KEEPING IT REAL

HIDDEN INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE

By Fahim A. Knight-El

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I was actually sparked to write this article by a brother whom I have been communicating with on Internet; he chose to go by the handle of Anonymous and depicts himself as a 72 year old former Black Nationalist and member of the struggle during the 1960s and 1970s. I truly like this brother and I respect his wealth of knowledge and I have somewhat become a student under him and he seem to have a deep affinity for Native American and the indigenous people of Mexico culture and traditions and this Blog is a more extensive response to a recent conversation he and I had in which I hope he gets a chance to read this. Nevertheless, this brief review is by no means, a definitive study and/or analysis of the extensive spiritual history and cultures of the indigenous peoples of the earth. Who evolved out from ancient customs, but as I wrote this piece and conducted an overview of reading and researching past historical data from ancient societies, I immediately recognized and saw the global culture similarities (and/or culture cohesiveness) in systems of cultural folklore and how even many of the spiritual and religious practices amongst indigenous peoples were similar throughout the earth . Yet, I am giving my opinion on these complex subjects and matters that are truly outside of my realm of expertise and study: thus, I am not an expert on ancient cultures and customs nor am I a historian, anthropologist, archeologist or sociologist who have offered empirical research as evidentiary proof of my contentions and I possess no scholarly credentials that would render me an authority on interpreting and decoding indigenous people’s social, scientific and spiritual systems (so I am given this overview and perspective as a layperson). This analysis is only a glimpse into the global cultural correlations of indigenous societies such as the Native Americans in which I immediately recognized these ancient people embodied a 'wholistic' approach to living their lives in complete harmony with the universe and were Masters of tapping into the Occult powers that have the ability to move the mind, body and spirit and creating esoteric lessons, which have been used and passed down by generations and these ancient scrolls and scribed text, perhaps were even older than the ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) text of Cometh Forth by Day and of course the Torah, Gospel and the Qur'an are baby books in lieu of the thousands upon thousands of years that the ancient bush and rain forest people have toiled upon this earth studying and recording the lessons given in the Universe.

This Blog was written just to skim the surface and provoke thought, because we could spend decades just trying to understand the comprehensiveness and complexities of ancient Native Americans and we could never exhaust the topic. There are comparable indigenous cultures and people in the South Pacific Isles and in the Far East whom share similar culture and spiritual threads with their brothers and sisters in Africa, North and South America, Australia, etc. But because of the global injustice and attempts to decimate them as a people, and destroy their culture; these genocidal acts have placed Western Governments under divine chastisement—the ancient Natives have invoked the power of death and destruction on the present bloodline of the descendants of those who have committed the said atrocities. The indigenous people have tapped into an energy more powerful than all the carnal weapons of war. It is that spirit of reciprocity that is over the geopolitical systems of Europe and America and the unpredictable weather patterns are evidence of this phenomenon in which they desire to dupe the American public and the globe by pointing to the global warming as the causation phenomenons impacting these events. No, I am here to tell you that these climactic imbalances are directly linked to the fighting warrior spirits of the Native Americans. They have invoked the ancient Gods against the descendants of the perpetrators and the lands of the Americas have been cursed. So until justice has been dispersed and rendered on behalf of all the indigenous peoples of the earth there will continue to be a global unrest seen politically, socially and economically throughout the earth and lastly we are at spiritual war.

These indigenous cultures and people have the power of the universe at their disposal and know how to enact the dormant creative energy (that potentially all 'melinated' and indigenous people possess) that gives us the ability to place us in a God like state in which all the original and indigenous peoples of the earth from the Twa people (and all other Bantu people) who had close kinship to the ancient inhabitants of Kush and the Kemetic Nubians who occupied the Nile Valley civilizations down and over to the aborigines of Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea and over to our Native American descendants who transmigrated across the Bering Strait from Asia to North America and had occupied these lands long before European expeditions—all of these indigenous people are possessed with this power. Yet, there has always been a cultural cohesive and synthesis existing between the indigenous people of the earth from their respect of the land and created spiritual systems that were steeped in rituals demonstrating the importance of having spiritual relationships with the ALL.

The Western Europeans have always created counter systems that have been rooted in rugged capitalism and greed and void of respect of the spiritual laws, which was necessary in balancing the given universal laws of good (they chose to live in harmony and unity with the divine principles of cause and affect). For example, food gathering was about tribal sustainability and extending life and not hording and exploiting the lands for personal and individual gain. The indigenous people built all of their life systems around the principles of communalism. The village concept was an extension of preserving land, body and spirit, because this type of harmony typified their respect of the many Gods and the designated powers they possessed to invoke and determine life and death. The universe is turning on man because man has turned on the universe, the climatologist, geologist, physicist, meteorologist and those that study atmospheric sciences, etc., however, those scientists have little explanations to explain the unpredictable weather patterns and the coming about of natural calamities that seems to be afflicting the earth in unusual patterns. The tsunamis, typhoons, cyclones, tornadoes, hurricanes, snow storms, mudslides, wild fires, floods, droughts, etc., are weather outbreaks creating pandemics and epidemics that have been invoked by the immortal spirits of the Native Americans and indigenous people of the earth to serve as the Karmaic justice for and against the present ancestors and descendants of those who have committed genocide, land thievery, acts of human displacement, culture decimation, etc., in the name of white supremacy and greed.

The indigenous inhabitants of the globe worshipped and admonished the rain Gods, sun Gods, the moon Gods (their collective spiritual consciousness went far beyond the tenets of monotheism, but it was better defined for them in the polytheistic worldview, but they saw no separation between the world of animism and the spirit world they were seen as being interconnected). And simultaneously created herbal and traditional medicines, which was plant based and natural, that cured diseases and sickness, they were master healers (they embraced the rain forest where they found organic healing methods and curing techniques in the wildly grown vegetation inhabited in the bush). Some of their medicinal and agriculture rites practices are still over the head of Western science. The Europeans got the cycles of life wrong because their understanding of human behavior were interpreted as being counterproductive to the spiritual Gods.

Thus, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Paul Satre, John Jacque Russo, Karl Marx, Engels, John Locke, Herbert Spencer, Max Weber, Emil Durkheim, etc., created didactical philosophical theories, which was rooted in a materialism analysis—they have always tried to interpreted human motivation and the universe from anExtensionalism, absolute idealism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, Theism andDeism, but Eastern based philosophy has always viewed life and the universe from a spiritual center and being synonymous attached and not detached realities—western philosophers have attempted to create thesis and antithesis around philosophical arguments rooted in analytic logical outcomes and refused to investigate spirituality. The Zen masters, the Buddhist monks and the Hindus, and deep down in the subcontinent of Indiathe Dravidians (Afro-Indians) had indigenous practices—they too desired to balance life with embracing and understanding how the universe functioned. The British colonialism and imperialism was very reactionary systems of oppression, which imposed caste systems steeped in racial, ethnic and skin color dynamics that determined social placement (atypical of white supremacy models) and most of all they setup a class system that was steeped in creating symbols of white skinned superiority and black skinned inferiority stratums in Indian society. The British were masters of divided and conquer.

Eastern based philosophical and religious thought defined for us that the true temple was not necessarily a physical edifice; the value of our humanity rest upon ones ability to live and explore the principles of life in harmony with self, creation and the universe, which could only evolve us to true spiritual beings. But it was a spiritual building of working towards creating good Karma and creating transcendental avenues where it was determined what the human soul’s purpose would be after death relative to, if there would be a need for the soul to return as a reincarnated being to complete an unfinished work in a prior life. The Europeans have created an energy on earth and an invisible reincarnated warrior spirit that is the embodiment of vengeance which has now entered our sphere and this has placed us in the 9^th cycle—in which sacred geometric numbers have also aligned up against the United States Government and its Allies there are a lot of meaning in this contention. The Native Americans and the majority of indigenous people around the globe have unresolved earthly matters, because of the past oppression and injustice. Their souls will not rest until the pendulum of justice has swung in their direction and European philosophical concepts and behavior have moved towards creating new spiritual paradigms (it can no longer be rooted in man’s humanity to man). There are true and living testimonies that have been recorded in ancient folklore, scrolls and ritualistic teachings of these ancient masters having the spiritual ability to invoke powers that could move the elements, they understood that they could transcend their earthly Being and enter into a God like state in which I believe, we still have the ability to create energy from tapping in to these transcendental states, which allows us to do what appears to be extraordinary to the mundane and the necked eye.

I believe, the people who have been descript named as the Incas, Aztecs and the Mayan civilizations were communicating on extraterrestrial levels and had direct contact with galaxy beings. They only built what the white man called totem polls and Olmec Deities, pyramids and understood the ancient coffin text teachings relative to preserving the bodies of the dead only as a process of allowing the human earthly soul to make its undisturbed transmigration, but during this stage it is determined or even before death has already being determined that reincarnation of the soul has been destined for immortality. I read a book (which was a novel) a few years ago authored by James Redfield titled, The Celestine Prophecy, I am assuming Redfield is white and Caucasian; if my memory serves me correctly, he was focused on the ancient spiritual knowledge that evolved out of the rain forest of Peru where the Peruvian people had a very complex folklore system of worship and a deep reverence for living in collaboration with being in complete harmony with the macrocosm universe and understood that they were microcosm beings and often these social scientist and journalist who come amongst the indigenous people as sociologist and not spiritualist and they use Western academic and theological models to misinterpreted ancient practices that are often unexplainable and outside of Western rationale and reasoning.

I felt that Redfield had discovered something much deeper about the spirit realm that had geo-spiritual ramifications and the astrological correlations to the indigenous people’s life style—how they worshipped and prayed and the ancient text was imbued in the rites and sacraments of their practices. They had the ability to communicate internally and externally with a telepathic scope that allowed them deeply to exercise the power of the mind, body and spirit and bring this energy in complete unison, based on their thought patterns (they had evolved to communicating without sound and their thoughts were traveling faster than light) and had the ability to levitate objects and bring them to a different space and had the ability to defy the laws of gravity—they could also control the laws of attraction. The indigenous people were actually Gods and this is one of the most covered secrets in the game of secret societies. Thus, I immediately detected that the "Celestine Prophecy" was a non-organic interpretation by an alien trying to decipher and look into the spirit world of indigenous tribal practices.

I have been led to reexamine the Nation of Islam preeminent scholar sister Tynnetta Muhammad who lived in Mexico and Central America (I believe a couple of her children were born in Mexico; I know her two sons Ishmael Muhammad and Rasul Muhammad seems to have this Mexico and Central America cultural theme when they teach Islam), when I first heard sister Tynnetta Muhammad speak some years ago, her theological insight was more akin to the mystical teachings of Sufi Islam rather than strict black Muslim theology and the customary slant given in the life given teachings in which I believe she was giving Messenger Elijah Muhammad’s theology a deeper esoteric spin, which was rooted in astronomy, numerology, metaphysics and she seemed to have had free reign to delve into symbolism and decoding the hidden secrets of the U.S. Occult power system. She also seemed to be well versed in the Pakistani Islamic scholar Mualana Muhammad Ali translation version of the Qur’an and the Yusuf Ali translation of the Qur’an but, I have always felt that she had been deeply moved spiritually by the culture, sacraments, rituals and rites she experienced living amongst the indigenous people of Mexico and Central America and had evolved to incorporating mystical Sufi Islamic theological concepts with Native American traditions in her Nation of Islam worldview.

Sister Tynetta Muhammad stated: “You have a lesson that is given to you in Islam called and titled: ‘Student Enrollment’ You must know the answers to those questions before ever you will be permitted into the Hearafter. There are ten questions. Why are there ten? Because we have ten questions in the universe, originally, that we must look forward to for our support of living in the universe in this Sun. Understand what we are in. Understand what we are to know about what we are in. The Universe the big ten. This is our lesson; the Universe. This is the wisdom that we must acquire in order to be called and educated person in the house that we live in. We don’t have anything that we study that didn’t come out of the universe. We are representing ourselves as the Universe of Islam because we are in the Universe of Islam. Some people look down on us and think that we don’t know what we are talking about calling our little school a University. We teach of the Universe and we are learning the Universe. If you don’t know the whole entire Universe of the Sun, Moon and Stars, you don’t know the house that you live in”

There were also ancient customs and practices that were rooted in ancient traditions found amongst the Dogons, Yorubas, Akans, etc., in Africa and as one moves around the Occult world these traditions ventured out of Africa and was carried by the captive slaves who were brought from Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, and Cameroon—the indigenous people of Africa carried along with them to the Americas traditional spiritual practices from West Africa, it would be in the Caribbean Island of Saint Domingue (Haiti) where the spirit world of Africa followed the slaves and slave ships during the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Middle Passage and the ancient practice of Vudun (Wudu) took deep roots in Haiti, in particular outside of Port au Prince. The medicine men and spiritual healers had unlimited creative energy to alter anything conceivable or inconceivable in the natural world. I am originally from Georgia and the Gullah and/orGeechee people of South Carolina and Georgiawere direct descendants of African slaves who were brought to the Lowcountry in South Carolina from Sierra Leone. My grandmother would put more credence in what they called the root-worker than the preacher or the doctor—it was this Vodun (Wudu and/or Voodoo) power that gave Haiti and Toussaint Louverture their victory over the powerful French army being led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1803, Haiti became the first black independent nation in the Western Hemisphere.

If you ever traveled to Savannah, Georgiaoff River Streetthere is a section in this public park that displays statues and tributes (memorials) to the revolutionary soldiers of Haitiand the Georgiaconnection. Some years ago, I visited Beaufort, South Carolina and was invited to the Kingdom of Oyotunji African Village and I got the chance to be counseled by its leader the late Oba Adefunmi 1 (Yoruba High Priest and King of the village) and their North American spiritual and ritualistic practices were just as authentic as their African ancestors had done thousands of years before—the spirit of Ogun (is a powerful fierce warrior) and Oshun understood best in the Orisha traditions. This experience at Oyotunji as I am reflecting back as I write this article, it is easy for me now to reconcile the Native Americans rituals, rites and sacraments and all of these indigenous people and their practices as being interconnected. The African slaves who landed in Cuba from Dahomey, West Africainfused Yoruba traditions in their modern practices ofSanteria-Orishas. The Haitians as I stated above defeated the French because they did not understand that these indigenous people had unseen powers, which led to their defeat and all these spirit practices had links and correlations to the indigenous people of the planet.

Moving right along, the former Naval Intelligence Officer William Cooper who authored the book titled, Behold a Pale Horse let it be known that the U.S. Government had been conducting highly secret and confidential and classified outer-space operations, separate and apart from its overt space program in which so much was being hidden from the public of what was actually taking place at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with so-called Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) research and their connections with other planetary Beings. Some of these so-called alien sightings have appeared in the southwestern deserts (over Mexico, New Mexico, Nevada, California and Arizona) and western deserts of America in which they have actually captured so-called alien spacecrafts, but theNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) who is responsible for aeronautics and aerospace research has often denied much of this information. But they have had contact with other galaxy Beings (inter-planetarian involvement) for over 90 years. The United States Government and the National Security Agency along with the Pentagon refuses to come public with all their UFO findings—their military experts have proof and evidence of the mother plane in which they have been studying in their secret laboratories and scientific centers for decades. The Central Intelligence Agency has eyewitness testimonies, video (U.S.gathered radar documentation) and audio footage and mounds of scientific data of these outerspace crafts and Beings in secretive laboratories throughout the United States. Surely this information would pose no threat to U.S. national security interest.

The Prophet Ezekiel stated: Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl [bright gold/yellow]: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went. As for their rings [rims], they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyesround about them four. And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheelswere lifted up. Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.”

Minister Louis Farrakhan was inTepotzlan, Mexico and he had this outer-body experience where he was lifted up to the Mothership on September 17, 1985 and he heard the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s voice speaking to him from the aircraft and giving him instructions and a warning—why Mexico that Farrakhan would have this experience? Perhaps there was something deeper about Minister Farrakhan’s experience, but I do know this much, the wise white scientist understand and know that outer-body space travel and Minister Farrakhan’s experience wasn’t necessary a hoax because of their own hidden evidence which proves that the mother plane does exist and they also know (that the indigenous Native Americans of Mexico were engaged in space travel). Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson an African American astrophysicist, and cosmologist, stated: "We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us"and I am quite sure that Master Fard Muhammad in 1930 told the Honorable Elijah Muhammad that the mother plane would be a consistent fixture in North America and over North America as long as the so-called American Negro were under the powerful domination of the U.S. Government and that he as Allah and his Messenger could call upon the Mother plane to neutralize the power of the U.S. Government, if they came against God's chosen people--who are the despise and rejected.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad described the mother plane as a wheel within a wheel in line with the above prophecy of Ezekiel. Mr. Muhammad teaches that this plane was made on the Island of Nippon and it has mathematical dimensions ofwhich was a half mile by a half mile built by original scientist and these scientist used a special metals and materials (the toughest quality of steel and it cost 15 billion dollars in gold and silver to build) and it is built like a miniature or small human planet and there are small 1,500 baby bombing planes aboard the Mother Plane. The Mother Plane is capable of staying out of the earth’s gravity for a whole year and is capable of producing her own sphere of oxygen and hydrogen, as any other planet is able to do. The Mother Plane carries the same type of bomb on her that our Black scientists dropped on the planet earth to bring up mountains out of the earth after the planet earth was created. The Mother Plane can hide behind other stars and make herself invisible to the eye because she does not have to wait on a power from the earth. She can produce her own power to go wherever she desires to go in space.

The ancient Mayan civilizations in Central America had come in contact with these Gods, perhaps 16,000 to maybe 20,000 years ago. They even depicted what they saw by drawings on the walls and sacred temples in side of the pyramids and caves, which allowed them to pass down the meaning of life and death and continue to connect every facet of life with a higher celestial purpose that revolved around the Sun, Moon and Stars. They understood the importance of reciprocity, harmony, balance, equilibrium, justice, etc. The ancient Kemites called it the spirit of Maat. They saw the agricultural and the food chain as being sacred, as well as the waters, oceans, rivers, seas, lakes and streams as being the natural embodiment of life itself. In the book titled, The Journey of the Songhi People, the authors stated: 'Our people expressed their religious beliefs through the concept defined as Maat which they considered as a divine order established at the time of creation. This order is manifested in the normalcy of phenomena. In all African societies, it is manifested as justice and in an individual's life as truth. Maat is this order, the essence of existence, the concept of harmony with the divine order of the universe. To the Ancients, space was of life and death importance. This is evidenced by their mysterious megalithic monuments which were tuned to the rhythm of the star cycles, which they realized were the pulse of life affecting vegetation growth, animal migration and mating cycles correlated with the positions of the moon, stars and the sun" (reference: Robinson, Battle, Robinson and Robinson The Journey of the Songhai People; pp. 140-141).

I was so blessed to have had come in contact some years ago with a metaphysical guru in Los Angelesnamed Dr. Alfred Ligon who owned a book store called the Aquarium in the Crenshaw District. I must admit much of what this meta-physicist was trying to teach me was way over my head at that time in my life, but he led me to the works of Hilton Hotema such as Man's Higher Consciousness, and Awaken The World Within; he also encouraged me to purchase Manly P. Hall book titled, Secret Teachings of All Ages and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky book titled, Isis Unveiled and the Secret Doctrine. I am thankful for having the opportunity to met such an enlightened human being and soul.

Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.

THE DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., THAT HAS BEEN LOST IN HISTORY

By Fahim A. Knight-El

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a special man and leader who in the 1950s and 1960s took up a social cause that would change how the United States of America would view and treat black people as so-called citizens of this nation—he had a low tolerance level for oppression and injustice and became convicted to work on behalf of black people to bring about social change by using Civil Rights as the vehicle to dismantle historical systems of racism, discrimination, bigotry, and injustice that were rooted and steeped in the principles of Jim Crow. It was his quest and yearning for freedom that allowed him to galvanize a movement, which these freedoms permitted us to breakdown public accommodation barriers by dismantling racist and white supremacy based Jim Crow laws such as Plessy versus Ferguson (separate but equal clause) 1896 in which the United States Supreme Court overturned with the coming about of the Brown versus Board of Education Decision (declared separate but equal as being unconstitutional) Topeka, Kansas 1954. This U.S. Supreme Court decision ushered in the Civil Rights movement, which eventually led to the desegregation of the South. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used his strategy of civil disobedience to agitate the white power structure, which eventually forced the U.S. Congress to passing the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act, the U.S. Government was attempting to legislate public discrimination by outlawing 'white' and 'colored' access to public facilities. It led to marches, protest, sit-ins, boycotts, etc., across the deep south to obtain voting access, equality of opportunity to employment and having access to participatory levels of societal inclusion that would not be factored in based on race and skin color.

But it would be in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1961, where four black college students from North Carolina A&T State University were involved in a sit-in protest at Woolworth's lunch countertop and they requested to be served (ignoring the white only signs) and refused to give up their seats to white customers; this event would be one of the historical events that gained momentum amongst young black college students that propelled them to find and defined the role they would play in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Which would lead to altering America's political, economic and social structure and it would be their activism that assisted in dismantling a system that was built on the foundation of white supremacy. The Civil Rights movement was essentially about inclusion and public accommodation and a quest for civil liberties.

King was willing to contest, violate laws and worked to change long standing Jim Crow laws that had become the norm, but was rooted in prejudices, racism, bigotry and discrimination. He knew that he could not stop fighting and struggling and going to jail and even risking his life, because to have stopped, it would have been a betrayal to the lives of Emmitt Till (1941-1955) and Medgar Evers (1925-1963) two fallen heroes and others who dared to confront vicious racist in the deep south and loss their lives. Yet, many of our Civil Rights leaders and proponents have intentionally overlooked and have not given an objective, unbiased and critical assessment of the pros and cons of segregation versus integration relative to where we are in space and time (what did we as so-called African Americans gain by becoming integrated and/or what did we lose do to abandoning segregation?) I admired Dr. Marin Luther King, Jr. and I consider myself only as a student relative to reviewing his work and legacy in which to write and interpreted, and having the scholarly opportunity to objectively assess his ideals and legacy from a historical revisionist perspective; it gives me an advantage to delve into the man and his leadership philosophy and yet I am far enough removed to detach myself from this recent American and black history occurrence. His courage, tenacity and determination to commit his life to struggle (I believe he was destined to do what he did long before his introduction to the philosophy and opinions of Mahatma Gandhi of India or learning about Voltaire andFriedrich Nietzsche at Boston University). King was called to preach and assume leadership of the legendary DexterAvenueBaptistChurch by the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) and they picked King to be the face and voice of the movement in Montgomery; King also would be replacing a fiery community activist and former pastor of DexterAvenueBaptistChurchnamed Vernon Johns. It was already coded in Dr. King's DNA that he would be a drummer major for justice, I read his letter from the "Birmingham Jail' (his conviction towards truth and his determination to alter social change and not allow prison to serve as a deterrent to justice) and I wept because Dr. King like the Biblical Prophets of old had transcended into a space that had always been reserved for those special and unique human spirits who were willing to give of themselves something greater than being satisfied with the appeasements of what status quo had prescribed for them. Dr. King would prove to be such a man—these type human beings only comes about once in a lifetime as messengers, prophets, and leaders who were not motivated by materialism and ego driven, but they had a deeper conviction to change the world by being actively concerned and engaged in struggles to create equitable playing fields for the 'have nots' and become the voice for the voiceless.

Dr. King was not engaged in the Civil Rights movement because he was working towards receiving the Nobel Peace Prize (1964) and international recognition, his mission was tied to service and sacrifice. They have always systematically packaged Dr. King and his message in this neatly wrapped "I have a Dream" speech given in 1963 (right away a beautiful speech and words) that possessed universal implications, the humanity of the spiritual lexicon and him being a spiritual man and theologian, he had away of delivering a message from that old biblical church tradition, but he had the equal ability to give sermons and messages that resonated with black laypersons, as well as to middle class black intellectuals. Yet, they have systematically suspended Dr. King's legacy in a historical time capsule and his evolutionary philosophical ideals relegated just to the March on Washington speech; this has been done systematically to keep him safe in the minds of those who have elevated him to sainthood and not give them the King who had transitioned into becoming militant and radical in his worldview in 1966-1968—surely they have considered this King to be dangerous and, therefore students and others only get a small window of Dr. King's philosophy.

They did not want us to know and embrace the King after he begin to expand his analysis far beyond the theories of the traditional Civil Rights agenda and paradigm and was beginning to understand the credibility in the Marxists analysis (King was evolving to become a Socialist), delving into the economic and political theories of Karl Marx who stood as one of the 19th century premier economic determinist. King was also beginning to see how class and race served as twin towers and barriers and were antagonistic contradictions that created a class of petite-Bourgeoisie (Elitist) and the lumpenproletariat (poor working class who are the masses). This reality led the good doctor to question wealth disparity and he understood that not only were black Americans the victims of oppression, and racism, and classism, but the systemic affects were of international implications—King had made a transition that Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Reverend James Bevel, and Reverend Andrew Young did not understand and many of his close comrades Roy Wilkins and the other "Big Six" civil rights leaders disagreed with Dr King's transition.

King had moved far beyond the ideology of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), they had become politically stagnated and were fearful that Dr. King would lead them into uncharted political waters and they wanted him to remain committed to Civil Rights and not to connect the Civil Rights struggle with the international struggle of the African National Congress (ANC) that was taking place in South Africa against Apartheid, or connecting with the Vietnamese people of southeastern Asia whom Ho Chi Minh had inspired to fight U. S. imperialism and defeated the U.S. in the Vietnam conflict and/or linked up with the Palestinian liberation struggle against Zionism or connect with the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the people of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland who were in a long standing religious and ethnic protracted war that involved succession, British domination, Catholicism and Protestants conflicts and that ultimately IRA struggle evolved around their quest for sovereignty. Dr. King no longer viewed human history from the vanish point of being isolated and disconnected (he was starting to see history as being cyclical), but also started to see and recognized the long arm tentacles of those who carried out global oppression, colonialism and imperialism and the oppression of humanity were interconnected to the same systems of power apparatus that were denying blacks human rights in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, etc.

Surely King's political growth would not only proved threatening to Negro leaders, but it would prove even more threatening to the United States Government who too desired to keep Dr. King relegated to focusing on national politics (Civil Rights) and not international politics. Minister Malcolm in 1961, already knew the next step to our collective justice which would have been our fight for Human Rights to be taking to the United Nations, which would involved presenting an international legal argument that our historical claims as war crime victims were legitimate –the charges of genocidal acts for 310 years of Chattel slavery this alone constituted war crimes against humanity. King's international motives and political objectives put him on a collision course with the United States Government and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in which he was placed high on the government’s radar screen and J. Edgar Hoover made King a premier target of the U.S. counter-intelligence program known as Cointelpro where Hoover used every dirty trick as tactics and government strategies to besmirch and discredit and character assassinate Civil Rights leaders and Black Power leaders as well. Hoover said he feared a black leader that had the power to unify and electrify the black masses and he saw King as having that potential on moving black people towards unity and this type potential of organization threatened Hoover who saw our unity as a national security priority.

Hoover illegally wiretapped Dr. King's phone and eavesdropped on some of King's most intimate conversations were being recorded and every move he made was being monitored by FBI agents. Hooverhad listened into King's private conversations that involved extramarital curricular activities with women other than his wife Coretta Scott King and Hooverthreatened to make Dr. King's domestic life public, if he did not stop agitating the system. King did not capitulate and told Hoover and his agents to go on and do what they had to do, but he said I got to keep on doing what I have been ordained and commission to do by God. The FBI director also sent agent provocateurs to internally disrupt SCLC. James Earl Ray did not pull the trigger that killed Dr. King, Ray was a mere patsy, King was assassinated by the agents of the U.S. Government no different than President John F. Kennedy, Minister Malcolm X (the Nation of Islam assassination team that was responsible for murdering Minister Malcolm X that were assembled out of Temple #25 Newark, New Jersey worked on behalf of the U.S. Government; I do not believe that Elijah Muhammad had anything to do with the murder of Minister Malcolm X) and former U.S. Attorney General and Senator Robert Kennedy were all assassinated by the United States Government and all other black progressive organizations became government targets of U.S. Government scrutiny.

For example, the U.S. Government was behind the internal feud between Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X, they worked day and night to separate Malcolm X from his teacher, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad (the Freedom of Information Act 1972) there was evidence that Hoover and the FBI continued to instigate the feud between Muhammad and his student Malcolm X—there was even proof that Malcolm X wanted to come back to the Nation of Islam. Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Ture), H. Rap Brown (Jamil Al-Amin), Huey P. Newton, Angela Davis, George Jackson, etc., and the Republic of New Africa all were on the Cointelpro hit list. The Government derailed King's movement and the Civil Rights movement due his assassination in 1968 and although some of his surrogates attempted to replace this icon, the movement lost its mass appeal and influence after King was assassinated.

King’s political growth started to give him broad based insight into the national and international struggle, which became in his life transformative at best and it created a spirit in him to consider other strategies and tactics to speak in solidarity with oppressed people from around the world. King had grown to understand what the great theologian Howard Thurman (1900-1981) wrote about in his book titled, Jesus and the Disinherited. He was quickly learning that his social Gospel had to expand to include an analysis of linking the U.S. struggle to all of the Disinherited and oppressed of the planet who were in a quest for freedom, justice and equality. Jesus the son of Yosef and the Christ (Yeshusa Ben Yosef) that would have been Jesus' Hebrew name took on Pilate and the Roman Government. So I believe, Dr. King had many biblical and theological revolutionaries to emulate and mirror, which to interpret and to draw upon their philosophical ideals and apply them in a modern context. Thus, all the prophets of old were in a war with the spiritual leaders and the governmental hierarchy of their day; fighting to free the captives and challenging the governments to be better stewards on behalf of the least of these—the poor and oppressed.

King took on racist white supremacists such as Bull Conner of Alabama and Governor George Wallace of Mississippi, which he had moved beyond fear and started to view life and death as being synonymous (Dr. King had accepted the biblical parable 'Ye do I walk in shadow of death, thou art fear no evil' God is with me). He looked beyond the dogs, lynchings, church bombings and racially inspired murders and said I will stand up against one of the most powerful governments in the world and speak on behalf of the disenfranchised and those who yearned to breathe free, his life was a testimony of speaking truth to power. King had become much bigger than the Pastor at DexterAvenueBaptistChurch in Montgomery, Alabama and he had moved to the left of his father, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. who pastored one of the oldest black influential churches called EbenezerBaptistChurchin Atlanta, Georgia. King probably was also being nudged by some of the young activist such as Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Ture) who helped King desegregate the South, but some of the young activist were growing tired of King's nonviolent strategy when they were being bitten by dogs, spit in the face and were forced to confront some vicious racist in the deep south unarmed. Carmichael and some of his young comrades were beginning to hear and listen to Minister Malcolm X a fiery Black Nationalist minister of the Nation of Islam under Elijah Muhammad. It would be Minister Malcolm X who perhaps was one of the most articulate black power spokesmen of the 20th century, it was his book recorded to the journalist Alex Haley The Autobiography of Malcolm X that would forever changed my life.

