Keith Ellison stands at the centre of a defining moment in recent US history
In 1989, Keith Ellison, as a college student, was part of a campaign seeking justice for an elderly Black couple, which was killed in a botched-up police raid.
The trial can be a challenge for Ellison, 56, who is detested by the far-right for being too liberal and looked up to by his own supporters as someone who can deliver justice. Later in the article, which was published in a university paper, he said: “And when the general public and the media condone the shooting for four young black men based on a paranoid man’s fear, it won’t be long before police officers, old ladies, weekend survival gamers, and everyone else considers it open season on the brothers.” After enrolling at the University of Minnesota Law School, his political beliefs really started to take shape.
Propelled by his activism, he ran for the seat of Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District in the House of Represenatives, and won in 2006, becoming the first Muslim to enter Congress. One of the articles was in defence of Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, who is accused of making antisemtic remarks.
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