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On Monday activist and co-president of the Women’s March Tamika Mallory found herself defending her admiration and support of Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan on The View. This includes an almost two year Instagram post where she referred to the Minister as “the GOAT.”

“I didn’t call him the Greatest of All Time because of his rhetoric,” Mallory said on the talk show. “I called him the Greatest of All Time because of what he’s done in Black communities.”

The post-in-questioned was posted in May 2017 when Mallory was photographed with Farrakhan. The caption read, “Thank God this man is still alive and doing well. He is definitely the GOAT.” Mallory attended the Nation of Islam’s Saviours’ Day event last February, along with other Women’s March founding members that also caused outraged from some supporters of the Women’s March.

During that particular Farrakhan’s speech, he said Jewish people are “responsible for all of this filth and degenerate behavior that Hollywood is putting out turning men into women and women into men.”

“As a leader, as a black leader in a country that is still dealing with some very serious unresolved issues as it relates to the black experience in this country, I go into a lot of difficult spaces,” Mallory said. “Wherever my people are, there that’s where I must also be.”

View co-host Meghan McCain questioned the activist stance.

“I would never be comfortable supporting someone who said, ‘I’m not an anti-Semite, I’m an anti-termite,’ ‘It’s the wicked Jews, the false Jews that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality,’” McCain said. “You’re talking about women, you should be talking about all women, including Jewish women and conservative women.”

“We didn’t make those remarks,” Mallory responded. “I don’t agree with many of Minister Farrakhan’s statements.”

McCain then asked, “Do you condemn them?”

“I don’t agree with these statements,” Mallory said. “It’s not my language, it’s not the way that I speak, it’s not how I organize. I should never be judged through the lens of a man.”

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