How Will We Overcome?

The song “We Shall Overcome” is typical of how we face all our on-going problems in America. It is uplifting, but also unfortunately not very meaningful. It’s all about how it makes us feel, not about what needs to be done.

Here we are, decades from civil rights. We got integration, we got voting rights, we got elected to pretty much every office in politics, even to the presidency. What else am I missing that we wanted and got in America? We have world famous Black sports figures, and artists in every field you can think of—movie, theater, poetry, literature, art of every kind. We have famous Black doctors, lawyers, professionals of every kind. We have Black business owners, some which are millionaires and billionaires. All of this makes us feel good. But, we have not fixed anything.

What we do not have is the most important thing of all—independence. Black independence. With all mentioned above and other stuff not mentioned, we are still dependent on white people to give us everything. I don’t care how rich a Black person is or how much power they think they have, ultimately they have to answer to the white man. Remember President Obama speaking up on behalf of Henry Louis Gates Jr? He had to backtrack on all that, and apologize to a white police man, when the white police man should’ve been apologizing to Mr. Gates. That should have been a sign to every Black man, woman and child in America, having a Black president is absolutely meaningless because a white police man has more power than he does.

The followers of the Hon. Elijah Muhammad were not surprised by this turn of events.

“If you think because Kennedy said in 40 years a Negro man would become President of the country, he will become just that, then you misunderstood. Never will a black man be able to rule a white man in America. He was only referring to the so-called American Negroes’ unity with his brothers. This will make him strong enough to put a President in office, but not over white people.”—The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Message to The Blackman, “Protection of the Faithful”

His words rang 100% true when it came to President Obama, and this was written decades before any of that happened.

The only way to fix this problem is Black independence and to get Black independence, we need separation.

I can guess the next argument—we’ve tried to build our own Black communities and every time, white people make some excuse to destroy it, along with Black lives in that community. Rosewood, Tulsa, to name but a few.

This is not something we can do by ourselves. That should have become apparent, after failure upon failure upon failure. So, we try to arm ourselves for protection. How is that going to work, when there are lots more of them with arms? AND they make the arms. And they control who gets the arms. And they control who gets what kind. It’s not going to work. The Black panthers didn’t fix anything.

We need help, badly. This is bad and it getting worse, fast. We need back up.

If we believe there is a God of justice, then we should also believe that there is a way to get justice for ourselves, without relying on the enemy who is denying us justice.

We will find the help we need thru the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He has God backing him up and the same God is behind every one who follows the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was successful. That is a fact. While he was here, he showed us what needed to be done and how to do it.

He was our leader AND teacher.

We need to UNITE behind what he taught us, follow his example and we will be successful. This can be proven. Study history. Do some research on the accomplishments of the Muslims under the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Farms, grocery stores, banks, businesses of all kinds, factories, schools, housing, throughout America, even our own place to print newspapers, no handouts, nothing but faith in our God, hard work and dedication, all under the Nation of Islam, all without the backing of white people.

We had our own economic program.

No one else, no other Black leader in America, has made these accomplishments. Ever.

White people didn’t like it. They would’ve made another massacre like Rosewood or Tulsa if they could. You think they wouldn’t???

But they couldn’t.

As the song goes, “Can’t touch this!”

We are a nation within a nation. As he states in Message To the Blackman, “…we are in dire need of unity, but the unity must be backed by a power superior to the power of our enemies. This power is in Allah and the Nation of Islam whose arms are outstretched if we would only accept them.”

“The solution to our problem is Divine.”

Do not continue to expect anything coming from white people to help us, when white people are the ones who made this problem.

Thank you for reading these words!

As Salaam Alaikum (Peace be unto you)

NASA and Black Astronauts

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/nasa-drops-plan-first-woman-moon

So, the news story above stated that, “Nasa drops plan to land first woman and first person of color on the moon.”

My question is, why would we even want white people to send us into outer space? For one, observing history, I would never trust their technology like that. Remember the Space Shuttle Challenger? Remember the Titanic submarine? Don’t get me started on Boeing. If I have to travel by plane, I’m praying from the time the plane starts down the runway to the time it lands.