Carmichael and others broke away from Dr. King's movement and founded the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a militant and radicalized student movement that had chapters and ties to Historical Black Universities and Colleges (HBCUs) such as Shaw University, Fisk University, Howard University, etc. I believe these students pushed King because simultaneously the Black Power movement was taking shape and having tremendous influence on young black people's thinking. Yet, King refused to totally move away from civil disobedience and continued to march and fight for integration. He would later meet Minister Malcolm X after Minister Malcolm separated himself from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad; I think the meeting may have been brief and with mutual respect, it perhaps was not a meeting of the ideological minds and though both men were quite familiar with each others leadership model—they never had the opportunity to bridge the ideological gaps. I would later be exposed to another one of Dr. King's works in which this book would forever change how I had previously viewed Dr. King in my past assessment, it was titled, The Trumpet of Conscience, in which each read paragraph caused me to put the book down in order to make sure that I was actually reading the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and not Malcolm X (I could not tell the difference between the two men during this reading; King's ideals mirrored the militant and radical ideals of Malcolm X) because in part of this small book, he was given a critical analysis of United States Foreign policy relative to the war in Vietnam and why the U.S. arm forces should not have been there killing and murdering these innocent peasant rice farmers (who fought against U.S. imperialism and showed great military resolved in fighting a guerilla war) and dropping agent orange and napalm on these innocent South Eastern Asians who dared to fight back against imperialism. I had previously viewed Dr. King as an agent provocateur and Uncle Tom who had sold out black people and as a younger man, it was difficult for me receive King's universal message and felt the same exact way about Booker T. Washington until one day I became stilled and I reread from Up From Slavery and from that day forward I would never again refer to Washington and his work of building Tuskegee Institute as being an Uncle Tom and reactionary. So this is how I will celebrate Dr. King’s birthday on January 15, by looking back and drawing inspiration from his body of work and recommit myself to the struggle for justice and human rights. If King was alive today, I believe that he would still be engaged in transforming society by preaching and advocating a social Gospel. So many of us who attend these annual Dr. Martin Luther King celebrations are just window dressing and have lost the vision and will to challenge injustice that is running rampant in America in 2017.

WE MUST GET UP AND DO SOMETHING FOR OURSELVES

By Fahim A Knight-El

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I often attend Kwanzaa celebrations each year, my son who is a musician and my daughter is an African dancer, the arts have been a staple in my home and family for many years, because of our association with our children’s involvement in the arts, I really enjoy the African music (the rhythms of the drums does something for the human spirit and has the ability to rekindle the ancient past of our African ancestral linkages), dances (the movements tells folklore stories which connects us to our African heritage in body movements and sound), the Elders imparting wisdom and knowledge sharing their life experiences as members of the movement and the struggles and sacrifices they made relative to our quest for liberation. I love hearing about the history of how Kwanzaa came about and the inspiration behind Dr. Maulana Karenga (Ron Karenga) who founded Kwanzaa as a cultural holiday and celebration in 1966 in Los Angeles, California. The recitations of the Seven Nguza Saba Principals each year reinvigorate my spirit as an African born in Americaand the celebrations allows you to publically reconnect to our original energy source. But it is the principles that are rooted in responsibility of what we as a collective people of African descendant should be doing in order to move forward politically, economically and socially. The seven principles (unity, self-determination, working together, supporting each other, purpose, creativity and faith) have all the necessary unifying language relative to organizational and/or movement theories, planks and ideals needed to empower black people and resolve our 300 year old problems that Chattel slavery created for all of its descendants. Although, the Transatlantic slave trade ended in 1807 and Chattel slavery ended in 1865 in which according to law and history, we have been so-called free for over 150 years—and our so-called freedom have come at a great cost (the dehumanization process left us as a scarred people). I asked myself, if we are a so-called free people, why are we so lagging behind other races and nationalities in our economic, political and social development and progress? (let me be clear this is not to dismiss the gains we have made over the last 150 years in Americain all fields of endeavors). I wanted to focus this article on the black economy and as I was reading over the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa in which I immediately saw in these cultural rituals and philosophical principles (hope and inspiration) concrete planks of possibly having the potential to resolving almost one hundred percent of the problems that negatively impacts and affects so-called black Americans prosperity and success; thus, only if we could agree to rally around them and start to build.

I have not followed Dr. Claud Anderson's economic strategies and proposed plan to empowering the black community (yet as the CEO of my Think Tank, I often hear a lot of good praises for the work that Dr. Claud Anderson has done and may be all of us should get behind his economic strategies and tactics to empower black America). But I think most of it is perhaps covered in his two books titled, Powernomicsand Black Labor and White Wealth in which I have both of them are in my library. Some African Americans have had historical problems with signing on to anything involving Dr. Karenga because of his controversial history that involved his organization’s confrontation with the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in 1960s on the west coast (I refuse to go down that road) because what I am proposing is much bigger than internal disagreements with Dr. Karenga, in fact other than us using his model, he does not factor into this equation, I think sometimes we allow our petty differences to keep us divided as a people and this keeps our potential for collective success stagnated and derailed. The Seven Principles of Nguza Saba are rooted in theoretical language and has the workable and concrete planks to build a realistic model to success. The first principle is unity and if we are to change our predicament, it must start from the basis of unity and racial solidarity, it must first stem from efforts to eradicate any philosophical barriers, which for us it is often purveyed in our religious affiliations and our exclusive loyalty to our faith traditions. We allow religion to become divisive—Black Christians often view non-Black Christians with suspicion and to work with Black Muslims is often considered a point of contention and although, the Black community has become religiously diverse—the historical stereotypes and the fears are nevertheless, real in some of our minds and we think to have non-Christian allies will somehow impede upon out religious values and spiritual worldviews, and it becomes sacrilegious to move and operate in circles whom might not share our Christian values (the enemies of our rise play on this and keeps us divided and dysfunctional as a people and community).

The negative historical stigmas which often are based in ignorance and is still overwhelmingly indicative of our behavior and roads to trust are often met and tethered by both suspicion and fear and the problems of the black community are left without real leadership and community consensus and/or and viable action plans to move us forward as a people. We create artificial barriers in which our church is often the very focal point of our collective division. Black Catholics and Black Protestants both recognize that the African American community share social, political and economic problems in 2017—ranging from poor public education, poor charter schools, black on black homicides, drug distribution, gang related violence, addiction, HIV crisis, disillusionment, and deteriorating of the black family, etc., and most of all wealth disparities. Our communities throughout America are crime ridden and our neighborhoods have become dilapidated. How can we afford not to seek unity and work towards revitalizing the black community and view this urgency as our national security issue and number one concern?

I know many black people got very upset when President-elect Donald Trump made a similar assessment, but there were some truth to Trump's assessment as he described, but we have become so accustomed to the likes of Hillary Clinton tickling our ears and keeping us in the trick bag and would prefer not hearing the undiluted truth from Donald Trump. Trump’s approach to government will, perhaps force us to rely on each other and work more to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps as Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey and Elijah Muhammad instructed us to and stop depending on white people to solve our problems. We also know his comments were from the mindset of white supremacy and he is only part of the Matrix and he is going to lead America down some dark paths, but lets not be alarmed he is only doing what he was born and ordained to do. We cannot allow ego and self-interest to continue to create reactionary behavior and we must approach our new agendas and objectives from a different paradigm. African American leadership both local and national will have to stop allowing outside forces and external interests to keep us oppressed and they eventually serve as the beneficiaries of our disunity. The status quo and government knows that the entire concept of criminalization is very profitable to sustaining the prison industrial complex and the criminal justice system; mass black male incarceration is systematically being carried out as part of the new industry.

Our collective wealth as it pertains to our Gross National Product (GNP) was comparable to any emerging nation; African Americans had a GNP of 1.5 trillion dollars last year, this constitutes some serious wealth under any monetary standards. But why are we so poor? Every ethnic and immigrant people who have settled in the United States whether it was in the 1800s or the early 1900s, they have always rallied around culture, ethnicity and nationality and they come to America and empower themselves on the work and sacrifices of their descendants (culture remains at the center of their modus operandi). They build institutions (businesses and schools) that extends beyond the church, synagogue, and mosque and over generations they empowered themselves by creating generational wealth that is readily passed down to their descendants, it alleviates reinventing the wheel and simultaneously gained respectability with external institutions such as financial institutions, government agencies, banks, credit unions, insurance companies, investment groups, real estate companies, goods and product distributors, manufacturing, construction and trade builders and any other service oriented professions, etc. They are very good at following the money. They are also good at using their consumer spending power to build mutual external relations and create business and commercial opportunities for empowering their community and people.

The Jews, Asians, Latinos, Italians, Arabs, Russians, Polish, etc., have through hard work and racial and ethnic unity and solidarity have created and amassed respectable amounts of economic power and hard currency wealth. African Americans have pursued politics and not economics and this strategy has contributed to our down fall—this is not to say that becoming the mayor, police chief, sheriff, city councilperson, school superintendent, governor, senator, congressman and or president is not important, but there is nothing more important than creating a strong economic base. We have tremendous spending and purchasing power, but we don't invest in ourselves and the black community. If we are going to change our condition, it must start from using our collective capital to build businesses and transform our community by creating employment opportunities and raise the standards of living, in particular for young African Americans; we also must promote high academic standards and post secondary education and work with colleges and universities to implement curriculums and studies that are relevant to the employment market and implement curriculums that teaches the benefits of entrepreneurship (and promote trade based and vocational education as well). We have to do a better job of fostering alliances and partnerships with both the private and public sectors with the objective of gaining access to resources and being able to rely on the expertise and the skills of others for our interest.

The church can no longer continue to ignore the economic and social issues while our community dies a slow death. We have to have the conversation of strategizing and commit to pooling our collective resources together beyond our commitment to the church building fund and expand our economic base in a progressive way. We deposited millions of dollars into white banks and just this summer it was this talk on social media about African Americans desired to rallying around the idea of putting our money into black banks and this was supposed to have been a national initiative. I viewed this as a good start and could have been a game changer in expanding collective black revenue and creating monetary and potential investment leverages for African American banks to have black capital which to reinvest back into the African American community and restore dignity by financing long term profitable black business ventures and enterprises. Thus, most of our churches every Monday and Tuesday deposited millions of dollars into big white banking institutions that often do not invest back into the black community. But across town you can immediately see well lit supermarkets, Whole Food Markets, Bistros and cafes, Panera Bread, banks, condos, hotels, a variety of eateries, and right across the railroad tracks there is a stalk economic difference, often in most major cities you have to search for black business establishments; our communities are like ghost towns.

We use to have black owned restaurants where soul food cuisines where being cooked; now Asians and Arabs own the markets in our community (most black communities are food deserts and it is difficult to find high quality foods) and our money is being ciphered out and recycled by outsiders who possesses no interest in our economic sustainability and the money that leaves our community often never returns. I am not blaming any people who understand how America functions and have taking economic advantages of creating long standing opportunities to better themselves and their people by so-called embracing the American dream—these ethnic foreigners have figured out how to get ahead on two fronts by sending United States Dollar (USD) currency to developing nations, the homes and places of their origin in which they convert USD to their national currency and create spending and buying power in their Central and South American economies this is smart economics, which have propelled them to economic success, but our circumstances as a landless people renders us void of this option and other immigrants are allowed to workout of dual markets—national and international. This gives them a clear advantage, because of sharing a homeland and place of origin outside of the United States of Americais empowering on so many different fronts. They are turning wealth, which allows them to purchase land and real estate in their native countries (flipping money) then after a number of years those profits and interests from that money slowly returns back to America where they begin to acquire assets and businesses inside the U S. They learn how to play the money game and become successful immigrant citizens. African Americans have no meaningful business relations with Africa and there are no big international trade agreements between continental Africans and Diaspora Africans.

When I go to major cities, I always look for black owned vegan and vegetarian restaurants or black Muslim owned restaurants to eat and dine, as well as other black establishments to spend my money (we should and must think about spending our money with black people first and make this a mandate which to be carried out throughout black America). We must make conscious efforts to spend our money in the black community with people that looks like us—by making every attempt to utilize black business and professional services and invigorate our own economy by being mindful of the importance of becoming more self-sufficient. However, with gentrification taking place throughout America and the encroachment of the Millennium inspired ideals of being able to work and play in the same locale, it has led America into a neo-transition of New Age urban architecture designs and layouts to accommodate a tech base workforce, which have pushed poor people out of the cities (they no longer could afford to live there and shop there). They create appreciating and escalating tax bases and the value of properly both residential and commercial in the gentrification schemes are outside of poor people’s ability to lease or buy.

Yet, we know and understand that this is being systematically done and Donald Trump who is a real estate mogul will continue this onslaught of using the biggest stage which is the Oval Office to legally steal more money and resources and like all other commanders-in-chief blame the poor for America’s woes, but I think he will force us to get up and do something for ourselves and cause us to stop depending upon the United States Government to solve our problems. Trump might be a blessing in disguise for African American people and for all America. Many of us already know that we have nothing coming from the Trump administration and this alone should create a sense of national urgency to develop a long and short term vision and plan to secure our future as a people. So all the African American ministers have to do is just survey the scene in which, we have a church on every corner and our condition as a people is despicable and there exist a bleak reality, which should automatically demand and mandate that we all need to get involved and reclaim our communities back from social destruction. We must work to rebuild our community by beginning to own the business in our community and by pooling our dollars we can begin to buy property and remember this America is for sell.

We must encourage our black farmers to hold on to their valuable farmland and create distribution markets and black co-opts to develop outlets where they have markets to disburse their harvests. We should get behind the Nation of Islam and back their farm efforts in Georgia and preachers should not be fearful of working with Minister Louis Farrakhan and others to devise the solutions we need as a people living in the 21^st century. The work of doing this cannot be motivated on sectarian lines and it must be motivated by a common interest, which is to inject innovative business ideals and brick-by-brick begin to lay the foundation of investing in our community and bring them back to life; we cannot continue to talk about the Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma in which the racist white supremacists power structure destroyed in 1921 and we have this nostalgic view of our past business success and do nothing to duplicate that success in 2017.

I think everyone could agree that black homicide rates have become of pandemic proportions in the larger cities in America such as Chicago. It is incumbent upon us to change this reality by unifying as Christians, Muslims, Hebrews and/or whatever we might consider ourselves to be. The times dictate that we get up and do something for ourselves. If not we would be considered failures to our unborn generations. So this Blog is a call to action and I ask that you to share this message with other like minds, in particular with your self, families, business leaders, politicians, ministers, educators, community activist and let us begin this conversation that will lead us to economic success and prosperity. We have the resources, education and wither-all to become a self-sufficient people overnight. Our survival as a people will depend on how we engage in dialogues like this, which my ideals are to move us into action. I must admit, I do not have all the solutions and I might not be sharpest knife in the draw, but I believe in my people and I love my people and I am willing to work on-behalf of my people to see us move beyond our present predicament.

DECODING TRUMP AND THE MATRIX AGENDA: FOLLOW THE MONEY

By Fahim A. Knight-El

Donald Trump is deeply in bed with Russian Mobsters (he has had relations with New York Russian mob crime families for many years and the cozy relationship with Putin should not be surprising). Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin (this not the making of some strange bedfellows, but the same type coin with two heads); the powerful U.S. based Russian immigrants have ensured Moscow that Trump is a player and his only loyalty is to wealth building and nothing else. George W. Bush was given the assignment to assist in rearrange the world and had laid the foundation after the 9/11 hoax to even eradicate the very foundation of U.S. sovereignty, which use to be rooted in the U.S. Constitution, but these legal and jurisprudence standards of domestic rules of law couldn't serve in the interest of a New World Order agenda, which has led to it being gutted and reduced to a worthless piece of paper. Trump and Putin are shrewd business men who just happened to be globalists and international politicians. Both of them have global aspirations in desiring to positioning themselves to serve as the new world dictators over the G-20 and G-8 nations in reality, these loosely alignments of nations is only a passing resembles of how nations use to be formulated prior to the Cold War, but in today's international era which is rooted in a New World Order and One World Government dynamics these alignments are more symbolic than possessing strategic and tactical international uniformity.

But this is not to say that they represent a voidances of political, economic and social corporation relative to carrying out collaborative efforts, if necessary to achieve an international or Global goal—yet in the scheme of the old power paradigms, they have been rendered weak and less influential and are only standing on past reputations as shrinking world leaders and powers, their collective world power begin to fade after 1989 with the fall of Soviet Union style Communism, the Iron Curtain had created military domination over Eastern Bloc nations and the United States had created similar influence over NATO nations. Nevertheless, Trump and Putin have much deeper understandings that the world has changed and they both possess adaptive mentalities to get way in front of the continued world transitions. They no longer find it necessary of taking on the huge burdens of providing robust military, economic and political resources to prior allies like they had historically and previously done before the Berlin Wall came tumbling down.

This is not to say, that their global military interest have waned just to the contrary, it has subtly intensified beginning with the so-called war on terrorism. Unknowing to many that live in today's world, it is a lot more dangerous and the people are a lot more vulnerable in which because of these low intensity wars so-called aimed at combating terrorism that have dupe us and lured us to sleep and has not made the world more safer (modern Western imperialism is quietly united the Islamic world). They declared war on Islam an enemy they cannot defeat, because their motives aren’t necessarily being inspired by some single charismatic Imam or Mullah giving them secret orders to fight and oppose the West and oftentimes aren't receiving instructions from some central Islamic voice (yet western propaganda and disinformation campaigns desire to make the world believe that these motivations behind terrorism are ISIS inspired—some of terrorist incidents were no doubt tied to ISIS cells).

Their motivations are more rooted in an ideology of Pan-Islam; so, how can you defend yourself against and idea and this is the problem that Western Governments are having in their efforts to defend against so-called terrorist attacks? What they call Islamic extremism and/or radical militant Islam, the idea of itself is outside of the broad influence of ISIS in which their response to perceived western government injustice is motivated by an idea. So the United States, United Kingdom, France Italy, Germany, Turkey, Netherlands, Brussels, Spain, Greece, etc., find it shocking that in recent years their nations and people have come under attacks by so-called acts of radical and militant Islamic terrorism. Noam Chomsky, one of the most honest white intellectual that I have read in recent times, he has attempted in his scholarly writings to warm America and the west by trying to give America and the world a working perspective since 9/11 relative to the true causes and affects of global terrorism.

Trump will lead international measures to move the world towards the ultimate objective of a one world government in which he, Russia and China totally understands that the world has become more internationally complex, thus, both Trump and Putin shares objectives of neutralizing the influence of these powerful nations by moving towards eradicating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the United Nations. Trump will play a major role in restructuring the entire world, he is setting the stage and is actually playing games with the American people. Trump is focused on the global agenda and really do not care how he is being perceived in America by the people or his constituents in government. Many have reduced him down to a white supremacy racist in which he is, but Trump has bigger fish to catch and fry than debating race relations in America. The predominately white American electorates who voted and put him in office do not understand that Trump will create the biggest wealth disparities in United Stateshistory and will negatively impact white Americans and black Americans. Trump really at this point is not focused on the question of race that is truly and old paradigm, his main focus is global positioning and creating the next business frontier for himself and the Trump brand. He really do not give a damn about Russia allegedly hacking the Democratic and Republican computer networking systems during the presidential elections and campaign and committing cyberterrorism (of course he will be forced during his administration to deal with cyberterrorism coming from North Korea, China, Russia, Israel, etc., and he is smart enough to know this). It is foolish to keep asking Donald Trump to take some responsibility for these national security compromises and breaches, but I viewed it as a failure on the CIA, FBI, NSA and Homeland Security part for not having implemented a better national security cyberspace plan and defense against national or international hackers.

Trump has loaded his cabinet with ultra conservative patriots, just look at how many U.S.Generals that will serve in his cabinet (he also understands the importance of having competent people in place to make the tough decisions, because you cannot accumulate wealth without being able to defend it). Trump also understands that he is going foster hostile international business (global based corporate monopolies) takeovers of the oil trade domination and this is why he chose ExxonMobil oil tycoon Rex Tillerson as his Secretary of State, this patriot is tough as they come and rest to sure he is a true diplomat and knows how to get things done internationally through hook or crook. He is a rugged capitalist and Trump will use him both in a governmental official capacity and in a private capacity while serving as the Secretary of State in order to cut high volume future business deals for the Trump brand—you see Trump is already looking down the road and really do not have time for government bureaucracy and political gridlock. And while commander-in-chief, he will use the White House and the Oval office only to amass huge amounts of business opportunities for himself that will transition into unspeakable wealth when his two terms as United Statespresident is up and over. His children have been entrusted over his many conglomerate business enterprises and Trump will be using them as fronts also to cut deals while Tillerson is dinning with trade ambassadors and Heads of State, he will be setting the business table for the Trump corporation. Thus, can anyone else see this trickery and deception?

Now, African Americans have focused their attention on Senator Jeff Sessions congressional confirmation hearings to head the United States Justice Department because of his past racist and white supremacy views, but I find Tillerson a lot more dangerous and disturbing than Senator Sessions at least with Sessions you kinda know what you are getting. But to turn over the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. military forces over to Trump, the U.S. Generals, his children and Tillerson this is a very dangerous time in American history, because they all are motivated by greed and nothing else matters other than money and wealth accumulation Trump has never been interested in serving as America's forty fifth president, a position that only pays 400,000 dollars annually (surely money cannot be his motivation because this is chump change to a billionaire like Trump, so common sense would say to us he must have other ulterior motives)—President Obama was not in the same class as Bush, Clinton nor Trump and he saw the Oval office as a salaried job and was entice to know that he would be getting a lifetime pension (as a Federal employee), lifetime health care insurance, and around the clock secret service protection after he leaves the Oval office for the rest of his life and to him this represented a good benefit package (this is the negative drawback for an African American, U.S. president that did not come from generational wealth).

Obama will draw decent money after office by giving speeches and raking in huge honorariums and will make a few millions upon writing his memoirs and by consulting international bankers on Wall Street. The white boys came into office as multi-millionaires and after serving as United Statespresident expanded their net worth exponentially. They had built alliances with the Rockefellers and with the likes of Henry Kissinger and untold wealth were made available at their disposal. Donald Trump truly understands the game and knows how it is played and even as a billionaire he will reap huge financial dividends from every corner of the earth. His interest in serving as commander-in-chief is to sit in the most powerful seat in the world and utilize this as a potential advantage to dictate his own economic interest without impediment. No other job or corporate decision maker wields this type of power.

Trump was chosen over Hillary Clinton because he was the perfect fit based on his ambitions and ruthlessness to further carry out the New World Order agenda in which the international bankers and the Bilderberg, Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission and the various Hidden Hands entities; systematically appointed him. This was not to suggest that Hillary Clinton would not have been a good Hidden Hand candidate, because she and Bill Clinton both were very loyal servants. They allowed Bill Clinton to use his Global Initiative Foundation to created tremendous economic and financial opportunities for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and some of these deals were cut by Hillary Clinton when she served as U.S. Secretary of the State (the Clintons as a team have made large sums of money in which most of Bill’s transactions were diverted to Swiss bank accounts). But they chose to go a different direction by appointing Donald Trump as their man. But let's not get it twisted in one sense Trump has no real autonym and he will be carrying out their Global agenda, which is pushing the Hidden Hand mandates towards world domination by continuing to expand their wealth and natural resources interest in which undoubtedly Trump shares.

The European dynastic royal families and the international bankers have become disturbed that China has a monopoly over the gold and has taking huge amounts of this precious metal off the market; most of the gold currency after 9/11 was removed out of the Chinese Central Banking system and was taking to ancient hidden vaults outside of Beijing and only the Elitist Chinese Royal families have knowledge and access to this unaccountable wealth. They will use Trump's business skills to negotiate and attempt to convince China by promising them unlimited access to oil as collateral and offering them an expansive interest in Dope, Inc., these offers will be made available to entice the Chinese to relinquish some of that gold (China does not have any interest in U.S. dollars and leveraging this weak currency in the global market because it has very little value) . These will be secret proposals and agreements made by ExxonMobil executive and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson who has oil interest around the world from the Persian Gulf to Central Asia, Argentina, Canada, Mexico and Africa—China will be able to have a bigger seat in the oil and drug trade markets in order to fuel it's massive human population, industrial complex along with its military complex. This will enhance their future international security interest.

Therefore, expanding the Trump dynasty and empire, he is actually trying to bring us up to a learning curve, which is, there will be no such thing under the New World Order rules that governs conflict of interest and nepotism—this is why Trump recently said he could serve as U.S. president and run his company simultaneously. Trump and Putin as I have stated above, are restructuring the Global landscape and repositioning the geopolitical structures to exclusively benefit their interest, but these moves would allow them to be able to impact weaker nations international sovereignty and not having to deal with international law pursuant to international rules established in the U.N. Charter or any other international overseer. This objective is was clearly right out of the New World Order playbook in which globalism will create no need for an international police force apparatus; because one of the objectives is to alleviate borders and erode the concept of international sovereignty. For example, the concept of international waters rules and geographical parameters would become obsolete and will hold no jurisdictional credence and intervention will be viewed in the same manner and no rule or international Agency of enforcement would be applicable and this would allow the powerful nations do as they please without the threat of outside intervention (surely dangerous times).

The World Order will be about passive domination, which Russia still having territorial expansionism on their minds and annexing weaker boarder nations will continue to be on their long and short range agenda and this last incident in 2014 involving the invasion of Ukraine was a perfect example of such aspirations, they were in clear violation of international law by invading it's neighbor and wasn't concerned about the United States power and interests or the U.N. Security Council. Russiaviewed President Barack Obama as weak and they were going to continue to test the waters by invasions like Ukraineand they equally understood that the international consequences would be minimum at best. Russiawouldn't be deterred by the potential of U.S.sanctions and embargoes because Americahad lost respect as a world superpower amongst the nations of the earth. The international bankers had deprecated America's economic influence and power, thus other nations no longer feared the international consequences of not siding with the U.S.

Lastly, Russiaalso understood the post variables and international ramifications of the Berlin Wall collapsing in 1989 of ending the Cold War, and the 9/11 crisis these two incidents have led us into a new era in which militant and radical Islam and its relationship to terrorism has become the order of today. Thus, these phenomena created an urgency coming from the west to act and react with responses that prior to 9/11 would perhaps have meant diplomatic intervention as opposed to declarations of war. The United Statesunder President George W. Bush implemented foreign policy that fostered militarism over diplomatic peaceful resolutions (he was atypical warmonger). The U.S. Government and its foreign policy incited the Taliban of Afghanistan and Al-Qaeda of the Middle East who had created Islamic loyalty amongst Arabs, Pakistanis, Africans and Eastern Bloc Muslims and Muslims almost on every continent who had dismissed ethnic and nationality as barriers and deterrents and begin to rally and unite around the common enemies of Islam, which was the United States and its Western Allies.

They were fueled by western military aggression first in 1990 Desert Shield and 1991 Desert Storm and, although, both conflicts along with Saddam Hussein versus the Kuwait Monarch in which all parties were corrupt to the core and were being propped up by U.S. oil interest and petroleum companies such as British Petroleum out of the United Kingdom and ExxonMobil were behind the United States and it's coalition nations who lined up to so-called halt and combat the military aggression of Iraq and Saddam Hussein and deter their invasion of Kuwait—this eventually led to the big U.S/Iraq war in 2003. It would be these two incidents that begin to change how International law would forever be altered, but in reality they attempted to established this as an international precedent in 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia, they were using these low intensity military invasions tactics and strategies to combat radical Islamic cells and even imploring highly trained U.S. Rangers and U.S. Navy Seals and it was failure. General Mohammed Adid along with the rugged Somalia terrain proved to be more challenging for the U.S. and this tiny Muslim nation of Somaliahad scored a huge moral defeat known around the world as Black Hawk down. The Somalians were actually high-jacking shipping vessels who had containers, which was transporting and smuggling contraband oil from Iran, dope poppy plants and pure heroin in which the Clinton and Bush cartels were moving huge amounts of dope from South East Asia across the Indian Ocean route. Donald Trump will only take up where George Herbert Walker Bush, the former CIA director and U.S. president, William Jefferson Clinton, George W. Bush and last but not least Barack Hussein Obama all left off and continue the plight of stealing wealth and creating massive propaganda and disinformation ploys which to hide behind.

BLACK LEADERSHIP: DR. UMAR JOHNSON AND SARA SUTEN SETI

By Fahim A. Knight-El

One of my Student's from New Orleans came to my home in order to visited me and to inform me about a young black activist named Brother Dr. Umar Johnson out of Philadelphia in which at that time I had no idea that there were some controversy centered around a war of words between Sara Suten Seti out of Detroit and Dr. Umar Johnson, but from what he was sharing with me, he vehemently stated it was something that I needed see and hear for myself. I knew of Sara Suten Seti and Dr. Umar Johnson from the intellectual research that I do with my Keeping it Real Think Tank and black people from time-to-time have often asked me what I thought of them both as our new young premier scholars and work that they were doing to raise the level of consciousness amongst black people and it appears a sizable amount of black people and black activist that I have spoken with have found them both to be credible, but for entirely different reasons, in particular their styles of leadership in my opinion, are like day and night. For example, Sara Suten Seti comes across as street savvy, militant and radical with a ‘hood’ flavor and Umar Johnson comes across as a professional trained clinician/academic and the intellectual type—steeped in the school of thought of deductive reasoning. But I must admit, I am not an authority on either one of these brothers and their philosophies. Yet, I do know a little about leadership; leadership is an awesome responsibility, which requires one to love black people more and better than they love themselves. Leadership requires the highest levels of discipline and commitment and often it has to be rooted in self-denial. There has to be a commitment that is principle based having morality and ethics as a foundation and having a greater discipline not to compromise lines of trust with yourself and the people, that you are attempting to lead, it must also be rooted in sacrifice and service and not allow egos to consume us and always have tolerance and compassion and commitment to stand on truth and present ourselves as good examples to our family and the community.

