How Farrakhan kills the joy in identity politics

I was darkly amused by the sorrow-sounding plea pinned to the top of Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan's Twitter page earlier this week:

"What have I done to make Jewish people hate me?"

What, indeed? Where does one begin?

Here, for example, are a few quick quotes from his speech to the Nation's recent annual Saviors' Day program in Chicago's Wintrust Arena:

The "powerful Jews," he told the audience of thousands,