White people put money over peoples’ lives and safety, every time. If there’s an accident, oops, we’ll do an investigation. The family may get some money, a drop in the bucket to multinational billions. Between the lawyers and the insurance companies, they’ve already accounted for such payouts and everything is in place to minimize their “losses” and make sure they remain profitable. Yet, nothing can make up for the lost of loved ones. There are too many instances to list of people dying because of all kinds of technology gone wrong. No thank you!

It is only natural to be awe-inspired by the wonders in the sky and to want to know more, but we need to just be patient. Once the white man’s time is up, we will relearn all there is to know about our universe. As stated by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad on the Clark Hotel Press Conference, “I think that’s clear to you and I who shall rule after the white man. There is no alternative out there. We don’t have another white race to rule if the white race rule will terminate, we don’t have any other to rule but the darker people of the earth.”

The white man won’t dispute this, nor will he try to say he created the heavens and the earth. Instead, he just tries to take anything like God or man out of the picture. All the evidence shows the Black man was here before anyone else. The creator of the Universe is the one who was here first, the Black man, the Black God.

So, thank you, Mr. White Man, for exempting us from being your space experiment guinea pigs!

The Power of Math

A few days ago was March 14, celebrated as “Pi Day”, because the number pi begins 3.14. It got me to thinking about how many time I’ve heard this about math and I know I’m not in a minority here: “I hate math”, “Why am I learning this?”, “I don’t see the point”,“I’ll never use it”. It’s sad and unfortunate that some people have no appreciation for the subject that is the backbone of everything! Some may love science, but if they don’t like math they will only go so far, because the language of science is mathematics. Both can be fascinating and fun, if taught in the right way.

There’s nothing to compare to performing a science experiment and seeing the ideas you learned come to life in action. Math can be just as fascinating. You do not have to be a mathematician or know fancy formulas to appreciate it’s power to answer simple everyday questions. The problem is, most don’t use it.

Many Black people, in particular, seem to have an absolute aversion to anything numerical. I believe this stems from how the subject is first presented to us. In general, mathematics is presented in a way that is disconnected from anything relevant. It is harder for a child to relate to and understand something that is abstract and not connected with day to day experiences. Word problems are supposed to make that connection, but even those aren’t relevant. This causes the majority of our children’s interest to drift away from math and science, the building blocks of every discipline. We need to nurture an interest for math and science in our children. How can we do this?

First, make sure you, the parent, have a solid grasp of the fundamentals of arithmetic—addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals—so you can help your child master these fundamentals. Then, make an effort to make mathematics a part of your child’s life early on. Encourage basic counting, and as they get more knowledge, encourage finding patterns. Numbers and patterns are everywhere. Getting your child to find these numbers and patterns and using their skills in every day situations will give your child number sense and make math more relevant to them. Practice is essential but doesn’t have to always come from homework.

Here are more general ideas. You can tailor the activity according the child’s skill level.

*Find math games to play with your child. This will give them practice and have fun at the same time. I have a couple listed below. Maybe you can make up your own. Possibilities are endless.

*When walking down the street, count the number of houses or cars. Maybe notice if there are more cars than mini-vans or more apartment buildings than houses. How would you express this with the symbols < or >?

*If store items are stacked, challenge the child to use multiplication to count them.

*If watching passing cars, a game might be to find the number of cars that pass in 15 seconds, then approximate how many would pass in a minute. Count the number of cars passed in a minute to see how close the approximation was.

*If they have learned measurement, have them try to approximate the measure of different items—pencil, a lamp, a car, a tree, the height of a house. Once they are familiar with the measurement of one thing, encourage them to use that to approximate the measurement of something else.

*Notice the shapes and geometric figures of every day objects—canned goods, houses, tables, plates, curtains, blankets, windows, etc.– and notice how the parts connect to make the overall shape. If they know the formulas for area, or volume, maybe ask what formula would they use to find the area of the plate (circle) or square shaped part of the house or the volume of the can or the area of a rectangular shaped window or the triangular shaped part of the roof.

*Have the child to notice floor tiling. Some of these have fascinating patterns. Even to this day, I find myself looking at tiles on the floor and using multiplication to figure out the number of tiles in specific section or to find a pattern in the tiles.

*If a child expresses an interest in a particular topic that hasn’t been covered in school, do not discourage them or make them wait until the school starts teaching on it. Encourage them to seek information on their own, with appropriate supervision. Share what you may know on that topic. They may be mature enough to understand. Don’t let a school curriculum hold them back from independent exploration into math!