Our leaders must take the responsibility to be role models to our children and we will always hold you to a much higher standard and look for you to be good private and public examples. People are prone to follow what they see and we cannot allow our emotions to sway us towards negative energy (it will only serve as a contradiction to us obtaining our goals and objectives). If you are going to be a black leader, you are automatically going to have a target on you back and people are going take shots at you—some are going to falsely accuse you and say all manner of things about you, others are going to attempt to character assassinate you by continually making false allegations and other will become outright envy and jealous of your success, and there are going to be some who are your closes comrades and they will betray you, and others will come your way as opportunist with intentions of using you to promote themselves and will use opportunities to link up with you for all the wrong reasons; the U.S. Government will send male and female agent provocateurs to penetrate your inner circle and infiltrate your movement or organization. But as a leader your credibility has to be rooted in your work on behalf of the people whom you serve. If your motivation is about personal gain and is just about money even it will expose itself and the downfall of most leaders are money, sex and lies.

This leads me to the purpose and intent of why I wrote this article that somewhat pertains to Dr. Umar Johnson and Sara Suten Seti, my above analysis it is meant specifically for Johnson and Seti, in particular and black leadership in general. Moreover, our conduct and behavior are very important and in every movement and organization there have always been fights, strategy and tactic arguments, which has led to splits and splinter groups and in some cases it has led to violence where people have been killed. Perhaps some of you have seen the disputes that were posted on Youtube between General Sara Suten Seti and Dr. Umar Johnson; thus, I am not going to go down the road to attempt to analyze or decipher these hate-filled and mean-spirited arguments that were made public, but I will say this, that the public implication has negatively affected both of these brother's reputations and although I still believe both of them are entitled to their opinions about each other, but we have always watched how division and attacks and counterattacks have played out in the liberation struggle of the black community (just read the dossiers compiled by Cointelpro—U.S. Government counter-intelligence plan aimed at black leadership during the 1960s and 1970s). Their demeanors and words were the poorest representation of two young and upcoming intellectuals and activist.

I must admit, I was a little more disappointed in Dr. Umar Johnson’s conduct, because he claims to be a black expert on black child's psychology in which his professional work ties him to impacting children's lives and has the responsibility of creating mental health safe heavens as a clinician. But he had a serious meltdown and his conduct did not reflect someone that I would want counseling my child or children (he even brought up the dark skinned and light skinned phenomena in which my first thought went to some of the distasteful things that the light skinned mulatto W.E.B Dubois stated about the dark skinned, kinky haired, broad nosed, and thick lips of Marcus Mosiah Garvey). This conflict that has become public and everyone one has been talking about it because it has lost all respectable boundaries. I do not know much about General Sara Suten Seti, but I heard him make claim of being a student and follower of the late Dr. Minister Khallid Abdul Muhammad (the real Black General), the former National Spokesman and Supreme Captain of the Nation of Islam under Minister Louis Farrakhan and later would become one of the premier voices of the New Black Panther Party with Malik Zulu Shabazz and Hashim Nzinga. Some members in Nation of Islam departed the NOI along with Dr. Khallid when Minister Farrakhan suspended Dr. Minister Khallid Abdul Muhammad for allegedly making anti-Semitic statements at a speech he delivered at KeanCollegein Union, New Jersey in 1993. Dr. Khallid Muhammad's departure angered many inside the Nation of Islam and outside the Nation of Islam and Sara Suten Seti appears to be one of those brothers who loved Dr. Muhammad and each chance he gets he reminds the public about his personal grievances relative to Dr. Minister Khallid Abdul Muhammad and the perceived treatment he received from the Nation of Islam and Minister Farrakhan.

Many of my Pan-Africanist and Black Nationalist comrades have tremendous respect for Dr. Johnson and I have over the years vibe off both of their energy. I had read some news about Dr. Umar Johnson over the Internet, and the work that he had been doing in the area of black child psychology, in particular around challenging white Eurocentric models and clinical approaches relative to how they have historically diagnosis mental health involving African American children and he let it be known that they had failed to properly treat the causes in which their approaches to resolving Attention Deficit Disorder, Down Syndrome, Autism, etc., are flawed and the high incidents of these diseases are not coincidental and how they disproportionally affects African American children in 2017—their explanations did not meet Dr. Umar Johnson's satisfaction. Black children in recent studies have been diagnosis of higher incidents of bipolar and Schizophrenic disorders than they had twenty years ago and if these mental health illness are allowed to go untreated, the ramifications of such neglect would eventually negatively play itself out in our families and the community. We must be willing to create talking points in the black community relative to the issues of mental health diseases, because it is hidden and covered under layers of fear and shame and this alone disallows us from having open, honest, non-egotistical, etc., conversations about devising mental health strategies and create a level of comfort that we could have these conversations in the black community.

Now, lets be honest with each other, we all have members of our families that suffers from mental health disease and I do believe that I am preaching to the choir, perhaps someone in the choir are listening. I am ready and prepared to talk about this issue, how about you? Let the church say Amen. Dr. Umar Johnson appears to be very good at speaking and diagnosing all the psycho-educational theories; his university training did not lock him into assessing and evaluating black children’s minds based on the exclusive theoretical models of European social scientist in which is required as you matriculate up to obtaining the terminal degree of a Ph. D in which the curriculum is imbedded with these European educational philosophers such as: Sigmund Fraud, Abraham Maslow, Lev Vgotsky,, Johann Friedrich Herbert, Friedrich Frobel, Maria Montessori, Jean Piaget, John Jacque Jacques Rousseau, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzai, etc., but by Dr. Johnson himself being deeply rooted in knowing and understanding the African American experiences by living and existing in a white supremacy society, he has this uncanny ability as a black mental health expert to connect with black children and families unlike European social-psychologist.

I believe, he fully understands the pervasiveness of mental health and mental health disease and/or problems that are affecting the so-called African American community, thus, this has always been a difficult subject and issue to talk about for the most part in the black community, it has been taboo and has created an immeasurable amount of denial. Although, blacks suffer disproportionally from various aspects of mental health diseases/illnesses, which have contributed to high incidents of Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PSTD), suicide, domestic violence, longer untreated bouts of depression, sexual abuse, feelings of alienation, delusionary reality syndrome, Attention Deficit Disorder, etc., these are some of the symptoms of mental illnesses that go undiagnosed and are in many cases untreated and often go unspoken about in the black community, because of the social stigma. So we, as a community have historically neglected talking about mental health illnesses and the dilemma has only contributed towards reinforcing the stigma, which has caused us to often fail to attain a proper psychological assessment of our mental health.

Yet, as a social-psychologist Dr. Umar Johnson is standing on the previous work and historical foundation of black social scientists who have historically challenged white intellectuals such as: Dr. Alvin Poussaint, Dr. Kenneth Clark, Dr. Nathan and Dr. Julia Hare, Dr. Frantz Fanon, Dr. Bobby Wright and just in recent years Dr. Naim Akbar and Dr. Kobi Kambon, Dr. Kwebena Faheem Ashani, Dr. Tom Burrell, Dr. Kamou Kambon, etc., these African American social-psychologist have always worked towards creating relevant social and psychological theories that were applicable to African people. So Dr. Umar Johnson is deeply in debt to a prior class of black academics and intellectual activist who have always viewed the approach of black psychology and white psychology as being different in practice and theory and the relations these schools of thought have had in addressing black mental health is without a doubt very different. I have never studied Sigmund Freud, Carl Yung or B.F. Skinner’s models in relations to human behavior, but perhaps like Dr. Umar Johnson, I have studied Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Dr. Naim Akbar, Bobby Wright, Kobi Kambon, Dr. Faheem Ashanti, Dr. Mawiyah and Dr. Kamau Kambon, Dr. Nathan and Julia Hare, Asa Hilliard, Dr. Amos Wilson, etc.

I am thoroughly convinced that throughout black America and in our personal families there have been afflictions of serious bouts of mental health illnesses/diseases problem, which is only a microcosm of a larger problem in the broader community and yet as much as I accept this dilemma that we still have some serious unfinished work to do in the areas of mental health and this why we cannot afford to have these counterproductive and senseless arguments going on between General Sara Suten Seti and Dr. Umar Johnson (to have our leaders to publically display dysfunctional behavior creates a dichotomy in the minds of the people) our people are suffering from various aspects of mental health disease/illness; I am also of the belief and opinion, that this breakdown in communication between General Sara Suten Seti and Dr. Umar Johnson were in the making for many years and it finally culminated (I have to characterize what I heard as typical black reactionary conduct) to those in our community, I am offering an apology because our people deserve much better.

We are suffering from mental health diseases at epidemic proportions in which we are in dire need of unity and it is incumbent upon all us to find ways to devise solutions to resolving our pressing social, political, and economic problems—name calling, insults and ego tripping will only continue to set us back, but this type poor examples of leadership only denotes immaturity, it alerts the world that we are not ready to be a nation of people, that are prepared for collective sovereignty and self rulership. I am quite sure that as the black scholars that I have cited above Dr. Umar Johnson knows their work and understands that many white social scientist such as Arthur Jensen and William Shockley determined that blacks relative to intellect (or I.Q.) which according to them could be influenced and determined by race and ethnicity and these racist pseudo scientist had been working historically and presesntly to determine that blacks in mental capacity were inferior to whites and this is why it is so important to have Africancentered social scientist such as Dr. Umar Johnson.

I am not a mental health expert, I possess no formal training in identifying, treating, counseling and/or recognizing the appropriate steps and treatment plans when it comes to solving mental health issues in the black community. I am writing this article merely as a keen observant and layperson of having relations with my personal family and the African American community those are my credentials and this alone qualifies me as a mental health expert equal to some of those who have written empirical dissertations and who have gone to medical schools and become a psychiatrist or clinical psychologist. Dr. Johnson’s approach attempts to correlate mental health and educational achievements and academic gaps confronting black children as being rooted in the systemic practices of white supremacy. I think as a black mental health professional, he has garnished a lot of respectability and credibility amongst African centered activist and proponents. This credibility seems to evolve around his past organizational ties to the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A), affectionately known as the Marcus Garvey Movement in which appears to be the basis of his theoretical and philosophical views. So as a former Garveyite, I have respect for Dr. Umar Johnson because Garvey is one of my heroes, he attempted to create a worldview that was rooted in African values, African symbolism, and Garvey pointed us to Africa in which the back to Africa Movement was implemented to redefine the historical disconnect that Chattel Slavery had created for people of African descent.

Dr. Umar Johnson being a student of Garvey that alone has a huge measure of credibility that lie in his corner, if with nobody else it resonates with me and at the same time, I am not condoning nor signing off on his recent conduct. But some in our African centered community have mistakenly elevated Dr. Johnson to the heir apparent status of the African centered thought and the Pan Africanism movement leader in the last five years (and I think may be in his own mind he somewhat believe that he is; ego can lead us to start drinking our own cool aid) because of what appears to be a nationalistic leadership void in the cultural community due to many of the revolutionary Elders scholars having transitioned and have become ancestors such as Dr. Yosef A.,A. Jochanan, Dr. Henrik Clarke, Asa Hilliard, Del Jones, Steve Cokley, Amos Wilson, Cheikh Anta Diop, Ivan VanSertima Khallid Abdul Muhammad, Frances Cress Welsing, Tony Martin, Kwame Ture etc., both Sara Suten Seti and Dr. Umar Johnson hails the above said leaders and view them as their master teachers and find their philosophical tenets as being credible and good for black people and I am quite sure our intellectual warriors are rolling over in their graves at such display of madness in their names and legacies; what they both have done is inexcusable and does not reflect good quality leadership.

Yes, there should be a Tribunal called consisting of an assembled of elders who should be allowed to intervene in this dispute between Dr. Umar Johnson and Sara Suten Seti before the real enemy sneaks in and exacerbate the situation and causes more problems. The above intellectual warriors were for the most part from the movements of the 1960s and 1970s in which many of these activist transitioned into academia as professors, lectures and researchers and their legacies have become a body of intellectual works as it pertained to writing and publishing intellectual and scholarly treatises that have rescued African history from the realm of white supremacy who saw it as being obscured by presenting Africa as a subject rather than an object. They all have done yeoman's work to redefine African history and civilization by rescuing it from the myth of Africa being the 'dark continent' and so-called made no contributions to human civilization.

This African renaissance movement had it official inception in the late 1980s and 1990s and built academic credibility by infusing past African history and lost African traditional culture into a synthesis of ideals, which formulated into a philosophical and ideological school of thought that became known as Afrocentricity. Africancentered theories that presented itself as the intellectual antitheses to Eurocentrism and academic white supremacy, which was part of pedagogy of western world's concepts of dominating the arena of ideals. Dr. Leonard Jefferies and Dr. Molefi Kete Asante, TempleUniversityprofessor and later Dr. Tony Martin would take the brunt of the scholarly criticism for daring to redefine how African history should be taught in primary, secondary and on the college level. Asante theories were well put together in his book titled, Afrocentricty. This created a level of excitement amongst African American and simultaneously sparked controversy amongst some white academic scholars such as Dr. Mary Lefkowitz who authored the book titled, Not out of Africa Afrocentrism" Became An Excuse To Teach Myth As History.

REPARATIONS REQUIRES KNOWING YOUR AFRICAN HISTORY

By Fahim A. Knight-El

We as Africans of the Diaspora and the descendants who survived the most brutal acts of man's inhumanity-to- man, have been inspired by the spirits of our ancestors to seek justice; moreover, our ancestors were kidnapped, raped, robbed, murdered, etc., Chattel Slavery endured from 1555-1865, it was slave labor that built the economic foundation of the United States of America and the present day white Americans and their European brethren are the private and corporate beneficiaries of the legacy of slavery. The reparations movement is not an anti-America response, it is rooted in a collective movement for justice and a recognition of our denied human rights as historical victims. Whenever so-called African-Africans mention the word slavery, which was part of the ancestral experience of our fore-parents from 1555-1865, it sends the majority of white conservatives and white liberals in to a frenzy. They often hide their fore-parent's guilt and their own guilt, with a deep sense of historical denial and in the same breathe call for race reconciliation and a need for better race relations (hypocritical language and sentiments), as though we should skip over and dismiss 310 years of brutality, rape, robbery, murder, forced labor, kidnap, etc., (and most of all slavery robbed us of our God, names, land, culture, folkways, mores and robbed us of our minds and five generations later we are still suffering from this crime against humanity) that were committed against an entire race of people, which now numbers to be over 50 million black people in the United States and that is not counting the millions of Africans living and scattered throughout the Diaspora.

President Bill Clinton in 1998, and the United States Congress in 2009 issued the descendants of African slaves a so-called official apology for slavery. We do not need just some weak half- hearted apology that was crafted by white legal minds to protect the long term economic interest of the descendants of the perpetrators. But our quest for justice can only be entertained when the discussion of equitable retribution is unconditionally on the table, which has to be tied to a proposal involving and beginning with the surrendering of five southern states as part of the discussion—we must mandate some land that we can call our own. The next demand would be to assess and calculate the modern monetary value put on 300 years of unpaid human labor and the interest/dividends which has led to white America becoming one of the most wealthiest nations in human history—this allowed them to invest in markets that have further allowed rich Elitist capitalist like the Morgans, Duponts, Vanderbilts, Stanfords, Mellons, Dukes, etc., their monetary empires are a direct result of slavery in which slavery allowed them and many other white aristocratic families to create generational wealth off the backs of African people. I think Adam Smith (one of the fathers of modern capitalist theory) authored a two volume book titled, The Wealth of Nations, but Smith’s research in my opinion, was intentionally shoddy in overlooking the enormous magnitude that Chattel Slavery played in springing the United Statesinto a dominant historical and present world economic power. The Nation of Islam’s Historical Research Department and Minister Louis Farrakhan published an investigative type research in a second book titled, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews volume ll; thus, daring to expose the various entities that have served as the beneficiaries of their overwhelm involvement in the African slave trade. The Nation of Islam’s Research Department’s investigation uncovered that in places like Mississippi where cotton was the king on many different levels (it was cotton that created untold wealth for white America at the expense of black slavery)—these past cotton trade entities transitioned into modern international banking houses and respectable financial institutions, which has permitted them to continually expanding their accumulation of global wealth even in 2017.

It is America’s historical denial and overt refusal to openly admit and take full responsibility that it was because of the practices of systematic racism and white supremacy, which allowed for a class of whites to economically proposer to the detriment of African people who were brought to the Americas as slaves, it is this denial that keeps fueling the modern day "Civil War" in which the relationships between black and white people will never truly change or get any better until the grievances of the ex-slaves are properly addressed and taking into account—the 300 years of dehumanization and the spirits of our ancestors will forever haunt the white Americans ancestral descendants until justice is rendered (this would be the first steps towards making us spiritually and economically whole). How can we have better race relations if there are still large sectors of white people that remain in historical denial? Professor Kenneth Stamp referred to slavery as the Peculiar Institution, Professor John W. Blassingame in his monumental work referred to it as The Slave Community and W.E.B Dubois in his scholarship referred to it as The Suppression of the African Slave Trade.

The majority of American scholars agree that blacks in this country arrived as slaves and the present generation of blacks are here based on that historical tragedy. Yet, we are 150 years removed from slavery and America is still in historical denial. Former President Bill Clinton as stated above was prepared to issue Africans in this country an official United States governmental apology for the wrongs of slavery, but it was later deemed politically expedient for the president to remain quiet and give a diplomatic response relating to black slavery and not issue Africans a full and meaningful official apology. I am assuming that his legal advisors and the United States State Department advised him and the United States Congress not to publically fully go down this road, because the admission of guilt, perhaps could have been used legally against the government by Africans in their quest for reparations by providing blacks with potential future lawful ammunition that could have been used in the World Courts, United Nations and in U.S. Federal Courts as testimonial evidences being given by a sitting commander-in-chief. This could have legally backfired against America from a legal standpoint relative to America having to pay Africans living in America a 310 year old debt (our Congressional Black members should have equally submitted a mandate rejecting and refusing to accept some half-hearted watered-down apology). So we allowed them to enter this meaningless and non-legally binding mandate and/or resolution into the U.S. Congressional records and to accept this action has only set us back in our fight for reparation and justice. Blacks have to craft and write the legislation, the slave master's children will never willingly legislate our freedom. Show us the damn money.

Many of our critics and pundits that opposes blacks receiving reparations are quick to attempt to argue against reparations by stating that blacks who are the direct descendants of slavery ancestors by hiding behind their ignorance and maintaining that the present day blacks did not endure slavery and are not entitled to justice (Just as some of the present day Jews did not suffer the Holocaust, but that has not precluded them from being the beneficiaries of what their Jewish ancestors experienced under Adolph Hitler). Blacks in Americaare genetically and spiritually connected to a common past, present and future and this much is undeniable. Nevertheless, in 1995, the Southern Baptist, a predominantly white Christian association had the humanity and the proper spirit of God to admit the wrongdoings of the Christian church in slavery. They did not go to the graveyard and issue this apology to the dead, which would have been partially suffice, but the church issued the apology to the living ancestors of those who lived and died under the evil institution of slavery.

Here are the solutions to this four century problem, to what sociologist Gunnar Myrdal referred to as An American Dilemma. 1). The healing process starts at admittance of the wrong doing and erasing historical denial. 2). Open and honest communications amongst the races about slavery. 3). Reparations. 4). An international call for atonement and reconciliation on behalf of all African people. 5). Pray to God for healing and guidance. European Nations such as: Spain, Portugal, Belgium, France, and Englandbeginning in the mid 1400s explored and colonized the darker people of the world. Spain and Portugal in 1494 signed the Treaty of Tordesillas laying out an imperialistic plan by which to divide and colonize the entire world between two European nations (Spain and Portugal).

In 1517, Bishop Bartholomew de Las Casas and Pope Alexander VI working in the name of the Catholic Church and in their official religious church capacities actually divided the entire world between Spainand Portugalunder the Papal Bull of Demarcation. These two said European nations drew an imaginary line in the middle of the world, moreover, giving Spain the "permission" to conquer and colonize all the lands in the so-called "New World" with the exception to Brazil and Portugal would colonize all the lands in "Old World" which included Africa. This was an unlawful act that can be defined under United States Federal Statues as a Conspiracy. In legal terms a Conspiracy is defined as an agreement by two or more persons to commit an unlawful act: a combination for unlawful purpose. In criminal law, conspiracy is a separate offense from the crime that is the object of the conspiracy. Who amongst the ex-slaves and descendants of Africa have the courage to charge all the said European Nations in the World Courtand in a United Nations with historical crimes perpetrated against Black humanity? The said crime is Chattel slavery and the political, economic, social, etc., affect this evil institution had on one race of people (Africans), is the single most important issue in the annals of human history and the greatest crime ever committed against humanity.

Where is Barack Obama, Michelle Alexander, Roland Martin, Van Jones, Bakari Sellers, Yahweh Ben Yahweh-Ben Yahweh, Jamaal Bryant, Boyce Watkins, Tariq Nasheed, Marc Lamont Hill, Umar Johnson, Malik Zulu Shabazz, Corey Booker, Donna Brazile, Ben Jealous, D.L. Hughley, Valerie Jarrett, Martin Luther King, III, John Lewis, Hugh Price, Vernon Jordan, Susan Rice, Tavis Smiley, Steve Harvey, Jay-Z, Michael Jordan, Tom Joyner, Irvin Johnson, T.D. Jakes, Oprah Winfrey, Jesse L. Jackson, AL Sharpton, Henry Louis Gates, Maxine Waters, Cornel West, Louis Farrakhan, Julianne Malveaux, Michael Eric Dyson, Stanley Crouch, Charles Ogletree, etc. our so-called Black leaders and Black intellectuals on this issue of reparation, where do they stand? Many of them are very much familiar with this fight, but very few of them have committed their organizations resources and expertise in a pro bono manner to allow a legitimate legal defense on-behalf of the sons and daughters of Africa. Minister Silis Muhammad of the Lost Found Nation of Islam in the West (out of Atlanta, Georgia) deserves a lot credit for his efforts and tried to make our case in the U.N. by assigning us a nationality called Afrodescendants. Minister Silis Muhammad who has been at the forefront of the issue of reparations for many years now and he estimated just to file the petition will cost over USD $100,000 and estimated it will cost over USD $10,000, 000 in order to win the reparations battle (these figures were given almost 20 years ago). Why don't we put our resources behind Minister Silis Muhammad and why didn’t we listen to the late Imari Obadele, the Chairman of the Republic of New Africawho had been in the forefront of the reparations struggle and movement since 1968. Randall Robison who authored the scholarly book titled, The Debt: What White America Owes Blacks. However, Robinson was very late coming to the reparations discussion, Robinson former Chairman of TransAfrica has provided us with an intellectual discourse, which has laid a theoretical framework for us to follow.

Reverend Robert Schuller, a renowned white televangelist who had received an invitation from the late Reverend Leon Sullivan to address the African/African-American Summit in Libreville, Gabon, Africa in 1994. Reverend Schuller's recognition and admittance that Europe and Europeans by the enslavement of Africans had committed an unpardonable crime and sin. Here is an excerpt from Schuller’s book titled, Prayer My Soul’s Adventure With God, stated,

" Leaders from the black African nations are here. Also Louis Farrakhan and the widow of Malcolm X. All of them will speak. Just listen, and when you're called to come up and talk, the lord will tell you what to say.' I listened. Speaker after speaker spoke. Coretta Scott King spoke. Following her was Andrew Young. And, yes, Louis Farrakhan too. I was struck by the mutual respect shown even among those who shared different faiths and contradictory philosophies. Where is the anger? I thought. I sensed none of it. Hour after hour I listened. From my seat next a window, I had a view of the beach. The ocean was calm. Form this very spot on the west coast of Africa, cargo boats had been loaded with slaves to be hauled to market. During a period of more than two hundred years,
twenty million blacks had been brought from the interior in chains to be sold to the white men who landed their boats on this beach. The entrapped humans had been hauled from this, the eastern boarder of the Atlantic, to where waves finally stopped on the eastern shores of the United States. I was an American citizen because my ancestors had chosen, freely, to immigrate to the United States. But the black Americans in the room were not citizens of the United Statesby virtue of the free choice of their ancestors. This beautiful, kind, intelligent Americans were the living ancestors of slaves once dragged in chains in aboard the ships right here! I could see it happening in my mind's eye. Who were those white traders? Were they Dutchmen? Some of them were, yes. I was of Dutch descent. Could one of my ancestors have been in slave trading? “

Reverend Robert Schuller continues: “I had inherited money from my mother, whose father---had been so he claimed---a baron in the Netherlands. My maternal great grandfather, Gerrit Van Amerongen, had sold all his property in Holland and come to America with his fortune to buy a vast spread in Galveston, Texas, and established' His empire. A horrendous hurricane later wiped him out, leaving him with only a small portion of his imported wealth. But from where had my grandfather acquired his wealth? From his father? Could it be that his family from Hollandwas involved, directly or indirectly, in the slave trade? These musings released disturbing ideas into my mind as I sat there--- a white man from America listening to black speakers, most of them, if not all, descendants of slaves. For the first time in my life, on the issue of race, I felt the sting of guilt. In my childhood, high school, college, in seminary days, I never felt superior to other races because I was white. I honestly looked on all colors as equals.

Reverend Robert Schuller continues: “Being better or worst was a matter of character, not color. But suddenly, here now I was drawn back into history when blacks were not equal to whites. They were better! Blacks morally better than whites? Yes! We whites bought and sold their bodies; they didn't buy or sell us. Blacks better patriots than whites? Whites love America, of course! We or ours chose to come to this great country. But blacks love this country with the equal passion! How proud they are to be Americans. But neither they nor their ancestors wanted to come here. They were not immigrants--they were imports. They came asproducts--not people. Abruptly my thoughts were interrupted as I heard my name call. Loudly! Leon was introducing me as the next speaker. "Let's welcome Dr. Schuller! " Applause broke out. I found myself almost stumbling through the large crowd. On stage I stepped into Leon's open arms. He beamed, smiled, laughed with pleasure, hugged me, and stepped back gesturing me to the podium. I paused. I prayed. I looked into his eyes of the famous black leaders, including Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr's widow. What did I think I had to say to them? My prepared speech now seemed absolutely inappropriate. Suddenly my lips trembled. My face twitched in emotional distress. My heart reached out to these people who loved me. Their grace, affection, and respect reach out to me. I didn't feel that I deserved this. Through my family history I might have been a part of the horrible history of slavery. I was speechless. Tears rolled down my cheeks. I prayed silently, "God, let the right words come out".

Reverend Robert Schuller continues “The crowd grew silent, for they could see and sense something strange occurring in the white haired, white skinned television preacher they had lovingly invited into their inner circle. Finally, a few words came. "Thank you for your welcome. I'm so honored to be invited here. But as the only white preacher here, I suddenly, strangely sense for the first time in my life a stab of shame and guilt for what we whites did to blacks." I couldn't go on. Tears rolled down my face as I heard only a few more words tumble from my trembling lips. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I can not talk I'm so sorry". Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a tall black man standing on stage only a few feet from me. He had come up uninvited. For a brief second our eyes connected I recognized him as a clergyman of another faith. His eyes sent a message to this speechless preacher: We don't let someone stand on stage and cry alone. I could not deliver a speech after only a few moments on stage I turned to leave. The audience rose, applauded, and cried. We were one in heart! How strongly my soul, through prayer, had asked for and received forgiveness here in Africa."

I cited this quote of Reverend Robert Schuller because if all white people had this type of humanity then the question of reparation would be answered and solved today.

Africa was thriving politically, spiritually, educationally, culturally, socially, etc., before European intervention in the 12th through 16th century there were Ghana, Mali, and Songhai empires in which Timbuktu University was attracting students from around the world and Mansu Musa and Sonni Ali was equal to any head of state in Europe. They chose Africa because the continent up until 1442 was not almost totally unengaged by Europeans; even though the Moors had wrote historical treatises and spoke of tales of great wealth, in particular after Mansa Musa 1324 made his Hajj trip to Meccawhere he showered the Arab Elite and Islamic Emirs and Imams with thousands of tons of African gold. The Europeans arrived to the west coast of Africa with the intent to engage the Africans in trade, and commerce and would eventually exploit this mass continent for its riches and raw materials. Also the Christian Missionaries were perhaps the most devastating to Africa, they robbed the people of their minds.

Now, on the other hand I believe, the European explorers were fully aware of the wealth that Africa possessed due to their contact with Muslim Moors who had ventured in to Africa in 711A.D. under Tarik Ibn Zaid who had conquered all of North Africa and the majority of Western Europe, all the way up to the southern boarders of France, which became under the influence of Moorish rule. Islamic Missionaries also robbed African people of their indigenous culture and belief system—the Muslims during theTrans-sharian Slave Trade were just as ruthless and vicious as the white European Christian missionaries. Yet, many Africans had converted to Islam and the Qur’an forbids the captor to mistreat their captives and mercy was often displayed more so from the Muslim missionaries than the Christian missionaries. Slaves could unconditionally purchase their freedom and marry into the Muslim tribal families. At the ending of the Crusades Wars and by 1492, Europeans had re-conquered Western Europe, as well as confiscating maps that were drawn by brilliant Moorish Nubian cartographers depicting lands of "Negro" people to the south who had established mutual trade relationships and routes with the Islamic Arabs. John G. Jackson and Willis N. Huggins in their monumental book titled, A Guide to Studies in African History, stated "Let us now turn to Western Europe, and consider the brilliance of Moorish Spain. The Moors, natives of Morocco, in North Africa, were converted to Islam during the Mohammedan [Islamic] Conquest in the 7th century. In the year 711 C.E. under the leadership of the Emir Musa and the Negro, Tarik-bin-Zaid, veteran Arab generals, and the Moors swarmed across the Straitof Gibraltar"

It has been recorded that in 1440s, a group of Portuguese maritime sailors actually captured ten (10) Africans off the West Coast of Africa and took them back to Lisbon, Portugal. Thus, this incident so-called initiated the African slave trade. Many Africans were actually sold into slavery by warring ethnic African groups, who traded slaves for guns, spices and alcohol with the Europeans. The Europeans built slave dungeons such as Goree Island off the coast of Senegal and Elmina Castle (known as the gate of no return) off the coast of Ghana, because diseases would not allow them to enter into the hinterlands (interior) of Africa and Africans captured slaves and brought them to the coast for sell and trade. The Europeans realized that based on diseases and in the interior bush country could not be penetrate by them, they needed Africans assistance to carryout their slavery goals and objectives. They also, realized how trusting and unassuming the Africans were about them as strangers who had a hidden agenda to commit mass murder, rape, assault, kidnap, etc. The warring African factions had no idea of the type of slavery they were selling their kinfolk into. They realized that Africahad a unique social and political structure; thus, African society was complex and was setup based on tribal protocol.

