The minister implored the Black community to choose life over death. Cancer is effecting our community at a rate that it has never effected us before. Women do not enjoy pap smears, he said, but in the interest of personal health and therefore that of the family and community, it has to be done. Cancer he said is running rampant through the Black community. Many of our great ones are dying from it, Farrakhan said.
Black men have to get over the fear of an embarrassing rectal probe and get themselves checked out.
If you are in your 30s as you reach your 40s, go get an examination. That s imperative. But, Farrakhan denied that he ever apologized to Jews, I will never apologize to the Jewish community for telling the truth, but if they show and tell me where I'm wrong, I will apologize. That can t be done, he said, when they won t dialogue with him. Noting that when considering a meeting with certain individuals, he was informed that they had preconditions.