Don’t make it a chore. If they resist, don’t insist. It should be welcoming and interesting and fun.

Here are a few games I enjoyed growing up and still enjoy playing. They are inexpensive, don’t require any electronics and can be played anywhere. They can probably be found with a Google search if you want to do your own research.

1. Krypto, a math card game. One card is the target number, 5 other cards with a number on each are dealt to players. The goal is to use the 5 number cards and mathematical operations to make the target number.

2. Math Dice. This game is similar to Krypto, except dice are used instead of cards.

3. Qwixx. You use the numbers on dice to cross off numbers on a score card. It sounds simple, but requires more strategy than you might think.

4. Here is a paper version of a phone app I found called Number Twist. List 4 random numbers between 1 and 9, and they can be repeated. Use some or all of the numbers and mathematical operations to produce the numbers 1 thru 10. For example, if given the numbers 4, 5, 3, 4

5-4=1 or 4/4=1

5-3=2

(4+5)/3=3

So far, I have used the numbers and math operations to make the numbers 1, 2 and 3.

These games can also be used to strengthen skills and give your child more confidence with numbers. You can always make your own modified versions of these games. I have made modified forms of the games by changing the allowed numbers, throwing in other operations such as powers and roots or adding a timer to spice things up a bit. There are so many possibilities.

Again, the point is to give the child number sense, confidence in working with numbers and an appreciation for how math can be used to answer questions in everyday situations.

We need to change this trajectory. It is no wonder that the most oppressed people in the world (we really are!) spend most of our time and money on sports, gambling, partying, and entertainment instead of empowering our minds with the tools that rulers use to build civilizations.

Thank you for reading!

What The Muslims Want by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad

Message To The Black Man
PROGRAM AND POSITION: What do the Muslims Want?

This is the question asked most frequently by both the whites and the blacks. The answers to this question I shall state as simply as possible.

1. We want freedom. We want a full and complete freedom.

2. We want justice. Equal justice under the law. We want justice applied equally to all regardless of creed, class or color.

3. We want equality of opportunity. We want equal membership in society with the best in civilized society.

4. We want our people in America whose parents or grandparents were descendants from slaves to be allowed, to establish separate state or territory of their own — either on this continent or elsewhere. We believe that our former slave-masters are obligated to provide such land and that the area must be fertile and minerally rich. We believe that our former slave-masters are obligated to maintain and supply our needs in this separate territory for the next 20 or 25 years until we are able to produce and supply our own needs. Since we cannot get along with them in peace and equality after giving them 400 years of our sweat and blood and receiving in return some of the worst treatment human beings have ever experienced, we believe our contributions to this land and the suffering forced upon us by white America justifies our demand for complete separation in a state or territory of our own.

5. We want freedom for all Believers of Islam now held in federal prisons. We want freedom for all black men and women now under death sentence in innumerable prisons in the North as well as the south.

We want every black man and woman to have the freedom to accept or reject being separated from the slave-masters’ children and establish a land of their own.

We know that the above plan for the solution of the black and white conflict is the best and only answer to the problem between two people.

6. We want an immediate end to the police brutality and mob attacks against the so- called Negro throughout the United States.

We believe that the Federal government should intercede to see that black men and women tried in white courts receive justice in accordance with the laws of the land, or allow us to build a new nation for ourselves, dedicated to justice, freedom and liberty.

7. As long as we are not allowed to establish a state or territory of our own, we demand not only equal justice under the laws of the United States but equal employment opportunities — NOW!

We do not believe that after 400 years of free or nearly free labor, sweat and blood, which has helped America become rich and powerful, so many thousands of black people should have to subsist on relief or charity or live in poor houses.

8. We want the government of the United States to exempt our people from ALL taxation as long as we are deprived of equal justice under the laws of the land.

9. We want equal education — but separate schools up to 16 for boys and 18 for girls on the conditions that the girls be sent to womens’ colleges and universities. We want all black children educated, taught and trained by their own teacher.

Under such school system we believe we will make a better nation of people. The United States government should provide free all necessary text books and equipment, schools and college buildings. The Muslim teachers shall be left free to teach and train their people in the way of righteousness, decency and self respect.

10. We believe that intermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited. We want the religion Islam taught without hindrance or suppression.

These are some of the things that we, the Muslims, want for our people in North America.