Chattel slavery represented a criminal conspiracy and although U.S. Representative John Conyers, a Democrat of Michigan, perhaps close to 30 years ago introduced into Congress a reparations bill titled H.R. 40, which in essence was nothing but a fact finding committee offered to study the possibility of reparations. Chattel Slavery still remains the greatest crime that was ever committed against humanity. In reality, we do not need a fact finding committee, here we are the sons and daughters of Africa who have been robbed of the knowledge of self, stolen from our native lands, made inferior, unjustly persecuted, destroyed our family bonds, etc., in the name of greed and capitalism. It was black slave labor that brought untold wealth to Phillip Morris Brothers Tobacco, J.R. Reynolds Tobacco, Ligget and Myers Tobacco, American Tobacco, which allowed the Dukes to accumulate, as well as other private and corporate entities untold financial wealth.

Sir John Hawkins (of Lubeck), the English Slave Trader in 1555, was sailing for Great Britain and actually had engaged England into the buying and selling of black human cargo, but Englanddid not reap the total benefits of slavery until March 26, 1713 at the signing of the Asiento. This was a contract between Great Britain and the Catholic King of Madrid, Spain giving the British the so-called "legal right" to import Africans into the "New World" commonly known as SpanishTerritory. The most popular and accepted date for advent of slavery by most historians is 1619, when the Dutch imported twenty (20) Africans to Jamestown, Virginia but were originally classified as indentured servants. These individuals had the right to work their way to freedom and after fulfilling their indentured servant contract many white masters honored the contract and freed them. The city of Jamestowngets its name from Sir King James, a pedophile social deviant who authorized and commenced forty-four (44) scholars to carryout the transliteration of the Holy Bible in 1611 A.D. He also had all forty-four (44) scholars killed upon their completing this task. These scholars had firsthand information of what King James ordered to be left out of the Holy Bible. Yes King James altered the Bible in order to secure control and domination over the thinking of humanity.

The Thirteen (13) Original Colonies were new and the quest for nationhood was in its infancy stage as it relates to early America around 1607. The world was witnessing feudalism come to an end, which gave rise to pre-industrialism; moreover, there was a need for the colonist in America to expand their major means of production and distribution (fur and gold trade). The so-called Native Americans were the original slaves and indentured servants; however, they had a keen knowledge of the terrain and could escape easily and go into hiding and never be found by their white masters. Also the hot southern temperatures and the work were killing the Native Americans. The Europeans eventually made an economic business decision by deciding on enslaving and transporting Africans into the Americas from "Negro lands" who were known to be tough, hard workers and they could easily be identified by their black skin color. The British started importing black slaves to colonial Americain order to clear off the land and work as agriculture workers on cotton and tobacco plantations serving as free labor (the white planter’s class saw slavery as an economic opportunity to enrich themselves within the southern economy).

Many slaves who were imported into European countries such as Great Britainbetween 1440 and 1772 actually worked as indentured servants; moreover, and in some cases were not relegated to a lifetime status of being a slave. Slaves in Europe oftentimes upon being freed served in European militaries, became citizens and were even permitted to marry white women. Many worked for the royal wealthy aristocratic families and for the nobility class as maids, butlers, servants, etc., the cruelty associated with Chattel Slavery in the Americas was not to be found on a large scale in Europe. Perhaps because Europewas just entering out of the Dark Ages and experienced the Renaissance an age of cultural rebirth and a period of enlightenment. In addition, Europe did not have the same economic and political challenges facing it, as the Americas did. The Black Moors had also influenced race relations in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and France.

Most historians would agree that the institution of slavery in Africa was a lot more humane, which was socially and culturally different. The warring factions of different ethnic groups captured other African slaves in ethnic battles and conflicts with all intent of selling them or making them slaves, but the concept of chattel, conditioning, and brutalization were not common practices in Africa. Africa is a very diverse continent and there were acts of aggression by Africans who had encroached on other ethnic groups land. The captured slaves still were giving basic rights as a human being. The captured African often worked to assist the tribal family in their work as a communal unit. Africans and Europeans did not have the same views of slavery. Thus, Europeans viewed Africans as inferior and were a people who had been cursed by God and justified their racist behavior, as well as inhumane treatment of Africans as an act of Manifest Destiny (the epitome of white supremacy). They viewed Africans as subhuman and as a people who had no human or God given rights. Africans viewed slavery as a necessary act in order to curtail encroachment and to secure its people from tribal danger.

The European nations in 1490s with the advent of Portugal, the Catholic Church and Spainwhich was headed by Isabella and Ferdinand desired to expand their so-called royal empires through trade, explorations and missionaries. Slavery became a convenient method in order to achieve these imperialistic objectives. The European quickly saw the need for using Africans as a free tool for labor in Europe and the Americas. In 1442 when the Portuguese landed off the coast of Guinea, it was generally believed by historians that their initial intentions were to establish trade relations with African people and many of the Europeans during these early expeditions were actually using maps and materials confiscated from the Moors upon the Europeans recapturing Europein 1492.

The Europeans brought weapons, gun powder, alcohol, spices, working tools, etc., to the African continent, exposing Africans to goods that were not indigenous to African society. The Europeans eventually were actually offered African slaves as a form of payment and a trade arrangement was established with certain powerful tribal chieftains who sold captured African slaves to Europeans for trinkets.

The Africans were forced to produce cotton, rice, tobacco, sugarcane (throughout the Americas), etc. These were considered the basic cash crops on the slave plantation. So many early European writers had depicted the African continent as the "dark continent" where "savages" and "uncivilized" people lived. Therefore, these so-called "African heathens" need to be saved by these white Europeans and Christianized by missionaries who were commissioned by God to bring salvation to a so-called backwards society. The Europeans believed in a white manifest destiny and that they had a superior right to enslave and colonize African people and darker people of the planet. The Europeans believed that they were ordained by God and justified their conduct by using the bible in order to sanction slavery. They viewed blacks as subhuman and blacks had no rights in which the European was bound to respect. Many Europeans actually held this racist view and believed that kidnapping black people from Africa and placing them into slavery was a blessing for the Africans; however, they never asked the African how they felt about being enslaved.

Yes. The Europeans thought that they were superior based on a false sense of white supremacy and based on military might. Africans have always been a determined people that had a different political, religious, social, economic and, culture value system, etc., than their white captives, but did not view their way of living as being inferior to whites. Europeans would find out that the buying and selling of Africans was extremely profitable and the Transatlantic Slave Trade served as an economic system of exploitation that provided a labor force for plantation owners throughout the Americas. Slavery was simply a racist and capitalistic venture orchestrated by the Europeans. The slave trade robbed Africa of its greatest resource, which was its human resource and according to some historians over 50 to 100 million Africans were stolen from off the continent and transported across the Atlantic Ocean. Africahas never recuperated from such a devastating blow. Europeans also raped Africa's natural resources and economically the continent is still suffering presently from these past historical relationships. The Europeans actually captured highly intelligent Africans who were well learned in the sciences, arts, and business oriented people who had the physical and technical ability to build their society.

The Europeans stole diamonds, gold, silver, ivory, timber and other raw materials and created existing markets and are still exploiting African resources some five centuries later and continue to economically empowers themselves from the wealth of Africa. The Europeans simultaneously disrupted the institution of family by unmercifully separating mothers from their children, husbands from their wives, brothers from their sisters, etc. This social phenomenon affected the entire African family for generations to come. The present day Africans and most of the continent are living in poverty, because of the onslaught of European aggression that has stripped Africa of its natural resources, divided the people and has tied Africa's wealth and natural resources to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. I have stated above that Portugal in 1442, became, the first European nation to engage itself into the African slave trade, it was short lived, but they brokered deals with the Dutch West India Company and with the British Royal African Company. The Portuguese in the 1440s captured some Africans and took them back to Lisbon; however, Portugal did not have the economic or the political might to really capitalize off the slave trade. The Portuguese played a minimum role in the slave trade because they were not well financed and did not have the resources to capitalize on such profitable venture.

They perhaps got the ball rolling for other European nations who were better financed and better suited in maritime science. Portugal got involved in the African slave trade in 1440 when Prince Henry the Navigator sent his lieutenant, Antam Gonsalves, to the coast of Guineafor a cargo skins and oil. The nation of Portugal ended its involvement in the slave trade in the year of 1773. However, Portugallike all other European nations was looking to expand its economic trade boarders beyond the confines of Europe. Capitalism inspired Portugalto venture into un-chartered waters in 1440 because of the profitable possibilities the slave trade could bring to the Portuguese. Portugal involvement Africa during the 1440s was very significant because they paved the way and opened the door for other powerful European nations such as Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, etc., as

well as, for private slave traders to venture into Africa to steal human cargo and raped Africa of its natural resources.

J.A. Rogers maintained that Spainwas actually in West Africa in 1435, which was five (5) years prior to the coming of Portugal; however their early involvement in Africa was insignificant. In 1493 with the signing of the Papal Bull of Demarcation between Spain and Portugal, the agreement precluded Spainfrom being involved in Africa. Spain directly played a minimum role in the import of slaves due the treaties and contracts it held with Portugal. Spain had its sights on the so-called "New World" which included expansion and colonialism. Although Christopher Columbus in 1492 was trying to find India, he eventually uncovered Hispaniola (Haiti which was already inhabited by the Arawak and Carib Indians).

In 1518, the king of Spainhad granted a trader the right to ship four thousand African slaves to the SpanishIsland. Thus, this was about two hundred years before 1713 with the signing of the Asiento in which the Spanish gave Great British the so-called legal right to import slaves out of Africa into the Spanish Americas. Spain'srole directly and indirectly in the slave trade in the seventeenth century began to decline. Spain got involved in the slave trade because it had acquired lands throughout the CaribbeanIslands, Central America, and South America. Thus, the Spanish needed a labor force to work the huge sugar plantations in order to make them profitable. Africans were used as the supply and fulfilled the sugar plantation labor demands. Spainwas no different from other European nations who engaged themselves in the African slave trade. The Catholic Church had sanctioned slavery as being a moral act on behalf of the Europeans and Spain had a duty to "civilize" the African "heathens" in the name of God and Christ. The Spanish in history has been a little in genuine on history by putting forth a deception ploy of stating they never directly got involved in the slave trade, because of Papal Bull of Demarcation that had signed with Portugal and its legal ramifications prohibited them. They circumvented these treaties and were heavily involved in the African slave trade. Spain'spresence in Africa led them to colonize Spanish Sahara and the Cape VerdeIslands; however, their presences also helped to rape Africaof its human resource and its natural resources.

The British perhaps were the most powerful slave traders in the world, they were well financed and possessed the maritime ability to engage Africa in this crime against humanity known as the African slave trade. Some have associated Sir John Hawkins with piloting the first British Slave ship. They shipped millions of Africans from the African continent to Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Maryland, etc, in order to work on American plantations. Great Britain in 1713 had entered into a legal agreement with Spain under the Asiento and had agreed to import African slaves into the Spanish America, but at the same time they were supplying slaves to colonial Americain order to be used as labor to work the agriculture plantations and clear the land.

The British Royal African Company desired to expand British trade relations throughout the world. There was an old saying that stated that, "the sun never sets on the British Empire" this was because the British Empire was so vast. The British got involved in the African slave trade because of economic capitalist expansion and to rape Africa of its valuable human and raw material resources for the benefit of British Royal families. The British also viewed Africa as a savage continent who had no history and that they were doing Africa a favor by capturing slaves and bringing them to the New Worldto serve as slaves. The British military, her merchants and missionaries served as a team of destruction against African humanity. The British left their influence on Liberia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, etc.

Spain, Portugal, France, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, etc., all benefited from the African slave trade and have contributed to the division of African people, as well as the raping and robbing Africa of its human and natural resources. The above European nations got involved in the African slave trade due to the potential of exploitation and capitalist interest, which makes all them economically liable for the exploitive crime they committed against blacks, which has transition in to untold wealth that had financially un-girded the Bank of England and the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank. They created a supply and demand concept and at the center of it all was the African continent (blacks were considered and treated as a commodity). The Europeans saw exploitable routes to wealth and unconditional labor at the expense of African people. The Europeans then and now still view Africa and the African continent as savages and subhuman.

The African slave trade left Africa weaker economically and politically, it also created tribal tension, division and displaced over 100 million of its citizen throughout the Diaspora. The slave trade opened Africa up for future exploitation and has been a factor in the destabilization of the African continent and most of all it has affected past, present and possible future economic, political and social development on the African continent. I think that the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Middle Passage should be declared as acts of war crimes, which were committed against the entire continent of Africa by the nations of Europe and the United States. Moreover, the United Nations should force all European nations who participated in the slave trade to pay Africa and all of its descendants reparations for this crime. I am not optimistic that this will ever happen. Reparations are about justice for the black man and black woman of America. What do you think?

Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.

FARRAKHAN: UNDERSTANDS DONALD TRUMP’S GLOBALIZATION AGENDA

By Fahim A. Knight-El

Donald Trump’s election to the White House has created a negative frenzy amongst black people and as well with some white people inside of America(black people have really taken his election to the Oval office hard). Some Blacks are losing their minds about having to live under a Trump led presidency; many have taking to social media to lament their feelings and frustrations and in most gossip circles from the barbershops to the black churches, there is an overwhelmingly fear about Donald Trump, it has gotten to the point that with some black people, you cannot even have a civil conversation about Trump without it turning into an argument—they have no objectivity when it comes to this man. Trump during the campaign made some racist comments and blacks being a marginalized people who understands racism and Jim Crow better than any other people in Americatook offense and are sensitive about someone whose rhetoric reminds them of a dark historical past in America. I too share their collective concerns as a so-called black American. They are angry and feel alienated and do not know what their next future step should be as so-called citizens of the United States as we move forward post Barack Obama. I am one so-called American Negro who can care less about Donald Trump, because I know his ancestors history and know his nature. Many top level black politicians and entertainers have chosen to boycott his inauguration ceremony and other blacks have been threatened to be blackballed, if they are caught being Lazarus and eating the economic crumbs that falls from trump’s powerful financial table (the rich man’s table).

Steve Harvey is one of these Negroes who thought that he was above reproach and went to the Trump Tower as a clown and buffoning, grinning, ‘Samboing’ and publically embracing Trump and he has received what he called an unexpected backlash from the black community. He did not realize the tension and dissatisfaction and resentment blacks have towards trump. I personally think Trump won the election fair and square because his campaign message resonated with the white electorate and even white people could see through lying Hillary and Trump was able to galvanize snuff dipping, tobacco chewing, Confederates who lived in the North and the South to back him. He gave them a vision “Lets Make America Great Again” and they bought into it and white men came out the woodwork in record numbers (Americain 2017 is truly a divided nation). Black Americans had a GNP of 1.5. trillion dollars last year in which, we have the wealth and expertise to turn our economic, political, and social condition around overnight. We should say thank you, Mr. Trump and thank you to America—give us our owed monetary reparations and five mineral rich States and let us go for ourselves as a free and independent people. I have a lot of respect for the Nation of Islam, their teachings and their program. I find myself engaged with various sectors and splinter groups of the Nation of Islam. But I must admit, I have always been intrigued by the knowledge of Minister Louis Farrakhan.

Minister Louis Farrakhan is intentionally walking a type rope, because he has to explain away Donald Trump's ascension to power to his followers and not appear to be to accommodating to the Trump message and aura. Farrakhan is a well learned and wise man, but many in the ranking file of the Nation of Islam have not caught up to Minister Farrakhan's broad based theological and political views of the world, but there is little doubt in my mind that he knows how the world functions (but he has to spoon feed his membership base). If we believe that Allah came in the person of Master Fard Muhammad (this represents an article of faith in the prescribed theology); the Messenger taught that the white man's 6,000 year rule ended in 1914, in which his power has been on a steadily decline (this was written about in Elijah Muhammad’s book titled, The Fall of America), but he was extended a grace period. So Master Fard Muhammad has allowed Trump to fulfill a divine purpose in 2017, because he taught that only 100℅ dissatisfaction has the power to bring about 100℅ change (white people inside the United States voted for Trump as their electoral candidate, because they felt that he was the best candidate to move their white supremacy agenda forward by breaking blacks dependency on the U.S. Government) he represented the type of change that is important to their mindset (shrouded in 'let's make America Great Again 'was deeper message rooted in the code language of white supremacy).

Yet, the New World Order and the One World government advocates saw him as being the prepared one to rearrange the global axis by shifting the world towards abandoning nationalism for white world supremacy, which would be rooted in neo-globalist ideology that will erase Pax-Americana and destroy how the world was structured after World War II (his ultimate objective is to extend Henry Kissinger's international ideals relative to how future global wealth and power will be dispersed). Trump represent the spiritual wickedness in high places and the principalities that he stand for are diametrically opposed to Allah and he has the potential to lead the United States and the world into our next deadly and bloodiest war, which would have ever taken place in the annals of time—world War III. Minister Farrakhan understands Globalism and Globalization, but as a spiritual man, it is his duty to invoke Master Fard Muhammad into the divine scheme of things because we created the white man as a scientific experiment, which was carried out by Yacub. Thus, he is actually a made man and during the 600 year grafting process, his nature evolved as a spirit that would be just the opposite of Allah and the original people.

Moreover, Minister Farrakhan sees him and his mission and purpose no different than when Yacub was playing with two pieces of steel (magnets) and immediately recognized that there was a scientific dictum that involved a magnetic attraction—polarity (positive and negative); this displayed attraction (is the religious symbolic equation of good and evil).We were taught the nature of the Devil from his origin coming out of the hills and caves-side of the Caucasus Mountains in Europe between the Black and Caspian Seas and his relationship to the Island of Patmos; he was a created man from the weaker germ and he was given a 6,000 year period to rule over the original man and the planet and he would create havoc, mischief and destruction on the earth. This evil disposition was genetically coded in his DNA, so from a mere psychological and sociological standpoint his human behavior has been anything but human. His mind from the size of his brain and coming from an origin of cold and unforgiving climate are factors into the big head scientist Yacub who created him and prescribed what his purpose would be.

Trump has mastered this scientific principle and knows his purpose, and has been crafty enough to have transformed these powerful values into a political thought, that has created a political movement amongst white people (his other mission and goal is to attempt to continue to extend his 6,000 year rule). So I believe, Minister Farrakhan has the ability to look deeper into the white man's nature because he is one of the few living Muslim leaders and Black religious scientist amongst us who has mastered the "Supreme Wisdom lessons"--this knowledge I am speaking of goes deeper than 120 degree lessons taught by the Nation of Gods and Earths, which allows him to decode, breakdown, interpreted and give his followers a divine roadmap, which to follow and better understand Trump's ascension to the office of being the most powerful world leader on the planet, it is not coincidental. But not many of us have the strategic and tactical ability and/or skills in chess to affectively play both sides of the chessboard. Chess is a strategic war game (one of the most highest mental exercises relative to strategy) and our black leaders don't have the vision to understand and predict the next moves on the board (Trump is laughing at us black and white people while he continues to run circles around us). Minister Farrakhan knows that we are really at war, but if he truly laid out his understanding of Donald Trump's divine and diabolic purposes, it would scare some of his follower away and definitely scare lost-found blacks away. He has to think for some of them and put things in terms that they could understand and receive. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad did say that there were some wise Moslem Sons who were Caucasians in which this select group of white men whom are high degree Masons and have climbed Jacobs latter beyond and outside of 33rd degree of knowledge, they would be given certain privileges, which is associated with the original man (the black God).

Dan Brown who authored the books titled, Lost Symbol and Da Vinci Code he knows a lot more about these various hidden layers of secret societies and this is why he protected himself by shrouding the in depth secret prophetic, religious, royal blood, secret society, etc., research in the form of a novel, which absolved him of the responsibility of being held to higher academic standards that are ordinarily associated with research being offered by those who have obtained a Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph. D), which in turn would have required his research to have huge amounts of citations and evidentiary proof and demonstrating the rigorousness and the empirical value; this scholarly negligence left a lot to be desired relative to laying out what led him as a scholar or researcher to have drawn such objective or subjective conclusion about such a misunderstood and powerful topic relating to ancient secret societies and their body of wisdom. Thus, it becomes a literally travesty for him not have provided scholarly documentation and real proof in a fictional literary body of work that exposes centuries of old royal bloodline connections, which goes further back than the Essenes (yet I do understand fictional work isn't subject to the same literary standards of a historian). And how wealthy Elitists created dynastic Royal Families that later on would be extended even deeper to the Rothschilds and global international control of the world's wealth, as I stated above who has been allowed to hide behind Freemasonic societies such as the Scottish Rite and York Rite Masonic Orders.

Donald Trump like all prior and past commanders-in-chief will have already been led around Banneker City taking first to the Masonic House of Temple Shrine in D.C. (Scottish Rite of Masonry Supreme Council 33 degree Southern Jurisdiction, USA) where he gets to see the entombed bodies of Masonic leaders such as J. Edgar Hoover and Albert Pike and other high level Masonic leaders and governmental figures where their bodies lie in glass bullet proof cases and others are buried in the wall; Trump was reintroduced to the meaning of the spread wings of the Double headed Eagle ceremony and giving a sublime lecture and ceremony on the true meaning of the Kemetic Benu Bird (known by the Greeks as the Phoenix Bird who was destroyed and killed by fire but rose and was resurrected from the ashes—great meaning and significance in Masonic eschatology). He took an oath to be the latest white Elitist Knight and European defender of keeping in line with the mission of the last leader of the Knights Templar Jacques de Molay (and he was told what he needed to do to revenge the death of Hiram Abiff) and he became oath bind to continue the legacy of defending the Catholic Church and Jerusalem from these so-called Muslim and Islamic infidels (Trump sees himself battling in the new age Crusade war against the Islamic world, a war that the West cannot win). He has been invested with all the secret Masonic tokens, passwords and signs and is obligated to hear and obey the Grand Master and if he was not a Mason he was made one on sight (in this respect he is second in charge). He has also been given the hidden symbolic meaning of the architecture designs and layout of the Capitol grounds and the celestial and numerological meaning meaning of the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument and how the U.S. Capitol, White House, the Mall, etc., are designed on Masonic geometric scales based on Kemet (and how ancient Egypt is laid out) from the Potomac River and the city of Alexandria, it all has deep esoteric Masonic meaning.

Trump was shown the bible that the first United States President George Washington took his Masonic oath, he first placed his on the tool and guide as a Masonic brother and later as the president of the United States of America (this country’s philosophical ideals from the U.S. Constitution on down has been heavily influenced by Freemasonic thought). Thus, unbeknown to the public some of the past U.S.presidents and those international Masonic entities have all ready been assembled by the United Grand Lodge of England who has visited the United Statesto assist in the elevation of Trump into the great Occult, Esoteric and Gnostic global mysteries. The first lesson to him will be to always appear Christian in public and a patriot, but he has been invested with a universal knowledge that works both along side religion and outside of religion—he will eventually get to see the well preserved tomb of Yeshuaa Ben Yosef and learn the true racial reality that God is black. Thus, once he secretly visited the Pope at the Vatican (where part of his ritual and oath will be kissing the pope's ring as a Masonic symbol of loyalty to the decrees and edits of the Roman Catholic Church, they will reveal to him the hidden Masonic secrets of Yeshuaa Ben Yosef (Jesus the son of Joseph) that Dan Brown wrote about andPope Francis will send him to Jerusalem to receive future instructions in the mysteries where he will be allowed to pray at the great Mosque known as the House of Omar by kneeling East toward Mecca and Medina paying homage to the Kaaba.

Elijah Muhammad taught that they (Moslem Sons) would be allowed to come amongst us because they would have submitted to Allah and would live a peaceful and righteous life outside of their nature. The Messenger also taught, we should teach separation over prayer (powerful point). Minister Farrakhan understands that Trump by the permission of Master Fard Muhammad is going to bring about a separation. Minister Farrakhan knows this man's nature (Donald Trump) as a divisive Patriot this will be the best chance the Nation of Islam will ever have when it comes to negotiating the five States solution and other sovereignty concessions. So he is playing both sides of the board to keep us emotional so-called African Americans in his favor by not appearing to embrace anything Trump is putting forward, but simultaneously keeping all potential options on the table. He is the only black leader that stands as a match for Trump because he was taught the knowledge of self and taught who God and the devil were. Farrakhan has the wisdom, insight and the backing of Master Fard Muhammad and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to checkmate Trump who is part of the wickedly wise.

Now, here is a small peep into Donald Trump's end game. Just take notice of all the billionaires and multi-millionaires that he has recommended and appointed to his cabinet and office, it is all by design to hasten the moving of America and world towards a Have and "Have nots" reality and widened the wealth disparity between the rich and poor and create new parameters for the sheeple and their goal to implement modern day slavery. His U.S. Treasury selection came out of the Goldman Sachs financial culture in which they have their tentacles wrapped around the entire globe and is involved in every market. They are the new financial masters of exploitation. They dictate how the money game is played on Wall Street and have unlimited access to the thinking and moves of the Federal Reserve Bank and are allowed inside global financial information, which gives them the latitudinal advantage in the international markets(this is equivalent to putting the fox over the hen house)—this is criminal and scandalously and is outside of thethe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) who has regulations and works in collaboration with the laws put forth by the Federal Trade Commission. Their regulations are a joke in which these Elitist are above U.S. law and they never go to jail for breaking and violating SEC regulations.

They operate as a financial global cartel that have unlimited power the world over. They use Wall Street as a front to stage and/or upstage the global markets by manufacturing economic disinformation and propaganda to empower certain nation’s currency and weaken other nation’s monetary value—they enrich themselves in downward and upward spirals of the Global economy. Goldman Sachs is one of the most powerful international banks in the world. Henry Paulson and Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke and most of these money changers have served in the interest of this international bank. Donald Trump as a New York based real-estate Mogul has brokered international real estate deals through Goldman Sachs. Trump will continue to reward these financial Elitist while serving as the United Statescommander-in-chief. The brokering of deals will be expanded on unprecedented business levels for a private bank; Donald Trump does not see conflict of interest, he only sees wealth building and the acquisition of money. Those who voted him into office was blinded by the slogan "Lets Make America Great Again" and for them they believed in white nationalism and their ignorance have allowed them to ignore Trump's real loyalty which is to globalism and he doesn't completely share the racial dynamics in the sense of the modern definition of race, but make no mistake about it he is the beneficiary of race (white skin has always served as privilege in the United States relative to race relations) no one breaks this phenomenon down any better than the social critic Tim Wise in his book titled, White Like Me.

Donald Trump has already betrayed their political and economic interest by creating a money loyal administration whose religion is greed and accumulating of wealth by any means necessary. Trump does not give a damn about the white masses who are considered useless eaters. He used white supremacy code language to coerce his voting electorate to vote against their own interests (he was a master of subliminal seduction). Trump works for the Hidden Hand and they had determined many years ago according to a Club of Rome report that I read a few years ago, that there would be a transitioning into a New World Order that was initiated in1968. So Trump knows there are no jobs in particular in the manufacturing realm coming back to America, which like the other Developed Nations, we have transitioned into a tech based economy in which many of the white poor who supported and voted for Trump are under educated and will not be included in this new workforce paradigm. This is the notion of the power of American style racism. The question of race is unresolved in America and because of this it continues to allow political demagogues like Donald Trump to manipulate race to move and invite white people into divisive spaces and the wealthy are beneficiaries. Most of his voting constituents do not have the intelligence to interpret and decipher the Global end game that Trump is aiming towards. Race has truly blinded them.

WHAT'S NEXT IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF POWER: WAR OR PEACE?

By Fahim A. Knight-El

Former President Richard Nixon, in his book titled, Seize The Moment, America's Challenge In a One-Superpower World, stated "had we notintervened, an international outlaw would today control more than fifty per cent of the world's oil. While the United States could survive, if necessary without Persian Gulf oil, Western Europe and Japan could not. What happens to the economics of the other industrial democracies directly affects the health of our economy. We therefore, could not have afforded to allow Iraq to have access to Gulf oil and blackmail the world through its choke hold on our oil lifeline." (Nixon 1992).

This writer thinks that it is sort-of-unfair when you are asked tocompare and contrast wars from different eras and from different times in history (because the political, economic and social dynamics are going to drastically differ). This research brought me to an immediate and quick conclusion that as I surveyed and read various recent histories and accounts of America's wars and in particular involvement in the Middle East, it had become evident to me that the United States as a nation had transitioned and moved from Feudalism, to pre-industrialism, industrialism, and the information age, and into the present global trajectory, and we are constantly in motion and stagnation is not an option (no one understands this better than Donald J. Trump). This transitional evolution has brought us at the dawn of a new era and a New World Order and as the Cold War (Warsaw Pact Nations versus NATO Nations) came to an abrupt end in 1989, which was symbolized by the collapsing of the Berlin Wall, it also brought an end to what we have known as conventional war strategy. It has been technology, that has been the ever evolving X factor and dynamic in the development of high tech weaponry and military technology, that with the passing of time, it has also allowed us to surpass previous generations relative to war strategy and how they fought wars in the early 19th and 20th century, which is now almost obsolete and arcaded. The digital age of technology has given international governments, the ability to make strategically and tactical deployments unlike anytime in world history and how the United States Government defends its national security interest will continue to change with the evolvement of time.

This is truly the dawn of a new day and era in American history, as I have stated above (the so-called peaceful transference of power and the highlight of American Democracy was carried out just few days ago), which has created the potential for a new insights and approaches into the present day global political, economic and social paradigms that will continue to impact humanity, in particular some of these ideals will be evolving along side and simultaneously with a new generation possessing aspirations coming from a different spiritual and historical space than the previous generations.They have not drawn from the divisive artificial barriers that Communism and Western style democracy have imposed on humanity since 1917. They are hoping for the opportunity to live in a peaceful and prosperous world—once again I am not optimistic about this future outlook. The above mentioned phenomenon represents the passing of two worlds, the old and the new. The immediate future of the world and the United States of America and its direction has now been placed in the hands of the 45th United States President of America, Donald J. Trump (but let us not be fooled the Supreme Being has factored into this equation) and for better or for worst, he will be instrumental in shaping the national and international political landscape for the next eight years. Yes although, I speaking into the future the Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission and the Council of Foreign Relations have already selected him as their servant for two terms and this should automatically convey to me and you that there is no such thing as democracy, it is all an illusion and our voted don't mean a damn thing. But Trump's biggest impact is predicted to be on the global community and his quasi nationalistic views and maintaining a global agenda (are destined to co-exist).

