Tamika Mallory on being called an antisemite and the Women's March leaders' relationship with Louis F.

"Linda and I never really talk about this in public...Linda never actually physically met Minister Farrakhan but they were like talking about how like he was her granddad, I mean they were like you know she's like a devout follower..."

"...her sector...of the Muslim faith is different...so she's not of the Nation of Islam, she's got her own principles...it's a sunni or something...and of course Carmen and I had been together and we had visited with the minister and we talked with him and we challenged..."

"...and we sat with the minister before all this stuff happened, we sat with him, we challenged him on some things, he challenged us on some things, so that's just the way the relationship has been but the real reason we went through what we went through..."

"...or the excuse that was used was that I went to an event where the minister was speaking and I bring all of this up because that just goes to show you how the decision that I made ended up really seriously hurting all the people around me. Everyone around me got hurt..."

"...so when they were being asked to denounce me...Carmen got calls...saying you have to denounce her...especially Linda, all that she's done, all her accomplishments, at that moment, she could have said, 'yo, I gotta cut ties, I gotta let people know, I don't even know dude'..."

"...'I don't even know minister Farrakhan'...but instead, what they did is, they doubled down on their support for me and also with their understanding that they may not agree that the minister has said but they know for sure what he's done in the black community..."

"...so they knew that they could stand and say...we don't agree or we want to challenge these particular points or...we don't support this particular thing...there's no relationship we're all of us agree on everything, right?"

"...but at the same time they understood that if we're really working on behalf of the absolute most marginalized people in our society...the people who have been instrumental in the survival of that particular group are not subject to denouncement..."

"Challenging, yes. Denouncement, no...that's just not language we can use. Not when you're talking about Black people. We're not in the business, Carmen always says...of denouncing people, because America has already done that."