1. We believe in the One God Whose proper name is Allah.

2. We believe in the Holy Qur’an and the Scriptures of all the Prophets of God.

3. We believe in the truth of the Bible, but we believe that it has been tampered with and must be reinterpreted so that mankind will not be snared by the falsehoods that have been added to it.

4. We believe in Allah’s Prophets and the Scriptures they brought to the people.

5. We believe in the resurrection of the dead — not in physical resurrection but mental resurrection. We believe that the so-called Negroes are most in need of mental resurrection; therefore, they will be resurrected first.

Furthermore, we believe we are the people of God’s choice as it has been written that God would choose the rejected and the despised. We can find no other persons fitting this description in these last days more than the so-called Negroes in America. We believe in the resurrection of the righteous.

6. We further believe in the judgement. We believe this first judgment will take place, as God revealed, in America.

7. We believe this is the time in history for the separation of the so-called Negroes and the so-called white Americans. We believe the black man should be freed in name as well as in fact. By this we mean that he should be freed from names imposed upon him by his former slave-masters. Names which identified him as being the slave of the slave-master. We believe that if we are free indeed, we should go in our own people’s names — the black peoples of the earth.

8. We believe in justice for all whether in God or not. We believe as others that we are due equal justice as human beings. We believe in equality – as a nation -of equals. We do not believe that we are equal with our slave-masters in the status of Freed slaves.

We recognize and respect American citizens as independent peoples, and we respect their laws which govern this nation.

9. We believe that the offer of integration is hypocritical and is made by those who are trying to deceive the black peoples into believing that their 400-year-old open enemies of freedom, justice and equality are, all of a sudden, their friends. Furthermore, we believe that such deception is intended to prevent black people from realizing that the time in history has arrived for the separation from the whites of this nation.

If the white people are truthful about their professed friendship toward the so-called Negro, they can prove it by dividing up America with their slaves.

We do not believe that America will ever be able to furnish enough jobs for her own millions of unemployed in addition to jobs for the 20,000,000 black people.

10. We believe that we who declared ourselves to be righteous Muslims should not participate in wars which take the lives of humans. We do not believe this nation should force us to take part in such wars, for we have nothing to gain from it unless America agrees to give us the necessary territory wherein we may have something to fight for.

11. We believe our women should be respected and protected as the women of other nationalities are respected and protected.

12. We believe that Allah (God) appeared in the Person of Master W. Fard Muhammad, July, 1930 — the long awaited “Messiah” of the Christians and the “Mahdi” of the Muslims. We believe further and lastly that Allah is God and besides HIM there is no God and He will bring about a universal government of peace wherein we can live in peace together.

Make Black People Great Again!

(Black people will have a great future.

Are YOU prepared for that future???)

Happy New Year, readers! Now, we need to figure out to how make this new year work for us.

There are significant changes since last year. What do we need to do to make these changes work in our behalf? No matter how hopeless anything seems, there’s always a way to make it better. The challenge is figuring out how to make these changes work in our favor.

One big change is the election of a new President. Can we use this to make things better? Time will tell, and I don’t mean we have to wait to see. We can look back in time.

“..the people just don’t want you, and why should we say, today, after 400 years, “Let’s try to plan to live with the white American people and get along with them in peace” when we have not been able to live with them in peace for 400 years.” –the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Message To the Blackman, “My Mission Is To Give Life”

There is a saying, “No justice, no peace”. Where in history, looking back in time, has there been justice for Black people coming from the America government? Never. In mathematics, if you are trying to prove a hypothesis is not true, all you need is find one example of the opposite. Likewise, why are we still trying to believe the white man will give us justice, when there is not one historical example to back up this idea? None, nada, zero, zilch.

“They have no respect for people who want to be at peace with them. They have no respect for the laws of justice. They have made trouble all over the world with people who were at peace among themselves until the white shadows of the trouble-makers spread out over them. We have history that they, themselves, have written of self, bearing witness to what I am teaching today. What must be done since we cannot get along with them in peace?”—The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Message To the Blackman in America, “Were Muslims Framed To Whitewash The Guilty?”