So my children who are growing up as part of the global informational age and based on technology, have tremendous access to information, the global superhighway or the infobahn in which the Internet has altered the political, economic and social paradigm by changing the geopolitical landscape of the globe and we now have the opportunity to access information in real time. This age of technology has allowed us to compete on levels that were unimaginable twenty-years ago and the benefits allows us to enter and participate in a new age called the digital age; this is a very exciting time to be on the planet and there is no turning back. The United States Government and its giant military industrial complex are trying to remain relevant and continue its military and economic dominance by constantly looking to expand its influences over international markets by engaging in global business opportunities that were partially created by the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and of course North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). China is continually to emerge as perhaps as the number one-world superpower in next ten years (they will stand alone in this position) based on having the largest standing army in the world and its dominance in the arena of technology (for decades now it has been a nuclear power and because of this they were in 1971 invited to be one of the five permanent members on the United Nations Security Council). America has no options or international choices/alternatives when it comes to having relations with China; it still remains a politically inspired Communist nation (in the scheme of big business and global security interest these factors and variables do not matter) they vacillate between neo-capitalism by engaging in the so-called free market arena and have become equally or not more competitive than the United States relative creating supply and demand economic dynamics on a large global level.

They have the spending power and valuable wealth domination to have acquired a diversity of assets around the world including in the United States of America; China serves as the biggest threat to the United States global positioning—their people possesses a drive and determination that undergirds their importance to sovereignty (this drive and motivation is rooted in the communist ideology) in which they have made huge investments in preparing their people in the fields of technology, science, mathematics, aeronautics, etc., (this is done in the name of the State and for the ultimate benefit of the people) and since World War II have become one of the premier world leaders in expanding its development and innovations in technology and science, which they have become second to none (Japan may argue this assertion). China and the Chinese have created sophisticated hacking programs and have allowed them to circumvent United States National Security apparatuses the National Security Agency, Pentagon, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security, etc., and have been stealing United States military and trade secrets for decades, that is equalvent to an act of terrorism under the guise of cyber-terrorism, which is an indication of how flawed the U.S. defense is when it comes to protecting and detecting these international cyber-security breeches, it has become a matter of U.S. national security. The United States Government accused Edward Snowden with exposing (confidential and classified information) how the NSA was illegally spying and eavesdropping on American citizens and was compiling dossiers in which was a clear violation of private U.S. citizens rights to privacy who were not deemed Enemy Combatants and hadn’t violated any U.S. laws, but their constitutional rights and civil liberties were being violated by an agency of the United States Government. Snowden was not protected under the whistleblower laws and rules instead he was charged and treated as a criminal. Russiawas kind enough to grant this U.S.patriot political asylum and now has lived in exiled for over three years.

Since President Obama went on a pardon spree, why didn't he pardon Edward Snowden and present him with a presidential accommodation for integrity by having the courage and willingness to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution from foreign and domestic enemies? (there were criminals inside the NSA violating the law and he dared to expose them—but none of the NSA culprits were charged and convicted and went to prison). President Barack Obama spoke about being concern about his legacy, let me answer from my vanish point, it will be written in blood. He did absolutely nothing for black people, but gave them feel good speeches (church based sermons with high emotional charges and behind the scene he was reactionary to the core) and imposed reactionary foreign policy throughout the world. I as a so-called African American, have always looked beyond this patriot’s skin color and it was easy to detect that he had the exact same agenda and mindset as them white boys. He did not have the intestinal fortitude to pardon our revolutionary sister Assata Shakur who has lived exiled in Cuba for over 30 years and/or he could have pardoned Edward Snowden. He totally understood that these pardons would have been risky pardons, because of the high profile levels associated with these two cases and he did not want to politically risk and create a potential future liability for the next would be Democratic president. His failure to do this was discouraging to me and will be a blemish and stain on his presidency; he had the power and authority to right a wrong and he did nothing. Let met jolt some of my reading audiences memory a little by going back 2001, the last day of his presidency Bill Clinton pardon one of the most notorious and publically unknown criminals in U.S. history at that time named Marc Rich (wanted on the 10 most wanted list). Rich was vicious white collar criminal who in 1980s were involved with multi-level oil deals coming out of the Persian Gulf (also was running a international dope ring linked to Daniel Ortega and Manuel Noriega that included guns and weapons), which included Iran, he was trading with Iran as a private U.S. citizen in which the United States had imposed embargoes and economic sanctions and it was against U.S. law for a United States citizens to have had any business dealings with the Iranian Islamic Republic.

However, Marc Rich was intentionally evading U S. law and were trading and brokering Iranian oil deals throughout the world. He was indicted for a host of conspiracy charges in violation of U.S. Federal laws and after appearing in New York Federal Court and making bond; Rich absconded by going to the neutral nation of Switzerland and was granted asylum and he understood that Switzerland had no international legal mandate to extradite him back into U. S. custody, he would live in exile for over 15 years in Switzerland. But eventually claimed Jewish ethno-lineage and the Israeli government granted him dual citizenship and he continued to travel around the world on an Israeli passport. Obama did not have the courage to step outside of the box and free two innocent U.S.citizens and allow them to come back home to America. President Donald Trump has a tremendous responsibility and weight on his shoulders and since George H.W. Bush (followed by Clinton, George W. and Obama) the United States has continued to become and isolated nation and it has lost that swag and that so-called moral world leadership, it use to have around the world, because of their war on militant and radical Islam—the imperialist acts of military aggression in the Middle East and Central Asia, it has diminished their reputation.

The United States Arm Forces use to have the largest budget on Capitol Hill and by far defense spending was the government's number one priority—perhaps by Trump appointing this team of retired generals to his cabinet and having a Republican majority in Congress, it might be an indication that United States Government will once again increase military spending. Trump during the presidential campaign created a sizable amount of excitement about the U.S. military and improving on the United Statesdefense—this message resonated with U.S. Veterans; he spoke their language. His motivation for this was capsulated in the small vision of going after and combating international militant and radical Islam that has been defined by ISIS (he thinks the main problem of the world is radical Islamic terrorism, he will soon find out it is a lot more to the world than so-called militant and radical Islam--there are major threats on five continents), but the complexities of U.S. defense and national security strategy has to extend far beyond these limitations. Trump perceived Obama as being weak and soft militarily during his eight year presidential tenure. I think the American citizens have become a little war weary because after 9/11 the U.S. government has been on the offensive conducting Drone Warfare, serving as instigators in the war in Syria, initiating the assassinations of Heads of States, worked to destabilized governments in Northern Africa, involved in antagonistic words with North Korea and its leader, invaded Iraq and Saddam Hussein in which the CIA and former Secretary of State Colin Powell in 2003, lied about Iraq having Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD); even after the U.N. weapons inspectors could not substantiate those allegations; the U.S. declared war any way. Trump is verbally advocating the need for a strong military and it is just too early to determine the extent of this course and the type of public policy and legislation that will be proposed and implemented during his presidential tenure. Nevertheless, Trump who sounds like a warmonger and if I were a betting man, I would put my money on President Trump encouraging and mandating that the Defense Department and the U.S. Pentagon who have ordinarily taken top priority in assuring that the U.S. Congress (they are responsible for officially lobbying the congress) allocates adequate amounts of taxpayers money to meeting the proposed military budget expenditures in order to provide the military with all the necessary resources. These resources have always been needed to allow the United States militarily to act with preparedness and readiness to internationally defend and secure the U.S. political, economic and military interest around the world.

Donald Trump repeatedly stated throughout his inauguration speech that it would be America first (his speech on the surface had a nationalistic overtone) and although, as a globalist and a New World Order proponent some of his foreign policy and national policy positions as were stated in that speech, was contradictory at best, in particular wavering a little on the United States prior historical commitments relative to cooperating and exercising the highest levels diplomacy with its European Allies, which has always involved unilateral economic and military assistance to Western Europe that included Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Greece and Spain this cooperating and international governmental alliances has been in existence since World War II and even further back to World War I, which later was structured under NATO, which President Trump believes, it has out lived its time and purpose. These sentiments and other have left a lot of western governments with a sense of uneasiness and un-optimistic since he took office on January 20, 2017. Many around the world are unsure, how will Trump's so-called new international direction impact and affect the western governments trade and economic markets—as it pertains to the European Union and European Common Market and will this type rhetoric create panic and lead to given the international perception that Euro could be headed towards experiencing long term economic and financial weakness and/or collapse that will reflect on both domestic European markets as well as international markets. Thus, by the United Kingdom and the Bank of England relegating back to using the British pound and quasi abandoning the EU was a clear indicator that Europe and the E.U. are in trouble (which like all western currencies have been battling the Chinese Yuan Renminbi and the powerful Central Bank of China, which is the Central Bank of the People's Republic of China and the strength of it currency) that could dismantle the E.U. and force these nations to revert back to the concept of nation-states. I am somewhat optimistic that this will not happen.

The United States has always had a shared interest in Europe, which has been mutual since World War II that has led to the establishment of strategically placed military bases and military installments throughout Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa, Far East, Central and South America and may be Donald Trump does not fully understand the gravity and the complexities of the world and/or may he does, and is looking to create a new type of conversation that will be different than what it was under George W. Bush and Barack Obama. I am quite sure his military cabinet will be educating and informing him, of how the geopolitical necessities work in the grand scheme of things. They will explain to him that if he is serious about defending U.S. National Security interest, it will rest on being prepared for military readiness and having the ability to respond quickly and decisively to international turmoil and conflicts that might arise, which could affect or impact the political, social and economic interest of the United States of America around the world. A powerful navy will remain necessary to quickly shut off international and/or domestic waterways during potential conflicts and actual conflicts during troubling times, which might give the enemy a military advantage and this is why nations like Russia, China, North Korea, the United Kingdom, France, and Italysees defending the waterways as being vitally important. Most developed and technological advanced nations have always invested heavily into building a strong naval force and the navy of itself has to have the military capacity to fight and command the seas (and in the U.S. the top brass admirals are members of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff are fully aware of this necessity). Also, the navy and it ships allows for the U.S. Marines, U.S. Army and U.S. National Guard units (ground and infantry squads to be in place when it is necessary to engaged the enemy in combat on the ground, air and water) the ability to transport human resources and heavy military equipment to any hot spot in the world, it is a demonstration of how important and valuable the U.S. Navy military is to them towards maintaining and assisting in so-called providing stability around the world.

In an Internet Blog titled, “Overview: Desert Storm - The Role of the Navy’ After the world's fourth largest army poured across the border into Kuwait on 2 August 1990, the United States deployed a major joint force which served as the foundation for a powerful 33-nation military coalition to stem Iraq's brutal aggression. The United States Navy provided the sea control and maritime superiority which paved the way for the introduction of U.S.and allied air and ground forces, and offered strong leadership for the multinational naval force. At the time of the invasion, the Navy was already on station in the region. The ships of Joint Task Force Middle East, a legacy of U.S. Navy presence in the Arabian Gulf since 1949, were immediately placed on alert. Battle groups led by USS Independence (CV 62) and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) sped from the Indian Ocean and Eastern Mediterranean to take up positions in the Gulf of Oman and Red Sea, respectively--ready to commence sustained combat operations on arrival.[1]

For example, the United States Government under President George H.W. Bush in 1991, entered into the Gulf War, which was better known as Desert Shield and Desert Storm in which thousands of U.S. Troops were mobilized to the region in order to halt Saddam Hussein so-called ambitions of reuniting Kuwait back to the nation of Iraq (and militarily punishing Kuwait for stealing oil from the border side of Iraq). Moreover, the United States was very familiar with the middle eastern geographical territories and landscape; Bush and the U.S. Congress approved of the United States Government intervention and swiftly sent warships to the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman and directly into the Persian Gulf controlling and influences these vital waterways during Desert Shield and Desert Storm. The United States arm forces were sent to the Gulf Region due to the aggression of Saddam Hussein who had invaded Kuwait. The British and other European powers helped the crooked Elitist monarch of Kuwait to succeed from Iraq, they were essentially one people and Hussein understood this geo-history, but there were too much oil money on the table and the Seven Oil Sisters used Western European and the U.S. military to defend their oil interest against Saddam Hussein; Iraq and Saddam Hussein was viewed as potentially threatening the United States chief Middle Eastern Allie of Saudi Arabia (an APEC nation and principle oil exporter to the United States) who has perhaps the largest oil reserves in the world and the United States swiftly moved in with a large naval presences in the Gulf in order to control and limited access into the Gulf region. Thus, U.S. was not going to allow Saddam Hussein to disrupt the international oil trade and affect other international commodities that needed to be transported to markets from around the world. The U.S. Naval forces were there to remind Hussein and his Elite Guards that the U.S. still reined supreme over a 'Third World' arm force. “When President Bush ordered the deployment of troops and equipment to defend Saudi Arabia, long-established maritime superiority facilitated the largest, fastest strategic sealift in history, with more than 240 ships carrying more than 18.3 billion pounds of equipment and supplies to sustain the forces of DESERT SHIELD/STORM. Maritime superiority also allowed allied naval forces to implement and sustain United Nations trade sanctions against Iraq immediately after they were imposed severing Saddam Hussein's economic lifeline”.[2]

These young soldiers (many were African Americans and Latinos) are use as extensions of U.S. Foreign policy commissioned to fight in order to make the world more safer for the Rothschilds and the Seven Oil Sister to continue steal and horde the world's wealth (this much will not change under Donald Trump). Yet, they take an oath to defend and protect the United States Constitution against all foreign and domestic enemies—they are not in the decision making capacity, but when the U.S. arm forces are called upon to deploy in the hot spots around the world, it is a question of duty and uncompromising obligation at least in these young vulnerable soldiers minds (and after serving some are allowed to become enlightened and wake up and after learning the truth about the U.S. military goals and objectives of the super-Elite they feel betrayed by their government). The naval forces along with other military branches have always demonstrated a high level of preparedness to deploy and equipped to defend the United States national interest around the world. I am quite sure Desert Shield/Desert Storm brass such as Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopt, Lt. Gen. Calvin Waller, Maj. Gen. Robert B. Johnson, Lt. General John J. Yeosock, Lt. Gen. Walter Boomer, Vice Adm. Stanley Arthur, Lt. Gen. Charles Horner. etc., who led the various military companies, taught and trained U.S. soldiers to take their military oath serious—valor and I am quite sure this is taught at West Point and at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

William J. Bennett (who was the former Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan) and former Drug Czar who authored a book titled,Why we must Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism, Bennett is a conservative and his analysis and assessments reflect those who represent the Republican right, but I think, most politicians and ordinary citizens will agree that America's national security, is of vital importance (some may argue about how the military budget is costing the taxpayers to much money and some have argued about downsizing the U.S. standing army and merging military bases). But other still expect the U.S. naval forces to command the international waterways and continue to having a military presence around world—to be well trained as U.S. Marines and as U.S. Army ground troops and with a prepared air force to command the airways at a drop of a dime. Yet, it is strategically impossible for the United States to attempt serve as the international police of the world.

President Bill Clinton in his book titled, Between Hope and History: Meeting America’s Challenges For the 21^stCentury, he stated: “Today, Americahas the best-trained fighting force on Earth—and that, more than any other single fact, is the key to our enduring security. We will prefer diplomacy to force, but will always be ready to use military force when necessary to defend our national interests. As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, to make an example of our power. . . As a result, our military and intelligence forces are more mobile, agile, precise, flexible, smart and ready than ever before. They are also more coordinated and function more smoothly not only among themselves, but with other allies as well. Today the mere threat of our force can deter would-be aggressors, as we saw recently when we mobilized in the Persian Gulf to counter Saddam Hussein’s abortive attempt to mass forces once again at the Kuwaiti border.” [3]

Lastly, this writer believes war at times is inevitable, but I equally believe that we have a moral duty and responsibility to purse peace over war. For, example, the invasion of Somali (1992-1994), Desert Storm/Desert Storm (1990-1991) the Afghanistan War (2001-   ), the Iraq War (2003-2011) and America’s ongoing war on terrorism, which has made the American people war weary. The passing of the United States Patriot Act, the National Defense Authorization Act, Military Commission Act, Anti- Terrorism Bill, Enemy Combatant laws, etc., as well as ongoing disputes with Iran, Iraq, Syria, North Korea, China, Russia, Yemen and other hot spots will eventually stretch the U.S. military thin. I cited these recent wars and conflicts, as an indication of how the pendulum may swing back and forth relative to the question of patriotism and their are some who are willing to offer a critical analysis or at least a balance analysis on where the U.S. stand in the world as a global force (the 9/11 bombing of the World Trade Center entered us into a new paradigm). The scholar Noam Chomsky in his book titled, Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance in which Chomsky’s political analysis illustrates the ambivalent and contradictory relationship that U.S. Government had with Saddam Hussein and with other past and present less than credible leaders (he writes with the passion of both a political scientist and historian).This writer thinks that, perhaps Chomsky understands or may be he doesn’t, but as much as I extol his research for being critically objective and he does a good job of presenting the facts and is more than willing to present points that are unbiased and honestly raises some tough questions relative to America’s quest for global dominance.

Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.

                                                                    NOTES

[1] (Article published by Naval History and Heritage Command: title, “Desert Shield-Desert Storm. http://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/u/us-navy-in-desert-shield-desert-storm/desert-storm-overview-the-role-of-the-navy.html)

[2] Ibid., Naval History and Heritage Command.

[3] Bill Clinton, Between Hope and History: Meeting America’s Challenges For the 21st Century. (Harrisonburg, Virginia: Tiimes Books, 1996) 148-149.

[4] Samuel Eliot Morison, The Oxford History of the American People. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965) 802.

THE VALUE OF CULTURE: THE SPOKEN WORD, LISTEN IT IS CALLING US

By Fahim A. Knight-El

This Blog is, perhaps a little less intense than the last twelve Blogs that I have posted in the last thirty-five days, but nevertheless, I wrote it as a reflection leading up to my love for the works of the black poet Langston Hughes and as I surveyed his poem titled, “A Dream Deferred” published in 1951, it caused me to reflect deeper on the meaning of culture and its expressions and the value it plays in the social and political lives of a people. The present day black cultural artists have a huge responsibility to construct art that will uplift our people’s consciousness levels and even challenge pop culture by creating positive musical lyrics and presenting positive images that speaks to the spirits of an oppressed people who have been under the assault of white supremacy for over four-hundred fifty and years (this contention and view has to be uncompromised and non-negotiable). So, I couldn’t help, but to share my personal experience with brother Kwame Ture and what he meant to me spiritually—that part of this Blog will be my customary approach of given information that is decisive and will cause us to think outside of the box. I can recall as a primary and secondary student, I have always been attracted to civics, social studies, language arts and when I got to college, I became more attracted to courses in philosophy and logic and subjects that fostered me to exercise critical thinking and yet, simultaneously, I enjoyed analyzing and dissecting poetry and attempting to get inside of the minds of the various poets and their work.

I have always been partial to works of black writers such as Nikki Giovanni, Sonya Sanchez and Amiri Baraka (aka Leroy Jones out of Newark, New Jersey),Haki R. Madhubuti(aka Don Lee) and other militant and revolutionary writers who were impacted and affected by the black liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s in which these black writers created their artistic value as poets and writers around the themes of Black Power and were also conscious about producing art in the form of literature that would speak politically, economically and socially to the black experience with the objective of transforming the minds of African American people. Their works were imbedded in an ideology geared towards uplifting the social consciousness level of black people; these artist and writers were clear about their positions on white supremacy, European imperialism, colonialism, racism, sexism and wealth disparity, etc., their ideals represented a cultural revolution and many of them were transformed by the teachings of Minister Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik Shabazz)—it was his fiery teachings and critical analysis of the United States Government that inspired an entire generation of black activist and young black intellectuals to challenge injustice.

They saw themselves not just as black intellectuals who desired to joining what E. Franklin Frazier called the ‘Black Bourgeoisie’ class after graduating from Howard University, Morehouse College, Spellman College, Tuskegee Institute, Shaw University, Hampton Institute, Grambling State University, etc., they sought to work in the struggle in order to foster social justice for African American people, it was writers like these that helped to politicized me by challenging me to think outside the box and inspired me into action. Some years ago I was having a sit down with the late Kwame Ture (Stokley Carmichael) of the All African People's Revolutionary Party; for the record one of my all time favorite theoreticians and intellectual mentors; I will always consider myself as an honorary member of the AAPRP. Ture was a graduate of Howard University and received a B.S. degree in philosophy and he was very well read on Marxist-Leninist theories (socialist and communist theory) and Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and was very critical of capitalism; on the day he was teaching me, recommended that I get Franz Fanon’s books titled, Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Mask and recommended that I get a book written by Chinweizu titled, The West and the Rest of Us: White Predators, Black Slavers and the African Elite and also recommended that I read Eric Williams book titled, Capitalism and Slavery; admittedly I am messed up in the head at this point after conversing with brother Kwame Ture, it became mind altering for me and everytime I would see him, thereafter he would always be dressed in traditional African garments--he lived and walked in African culture. He then recommended two more books to me authored by Kwame Nkrumah titled, Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-colonizationand Class Struggle in Africa.

I was on a tight budget, but one of the most premier Pan-Africanist and Black Nationalist leaders (author of the book Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America) of the late 20th century was given me these instructions relative to educating myself and preparing me in my intellectual development—I could not let money stand in my way. I can recall him standing up and yelling "Ready for the Revolution" and he followed that statement with 'we must organize’ and he encouraged me to join a black organization. Kwame Ture was well versed in all the great white political and social theoreticians and their philosophical views. There was no doubt that this man was learned and well studied and made it clear to me that he practiced scientific socialism. At that time I had no clue or understanding of what scientific socialism was, but I was in awe of this man's charisma and intelligence and was just trying to take all of it in. I learned from Kwame Ture the importance of debate (and this has always kept me intellectually engaged over the years) about historical events and, although my approach to analyzing ideals are rooted in me being a revisionist social scientist and historian who has the fortunate opportunity to survey past existing historiography and data with the expectation of rendering critical analyses in evaluating past political, economic and social eras from the vanish point of the early 21^st century. This approach at times could be determined to be unfair, however of the rendering of views on events from different eras do not alleviate nor excuse you from being empirical and scientific in putting forth supporting evidence to validate an argument or render them flawed and/or to substantiate previous historical facts as being true.

The above mentioned books led me to reading Amilcar Cabral’s book titled, Resistance and Decolonization (Reinventing Critical Theory) and Walter Rodney’s book titled: How Europe Undeveloped Africa. History was a subject that allowed me to exercise critical thinking in viewing and surveying peoples, places, events and dates, it has always fascinated me to wanting to know more about past civilizations and cultures, in particular how they evolved and the contributions they made towards the development of humanity. This further led me to appreciate archeology, anthropology, paleontology, sociology, human genetics, ancient architecture, Egyptology, etc. Also, I have always been fascinated in learning about great past ancient civilizations such as Egypt, China, Persia, India, Greece and Rome, as well as learning and studying about great civilizations in the Americas such as the Mayas, Incas, Aztecs, etc. I believe that L.S.B. Leakey did some monumental research in finding the origin of man, but I think, the more scholars and social scientist dig and uncover the earth and oceans, thus, we will continue to find historical evidence of past ancient civilizations that have left ruins and artifacts that are still waiting to be dated (these studies with all the expert knowledge available, it is constantly evolving).I have been inspired by my historians such as John Hope Franklin, Arthur M. Schlessinger, Jr., Darlene Clark Hine, Carter G. Woodson, W.E.B. Dubois, Paula Giddings, Mary Frances Berry, Annette Gordon-Reed, Aviva Chomsky, H.G. Wells, etc.

Many of our young black artists and entertainers are contributing to some of the problems that exist amongst young so-called Africans Americans because their musical lyrics are void of messages that are rooted in the social and political traditions of empowerment (we know that this is being doing systematically) in which some of the pop culture has poise itself of being art forms that are reactionary and dangerous and counter-productive to black progress and stands to be condemned. It often contributes to dismantling positive images that reinforces African tradition and culture and tends to glorify crime, violence, gangbanging and drugs—these negative images affects the psychological behavior of our people in a negative way. The enemies create this culture of destruction because it aids the systemic outcomes of white supremacy and foster misery and disillusionment throughout black

America

But in the glorious 1960s and 1970s the musicians, artists, writers, poets, etc., used art to assist in the liberation of our people. Imam Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown) once told me that Curtis Mayfield carried the ball almost by himself. I fell in love with the Last Poets and the inspirations of their lyrics, they were 25 years ahead of Hip-Hop and Rap. I recently picked up a book written by Marcus Barmam on Gil Scott Heron titled, Gil Scott Heron: Pieces of a Man, another artistic giant who had the Blues/Jazz/Rap aura to his musical repetoire and displayed musical talents as a poet wrapped into various genres, but always un-girded by lyrical messages of social and political consciousness. Gil Scott Heron was a messenger (just like Jesus and Muhammad of 1,400 years ago), dedicated to uplifting of African people. He did not shy away from those issues that mattered to black people. The above mentioned artist and political activist put me on a path and journey in which Elijah Muhammad said out of all our studies history is best qualified to reward our study and research.

I owe my critical thinking mindset to my master teachers, sages, gurus and enlighteners from various schools of philosophical thought, that first presented me with knowledge that revolved around teaching me the knowledge of self, but have always taught me lessons from a diverse intellectual perspective by using innovative teaching techniques and methodologies that allowed me as a neophyte to be more engaged in my learning process (they were not ashamed about teaching me through their life experiences). This type of teaching practices have always kept my attention span—this is, perhaps an unscientific analysis, but I think there is a direct correlation between the ability to demonstrate a suitable proficiency to learning, which must be rooted in teaching methodologies that are relevant and practical in which retention of information are interconnected to schematic learning.

Europeans learn better from linear modules and Africans learn better from learning approaches that are diverse in scope and less structured; my knowledge base consisted of a varied of schools of thought relative to the introduction of philosophy, history political theory, religion, ethics, current events (other than the basic rudiment skills of reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing) and it was this interdisciplinary approach that has always appealed to how I was wired relative to learning and receiving information. This only enhanced my love for learning because I have never allowed myself to be conformed and did not impose limitations upon my thinking and the value of these principles onlyenhanced my critical thinking skills. Moreover, the study of literature, also allowed me to be creative and innovative whether or not if I were assessing and evaluating someone else’s work and/or writing my own work, it permitted me to examine timeframes of how a genera may have been impacted by a political, economic and social environment. I have come to understand that no work is created in a vacuum, but a gamut of social variables comes into play, which dictates how themes and prose may be interpreted.

I was also inspired by the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Maya Angelou, Katherine Anne Porter, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth Long fellow, Langston Hughes, Frances Mayers, Nikki Giovanni, Alice Walker, James Weldon Johnson, etc. The above literary scientist and their works stimulated my artistic imagination, as well as intellectually motivated and sparked my intuition to wanting to know more about their intellectual worldview.

Langston Hughes wrote the poem entitled, “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)” in 1951 and perhaps Harlem during this time was being seen as a prototype and a metaphor for black success and progress (New York, New York a city so nice they had to name it twice), and in theory a booming cosmopolitan hub unlike most American cities during the Jim Crow era, but in general, also stood as a positive contradiction relative to the political, economic and social conditions that were affecting African Americans politically, economically, and socially across the United States during this time. Blacks to a certain extent were allowed to shine in Harlem, New York unlike any other place in

America

in the 1920s..

The Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s was a cultural explosion where Jazz, Blues, poetry, drama, song, dance, etc., were making its artistic mark not only in the United States (perhaps one of the most creative time periods in American history), but far beyond the borders of the United States. Russian musicians such as Igor Stravinsky and Alban Berg who studied black Jazz under the Harlem Renaissance musicians and tried to imitate the musical art in which to introduce to Europe. Thus, and as much as the world was embracing Louie Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Scott Joplin, Cab Calloway, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and there were even others such as Jean Toomer, Jessie Fauset, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke, Omar Al Amiri, and Eric D. Walrond, etc.

However, these black artists could not escape American style racism and segregation at home, in which their humanity was forever being judged because of their black skin.

The Harlem Renaissance sprung up just twenty-four years or so, after perhaps one of the most infamous legal decision in American history—the Plessy versus Ferguson Supreme Court decision 1896, in which this United States Supreme Court declared separate but equal as being constitutional and as a legal institution in the United States. This Supreme Court decision ushered in the racist Jim Crow era (1896-1954) and reactionary racial laws. Blacks could entertain whites in some of the biggest night clubs and venues in Harlem and across

America

, but oftentimes had to be served their food at the back door and could not lodge in white owned hotels and was constantly discriminated because of their race.

They were victims of lynching, violence, race hating and even Billie Holiday use to sing about strange fruit hanging from the tree (she was singing about black men who were hung—lynched from trees all across the south). Ida B. Wells-Barnett and others protested and drew attention to the social and political contradictions of the United States relative to lynching, which led to some of the bloodiest race riots in the United States called the Red Summer in 1919 and these events polarized our nation. Also, in 1909 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which evolved out of the Niagara Movement was founded by Dr. W.E. B Dubois and others who took up the cause of Civil Rights for African Americans. Dr. Dubois stated the problem of the 20th Century would be the color line and history has proven that his analysis was correct.

This writer believes Hughes wrote this poem out of frustration, because of the reprehensible social politics of the United Statesand the slow social progress it was making, as far as granting African Americans justice and equality. But I also believe that this poem was atypical of the psychology of many Blacks who found themselves in a conflict social dichotomy.

Dubois in his book titled, Souls of Black Folkwritten in 1903 perhaps analyze and assessed in my opinion what the “A Dream Deferred” meant to blacks, he stated: “After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,--a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness,--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two un-reconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." (Reference: W.E.B Dubois; "The Souls of Black Folk").

This type social contradiction, perhaps psychologically hunted Hughes and the various plots in this short poem reflects many political and psychological transitions that he perhaps was confronted with, in particular and blacks in general, was confronted with since their sojourn in America. The dream for equality was present when the first slave ship docked in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619, but became deferred and many blacks lost their lives making every attempt to force America to realize that the American dream was bigger enough for us all.

Hughes understood that the American socialization process left many blacks bitter and the potential for a social and political backlash was perhaps evident. He recognized that it was not healthy to go about life as though the problem did not exist and by allowing it to lie dormant and going unaddressed, it only would contributed to more social malcontent and this was the problem that the United States was faced with in the early 1950s relative to race relations.

A. Phillip Randolph who had founded the first black labor Union in the 1920s called the Sleeping Car Porters; he also, became a well respected and recognized leader in the AFL-CIO labor union. Randolphhad actually called the first March on Washingtonin 1950s some ten years prior to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. March on Washington in 1963 and for some reason it never materialized. But Dr. King’s words also spoke to the social, political, and economic conditions that was plaguing blacks in the 1960s and King’s words lends further credibility to the feelings, thoughts and emotions of Hughes relative to the poem.

Dr. King stated: “But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.” (Reference: Martin Luther King; “I Have a Dream” Speech 1963).

