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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)

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.