I’ve heard some say, the next 4 years may be grueling but after President Donald Trump’s term, some other favored candidate will get in and turn the tide. How many times have we been thru that scenario? They took away Affirmative Action before President Donald Trump was in office. Now that he’s in, he’s chipping away at whatever he can that was for the benefit of Blacks. It’s not looking good. Don’t confuse hope with hopeless. Looking for President Donald Trump or any future president to bring justice to Black people is not hope, it is hopeless.

Why, why, why can’t it work? The real question should be, Why would we expect it to work? They brought us here to work for them, not for America to work for us. Literally and figuratively. Why should we expect anything better than just where we are today? Why do we want to dismiss or forget or ignore these facts: we had independence, we had our own land, we had our own economy, we had our own language, we had our own nation. Now, all that’s been taken away, stripped bare, but we’ve made progress? That’s called thinking like a slave. Here’s what makes sense: we will not be making progress until we are back to the way we were before, having a nation of our own. Why not? Why is it that we were good enough before the white man got a hold to us but now we’re not good enough? We can be good enough…if we keep the white man out of it. He was out of it before. He had no part in the building of our great civilizations. The Muslim Program by the Hon. Elijah Muhammad is that blueprint to our greatness. Maybe it’s not what some of us want, because we’ve never known anything but this civilization. However, the time is coming where we will not have a choice.

“Here in America we can see nothing but the fall of America. It is no secret. It is obvious to the eyes that are open. If we want to close our eyes and minds and claim that we do not see and understand, then we will be falling ourselves.”—The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, The Fall of America, Chapter 40: “The Destruction and Fall.”

We need to be prepared for the world that is coming, the world that will “make Black people great again”. We don’t have to do anything, except prepare for what awaits us. That preparation will not be easy, because all we’ve learned during our 400+ year sojourn is how to make America great. But, here’s the best part—once you have that preparation, you will be prepared for whatever President Donald Trump or anyone else throws at us.

The choice is yours, prepare for the future of our people or prepare to part of the fall.

Thank you for reading this.

What do you wish you could do more every day?

I would like to do more recreational physical activity and more recreational reading. In the warmer weather, I would ride my bike more. In the colder weather which may not be so suitable for bike riding, I would go thru my favorite exercise routine to music. It may seem childish, but I also really like Wii Fit Plus. You can setup an exercise routine to target specific weaknesses or participate in many fun activities that focus on tailored physical fitness. The mind needs exercise as much as the body. I would like to spend a couple of hours a day reading. It could be fiction or non-fiction topics of interest. Either way, you would be exercising the mind, instead of staring at a TV screen or scrolling thru social media. I am trying to find a way to incorporate more stress-free recreational mind and body activities into my daily routine.

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What do you wish you could do more every day?
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Happy Pi Day!

A few fascinating ideas about Pi (according to mathematicians)

Pi is a mathematical number, popularly approximated using 3.14 and symbolized with the Greek letter 𝝿, pronounced pi. March 14 or 03/14 is called Pi day.

First, a bit of history. White historians may lead you to believe that Pi was discovered by white people, which is not true. The Original peoples of the earth, who are not white, had advanced civilizations, advanced knowledge of math and science, long before the white man did. Everywhere he went, he found signs of this. You cannot build an advanced civilization without knowing something as basic as the value or Pi or what it represents. White people got their knowledge of math and science from their travels to Asia and Africa, not the other way around. So, no, Pi was not discovered by white people. They may or may not have known the approximation to the trillionth digit, but that isn’t something you need for accurate scientific calculations and advanced civilizations. According to Livescience.com, NASA only uses the first 16 digits for most of their calculations.

https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/pi-day-2024-why-nasa-uses-only-16-of-the-62-trillion-digits-of-pi-we-know

What is Pi, exactly?

Pi, by the way, is the circumference of any circle divided by it’s diameter. It’s not hard to prove this.

A Super Simple Way to Calculate Pi

Take any circle, say the bottom of a jar or the top to a jar. Find the circumference by measuring around the jar or top with a measuring tape. Then, measure the diameter on the bottom of the jar or across the top to the jar, a line straight thru the center of the circle, from one end to the other. Divide the circumference by the diameter. For example, if your circumference is 22 and your diameter is 7, you would put the following into the calculator: 22÷7. If your answer isn’t 3.14, it’s because your measurements weren’t accurate enough. But, it should be close. A bigger circle will probably get a more accurate answer.

How Many Digits Are There?