Moreover, Hughes was fully aware that black protest movements and leaders such as Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in the 1920s was fostered into existence, because of the frustration blacks were experiencing from the status quo. Garvey’s back to Africa movement spoke to that alienation and the discontent blacks were up against and his movement tapped into black anger and black rage and made an appeal to present the tents of Black Nationalism as a viable solution to black disillusionment.

Langston Hughes understood that African Americans considered themselves as Americans and desired to be just as patriotic as the next American, but historically was always up against the hurdle of racism and bigotry and this sadden his heart. He was an artist and artists ordinarily have the ability to see things from the third eye perspective, in which race and class are variables that could factor in, but art is universal in scope and intent; it speaks to higher rhythm and vibration.

The Dream deferred eventually led to America exploding in the 1960s (the Black Power Movement), which blacks further saw race as an antagonistic contradiction and violently confronted this evil with rebellions in Newark, Philadelphia, Watts, Detroit, Los Angles, Washington, D.C., Gary, Chicago, Baltimore, etc., in order to confront injustice and social oppression; may be we could view Hughes said poem as being prophetic because what he wrote in 1951 played itself out with one of the most violent explosions in recent American history.

But I also believe that Hughes was more of an optimist than a pessimist and he perhaps knew and understood that dreams only die when people lose hope and although the realization of the dream might not take place in our lifetime and it might appear to have to become deferred by other past generation. But it only lies dormant until the next generations of dreamers arrive with the vision and foresight to take the dream to the next level. The Bible says where there is no vision the people perish.

The dream deferred became a realization with President Barack Obama becoming the first African American president of the United States(in 2008 and 2012). I believe, it was dreamers and visionaries shoulders like Langston Hughes that Obama stood upon in which his accomplishments was an affirmation and declaration that their work and struggle was not in vain. Thus, Hughes probably would say a dream deferred is better than no dream at all. Hughes lived long enough to see Americapass the 1964 Civil Rights Bill and the 1965 Voting Rights Bill—ensuring African Americans freedom, justice and equality. I say to all, dream on, dream on and do not allow a dream deferred to stop you from the realizing your full potential as human beings.

FAKE NEWS, WHAT IS THE GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS AND WHAT IS THE PRICE?

By Fahim A. Knight-El

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I think the question of whether or not media is being reported without bias and slant; it will be a difficult problem and task to address and resolve in the grand scheme of things relative to media policing, because of the human factor (sometimes shoddy stories can be very well disguised). Moreover, we live in a highly technical digital age where information is being disseminated in real time, which has transformed how media use to be relayed twenty years ago and the digital age has revolutionized mass medium markets, which has made them more competitive. The media outlets both electronic and print now have to compete with the power and influences of non-traditional media built around social media. So not only are there competitive markets between traditional media outlets that are warring to present breaking stories and capitalizing on national and global audiences before anyone else, but social media is covertly driving mainstream media to this end. This new phenomenon creates tremendous pressure on media journalist to work expeditiously in order to get to the reporting finish line first (shameless to say by hook or crook).

The media is big business and often reporting news has a revenue and profit incentive attachment. I am of the opinion that the networks themselves have lowered their journalistic standards and the empirical and scientific approach to gathering information and packaging it for broad based media consumption has lost some of its reporting credibility qualities. Journalism use to be rooted in ethics, and the first thing that you are taught, is to view reporting with objectivity and without partiality. Let the facts of a story be the foremost determination of where a media story lead and the journalist must be able to detach themselves from the story's outcome.

I don't know why President Donald Trump’s name continues to come up with people that I am engaged in conversations and dialogue. Let me state this, Trump in his own way exposed what many of us already knew, which was how non-credible Western media had become. The United States President lambasted U.S news outlets as reporting "fake news"; he was not going to allow them to set the table for him relative to Russia and Valdmir Putin (this cozy relationship with Russia and Putin will continue have many twist and turns just keep your eyes on U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson) had hacked into the Democratic and Republican voting machinery and computer networking systems and was involved in a spying espionage operation against the United States Government. President Barack Obama publically stated that the U.S. intelligence experts had provided him with proof that Russia was engaged in cyberspace terrorism and that this posed a threat to United States national security interest (and he even briefed Trump on the matter and CIA provided Trump with a so-called highly confidential and classified briefing information in which it appears he did not buy into). Thus, part of the briefing alluded to the fact that Puttin had even created an inside dossier on Trump who defended himself by characterizing some of this confidential and classified briefing a mere ‘fake’ news and he forced CNN and other networks to admit that part of the story against him was un-collaborated and they were so-called relying on some French source who was a double agent. Trump accused and alleged that CIA director John Brennan could have been behind this ‘fake’ news.

This practice of ‘fake’ news has been long standing and it actually goes much further than the failure of the ground level reporters negating or neglecting their responsibility as media to factually and accurately report the news outside of slants and hidden agendas (the reporters themselves are only pawns in the game). Perhaps the editorial boards and the executive board decision makers are tied to a diabolical hidden cabal who are covertly dictating how they desire to shape and mold public opinion. Trump is so unpredictable that whatever comes to his mind he just says it. Yet, many of us know Trump's allegations of "fake" news struck to the core of this charade and manipulation and the play on how the American people and the globe takes in information. And how ‘fake’ news impact our mindset and as well as, our daily lives and the perceptions that are gathered about people (events and occurrences) from around the world could be misleading—they lie and fabricate information to sway and persuade the national public and the global public to lead them into believing and thinking that they know and fully understand the complexities of what is taking place in global society.

These are master capitalist media ploys of controlling human social, political and economic behavior: they have a gamut of tools at their disposal from print media, electronic media and even social media. They are also masters of high technical subliminal seduction that is also being carried out in the media as mind control and they systematically use the mass mediums to formulate global agendas and make the public believe they are informed on the issues. But unknowing to them they don't have a clue about what's truly taking place on the national and/or on the global scene. They use media to create toxic international political environments to sway public opinion in whatever direction they choose.

I remember some years ago there was this fear that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and high level U.S. government national security apparatuses were covertly and secretly engaged in placing microchips into new born babies feet and many felt that this was being done by the government to be able to monitor and control the future movement of people and even control the minds of these recipients of this Langley, Virginia experiment. Now, this is not above them or beneath them and even this experiment was never scratched from the table. But they systematically use media to herding the Sheeple into various directions for the benefit of this cabal. My father-in-law was an avid news television viewer and reader of various news publications (in particular following current events), and he would often engage me in conversations about events that were taking place around the world and he truly believed that he had a perspective and was informed. I did not have the heart to tell him what Donald Trump stated, which was, the majority of this news that he was so adamant about defending, was nothing but manufactured 'fake news' and the Talking Heads were only given a script to read. Nothing that we read and/or see on CNN, Fox news, MSNBC, The Hill, BBC, CBS, NBC, Bloomberg Report, ABC, New York Times, New York Post, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Associated Press, United Press Associations, Yahoo news or other Internet generated news, etc., none of it stand on the merit of truth, but most of it has been divested of objectivity and grossly diluted to fit the interest of the manipulators. There is a monopoly over the media ownership that has violated all the anti-trust laws and rules in America, but they are so powerful and they answer to no one but themselves and 95% percent of the global mediums outlets are controlled by this small powerful cabal.

They don't need huge military build ups anymore like what the world witnessed during World War I (1914-1919) and World War II (1939-1945) in order to move people in this manner which has become obsolete, but they can still dominate the world and not even fire a shot (the force and might strategy has transitioned into a new movement of getting the same results via lies and propaganda and by the use of ‘fake’ news). There is no such thing in the United States as the "free press", this is an illusion from yesterday that continues to be thrown out as the shining example of U.S. democracy (which is given to show forth a distinction between so-called oppressive nations and so-called democratic nations) and our people fail to understand that American democracy has been compromised on every level and the United States Constitution no longer frames the basis of U.S. jurisprudence relative to this nation's so-called past and present democratic freedoms. The conveying of news by the mass mediums, which is rooted in propaganda and disinformation have become the order of the day and is very detached from the reality of truth—they hide real and truthful news worthy stories and accounts in lieu of providing the masses with sensationalized and often irrelevant subjective and biased sanitized reporting and the American people is given the world through the disdained color lens of those who have hidden agendas.

For example, they are masters of using the 'Big Lie' theory techniques by tossing out undocumented lies that have no truth or credibility and lack being substantiated, but each network begins to quote the lie, as if the lie was the truth and has empirical value and has met some rigorously standards of journalistic oversight and integrity that lay at the bases of the reporting and sadly to say the lie will eventually be transformed into being the truth. There are really no independent news sources anymore, this is only being offered in spirit and intent as part of a quasi sophisticated duping in order to once again give the people the impression that we live in a free press society as a western developed and technical advanced nation. It is just to the contrary and the U.S. media is ran and operated no different than North Korea, China, Russia, Cuba, Iran, etc., State control press.

Yet, if the truth be told as I have stated above Western media is controlled and the dissemination of information is dispersed no different than countries that are controlled by State media, both State controlled news and so-called free press sources have one objective, which is to provide slanted political propaganda to support the interest of the power structure (capitalist countries have been better at this than communist influenced countries). The United States are quick to condemn some countries on their human rights record and we live under one of the most repressive regimes in the world disguised in the form of a democracy, but is shielded and veiled behind white supremacy (there are two standards of Justice in America one white and the other black). We have to ask ourselves, how has this type of journalism affected recent world history relative to causing and instigating wars and conflicts around the world? That has sent so many to bleed and die on foreign battle fields—wars such as World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Desert Storm, Desert Shield, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, etc., and how many future conflicts that will be manipulated and instigated at the behest of ‘fake’ news propaganda?

The disinformation techniques have been proven to be affective, it allows for this small powerful cabal to play every piece on the chessboard and it further allows them global control over humanity (this also factors into their global wealth equation, they own 99% of the world's wealth). They outright lied about Saddam Hussein having acquired Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and killed innocent Iraqi citizens based on this lie (thousands of United States Service men lost their lives as well, in essence for nothing other than in the name of propaganda and the waving of false flags). The Bush administration during these so-called crisis used the media to work the ignorant American people into a frenzy and they begin building popular support for a war that was created on the premises of a lie. Who are the beneficiaries of such deception? These 'fake’ news' agencies and their reporting are more dangerous and manipulative than the former Kremlin and its so-called iron wall reputation that existed during the Cold War era. Donald Trump was right and exact by calling the U.S.media of manufacturing ‘fake’ news and it caught the media outlets totally off guard.

They did not expect this kind of response coming from a U.S.commander-in-chief. But let's not get it confused Trump himself and his brand are also the beneficiary of media (Trump was made in the U.S.A by the media) and for him to cry victim, is the epitome of deceit. The ‘fake’ news allegations isn't anything new in relation to how America is structured and many dissident voices have become victims of media lies, which has led to public and private defamation—libel, slander and character assassination against individuals and governments in which in the name of ‘fake’ news and propaganda it has been strategically and tactically used to discredit oppositional voices and movements. This is the most powerful tool that government has at their disposal, the media work hand and hand with the government's agenda. Many times before the government act they invite certain media outlets and personnel into the Situation Room with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They know that the media role is of vital importance to molding and shaping of public opinion. The CIA, FBI and NSA oftentimes intentionally leak certain so-called confidential and classified information to the media in order to move a military, foreign policy and/or a political agenda forward in the minds of the American people, in particular and the international community in general. When you hear a journalist or media Talking Head make the statement that I am working my sources in Washingtonnormally they are CIA fronts who are communicating directly with the devil in the red dress.

Here are some solutions just for discussion, but in the grand scheme of media power this below conversation is frivolous because the level of media ‘tricknology’ is beyond redemption, because there is a conglomerate of wealth associated with issuing ‘fake’ news and controlling humanity is of vital importance. So the problem is much bigger than the below solutions. Media has become an absolute power in which absolute power, absolutely corrupts.

1). I think that universities and colleges that offers academic training in mass media and journalism must create higher ethical standards as part of the mass media and journalism curriculums. I would require the infusion of more courses and discussions around journalistic integrity and the importance of media ethics and the responsibility that journalists have to the public and the media outlets whom they will be employed. I am of the opinion that, perhaps on the university levels prior to journalism students entering the workforce, it's imperative to seek to impact a new ethical paradigm standard on their mindset with the goal of fostering a new culture. This should be the first step to attempting to correcting the problem.

2). I think in the media boardrooms and editorial boardrooms; there need to be more credible oversight being rendered and the promoting of journalistic standards that insures the highest levels of ethical reporting is being carried out on the ground level and top levels. No, story that gives the appearance of being bias or slanted should be allowed to be reported as news. Moreover, all news should be factual based and outside of the journalist personal worldview and should never be rooted in sensationalism, propaganda or disinformation. Now, this at times would require putting ethics over profits in which this will further require the media boardroom executives to make the tough decisions over projected monetary incentives.

3). I also think that the journalist themselves have to hold themselves to higher ethical standards as professional media personnel relative to reporting the facts and nothing else. And once a journalist violate or breech the public trust by compromising the ethical standards of reporting, they should be banned for life and never be given the opportunity to work again in the field of journalism and media

INTERVIEW: A LOOK AT CIVIL RIGHTS THROUGH THE EYES OF TWO UNSUNG FAMILY HEROES OF MINE (Part I)

By Fahim A. Knight-El

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I took the opportunity to interview my mother-in-law, my wife's mother and I wish I could have conducted this interview with both of her parents prior to my father-in-law transitioning in 2015; they had a serious history in the civil rights movement in Durham, North Carolina and they would share all these powerful stories with me about the role they played in fighting for justice and equality in Durham and these personal stories would always captivate me because they were stories of bravery, integrity, determination, will power, etc. They had both become Elders and so often, we are allowing our African-American family oral history to slip away and we are not taking the time to converse, record and document our families history (and preserve this valuable history); my in-laws were in their 70s and had made tremendous sacrifices and stood on the front line of fire to achieve some of the goals that the civil rights movement were aiming. They are two of my unsung heroes and my wife's father was like a father to me and I know that I was liken to a son to him. He helped transition me into manhood relative given me the tools to be a good husband and good father to my children (he taught me the importance of standing up for what is right and fight for what you believe in); he taught me patience and the value of kindness and he taught me Islam and what the Muslim overall responsibility should be. My mother-in-law and my father-in-law had been married for over 57 years and I had never seen them have a real fight or argument. My mother-in-law was kind but was a fighter for those things she held dear to her heart and she loved family. So this interview is part one of their story told to me by mother-in-law. I chose not to include their real names into this public blog because of security and privacy concerns, I chose to shield their true identity in telling their story and still share this story with my Blog audience as an authentic personal historical account. I changed momma's name to Khalilah Abdur Shabazz and my father-in-law will be referred be to as Baba Sharrieff Muhammad Shabazz.

This essay will focus on the Civil Rights Movement in Durham, North Carolina as a partial oral history told to me by my mother-in-law, momma Khalilah Abdur Shabazz (born in the eary1940s)[1] as primary history and will use secondary information provided by scholars, historians and intellectuals as supportive evidence in order to provide an empirical and objective approach to this discussion. This writer, will attempt to explore a small portion of the civil rights movement in Durham between the years 1965-1968, as told to me by mother-in-law momma Khalilah Abdur Shabazz from her personal insights and experiences, but it will not be a comprehensive analysis that explores the entire civil rights movement relative to the many personalities and events that helped shaped the national political, economic and social debate during this turbulent time in American history. [2]

In 1896, the United StatesSupreme Court passed the Plessy versus Fergusondecision in which the high court ruled that ‘separate but equal’ was legal and constitutional, which ushered in a time in American history known as Jim Crow. Jim Crow laws led to African Americans being denied access to public accommodations and established strict racial laws based on discrimination, which led to segregation. Blacks could not enter certain business establishments (and in many places in the south, they had signs that read ‘white and ‘colored’).[3]

These Jim Crow laws and policies created almost two distinct societies inside the

United States of America

, what scholar Andrew Hacker, describes in his book titled, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal,“Black Americans are Americans, yet they still subsist as aliens in the only land they know. Other groups may remain outside the mainstream-some religious sects, for example-but they do so voluntarily. In contrast, blacks must endure a segregation that is far from freely chosen. So Americamay be seen as two separate nations. Of course, there are places where the races mingle. Yet in most significant respects, the separation is pervasive and penetrating. As a social and human division, it surpasses all others-even gender-in intensity and subordination.”[4]

Moreover, this was the social climate that my mother-in-law and her family grew up in and there was no doubt that this social history had helped to shape their worldview. This writer could hear the pain endured, as well as, the determination and resolve they had in confronting these barriers and overcoming them.[5] Black protest movements evolved out of the oppression, racism and overt inequalities that took place during this 58 year period of Jim Crow and it was the Brown versus Board of Education decision 1954 (Topeka, Kansas) in which the United States Supreme Court overturned the Plessy versus Ferguson decision and declared ‘separate but equal’ as being unconstitutional.[6] The quest for freedom, justice and equality took on many forms, which various black protest movements arose during different time periods in America to challenge racist public policy and injustices. For example, the political spectrum ranged from the Marcus Garvey model (back to Africa movement) of black nationalism to the likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who advocated integration and civil disobedience to alter social change.[7]

Yet, this writer, was aware of the historical role lynching played and how and why the voices of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and W.E.B. Dubois came about on the national stage in founding the Niagara Movement (1903) that evolved into the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909—committed to social justice for African American people.[8]

Durham and its Unique Black History and Experience

In a book titled, Black America Series: Durham’s Haytistated, “Durham, like most Southern cities in the 1880s and 1900s, had rigidly segregated communities. The majority of African-Americans resided in the southern and southeastern sections known as Hayti, pronounced as ‘hay-tie’. In 1920, W.E.B. Dubois, a prominent African American historian, referred to Durham, specifically the Hayti area, as the ‘Negro business mecca of the South’. He wrote, ‘There is in this small city a group of five thousand or more colored people, whose social and economic development is perhaps more striking than that of any similar group in the nation.’ Booker T. Washington, the noted African American leader and educator at Tuskegee Institute, agreed with Dubois that Durham provided an opportunity for African American to excel economically. But Washingtonalso recognized the existence of friendly relations between African Americans and whites. He stated, ‘Of all the Southern cities that I have visited I found here the sanest attitude (among) white toward the blacks.’[9]

Momma Khalilah Abdur Shabazz migrated from Western, North Carolina to Durhamwith her mother and her two siblings when she was about twelve years old at this time. She and was raised in Pearsontown (an area near North Carolina Central University and Fayetteville Street) and where many of the black elite lived (an adjacent neighborhood in and around NCCU and next to where the old Hillside High School used be located on Concord Street and Lawson Street). These educated blacks fitted into the social and economic class of what W.E.B. Dubois referred to as the talented tenth and what E. Franklin Frazier called the ‘the black bourgeoisie’.[10]

Durhambeing a southern city was very segregated, as most of the south was during the 1950s and 1960s; thus, my momma Khalilah explained to me that Pettigrew Street(at the railroad tracks) separated the white community from the African American community. She and my (father-in-law the Baba Sharrieff Muhammad Shabazz-2015)[11] both attended segregated public schools and as much as she admired the things Dubois and Washington stated about Durham—the Durham she experienced had more of a sense of black classism in which prominent black Durham leaders had cut behind door deals with the white establishment that allowed the black elite class to create strong business opportunities and banking ties, which led to the establishment of Mechanics and Farmers Bank and North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company.[12]

For example, prominent blacks and families such as John Merrick, Dr. A.M. Moore, C.C Spaulding, W.J. Kennedy, Bert Collins, Asa T. Spaulding, J.W. Goodloe, W.J. Kennedy, etc., ( momma Khalilah called these elitist black Durham leaders and businessmen ‘spluking ducks’ it was slang term they used to describe for high class light skinned ‘Negroes’ of the bourgeoisie persuasion) and viewed them and their off springs as privileged Negroes, but I got the picture that she perhaps saw their political approach as being reactionary.[13] It was evident that in Durham my in-laws experience a wealth disparity and race and privilege were dictating quality of life and economic mobility. My in-laws met a young civil rights worker named Howard Fuller (he was a cross between Minister Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in ideology and philosophical thought) he had come south to engage in the war on poverty in the early 1960s, Fuller’s commitment to altering social change in Durham and throughout North Carolina would shape my grandparent’s political views.[14]

Howard Fuller: Durham’s Civil Rights Icon Enters on the Scene

Devin Ferguson in his book titled, Liberalism, Black Power and the Making of American Politics 1965-1980 describes Howard Fuller and his leadership in the Durhamcivil rights movement in this manner: “Since the mid-1960s Fuller had been hailed by adversaries and acolytes alike as the state’s leading black activist. The appellation was apparently well deserved. Amid physical threats to himself and family. Fuller mobilized fair-housing rallies, protest marches, and university demonstrations. More important, he had earned the confidence of fellow activists and local residents. “I walked the streets of the most dilapidated sections,’ one observer noted, ‘and talked with tired Negroes on their front porches. Most all of them knew of OBT {Operation Breakthrough} and the residents council and spoke well of them.’ The success of grassroots organizing and black political power in Durham, community and fieldworkers claimed, was largely attributable to one man, Howard Fuller.”[15]

This writer had personally met Fuller on a number of times at my in-laws' home and I knew that my father-in-law and my mother-in-law were very fond of him,[16] but as I talked with my mother-in-law, I really did not know much about him and his huge relationship with the Durham civil rights movement. Moreover, doing this research and having these various conversations with my mother-in-law this writer started to immediately develop a deeper sense of appreciation for the role they played as grassroots activist and their personal connection to one of the premier Durham civil rights leaders in the 1960s and most all I came to appreciate their work and the personal sacrifices they made to change a social and political system that was fundamentally flawed and wrong.[17]

My mother-in-law said they would go out at night and she did not know, if they would return home because of possibly being arrested or killed (being deemed as black agitators) and I sought of got the feeling that some of their tactics deviated from King’s non-violent confrontational position, but she stated ‘those who tell don’t know and those that know don’t tell’. She made it clear that whatever this writer wrote, she does not have to read the final version, because she lived this history.[18]

But as much as she had high praises for Fuller and his work, this is what Fuller had to say about my in-laws in his book: “On Sundays, I occasionally spoke at local churches, where I met people like, Khalilah Abdur Shabazz and Sharrieff Muhammad Shabazz a young married couple in their early twenties, who would become two of the movement’s most dedicated and committed warriors. They were among the few married people living in McDougald Terrace. They had heard that a young black man from ‘up North’ had been traveling around town, telling black folks that they did’nt have to accept how they’d been living. So, they came to MountZionBaptistChurchon Fayetteville Streetone Sunday night to hear for themselves what I had to say. My message about the need for poor people to come together and change things tapped into their own simmering anger and frustration. Later on in life when I asked Sharrieff what attracted him to the movement, he told me: ‘There were these fires burning inside of us with the way we were treated. And you came along and started blowing on those flames.’Khalilah and Sharrieff joined the movement and never looked back. They were true salt–of-the-earth North Carolinians—welcoming, unpretentious, dedicated, and determined.”[19]

They Accepted the Challenge

My in-laws became active in the civil rights movement in approximately 1965, participating in marches freedom rides, picketing, boycotts, sit-ins, etc. they both had a love and a passion for social activism and shared in some of Durham's most historical civil rights moments.[20] They worked alongside Howard Fuller (my father-in-law.once said to me next to his father, Fuller was, perhaps the second man that had the most impact on his life); Fuller was a grassroots leader that led the civil rights struggle in Durham with passion and commitment, he was one of the faces and voices in black Durham who did not mind speaking truth to power; he was the Malcolm X of the south and gave a lot Black folk backbone to stand up for equality and justice. [21]

There were also Ben Ruffin (North Carolina Central University even named a building after Ruffin called Benjamin S. Ruffin Residence Hall), Floyd McKissick, Sr., (Floyd McKissick, Jr., the son Floyd McKissick, Sr. now sits in the NC State Legislature); McKissick, Sr was one of the attorneys for Durham Civil Rights movement and also founder of black incorporated township in Warrenton, North Carolina called Soul City, Howard Clements, Ann Atwater, Pat Rogers, Ruby Gattis, John Edwards, Lonnie Wilson, Joyce Thorpe-Nichols, and countless others that were involved in desegregating Durham and forcing the local and State government to abide by the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965) relative to Black people. All of the above activist worked with my in-laws as activist and community organizers.[22].

Atwater, A DurhamCivil Rights Warrior Forgave Ku Klux Klan Adversary

Ann Atwater one of the chief community organizers of Operation Breakthrough who worked side-by-side with Momma Khalilah and co-authored a book with a former head Ku Klux Klan member named C. P. Ellis titled, The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South, authored by Osha Gray Davidson. My mother-in-law said some of the former civil rights workers were very critical of Atwatersitting down some 40 years later and having dialogue and conversation with one of their staunch adversaries and talking about forgiveness, atonement and reconciliation. She had vivid memories of the hooded Ku Klux Klan marching down Main Streetin Durhamholding up Confederate Flags and spewing vitriol hatred.[23]

Amazon review of the book stated: “C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of race, Atwaterand Ellis met on opposite sides of the public school integration issue. Their encounters were charged with hatred and suspicion. In an amazing set of transformations, however, each of them came to see how the other had been exploited by the South's rigid power structure, and they forged a friendship that flourished against a backdrop of unrelenting bigotry. Rich with details about the rhythms of daily life in the mid-twentieth-century South, The Best of Enemies offers a vivid portrait of a relationship that defied all odds. By placing this very personal story into broader context, Osha Gray Davidson demonstrates that race is intimately tied to issues of class, and that cooperation is possible--even in the most divisive situations--when people begin to listen to one another.”[24]

Thus, for me reviewing some of this historiography this writer has to take into consideration the historical time and approach my assessment and analysis with a clear understanding of the context of the historical timeframes and what the political, economic and social climate was like that created the feelings my mother-in-law was still having relative to the former Ku Klux Klan member C. P. Ellis[25] and although I am supposed to approach my research with a level of objectivity, it was not difficult for me to understand why momma Khalilah emotions' about Atwater having this humane dialogue with the former Ku Klux Klan was still a little unsettling to my momma Khalilah even in 2017 .[26]

Yet, simultaneously I could reckon with Atwater and Ellis being forty years removed from that antagonistic history and perhaps Ellis had come to the conclusion based on time and human development that this conversation needed to take place in a broader context and allow the public to look deeper into the conscious minds of how a racist ideology had shaped and molded the course of history of two human beings, one white and one black (and in the larger context their lives were a microcosm and typified the social and political tension that existed in America during the 1960s and 1970s).[27]

Their discussions evolved out of socio-economic timeframes in American history that was drastically different in the 1960s and I further believe by 2007, it was enough time and space that had lapsed, which allowed for some 40 years later for forgiveness and redemption to take place in spite of the past historical divisiveness and racial tension that once separated these two unsettling souls. I personally think people have the ability to change and be reformed and although my momma Khalilah would disagree the above mentioned book is a testimony of the power of personal healing and redemptive love.[28]

Fuller in his book titled, No Struggle, No Progress: A Warrior’s Life From Black Power to Education Reform stated, “That understanding of the relationship between struggle and progress is what propelled me down dark alleys and dirt roads in some of North Carolina’s poorest communities in the 1960s, and pushed me into the bush, mountains, and war-torn villages of Africa nearly a decade later.”[29]

Unknown History: The Civil Rights Movement Begin in Durham

It would be under Fuller’s leadership and tutelage that my in-laws entered the Civil Rights Movement in 1965—they were concern with housing, jobs and poverty in Durhamand somewhat like King, Fuller advocated civil disobedience[30]. Momma Khalilah talked about how they use the strategies and tactics of boycotts, sit-ins, picket lines, etc., to agitate the white power apparatus in DurhamCitywith the objective of disrupting business. She even argues that the first sit-in actually took place in Durham, North Carolina at Royal Ice Cream Parlor (on Roxboro Road and Dowd Street) in 1957 and this event actually took place three years prior to the Greensboro Four (North Carolina A&T State University students) sit-ins at counter of Woolworth in February 1960, but the Durham sit-in did not get the public and national notoriety as the Greensboro incident.[31]

Momma Khalilah stated that the white business leaders who were practicing segregation in Durham became fearful of them, because the protests begin to affect their bottom economic line and she recalled a few incidents where they shutdown city council meetings, if their demands were not met. She said boycotts were a very effective way of protesting and altering social change.[32] She stated on August 28, 1963, she can remember almost like it was yesterday when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called for the March on Washingtonand almost two hundred thousand people converged on the capitol grounds that rallied around jobs and justice. She said at the time, she had four small children, but she supported the goals and objectives of the march.[33]

Thorpe-Nichols: Durham Public Housing Resident and the U.S. Supreme Court

Momma Khalilah joined an anti-poverty organization called Operation Breakthrough as a community organizer in early 1960s, which was geared toward organizing poor people in public housing relative to understanding their legal rights, and directing them toward services—they became advocates for the disenfranchised poor in Durham. Momma Khalilah told me about Ms. Joyce Thorpe-Nichols who lived right around the corner from my home and this writer, actually met her before she died (Thorpe-Nichols also informed me that she was the first black to have received a physician assistant degree from DukeUniversity). Nichols in the early 1960s lived in McDougal housing projects and for whatever reason was evicted by Durham Housing Authority without cause and Thorpe-Nichols case made its way to the United States Supreme Court and she won.Momma Khalilah further stated that Thorpe-Nichols became empowered by being involved in the work of Operation Breakthrough.[34]

Momma Khalilah pulled from her archives and provided me with an unpublished document titled, “The Evolution of Neighborhood Organizing Around Housing Policies in Durham, 1965-1975” authored by a Duke University researcher named Ellie Bullard of the history department, perhaps under the guidance of Professor Robert Korstad. Bullard stated: “Thorpe received an eviction notice. The reason for the eviction was not made clear to her, most likely retribution for her involvement with the Breakthrough-organized neighborhood council. Regardless, Thorpe refused to leave her home in McDougald Terrace, even when Durhampolice officers came to the door . . . if you got an eviction, you had no recourse. . .So I said, ‘I am not going anywhere.’ And I didn’t, Thorpe said. With the help of Howard Fuller, Joan Alston, and civil rights lawyer Floyd McKissick, Thorpe pressed against the Durham Housing Authority for failing to give her a reason for eviction. In a case that would last until 1969, the Supreme Court finally ruled “you can’t evict people out of public housing without giving them a reason.’ ‘We are the reason for that, ‘said Howard Fuller years later.’[35]

Conclusion and Historiography analysis and comments

Lastly, this research project exposed me to the rich civil rights history that existed in Durham and the roles that my in-laws played, in particular and the impact their activism had in general, in the State of North Carolina. Thus, last year my father-in-law father Baba Sharrieff Muhammad Shabazz (2015) passed and as this writer was writing this narrative and formulating my thoughts, I could not but think about the many stories and accounts he often talked about relative to their involvement in desegregating Durham (he loved to talk about their conviction to social justice).

