretty girl who is well-formed, showing her wares, so that some man with money will buy her. Who wants to be a whore?”

{mosads}“Do you think people with money put their money behind you if they don’t expect something from you?” the Nation of Islam leader asked.

Farrakhan, addressing a crowd in the shadow of the Capitol Building, also condemned Congress for selling out the public good to special interests.

“$3.3 billion in the last few years has been paid by lobbyists to this house,” he said, pointing to the Capitol. “Well what are they lobbying for? Laws that may not be in the best interest of the people. How then can you look in the mirror at yourself, when you are a bought-and-paid-for whore? And then what do you get for being a whore?”

The religious leader also called on men and women to treat each other with decency.

“May I pause for a moment and say to women: Your language must change as to how you address yourselves. You should never call another woman a ‘bitch,’” Farrakhan said. “Get that word out of our language. No female is after a dog. Every female is after God.”

“Black men who like to use such words, pull it out of your tongue, before your tongue is pulled out of your head,” he added.

Farrakhan, speaking behind bulletproof glass, also made an impassioned argument against abortion during his remarks, which lasted over an hour.

“Now it is your body, you can do with it as you please, but it would be so tragic, if the next Sitting Bull was aborted,” he said. “It would be tragic, if the next Malcom X or Martin Luther King or Moses or Abraham or Jesus was flushed away. You don’t know who your child is going to be.”

Farrakhan was one of dozens of speakers at the “Justice or Else!” march, which is building on the Black Lives Matter movement and calling for reforms in policing and the criminal justice system amid escalating racial violence.

Representatives from the families of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old who was killed in Ferguson, Mo., and Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old killed in Florida, were in attendance at the rally.