Speaking of the trillionth digit of pi, just how many digits are there? Well, Pi is a kind of special number, in a special category known as irrational. Irrational numbers have these properties—they have a decimal value that never ends, never falls into a repeating decimal pattern and you cannot express them using a fraction. You can approximate them using a fraction, as in the common approximation for Pi, 22/7. But this does not equal pi, because there is NO known finite decimal number that equals pi. The best anyone can give at this time is only an approximation, no matter how many digits they find. This is why someone can calculate pi to the trillionth digit to the to the right of the decimal point and someone else come along and say, I found a longer approximation!

Another fascination idea about pi: because it has an infinite number of digits, with no repeating pattern, some where in that never ending stream of digits you can probably find almost any number you can think of. Your birthday, month, day and year? It probably occurs as a string of digits somewhere in Pi.

Here is a website to try this out on your own!

https://www.angio.net/pi/

Other Places to Find Pi

People think of Pi only when talking about circles. Well, circles are everywhere! There are circles in bottles, cans, balls, ice cream cones, the sun, pipes, and a stream of water coming out of a circular faucet. Everyone one of these contains a circle and uses pi in some way to describe it.

Well, that’s all for now. Hope you found this interesting and maybe learned a little something too! Thanks for reading.

Everything Has Failed

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/27/florida-teen-allegedly-shoots-kills-sister-christmas-gift

How bad will things have to get before we are ready to do something that actually makes a difference? We have become desensitized to stories like this, because we make a big outcry about it, then…nothing, back to business as usual. George Floyd story, big outcry, riots, and in the midst of this the Black Lives Matter movement crops up, spearheaded by Black homosexuals, funded by a rich white people, then…back to business as usual, but now more Blacks are sympathetic to homosexuals. It happens again and again and again, except the “happenings” are getting worst, the stories are more horrible than the one before. Nothing gets better, nothing changes except the next story is worst than the one before. Do we think this is an easy fix? And do we really think we can figure out how to solve it, with a brain programmed by the ones who put us in this fix? Yes, programmed. It took over 400 years to get here and started…with the white man, kidnapping us thru lies and false promises, from our native land and peoples. They took from us our names, our language, our religion, our history, our way of life, and forced us to take their names, their religion, their language, their history, their way of life. They took everything that made us who were mentally, we were made mentally dead, a Negro. This may be Spanish for Black, but the white man’s languages didn’t begin with Spanish. Negro came from the Latin word necro, which relates to something dead. Do some research. This is no coincidence. The white man knew what he was doing and he named us accordingly. White people gave us that name.

We need to stop underestimating white people.

Then, they reprogrammed us with their way of thinking, turning us into a tool for them. Right now, we are pretty much useless for helping each other. Everything that goes wrong, anything we need, who who do we call? Who do we turn to? Emergency, call the police (white power structure). Sick, call an ambulance, go to the hospital or neighborhood clinic (all run by white people). Need a job, 99.999999999% of the time, you’re going to be contacting a white employer. You may have a Black boss, but the top boss, the one that runs the company, is white. Need spiritual guidance? If you’re Christian like most Black people in America, we turn to the church, 100% run by white people. Need a school for your children? There will be very few (if any) options besides a school either operated by or funded by white people. And if they fund it, they run it because you are not getting their money unless you play by their rules. In many cities with large Black populations, Black-owned, Black funded, Black operated schools are a rare entity.

The teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes a difference because it isn’t something he made up or came up with. He was taught by Allah, God in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad. Allah, God, made the Honorable Elijah Muhammad His Messenger, to deliver what he was taught to the Black man and woman in America. Under his leadership, and only his leadership, the Nation of Islam made a difference in the Black community—Black owned businesses that made jobs for Black people; Black owned farms that produced food for Black-owned grocery stores; Black schools that were operated by Black educators, using our own curriculum; housing on Black-owned real estate; Black owned and operated banks; even a Black owned and operated newspaper plant, and this not in one city but in many cities across America. And all these businesses, farms, schools, grocery stores, real estate, banks, and the newspaper plant was owned and operated by the Nation of Islam under the leadership of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, with ZERO funding from white people. This is something no other single Black man has come near to accomplishing for our people, because he is the Messenger of Allah, because Allah God in Person, a Black God for Black people, a man, not a spirit, is backing him.

