asmPolitics-103 [Keith Ellison]

Ellison is no stranger to controversy, having maintained open ties with left-wing radicalism throughout his career. He received the endorsement of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the U.S.’s largest openly socialist organization, in his race against Tom Perez, and has returned the favor with expressions of admiration for the group’s work.

Ellison was the first Muslim congressman ever elected in the United States. His journey to Islam began with Louis Farrakhan’s anti-white, anti-Semitic cult the Nation of Islam, the central beliefs of which include that white people were “grafted” into existence as a result of the evil experiments of a black mad scientist named “Yakub.” Ellison was closely associated with the Nation of Islam and other strains of black nationalism well into the 1990s. As Farrakhan, whom Ellison denounced when he ran for Congress in 2006, revealed publicly earlier this year, Ellison sold the Nation’s notoriously anti-Semitic newspaper, The Final Call, on the streets of Minneapolis, at least as late as 1995. He appears to have maintained some connection with the Nation even after his 2002 election to the Minnesota statehouse.

In giving his account, which contradicted Ellison’s earlier claims of minimal involvement in the Nation’s activities, Farrakhan gave an explanation characteristic of his typical rhetoric, telling his parishioners, “So when the Jews found out that he was in the Nation—’Alright, Mr. Ellison, come on now you have got to denounce Mr. Farrakhan as an anti-Semite, and maybe we will let you run.’”

In his final year in law school, in 1990, Ellison was even more openly radical, openly calling for a black ethnostate to be carved out of the American South and calling the U.S. Constitution the “best evidence of a white racist conspiracy to subjugate other peoples,” in a series of columns under his then-sobriquet “Keith E. Hakim.” While he has distanced himself from such explicit radicalism more recently, Ellison continues to endorse the violent anarchists and communists of Antifa in their campaigns.

On the opposite side of the aisle, trade attorney and former state Rep. Doug Wardlow, from suburban Eagan, Minnesota, appeared poised to secure the Republican nomination for Minnesota AG. “Minnesota Democrats are going to regret this choice,” Republican Attorneys General Association Executive Director Scott Will said in a statement.

Ellison and Wardlow will face each other in the November 8 general election.

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