Both of my in-laws took a lot of pride in working as community grassroots workers and advocating for the ‘have nots’ and participating in boycotts, sit-ins and walking picket lines to ensure that African Americans would be treated as human beings and receive justice.[36] The 1960s was tumultuous period in American history in which there were many issues pulling in many political directions such as the Vietnam War, the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. which made America a social tender box. Moreover, cities like Newark, Jersey, Detroit, and the Watts section of Los Angles were overtaking by riots and social rebellion.[37] Durham remained relatively peaceful, but that is not to say that racial tension was not high in Durham. My mother-in-law said former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms would come on the radio spewing hate and his approach to public policy reflected a rightwing conservative viewpoint in which many liberal blacks and whites took offense.

Momma Khalilah believed that Durham’s black bourgeoisie and black elite had often cut behind the scene deals with the white establishment and this allowed for them to prosper in business and assisted in their wealth building.[38] Thus, Howard Fuller often worked with them, but he was deemed a political outsider and a threat by prominent black leaders in Durham and their relationship was more of a political convenience. Fuller’s activism inspired my grandparents who got involved in Operation Breakthrough and this led to them become community organizers.[39]

In the book titled, Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965 , Civil Rights leader Julian Bond who wrote the introduction to the book stated: “The civil rights movement began a long time ago. As early as the seventeenth century, blacks and whites, slaves in Virginia and Quakers in Pennsylvania, protested the barbarity of slavery. Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth, Fredrick Douglas, William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman are but a few of those who led the resistance to slavery before the Civil War. After the Civil War, another protracted battle began against slavery’s legacy—racism and segregation. But for most Americans, the civil rights movement began on May 17, 1954, when the Supreme Court handed down the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision outlawing segregation in public schools.”[40]

Bond’s commentary only serves as a reminder that the continued response and opposition to injustice and inequality was not created in a vacuum and Fuller and my grandparents’ struggles were inextricably tied to this long legacy and history.

Yet, Harold Cruse in his book titled, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, that was published in 1967, this writer does not know, if he is considered a sociologist or historian but unlike most traditional black intellectuals, he seemed to be very open to objectively criticizing some of the civil rights leadership models and personalities. He consistently cited that many of civil rights organizations, in particular the radical left often confused reform planks with revolutionary planks which left a lot to be desired relative to their ideological methodology. Cruses stated, “The Question arises: “Why was it necessary for all those idealistic and intrepid direct actionists to submit themselves to such terrible physical and psychological battering in the South to establish a few struggling groups for local reform in politics and economics, attempting in vain to breach Jim Crow barriers, which are, in effect, ‘separate’ movements? It was because these young radicals did not understand, at the outset, the divergent natures of reforms and revolutionary movements for social change. They confused the methods without understanding them, thus imputing revolutionary interpretations to merely reformist methods. Hence, when direct-action methods failed against hardening barriers, they had to fall back on what few political and economic reforms gains they had won.”[41]

Now, as I review and assess the election of President Barack Obama becoming the first African American president and briefly comparing and contrasting two different historical time periods in American history. This writer in looking back to the 1960s from my in-laws’ era they probably could not have imagine in their lifetime that they would ever have witness a black man becoming president and serving as our commander-in-chief, but in 2008 it happened. Momma Khalilah in their hearts know that it was their work that laid the foundation and sacrifices of so many civil rights workers and freedom fighters who died conducting voters registrations drives in the deep south and eliminating barriers that did not permit African Americans to participate in the electoral process. Momma Khalilah worked to desegregated Durham and all across this nation bigotry, racism and discrimination were being challenged in the 1960s under the banner of civil rights.[42] This writer does not know, if Momma Khalilah would agree that we now live in a post racial era since the 2008 election of President Obama, but she will agree that life is different and blacks have made tremendous progress and strides in all fields of endeavors since the civil rights movement in the 1960s.[43]

Senator Obama’s candidacy for president in 2008 created excitement and enthusiasm amongst African Americans, which was undeniable—most whites could never understand this euphoria, because it was rooted in the history and culture of an oppressed people who were disenfranchised, denied civil rights, and human rights from 1555-1964 until the passing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Acts. But before the passing of these two pieces of monumental legislation, Jim Crow reigned high in America. So this writer must say that he can reckon with their enthusiasm and excitement, for them it was a very passionate historical moment. For example, Momma Khalilah is 75 years of age and as an elderly African American who experienced the era of Jim Crow where race determined the political, economic and social reality of African American people in the United States, it wouldn’t be difficult for one to share in her and their newfound optimism and her deep seated suspicions.[44]

The Jim Crow culture and segregation was very painful for blacks to endure—there were racial violence in the form of lynching and outright racial motivated murders, separate but equal policies were the law of the land—white only public accommodations was the norm, whites and blacks could not share the same bathrooms and/or attend the same schools. Momma Khalilah as she recalled this painful history became teary-eyed (these were tears of both pain and joy) and viewed the possibility of Obama becoming the first black president in the history of the United States as being monumental in her psyche; this same view probably resonated with millions of others just like her. The presidential election of Obama in 2008, made it all worth the hell they caught fighting to achieve freedom, justice and equality for the African American race in 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, etc.. And it was a sharp contrast and departure from the social politics of the 1960s. Just remember we are only 50-60 years removed from one of the most antagonistic times in American history relative to modern race relations.[45]

Notes

[1] Fahim Knight-El. Interview with Khalilah Abdur Shabazz . May 10, 2016; Durham, North Carolina.

[2]Ibid,2.

[3]Ibid, 3-4.

[4] Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal. (New York: Scribner, 1995) 3.

[5] Ibid, Shabazz,5.

[6]Ibid, 2-3.

[7] William L. Van Deburg. Modern Black Nationalism . (New York: New York University Press, 1997) 373-374.

[8]Ibid.

[9]Andre Vann & Beverly Washington Jones. Black American Series: Durham’s Hayti. (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999) 7.

[10]Ibid, Shabazz, 5.

[11]Ibid, 2-3.

[12] Ibid, 3-5.

[13]Ibid, 4-5.

[14] Ibid, 6-7.

[15]Devin Fergus. Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American . (Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 2009) 59.

[16] Ibid, Shabazz,13.,

[17]Ibid, 12.

[18] Ibid,

[19]Howard Fuller. No Struggle, No Progress: A Warrior’s Life from Black Power to Education Reform. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: MarquetteUniversity Press, 2014) 64.

[20]Ibid, Shabazz, 7.

[21]Ibid, 6.

[22]Ibid, Fuller, 62-79.

[23]Ibid, Shabazz, 8-9.

[24] Amazon..com –Internet online book review. The Best of Enemies,

[25]Ibid, Shabazz, 8-9.

[26]Ibid, 9.

[27]Ibid, 8-9.

[28] Ibid, 8-9

[29] Ibid, Fuller, 11.

[30] Ibid, Shabazz, 6.

[31] Internet article (2009) titled, “Royal Ice Cream marker unveiling brings history, recognition, closure to Roxboro St”. http://www.bullcityrising.com/2009/11/royal-ice-cream-marker-unveiling-brings-history-recognition-closure-to-roxboro-st.html.

[32] Ibid, Shabazz, 11.

[33]Ibid, Shabazz, 6.

[34]Ibid, Fuller, 67-68.

[35] Ellie Bullard. “The Evolution of Neighborhoods Organizing Around Housing Policies in Durham, 1965-1975”.Uupublished Document; perhaps a Master of Arts Thesis; submitted to Duke University Department of History under the guidance of Professor Robert Korstad.

[36] Ibid, Shabazz, 10.

[37]Lerone Bennett. Before the Mayflower; A History of Black America. (New York: Penguin Books, 1985) 423-432.

[38] Ibid, Shabazz, 3-4.

[39] Ibid, Shabazz, 11.

[40] Juan Williams. Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965. ((New York: Penguin Books, 1987) xi.

[41]Harold Cruse. The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. (New York: William Morrow & Company, 1967) 547.

[42] Ibid, Shabazz, 7.

[43] Ibid, Shabazz, 7.

[44] Ibid, Shabazz, 8

[45] Ibid, Shabazz, 8 &10.

ESOTERIC, OCCULT, GNOSTIC AND THE BLACK ISLAMIC SCIENCE CONNECTION

By Fahim A. Knight-El

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What I have learned and discovered of my many years of research, is that ALL of the ancient wisdom was connected and this interconnectedness extended to almost every culture on the earth. Manly P. Hall in his book titled, The Secret Teachings of All Ages and the works of Aleister Crowley, these esoteric and occultist had tapped into a body of spiritual and esoteric science that had been around since the dawn of time and since the origin of man; the ancient Kemites of ancient Egypt (who gave the world the first true resurrection story in Asar, Aset, and Heru), the Celtic Druids (on the British Isles and in Europe) and the ancient people of Persia and who relished in the ancient practices of Mithra and Adonis and in which the mystic Sufism teaching took some of it roots and the people of Suma (Chihuahua, Mexico) all understood a spiritual energy sources that still have western scientist and philosophers baffled. They (western man) have attempted to dismiss this knowledge as being non-basis paranormal and conspiracy theories—these negative characterizations serve as mere cover ups and deception ploys to disguise and deny these hidden truths and sacred bodies of spiritual knowledge from humanity ever being allowed to be awaken from their slumber.

Furthermore, these labels are applied to create doubt, suspicion, and it allows them to lead humanity in dismissing the possibilities of learning and coming into a deeper recognition of the spirit realm. There are many white social science theorist such as Graham Hancock (who totally understands the value of the esoteric, occult and Gnostic perspective to human evolution), a British counter-culture intellectual that works on the fringe of traditional interdisciplinary schools of thought ranging from archeology, human genetics, philosophy, history, pure science, ancient architecture, human sociology, earth beings and outer-space beings connections, etc. I joined the Graham Hancock Internet forum may be nine years ago and I have always been impressed by his willingness to step outside of mainstream academia and explore the vast universe of ideals. I am a staunch black nationalist and Pan-Africanist, but what would I have in common with a white British intellectual; very simple truth and moral insight, is not shaped by nationality, race nor skin color—enlightenment is a spiritual space that is only encompassed by those that are worthy to journey the road and path less traveled.

Hancock has authored a number of alternative knowledge books that even my Blog audience would find them to be enlighten (I will not insult this scholars body of work by referring to it as new age information, I will call it global human enlightened knowledge, when you have been touched by the Gods in spirit then labels only cheapens the universal space of where you have arrived) books such as:Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilisation, Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization, The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind, The Mars Mystery.Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization, The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant that challenges traditional science. We, humanity have arrived at a very dangerous space in time, which has placed us all under the diabolic power and spirit of western man; this is a counter-aura to the positive energy of good that encompasses the universe, it is has created a human imbalance on earth and has placed humanity on a collision course with the universe. If you do not know by now, I am here to tell you and inform you, that the stars in their present numerological order have aligned to bring nothing but future destruction to the western world in particular and the evil practitioners across the globe in general.

I have five sacred holy texts that I read and meditate and make prayer and supplication every day before I begin my day: The Original African Heritage Bible, Holy Qur’an translated by Muhammad Ali, the Holy Vedas, the Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egyptand Greece and the Prophet by Khalil Gabran, these are my daily routines of spiritual sources in which I read these spiritual texts while softly playing the musical messengers John Coltrane and Miles Davis and this helps me channel and re-channel my energy source to a heightened level of spiritual connection with the universal order and the spiritual powers beyond this world’s order. I chose to leave organized religion a long time ago, because my spirit would no longer allow faith traditions and beliefs systems to subjugate and confine me to a religious box; religion was too shallow for me; I knew that in 325.A.D. at the Council of Nicea, Constantine and his bishops had fabricated lies and literally rearranged the bible and teachings of Jesus and it was this type of theological deception that I could never whole heartily follow; Islam became corrupted to it core by white skinned Wahabbi Arabs and Prophet Muhammad said to them three generation after me you all will no longer be of me.

But I have always found some spiritual comforts in the theology of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad (there is powerful lecture series that he did over many years titled, “The Theology of Time,’ I hold those lessons dear to my heart (so I only follow the divine teachings of Moses, Jesus and Muhammad and not those offered by Rabbis, Preachers or Imams). So over the years, I became a traditionalist spiritualist, one who dared to venture outside the religious structures of the African American traditions in order to truly find that inter and external divine essences or being (I found that God was within). I sought of got on my path and journey when I was in college between finding something to eat and studying, I use to wash my clothes off campus in the laundry mat in the black community (those who are guessing, yes I am the product of a HBCU education) and on the free news rack I just randomly picked up a little magazine titled, “The Plain Truth” authored by a white Christian theologian named Dr. Herbert W. Armstrong who presented an alternative Christian type worldview relative to interpreting past historical events and analyzing current events (he was the founder of theWorldwide Church of God). But Dr. Armstrong religious views were a lot different than what I was accustomed to reading in traditional black Christian literature. He seemed to have been a student of epistemology and etymology and had a deep grasp of religious symbolism and accurately applied the scripture to interpreting and defining international and national events. I started to look forward to going to the laundry mat and reading Dr. Herbert Armstrong’s “Plain Truth” publications. These readings led me to delving into deeper searching for more ancient knowledge and spiritual teachings. He authored books such as: The Incredible Human Potential, Mystery of the Ages, Human Nature: Did God Create It?, The Seven Laws of Success, etc.

We all have a duty and responsibility to work to change the present energy of the universe, because the universe is steadily and rapidly turning on man. This has always been my African spiritual indigenous ancestors constantly speaking to me and showing me the path to universal peace and finding a true connection with all the indigenous people’s spirits of the universe —.Aborigines, these dark skinned blond and kinky haired people found in Australia who existed long before Paleolithic and Neolithic periods in world civilization. I was led to write this Blog by a Moorish Science Temple Brother who sent me a link to watch of this Caucasian occultist named Peter Moon who had seemed to have become enlightened in many esoteric and occult schools of thought in which he was well published. I still have not completed viewing the entire Youtube clip. But I told this Moorish brother that I just wanted to take a moment and digest all the knowledge that he was dropping (well that moment has now turned into me writing this said Blog titled, “Black Esoteric, Occult, Gnostic,and Islamic Science”). The type of information that Peter Moon was dispersing and teaching should have required all intelligent Moors of so-called African descent to get to the root of this ancient and mystical wisdom that Peter Moon was dropping and verify these truths for themselves.

I wrote and article, a few weeks ago titled, "Hidden Indigenous Knowledge" and I were skimming the surface of some of the things that Peter Moon was conveying. There is no doubt that some of his philosophical theories were perhaps way above the heads of most of those who had assembled and had come out to hear him give that lecture, unless they were serious students of esoteric, Occult and Gnostic wisdom and information, which would have allow them to be able to make the broader connections in piecing and linking this knowledge to its original Nubian sources. Now, I remember Dr. Malachi Z. York-El (leader of BlackNuwaubian Nation ) who had written over 200 books and was delving into outer-body travel and inter-galaxy travel and extraterrestrial beings and alien species, and hidden Unidentified Flying Objects, as well as decoding the Mother plane and various unconventional concepts that went against the grain of traditional science known as astro-physics. Some years ago I met one of the greatest esoteric entertainers in the world, his name was Sun-RA, I asked where was he from? and said he was not from this planet. Perhaps Sun-RA understood the spiritual lessons of all the great gurus and sages. York-El said, he had proof that the United States Government had highly confidential and classified information of outer-space beings, in which NASA, NSA, and the CIA were all engaged in keeping this type information from the public.

The indigenous ancients had established many of these principles that Moon was sharing, long before the Caucasian man 6,000 year existence on the planet. The deeper spirituality of many of the principles and spiritual concepts couldn't even be recorded. But they were experience through spiritual energy sources, that were tied to the universe and were based on the alignment of the stars and the motions of moon and sun. Maybe we should revisited York's work, which outside of his following base was dismissed and not taking seriously and was discredited by black and white theologians and social scientists. Many in the black consciousness community also didn't take Dr. York serious, but it always amazes me that we need white affirmation to give our ideals validity. But many wise Caucasians, perhaps were paying close attention to York's concepts and Peter Moon was saying some very similar things to Dr. York. Yet, there is no doubt that Moon has a perspective, but what he will soon learn, if he doesn't already know, that it has been global white supremacy, which is frustrating him in his efforts of trying to link and connect this universal knowledge that the people of Kemet, Australia, Upper Africa, the original and indigenous people of the Americas had over 16,000 years ago.

They had the ability to tune into and connect with Astro-engery that allowed them to exit their physical bodies and in a transcendental state could travel outside of the earth's gravitational pull and leave this earthly plain and had contact with Astro beings. The Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs attempted to record these experiences on ancient cave rocks and inside the walls of the South America and Central America pyramids; this indigenous and ancient people’s knowledge went much further than quantum physics and went even further than the sacred geometric spiritual mathematical schematic codes (these ancient codes of indigenous Native Americans have gone un-deciphered for thousands of years and the Caucasian scientist do not understand that the lost keys are only in the minds of the original man; Minister Louis Farrakhan understood this and definitely sister Tynetta Muhammad understood this riddled and divinely phenomenon and the likes Dr. Phil Valentine and Dr. Delbert Blair also had this knowledge).

Western science when it comes to trying to decipher and understand the ancient indigenous knowledge and world, they have shown-forth serious limitations. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad did tell us that there would be some wise Moslem Sons (Caucasians) who would have been allowed to get a peep into the mind of God, which is the black man's mind. I know white supremacy is always cloaked behind the symbolism of theoretician's analysis (the Honorable Elijah Muhammad raise the question can you trust the devil? Not now day. There is a quest for power and the realignment will not include us, but it will include us in the grand scheme of things. The white world in Eastern Europe and other parts of the white world have to find a way to short circuit and curtail genetic annihilation this is the real motive that is driving these moves on the chessboard. Master Fard Muhammad taught the black Muslims about his nature and he must once again recapture and control all that territory expanded beyond his origin in Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian Sea and extend the white world domination deep into Asiaand across the planet.

I do think the likes of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientologyhad tapped in some of the ancient mystical teachings of Kemet (

Egypt

) and other ancient indigenous teachings that were rooted in the universal principles found in the bosoms of all the previous world altering sacred spiritual knowledge. But this type of powerful wisdom and principles can do two things; it could assist you in your spiritual development and or it can corrupt you and destroy you from within and from without. This is what happened to the Church of Scientology, it lost its original energy source and it connections to the universal teachings of good.

They like to denigrate our ancient Folklore and mythological and mystical wisdom as being part of some ancient secret societies, thus, anything they cannot quantify in the Eurocentric worldview, because the knowledge and spiritual practices are above their heads they are quick to define and classify what they do not understand as either pagan, cult based or secret societies. I have not completed watching Moon's commentary, but my mind was racing and these are just some of my preliminary thoughts. For example, he was talking about virgin births and sacred mythological saviors, which if one had studied deeper information there is a book written by Kersey Graves title, The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors that empirically track these Saviors who all were born of virgin births, died and was resurrected. I think the Prophet Noble Drew Ali whom I believe had Native American ancestry tied a lot of this indigenous knowledge and infused it into the Moorish Science Doctrine and the Moorish philosophical worldview. The Prophet understood the ancient Occidental wisdom by have been initiated into the esoteric knowledge studied and learn in Egypt. We can spend a life time just studying Noble Drew Ali's symbolism and never exhaust the esoteric knowledge associated with how far he was ahead of the Western world and the Islamic world. So I am not surprised that white occultist, spiritualist, esoterist and wise white intellectual theoreticians are now seeking to revisit the Prophets teachings some 90 years later.

The students of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad never cease to amaze me with their ability to use that powerful third eye; the Honorable Elijah Muhammad stated what I have given you, is just awake up message; meaning that what Master Fard Muhammad taught him will be ever evolving and there are many links which connects this wisdom; he even used the Bible that he often would refer to as the 'poison book' as a tool to uplift black people. Master Fard Muhammad who was in and out America some 20 years before he made his presence known and although his physical birth was February 26, 1877, but proclaimed to have embodied all the wisdom and knowledge of first God who willed himself out of total triple darkness 76 trillion years ago. Now, one cannot separate the theology from being an article of faith and it is this part of the Black Muslim teachings that has unjustly brought the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad under criticism from the Islamic world.

But this variable of faith in the teachings cannot and must not be overlooked nor separated in understanding Mr. Muhammad religious and theological intent aimed specifically for the black man and woman of

America

. I think that Imam Mohammed in his criticism at times against the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was a bit disingenuous to say the least, because he had first hand knowledge that his father totally understood Sunni Islam and Malcolm X also understood this as well. Minister Malcolm X had flown to Egypt and Jeddah in 1959, and Minister Malcolm X served as the official emissary of the Nation of Islam in arranging the minor Hajj of Umurah that Elijah Muhammad, and his two sons Jabir Muhammad and Warith Mohammed both accompanied their father to Mecca and performed the minor hajj ritual. Thus, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was fully aware of the five pillars of Islam and the Sunna.

Master Fard Muhammad instructed Elijah Muhammad to only use the Muhammad Ali (an Islamic theological and jurisprudence scholar from Lahore, Pakistani) Qu'ranic translation because theAhmadiyyas (founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad) were the first Eastern based Muslims who sought to bring Islam to so-called African Americans in Detroitin the 1920s (a black ghetto referred to as the bottom). Thus, Master Fard Muhammad, I believe, intentionally created the “Supreme Wisdom” lessons in a mystic catechism questions and answers format—with the objective of delving into mystic Sufism and Shia Islam, but remained true to the original theology, but the 24 Wise Scientist, Mother plane, scientific numerology were rooted deep in esoteric and occult practices of Islam that is mostly akin to Sufi Islam. But he allowed Ministers like Bernard Cushmere (Jabril Muhammad) who authored the book titled, This is the One: We Need Not Look for Anotherperhaps written in 1968 and Is It Possible that Honorable Elijah Muhammad is Still Physically Alive? and sister Tynetta Muhammad to push the envelope relative to exploring mystical Islamic principles.

Master Fard Muhammad who often gave the Honorable Elijah Muhammad assignments that had to be answered 100% correctly before he could move on to said lesson #1. Honorable Elijah Muhammad teachings and methods of researching were right and exact. The Lamb was definitely a master teacher. He told us that Islam is mathematics and mathematics is Islam. So in this science, he was given us the degree of quantification relative to how we should approach the "Supreme Wisdom" and decipher the hidden jewels. But he reminded us that God willed himself out of total triple darkness 76-78 trillion years ago. So if we start from that premise, there is nothing impossible. But the answer has to be discovered and found in our mathematical Islam.

Master Fard Muhammad probably would have asked those early Muslims at Temple#1 in Detroit who amongst you are prepared to tackle this equation and be able to show and prove. He might have even qualified it by saying THE BEST ANSWER will be rewarded with a trip to the holy city of Mecca. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad paid and sent his youngest son Akbar Muhammad to Al-AzharUniversityin Egypt to study eastern based Islam who later became an Islamic studies professor in Binghamton, New York. Akbar Muhammad spoke fluent Arabic. So it is a serious misnomer for Muslims in Americaand outside of

America

to believe that the Nation of Islam did not understand or practice true Islam. Imam Mohammed did not introduce the Qur'an and the Hadiths to the Nation of Islam, we already new of these sacred texts.

DONALD TRUMP: RACE AND POWER, A DANGEROUS COMBINATION

By Fahim A. Knight-El

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Donald Trump has moved further right than any past United Statespresident that we have had in the last 50 years. Trump built a political base that was structured differently than traditional republican conservatives and established platforms that transition into a movement. He openly invoked race, cited religious intolerance and bigotry, spewed misogynist discrimination and openly ran on a law and order platform; he even sold white Americans on the idea in 2117 that he was going to build a wall around the Mexican and United States boarders and that the Mexican Government would pay for it. Think over this, a developing nation with untold poverty and one of the lowest standards of living in the western hemisphere and a country ridding by international debt; to attempt to impose this massive debt on the Mexican people was ludicrous and politically irrational and the Mexican PresidentEnrique Peña Nieto made it clear to Trump that Mexico was a sovereign nation and they did not take orders from Trump and the U.S. government. Trump’s overall theme of taking back Americarhetoric (coded in white supremacy language) political sentiments was covertly shared by many white Americans who helped to put him into office.

Some of these same white Christians who toted the bible in one hand and dressed up in hoods and burned crosses in the name of Jesus and the white Knights casted ballots for Trump; the Neo-Nazi and white supremacy groups after his victory were applauding and cheering for their man. But his Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner should have stood with the people and condemned these hat groups who have a long history of anti-Semitism and anti-Black violence and have a history of committing acts of terrorism against African American people and innocent Jews. Why hasn’t the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) come front and center to condemn Donald Trump for indirect linkages and association with white hate groups? But his message resonated with large segments of the white American population who had become disillusioned and dissatisfied with the political mood over American under President Barack Obama, an African American president; who had been ridiculed by a rising climate of racism and hate for his entire eight years as commander-in-chief. They initially thought his election had brought us to a post racial era and an end to American racism and we would quickly found out that this was the furthest thing from the truth, because institutionalized racism was entrenched in the very fiber of America socio-political traditions and systems and it wasn’t going anywhere no time soon.

I truly do not think that Trump understood the level of dissatisfaction that existed inside America amongst white people and his overwhelmingly presidential win even caught him off guard and shocked him that people would cast ballots for a political novice who had no previous political experience, but he won the Electoral College votes by a landslide. Trump went into the heart of the lion's den and challenged Senator Ted Cruz who like former Governor Mike Huckabee openly taunted Christian values as so-called conservative Christian politicians. This stance was almost always guaranteed to receive the political support of evangelical white Christians, which in past elections were always courted by republican candidates, in particular in the southern Bible belt States. Their power to influence presidential elections was evident up until the 2016 presidential election. But many thought that Cruz (Senator from Texas) was preaching and singing the evangelical language; and oddly enough Trump could not even quote a biblical scripture and did not appear that he had any real church or religious ties that was meaningful (in prior presidential campaigns this would have mattered, but in 2016 just white skin and racial slogans of duplicity outweighed past historical alliances).

Now, former President Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush as president and vice president used evangelical right-wingers to justify reactionary foreign policy and military aggression in the name of God. Back then Pat Robinson, Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham, etc., were the go to clergy voices that would set the religious ideological tone by politically justifying United States aggression and imperialism across the globe by openly invoking the name of God into U.S. foreign policy. For example, the decade of the 1980s signaled a new political era for America, in particular and the world in general, with the 1980 election of Ronald Wilson Reagan as President, he propagandized a false sense of evangelical emotionalism and ushered in a patriotism that incited Americans towards taking a proactive position in world domination. Reagan strategically galvanized his rightwing propaganda tools, the conservative Christian right, along with their "morally correct" clergy, and they went on a "moral manifest destiny" crusade in order to so-called create a world safer for democracy and missionaries (they only made the world more safer for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and international banks to steal by rapping their tentacles around the entire globe.

If the truth be told the Evangelicals probably did not like Trumps promiscuity and his overall moral ineptitude (this was the making of strange bedfellows), but silently they shared in his racial politics of issuing in a white manifest destiny. Reagan was a master manipulator of the media, both electronic and print. He molded and shaped public opinion and thought in whatever direction he desired (Trump has been equally affective in manipulating propaganda and disseminating disinformation) his top level spokesperson Kellyann Conway calls it presenting alternative facts.

Reagan got into these minor Cold War military skirmishes. During 1983, the Reagan administration attacked the small Caribbean island of Grenada, but only as a demonstration of military flexing, the world knew this tiny Caribbean communist inspired nation was no match for the powerful U.S. military and government. The Bible toting "morally correct" evangelical preachers (Pat Robertson, Billy Graham, and Jerry Falwell) came to the defense of United Statesaggression, because Maurice Bishop was depicted as a bad communist. And all parties understood the 1823 Monroe Doctrine and the implications of Cubaand the USSR imposing influence in

America

’s backyard would not be tolerated.

The conservative Christians along with the U.S. government moved towards ending the Cold War by using East Berlin and West Berlin as the visible symbol of bringing closure to a divisive era in world history, which had old international alignments that went back to World War II rooted in the former USSR and NATO ideologies. The U.S. created an illusion in the political minds of the West and idea that the world could never make the necessary global paradigm transition properly unless communism and its Eastern bloc influence had to be eliminated and in the name of "Jesus" and in the interest expansion of capitalism (this new alignment exposed Russia as an antagonist reactionary capitalist nation who had hid for decades under Leninist inspired communism).

Under the Reagan/Bush administration, United Statesforeign policy became synonymous with the aspirations of God, whatever his aspirations meant to them. In April of 1986, the country of Libya was bombed, because they refused to submit to the United Statesdictates (the United Statescreated a heavy naval military presence in the Mediterranean Sea posting the Sixth Fleet in striking distance from Tripoli. Once again, the Falwells, Robertsons, and Grahams defended the United Statesaggression in the name of God. Trump is imposing executive orders to so-called banning Muslim immigration and entry into the United States from countries such as:Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syriaand Yemen. You noticed Saudi Arabia was not on that list, because he is member of the Elitist House of Saud, although, sixteen of the so-called terrorist who attacked the World Trade Center on 9/11 were Saudi nationals and sworn members of Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin-Laden network. Trump is duping the American people into believing that he is being proactive in banning Muslims from entering our country in the name of controlling potential terrorist from enter and this serve his long term national security interest aimed at combating terrorism.

Trump is systematically inducing fear in Americaand throughout the world while he continues to sign reactionary executive orders to further moved the United States towards a police state; the white voters who put him into office do not understand that they too will be victims of martial law. Moreover, according to Dr. Ravi Batra, in his book, The Great Depression of 1990, the intellectual is endowed with foresight and keenness of mind. In general an intellectual is cautious and pragmatic, he or she relishes comfort but not at cost of physical labor. Consequently, the intellectual attains power only by defeating the warrior in a battle of wits. Intellectuals rule indirectly—through their control over the warrior ruler, who alone can summon the might to keep order in society. Whenever and wherever the intellectuals perceived that their time had come, they devised new dogmas rationalizing their hold over the people. After outwitting the warrior, the intellectuals then set out to inject baseless fears and prejudices in other classes as well. Once the rule was over, it was just a matter of time before the rest of society yielded to their self-serving doctrines

Trumps policies will be devastating to the middle class and poor whites, but as I have stated in previous Blogs, it is the white supremacy mentality in Americathat would cause them to vote against their own political, economic and social interest (their white privilege is not on the same level of Trump). The poor whites who many of them live way below the poverty line—unemployed, poorly educated, do not have adequate health care, and have shorter life expectations and their overall quality of life is one of disillusionment and because of entrenched racist values they could not see beyond Donald Trump’s many games of political deception. He covertly rallied them around race by playing the blame game and they do not understand that this white billionaire's allegiance is only to other billionaires and the poor whites in this nation share nothing with Donald Trump.