Islam as taught by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is what we need to make that difference. Take another look at this great Black man and his accomplishments. The legacy he left is an example of what we can do under the banner of Islam—freedom, justice and equality, and escape our current cycle of slavery, suffering and death.

As Salaam Alaikum (peace be unto you)

Thank you for reading these words!

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If you would like to purchase the book below or any books by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to learn more of this life-giving teachings, please visit the website provided by the link below!

https://www.elijahmuhammadbooks.com/

If he won’t treat you right, what makes you think he’ll teach you right?

“We want equal education–but separate schools up to 16 for boys and 18 for girls on the conditions that the girls be sent to women’s colleges and universities. We want all black children educated, taught and trained by their own teacher.

Under such school system we believe we will make a better nation of people. The United States government should provide free all necessary text books and equipment, schools and college buildings. The Muslim teachers shall be left free to teach and train their people in the way of righteousness, decency and self respect.”—The Muslim Program, “What the Muslims Want” No.9, by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad

The following is what results from Black people that have white education.

It started with slavery and this has set the tone for the whole time we have been here. It’s been one form of slavery after the other, keeping us under their control so we will not be a people that strive to help ourselves but look to white people for everything. Our generations of children since being churned out by the white education system are nothing but tools to keep the engine of their society running smoothly for the benefit of white people.

We think we can make a difference if they give us jobs. We take the money and put it back into their economy, to help them stay rich and in power. We don’t make our own jobs, our own businesses. We don’t use our resources to build up our neighborhoods, our schools, no. We give it back to white America as if we think after all this time, they will magically start doing that for us.

We seek and think we can make a difference from political offices, even a presidency. Obama did nothing to help Black people in America—unless they were homosexual. The one time I know that he did try to speak up for another Black man, Henry Louis Gates Jr., they (white people in power) put him in his place real quick, making him apologize, not just to the police department but had to make amends specifically to the officer who wrongly targeted Mr. Gates. I don’t remember one news story where anyone apologized to Mr. Gates. Maybe it happened, but the real news was, Obama apologized to the white cop. This the great Black presidency.

“If you think because Kennedy said in 40 years a Negro man would become president of the country, he will become just that, then you misunderstood. Never will a black man be able to rule a white man in America. He was only referring to the so-called Negroes’ unity with his brothers. This will make him strong enough to put a President in the office, but not over white people.”—The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Message To The Blackman

Obama couldn’t even criticize a white police officer without being put back in his place. What makes you think he had any power to rule over white people in America???? What makes you think he or any Black politician has any power over white America to make a change for the better for Black America? White education, that’s what.

So, our children are taught that Obama was such a great man for Black people in America, the Black president that had to apologize to a white cop for speaking up against unjustly targeting a Black man. I’d like to know, how is this any different from any other Black man that speaks up against police injustice????

The white man’s schools are like a machine that turns Black children into little Black tools which then grow into adult Black tools. They will have no love for each other, no desire to build strong Black families with a mother and father to nurture the children, the basic building block of any society. No desire to unite with their own people and use what they have to help each other. No desire to use what they have to build up our neighborhoods, build up Black businesses. No desire to do for self. All you have to do is look, and weep, at our children today to see the truth of these words. Drug addiction, homelessness, jail, gay/lesbianism, music that degrades Black women, glorifies murdering each other, glorifies selling drugs; Black women and now young girls twerking, men that don’t take care of their children, single parent households—this is what describes many of our youth, this is what keeps the white man in power, keeps Black people with no power, and this comes from allowing the white man to educate them. This is the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. It starts with our children, our future. If we want to break free from depending on a people who have made it clear they have no love for us, taking charge of the education of our children is vital, from the cradle up.

Thank you for reading these words!

Describe a man who has positively impacted your life.

I cannot fathom what my life would be like without the impact that the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad has made. It has empowered me in ways I could not be otherwise, with knowledge, wisdom and understanding. It’s not just words, it’s not just teachings, it’s knowledge that if put to use in your everyday life makes a difference. People may know these teachings, people may repeat these teachings but if you don’t live these teachings, you will not be able to get any benefit from having this knowledge. I have lived them, and at times in youthful ignorance, thinking I could get away with something, thinking I could cut and paste his teachings, I have done things that I know was contrary to them and this cumulative experience over my lifetime thus far has proved to me, that the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is right and exact, they can actually be proven true.

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