They just were glad to hear a white politician echo the emotional sentiments of 'lets make America great again' and got caught up in the mix, because Trump convinced them that the Latinos were their problems and the cause for them losing jobs and it was Muslim-Americans whom he subtlety tied to Islamic radical extremism that were threatening the safety of American white citizens. Trump indeed gave them something to believe in and rally around, which was the artificial value in their white skin in which they falsely believed that they shared this divine manifest destiny with their new white shinning Knight named Donald J. Trump.

They still cannot see a direct correlation between a government that's under Trump's administration that is going to further enrich the Elitist class and implement domestic policy that's going to expand the hunger lines across America and poverty will be taking to an entirely new level. Life (black or white) and humanity do not matter in his worldview; I detest poverty, because I believe, there are enough resources to ensure the basics of food, clothing and shelter could be adequately met to satisfy the needs of humanity. There are enough resources on the planet to adequately meet the needs of the entire globe. The root of poverty is greed this creates a varied of reactionary symptoms and is the root of human suffering where 95% of the world’s wealth is controlled by 1% of the population.

This Elitist segment sees the planet as belonging to them, it’s this disparity that causes national and global hunger in particular amongst Emerging and Developing Nation (use to be referred to as ‘Third World Nations’). This systematic induced disparity causes people to have to live in substandard conditions because their economy has been systematically depressed and often their currency has been devalued by Western Governments who are members of the G-8 and G-20 Nations. John Knowles, the President of the Rockefeller Foundation, in its annual report for 1975: "I am sure of only one thing—more is not necessarily better. The web of interdependence is tightening. We are one world and there will be one future—for better or for worse—for us all. Central to a new ethic of making less more is controlled economic growth which conserves scarce resources provides more equitable distribution of income and wealth ... ‘

There must be a redistribution of the world’s wealth with the world’s people; this is the only solution to ending national and global poverty. This phenomenon creates a vicious cycle of human social, political and economic disruption (which translates into unspeakable oppression which creates systemic outcomes) on poor people in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Central and South America by determining other nations Gross National Products (GNP). Even in the United States one of the most industrialized nations in the world, poverty and hunger still remains an issue—there has been in the recent years and increase people being forced to live in homeless shelters and eat their meals at soup kitchens.

Yet, our U.S. Government in particular our congress has become more conservative and anti poor—social programs are being cut and the poor are being politically scapegoat for causing the political, economic and social issues plaguing the United States. It was Hurricane Katrina in 2005, that exposed that there were two Americas—poor and black (the media gave the public a firsthand look at how poor people in New Orleans lived in conditions equalvent to “Third World Nations” the scene was shocking to most Americans because they did not know and could not believe that level poverty existing inside the United States of America). The Katrina scene was despicable and was a clear indication that Americahad failed its people. The poor even after President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s war on poverty American and the Great Society—some forty-Five years later a great deal of the American people still lived in substandard conditions.

Many work minimum wages jobs, (classified by sociologist as the working poor), lacked education, lived in public housing or were part of some housing arrangement where the government subsides the rent, and many have minor aged children where there are no fathers; and mothers are forced to raise their children in single parent homes (this further complicates dysfunctional family structures and continues the cycle of poverty and disillusionment). The once blue collar and non-skilled jobs are readily fading out and U.S. businesses and corporations have abandoned the American people by outsourcing and downsizing their corporate interest by finding cheaper labor and product (raw materials) markets across seas. This social phenomenon in my opinion has given rise to the Prison Industrial Complex where cities and towns across America have become the homes of privatizes corporate prisons. The United Stateshas over seven (7) million people incarcerated, perhaps more than any other industrial nation of the world. Trump’s public policies will further acerbate the problems already confronting the poor and top of list who will eventually come dismayed will be poor white people after they wake up and come to recognize that they had been hoodwink by a sophisticated conman.

The corporate outsourcing of part of the U.S. economy to Asia, Central and South America have allowed capitalist to exploit overseas markets, which negatively impacts the job market and the U.S.economy. The earth is 196, 940,000 square miles and 57, 255, 000 square miles of land. The poor white citizens who do not have the ability to predict and see the backlashes will eventually be led to a painful reality along with most Americans unless, we are willing to deal with poverty, it’s superficial to talk about national security or building a wall around the United States or signing insignificant executive orders. I am a pessimist in which I am not optimistic about the United Statesnational or global course as we move forward in the next four to eight years, because I see a vicious assault on the poor and have 'nots' and his reactionary policies are going to create un-precedent protest in the streets of America. We are treading on some dangerous waters relative to the U.S. previous commitment to at least giving the appearance of respecting the U.S. democracy, but Trump is bent on totally obliterating the United States Constitution and compromising of the American jurisprudence rules of law. All I can tell you is to get ready and be prepared for new and dangerous chapter to be written in American history.

WHAT THEY NEVER TOLD YOU IN YOUR BLACK HISTORY CLASS

By Fahim A. Knight-El

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America has become increasingly a nation of black and brown people in which demographers are predicting that in the next twenty-five years the United States will no longer be a majority white skinned nation and this notion is fearful to many in white America and Europeans around the globe. The sexuality of white women and their attraction to the black man have always created all types of social problems in a white supremacy society. The historian J.A. Rogers (1880-1966) has found that these interracial relationships run deep into the historical and modern civilizations anthropological dynamics, the DNA strained of African blood has touched the entire planet. No, other so-called African American historian had gone to these great lengths to document just how far reaching the Negroid linage and human sexuality have played in the history of European, Asians, and in the Americas and their ethnic and racial kinship to the Blackmoors who have racially impacted every nation's culture and history; in which Rogers tediously and meticulous go through ancestral records and historical genealogy by delving into human phenotypes to arrived at proven how wide spread and extensive were the African descendants. His voluminous books titled, Sex and Race that exposes some of racial kinship that has been systematically covered up and the history will literally shock you—I called his research as being the impetus of unlocking unknown global sexuality of black history historical facts, but this is a subject for another time.

I will intentionally digress a bit, but hopefully you all as my readers will eventually see the interconnectedness of my thought patterns; this article main theme was constructed to be a brief overview of some of our black historians whom I deemed important and those who made tremendous contributions to our struggle and I found none more deserving to be mentioned than Joel Augusta Rogers. This nation, the land (and all the U.S. territories) and the resources will always rightfully belong to the original Native Americans and their descendants along with our Moorish ancestors and those Africans who came to America before Columbus according to Dr. John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) in his book titled, Christopher Columbus and The African Holocaust.

ManhattanIsland in New Yorkand the entire Hudson River geographical region was once sacred Native American lands and were part of sacred burial grounds for African Americans and Native Americans. There exist indigenous ancestral spirits rooted in the Gods of vengeance hanging of over New York. Rhode Island was the greatest slave port in the Western Hemisphere; perhaps like many of you, I once believed that Charleston , South Carolina and Jamestown, Virginia were the two infamous slave capitols of the United States; I was wrong because my research took me to Rhode Island in which more African slaves were imported into this North East slave port) that generational curses have been invoked on New York because of the unjust and unresolved crime; this curse has ‘Karmacilly’ been transferred to the present occupiers who left a trail of blood that sunk into the soil and waterways 500-600 years ago and many of those bodies never received a proper traditional custom burial—it produced traveling spirits. They defiled this territory be erecting the secular structures of the neo Babel Towers called the twin towers or the World Trade Center that sat in spiritual contradiction and outside the spirits geopolitical and the sacred geometry that was defined by the stars and the Gods of the indigenous people decided that they no longer would occupy that space. I am willing to bet you that 9/11 Commission Report did not consider the spiritual causes of what occurred on September 11, 2001.

They blamed Muslims and radical extremist Islamic terrorist for this devastation, but unless you understood indigenous rites and folklore (even what I am saying and writing now still might be over some people’s heads) this type of phenomenon is not coincidental and is only part of the negative global energy that constantly insures universal balance but those in power have created an universal imbalance; they begin to invoke this energy over 6,000 years ago.

The indigenous people blood is still warmly flowing as invisible energy and is being kept alive by unknown universal forces and was activated when the two tallest buildings in New York came tumbling down. The Native Americans created an energy invoked by the ancient Gods of fire, but beneath the twin towers on that day, it was an earthquake (that was activated below the earth and where those buildings set, the impact was prescribed to be no further than that indigenous crime scene) that was controlled by spiritual forces above and beneath, the world's capitol of Global monetary deceit. The World Trade Center and 9/11 was not really a terrorist attack; there was an energy that was released through human form in which the universe ordered the deadly destruction of 9/11; the invisible immortal beings their souls are constantly being disturbed and their spirits have never been put to rest and what you witnessed was the embodied spirit of Ancient indigenous Native Americans revisiting with deadly force.

The so-called Arabs who have in modern racial indexing are classified as Semitic people, but the original Arabs from Oman and Yemen were of Negroid lineages in which sixteen of the so-called would be 9/11 attackers were from Saudi Arabia—these Negroid Astatics are the distant DNA ancestral of the same people who crossed the Bering Strait over 16,000 years ago. They have no relationship with the Indo-Europeans whom arrived much later, these people even predated the Grimaldi man in Europe and Asia (west Asia); Runoko Rashidi (a student of Ivan Van Sertima, the author of They Came Before Columbus), in his works African Presence in Early Asia, bears witness to this history.

The Natives who migrated to the North American continent were direct descendants of the people who presently occupy the land classified as Mongolia (the original Mongols and Ancient Black China: The Mongols, Zhou, Ainu, Jomon, and Huns were a people that had varied skin colors and hues that ranged from red like pigmentation to dark black skin with thick lips and broad noses with kinky hair; but a large majority of the ancient Mongolians had skin colors that were jet black or blue-black (white social scientists have attempted to classify the human race into three categories Negroid, Mongoloid, and Caucasoid these human genetic classifications are artificial and serve to disconnect the original man from his anthropological and archeological ancestry. If you desire further genetic and anthropology evidence, I refer you to visited the people in South Africa called the Khosian people who have an Asian look and you will immediately see our biological kinship with our distance Mongolian and Asian ancestral lineages. These systems of genetic human sociological groupings are meant and designed to fragment black indigenous people who once occupied the entire planet. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad asked the question, 'who is the original man?' His answer: "The Astatic black man, the maker, the owner, cream of the planet earth, father of civilization, God of the Universe".

Some of the Mongolians who lived in the upper most region of the rugged mountains had yellowish like skin (who resembled the modern Chinese and Japanese) more akin to Genghis Khan and would have looked more like the modern Asians, in particular the Chinese—these people were direct linkages to the Eskimos or the Alaskan Inupiat people who are the direct descendants of the Native Americans who populated North and South America. Joel Augusta Rogers who authored a number of books that traces the African genetic and biological presences on all the continents from Europe to Asia and down to the indigenous people of the Americas; (Roger's scholarship by far makes the case that the original man was the black man).

For example, their pseudo-racial indexing of Black Africans from Somali, Eritre, Ethiopia, Zanzibar and Egypt and most of North Africa and the so-called Middle East nations are considered white and Caucasoid and certain Semitic Africans would be classified as white as well; so when they find it intellectually convenient, they turn black skinned Africans in Caucasians, which to justify racist inspired anthropology. This is what Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop was challenging in many of his works in dismantling anthropological racism in his books: Nations nègres et culture: De l'antiquité nègre égyptienne aux problèmes culturels, Civilization or Barbarismand African Origin of Civilization Myth or Reality our scholars have always been in a battle against intellectual white supremacy models ,

Minister Malcolm X (1925-1965) while minister and National Spokesman of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975) and Temple number 7 in Harlem, New York on 116th Street and Lennox Avenue; I was told that a lot of the black nationalists scholars and activist would gather at Lewis Michaux (1895-1976) African National Memorial Black Liberation Book Store where lively debates that involved the redefining of African History, which included discussions ranging from black Islam advocated by the black Muslims to black nationalism and Pan Africanism, as well as discussions on the applicability and culture relevance of Marxists socialist theories in the 1960s black liberation struggle. But books and information were important to all of those who had embraced the movement. These young black revolutionaries were studying CLR James book titled, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution and Frantz Fanon book titled, The Wretched of the Earth, others had ventured into trying to understand Marx's book titled, Das Kapital and the necessity of putting forth class based analysis in which they viewed was more of an antagonistic contradiction than race. Malcolm X had tremendous respect for Roger's commitment to uncovering unknown facts about the Negro and as minister, he would often be heard quoting from the works of J.A. Rogers. I remember being given a copy of his small, but most powerful book titled, 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro; this little book inspired me in desiring to wanting to know more about African Civilizations. I immediately came to understand how Chattel Slavery had such a devastating affect on destroying our connection to our history, culture and heritage. It has left us as a handicapped people because, it systematically robbed us of our land, names, God, religion, which made us blind, deaf and dumb to the knowledge of self—this was one of the greatest crimes ever committed against humanity and 400 years later we are still suffering from this crime.

J.A. Roger explored human genetics, anthropology, archeology, ancient architecture, sociology and located African DNA scattered and dispersed throughout world civilizations and Africans had made immense contributions throughout human history, but do to white supremacy, our contributions have been either deleted or minimized by the intellectual racism of western society. Rogers’ and his work does not get the credit for his contributions in documenting African contribution to world civilizations; the white controlled world of academia played up the black bourgeoisie historians such as the late Dr. John Hope Franklin (1915-2009) who authored one of the most widely read black history text books ever written on African American history titled, From Slavery to Freedom, the status quo deemed his research as being safe and they name buildings after these type Negro academicians; Duke University is one of the most prestigious white universities in the United States of America and they have named a building on campus dedicated to their professor emeritus Dr. Franklin called the John Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Study. But laymen historians such as J.A. Rogers will never get a building named after him, they have chosen to write this black scholar out of history, because his scholarship was to controversial and provocative and he was before his time.

Rogers’work and research predated the Black Power movement and the Afrocentric movement (his work gave inspiration to many young militants and black radicals during the 1960s and 1970s). Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Chancellor Williams, John G. Jackson, Yosef A.A. Jochannan, William Leo Hansberry etc., all of them owe a debt of scholarly gratitude to J.A. Rogers. He authored a number of books in which my favorite was a three volume set titled, Sex and Race,World's Great Men of Color and Nature Knows No Color Line. He was a contemporary of the great Historian W.E.B Dubois who was the first African American to earn a doctorate degree in history from Harvard University in 1895 in which he was a highly trained social-historian who authored a number of books such as The World and Africa, The Souls of Black Folk, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade, and The Philadelphia Negro, etc., and in 1900 called the first Pan-African National Conference meeting, but Dubois had a contentious relationship with the Pan-Africanist and Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey (1887-1945).

Garvey who was a Jamaican born immigrant from Saint Ann's Bey that was inspired by Booker T. Washington’s (1856-1915) life struggle to attain parity for blacks in the south and north in which he illustrated his life in his autobiography titled, Up From Slavery, Washington’s beliefs in technical and vocational training and the building of Tuskegee Institute was so inspiring to Garvey that he came to America to meet Washington, but upon his arrival Washington had died in 1915, a year before his arrival. I do not think Garvey shared in Washington’s conservative and non-confrontational political views on race and on accommodation and integration (Garvey was clear about race, he said race first), but Washington’s economic bootstrap teachings resonated with Garvey’s vision of economic self-sufficiency for Africans living in America and around the world—Garvey’s Black Star Line enterprises (which included the purchasing of ships in order to enter into international trade with Africa and the entire black world) were rooted deep in Booker T. Washington’s views on ‘casting your buckets down where you are’ staying connected to land and farming—providing your own economy and Washington did not allow his worldview to be dominated by racial and civil rights politics and of course he caught a lot of negative criticism from black people and black leaders of his day.

Washingtondelivered one of his most controversial speeches in 1895 called the“The Atlanta Exposition” speech in which Dubois called the “Atlanta Compromise”. Dubois felt this speech became the epitome of Washington’s apologist and apolitical accommodation views for slavery and black oppression that had been committed historically against black people. Washingtonwas Dubois nemesis and perhaps he disliked Garvey (not only because of his brand of Pan Africanism and his African physical features). But because of his liken for the so-called ‘Uncle Tom’ Booker T. Washington; let me be clear to my readers, it took me years to reevaluate Washington and I have come to accept that he was right about a lot of things and now I see more credibility in his political and economic strategies. Both Garvey and Washington shared the value of vocational training and Garvey like Washingtonthought this would be the best path to gaining blacks political, economic and social justice (ownership and doing-something for-ourselves).

I think Dubois criticisms of Garvey was reactionary and he never attempted to work with Garvey—they both believed in Pan Africanism, but I think where they differed was that Garvey’s Pan-Africanism was undergirded with strict black nationalism principles and tentacles; in particular black land ownership and physically linking up with African nations such as Liberia and creating a transmigration movement back to Africa. Although, Dubois vacillated between various forms of communist theories and integrationist theories, but he was committed to Pan Africanism (but from an integrationist perspective and Garvey view of Pan Africanism was rooted in black nationalism separation) and yet Dubois believed in the importance of the unification of African people who were scattered throughout the Diaspora and he recognized the importance of all African people uniting politically, economically and socially. Marcus Garvey stated ‘Africa for the Africans at home and abroad’; Amy Jacques Garvey book on Garvey titled, Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (founded in 1916) were totally committed to a form of black nationalism, which was steeped in African culture and reclaiming a lost history; Garvey looked around and noticed that every other people had a nation and he asked the question, where is the black man’s land and nation? He said he did not see one so he would build one.

Woodson and Dubois had acquired an Ivy league university education and training at HarvardUniversityand Woodson had evolved into social-history and is famously recognize for being the founder of the research organization named the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Founder of Black History week in 1926 and authored his most famous book titled, The Mis-education of the Negro first published in 1933. Woodson also use to write as a contributor to Marcus Garvey's magazine titled, the "Negro World". All of these great men were contemporaries Rogers, Woodson, Dubois, Garvey, Hansberry, etc.

J.A. Roger's published a small powerful book titled, 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro ,but Roger's works for many year were dismissed by mainstream black and white scholars as pseudo scholarship, because he was not a so-called trained historian of not having a university education. Yet, all his works in my opinion were well cited and he gave primary and secondary sources and had a sense of rigorous evidentiary documentation, but most academically trained historians are trained to cite extensive footnotes and endnotes and a bibliography this writing formality somehow lends credibility and acceptability from peer reviews in which this make them into being good scholars. I do not think so. So J.A. Rogers and his research never received the wide acceptability that it deserved because he didn't have a Ph.D, it wasn't until after his death in 1966, that a new generation of scholars started in the 1980s begin to renew interest in Roger's work. This led to Afrocentric writers and scholars such as Dr. Leonard Jefferies, Dr. Tony Martin, Dr. James Smalls, Amos Wilson, Dr. Molefi Asante, Asa Hillard, Mualana Karenga, Frances Cress Welsing, Dr. Naim Akbar, Cheikh Anta Diop, Ivan Van Sertima, etc., these black scholars were standing squarely on the should of J.A. Rogers.

They like Rogersforced white academia to reconsider African civilization in the discussion of a people's contribution to humanity. Caucasian scholars like Martin Bernal who authored the book Black Athena, many African centered scholars condemned Bernal for not going further enough in his thesis relative to the Egyptian or Kemetic influence on Ancient Greece civilizations, but I appreciated this white scholars having the audacity to somewhat depart from the Eurocentric worldview and offered a new insight into verifying what the Afrocentric scholars had researched and put forth the argument that ancient Egypt was Nubian and they had a huge influence on Greek civilization; no one exposed this better than George G.M. James in monumental work first published in 1954 titled, Stolen Legacy. I was almost kicked out of my major because I challenged the professors about my right to cite Rogers’ work as legitimate history and I was ridiculed by them and one professor flunked me for refusing to stop quoting and citing J.A. Rogers’ works.

They tried to demote his work to sensationalized journalism, but none of them had a written a body of work comparable to his scholarship. Rogers research led to finding African blood in every civilization, we were their as part of a pure African and/or as mixed mulatto and miscegenated bloodline in France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Russian, India, and the far east, etc., who were part of the ancestral lines of European royal families and some of this African blood according to Rogers in the world of intellectual white supremacy these African ethnic lines were often documented as white. But Rogers’ research uncovered that African blood ran deep in Europe even before Hannibal crossed the Alps and before the Moors arrived 711 A.D. (I am not referring to no Arabs and Berbers these are a Johnny-come-late people), I am referring to jet black Nubian Africans—just look at the Iberian Peninsula of Spain and Portugal, you still can see the African bloodline presences in the dark skinned and kinky hair of the Portuguese and the Spaniards. The African blood also runs deep on the islandof Sicily and Malta, the kinky haired and dark skinned Greeks and Italians are all evidence of miscegenation of African blood. These findings by Rogers upset and upstaged how intellectual white supremacy was structured because many of the scientific, military, Catholic popes, European emperors, inventers, statesmen, etc., had Negroid blood flowing throw their veins. Black people, we all owe this scholar a debt of gratitude. I challenge you all during this month of Black History to go back and purchase and read one of the greatest black scholars of all time J.A. Rogers.

THE UNITED STATES, RUSSIA, CHINA AND NORTH KOREA; THE COMPREHENSIVE GLOBAL CHALLENGES TO WHITE NATIONALISM

By Fahim A. Knight-El

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President Donald Trump has put himself up against history in which he wants to approach the world from a new geopolitical mindset and desires to attempt to alter and change the international and global rules in which some of his global agenda is not well thought out, but he has patriots in place to fill in the gaps for him. Some may view my thoughts on Donald Trump and his New World Order agenda and One World Government agenda as being mere idealistic and lacks true pragmatism and I totally understand their unwillingness to consider an alternative perspective, but their apprehension will not prohibited the inevitable of what is going to take place in the world under Donald Trump. Perhaps Trump has not taking into account and doesn't realize that the United States is a declining world power and is steadily being replaced by China who has made serious inroads into solidifying its dominance in Asia and the Asian Pacific realm and has created a global economic prowess throughout the world. And their present day influence is unmatched by western governments including the United States of America(this truly represent a new era in world history). When the United States dollar thirty years ago begin to lose its international economic credibility as the world's reserve currency, it was a clear indication that America as a nation was transitioning into a global downward spiral politically, economically and socially and China based on default and world authority had taking that position and the United States is still in denial. The U.S. use to be the number one creditor nation in the world now, it stands as one of the number one debtor nations of the world.

They will get even weaker in next 10-20 years or less when North Korea; Kim Yong-Un is getting very close to acquiring intercontinental ballistics missiles and Iran is working undercover to acquire full nuclear capability in the very near future; this will bring a new international military paradigm and will dictate a new geopolitical relationship with South Korea in which North Korea will attempt to redraw the sovereign boarder lines and force a one united Korea (even if this means going to war) in which China will be an external instigator who will be backing North Korea in this unification of the two Koreas. The protectorate status that United States has historically offered South Korea would have to be reevaluated in lieu of North Korea acquiring the intercontinental ballistics missiles in which they could strike the United States from Asia, because of this potential predicted new political and military arrangement (or acquired military technology on North Korea part) it could prove be explosive, which could be the impetus for World War III.

North Koreahas been really aggressive in their launching missile testing program and has been in defiance of international law and because of its relationship with China; this relationship has allowed them to be able to circumvent the United States embargoes and sanctions. They are in bed with one of the most powerful trade partners in the world, which is China and they don't feel the economic affect when it comes to goods and services being disrupted. The United States Government has systematically duped the American people and the entire globe in general, about the effectiveness of sanctions and embargoes. Some political critics who have alternative media sources are warning us of the global geopolitical implications and predictions that have been put on the chessboard, which is nothing short of alarming; but we have been so dummied down by the Talking Heads and social media and by their disinformation propaganda and we do not have a clue of the pending danger that lie ahead that faces all of humanity. Now, in the grand scheme of things in which, I will cover in the Blog’s content below, it isn't totally about the narrow scope of black and white in these globalization schemes, it is more about the evolvement of political unilateral thinking, that is more rooted in world domination; this is how the neo-alliances are being structured and orchestrated, which involves totally attempting to control the world's resources and impacting the thinking of humanity.

It is to early to make a definitive determination of what the United States international and foreign policy future will be, however, this much, we do know President Donald Trump lack of international diplomatic and foreign policy experience is going prove to be a liability in his decision making ability to steer the United States on a course that would be less antagonistic. He is confronted with how to contain Asian nationalism with Chinadominating influence in the Pacific realm this world power isn't going anywhere and will continue to expand its influence politically, economically and socially beyond its boarders. Chinaknows that they possess no equals in their dominance over the global economic markets, which continues to allow them to transition into being the defacto world leader in obtaining raw materials from around the world, which no nation can compete economically with them in the modern context of turning those raw materials into manufactured tradable commodities and expanding markets. Although, China had entered into a high-tech production and manufacturing economy, which on the surface, it appears to be a page out of when the United States led the world during the industrial revolution. Where factories and raw materials were the economic model and we witnessed products being made inside the USA and when the U.S. economy was booming. But Alvin and Heidi Tofflers explain this best in their book titled, Creating A New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave. Trump is systematically lying to the American people about where the world is right now and denying the economic trends and stages that led to the dismantling of American industrialism and contributed to the fall of America. Trump want the American people to believe that manufacturing is coming back to America let me be the bearer of bad news, it is not going to happen. Trump in his deception and rhetoric is attempting to lead the United States down a dark international path.

Trump and the United Stateshave covertly declared war against China, the first step was him pulling out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) international economic trade agreements. The United Statesis forcing these new world and global alliance, in which Russia, Chinaand the United States are all rushing to set the template for the future outlook relative to globalization. These nations will redraw the lines of international waters and maritime jurisprudence this will automatically impact weaker and stronger nation's sovereignty. How we understood the geopolitical interest of nations yesterday will no longer be relevant in the new global arrangements. Some of the United Statesinternational motivations will be rooted in their concept of attempting to extend and expanded white nationalism. Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson refused to politically distance themselves from Russian President Vladimir Putin, it is because they have a master plan of unifying the world of Eurasia and United States; those former ethnic nations that declared their sovereignty after the Cold War will be once again come under the threat of Russian military aggression and dictates.

Trump has a fixation on destroying Islam not just militant radical Islam, but all Islam (a war he cannot win). He is strategically seeking to wipe Islam off the world’s map. No Islamic nation will be deemed safe from this type of mindset and tyranny; today it is Iran, Yemen, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Iraq on the so-called Homeland Security terrorist list (the Center for Strategic Studies) and the Talking Heads and the political scientist, they are not going to convey the true agenda to the American people that these new alignments are rooted in the principles of global white nationalism. Putin of Russia has the Islamic problem in Central Asiaand the former Russian protectorates in which President Richard Nixon warned the European world that Islam would pose the greatest threat to their world domination as they moved into the 21st Century.

Trump found a white allay in Putin who shares his political sentiments about extinguishing the potential rise of Islam and its continued spread in Europe and Asia. This alignment is valuable to Trump's globalization, One World Government and New World Order agenda in which the implications could be another war, if radical militant Islam is not halted. They will strategically pick Iranas a pasty, the war of words between the United States and Iranhas been warming up even before Trump became U.S. commander-in-chief. Trump said he has served notice on Iran. Iran response to the threat was that they were a sovereign nation and did not need the permission from the U.S. to make political, economic and social decisions. Trump condemned the covert Iran deal that was initiated by the Obama administration as being a 'bad deal' in which Iran so-called agreed to cut back on its nuclear weapons program aspirations; many believed that this agreement in particular was also tied to monetary ransom money of 400 million dollars paid to Iran as good faith money to get American hostages released. Yet the United States had frozen and seized Iranian money and assets since 1979, when Imam Ayatollah Khomeini initiated the Iranian Revolution. This money has been frozen for over thirty-seven years.

I think Trump is going to rescind part of this Iran deal in order to provoke Iran, but this is going to get interesting because Iran has purchased weapons from Russia, North Korea and China. Trump will find out that being the leader of the so-called free world and running the world is not reality television or his Apprentice show, it is a lot more comprehensive and complex, but the decisions he makes will globally impact the United States present and future course, I truly do not think he understands the magnitude and power he possesses that will impact the entire world. This is not a game. Now, North Koreaunder the Supreme Ruler Kim Jong-Un will continue to flex his will and military might in defiance of the United States and international law, by continuing to test his missiles program. China will keep this loose cannon in their back pocket, because his 20th century Communist style ruler-ship and dictatorship serves in the long term interest of China who is clandestinely fueling Kim Jong-Un in his rhetoric by taking a quasi laissez-faire approach and simultaneously putting billions of Chinese dollars behind North Korea, thus, making a joke out of United States sanctions and embargoes and trust me China is not concerned about North Korea's human rights record.

This invisible phenomenon (consisting of North Korea) creates an international balance of power without Chinathemselves appearing as an international bully. The United States has become overly consumed with the so-called potential threat of Kim Jong-Un and it is this that is partially driving the United States in what appears to be an unorthodox relationship and partnership between Russiaand the United States. Trump understands that in the new strategic international interest he is going to need Russia to halt China's aspirations towards expansion in the ChinaSouthSea and beyond, in particular the Philippines and Taiwanand other territories in the South China Sea. Theses disputes have been ongoing and will only become acerbated with these new international alignments that will potentially have to be executed with a weaker United Nations and rules of international law will be less binding. This has the potential to create an international powder keg for the west and the east.

It is not by coincidence that Trump has appointed and nominated all these ultra white nationalist mindsets to his administration. This is a new frontier in the recent modern international context, but taking right out of the playbook of the old white nationalism decree to once again impose race dominance into the international political equation (yesterday it was the Aryan race, the Anglo-Saxon race and today it's a hybrid etho-racial breaded in the United States that are seeking world racial supremacy). They seek to have no opposition to their and Trump’s agenda and these ultra white nationalist and white supremacy, they are not motivated by what is politically correct. Trump has multiply agendas, he unlike most white world leaders he see the handwriting on the wall and he is getting in front of the trouble waters and sees Russia as its great partner.

But Trump is no match for the likes of Vladmir Putin; Putin’s corruption is gangster style he has no loyally to anyone and will cross you in a heart beat; unknowing to Trump, Putin and the Russian government has been selling weapons and military technology to North Korea for decades and even under Kim Yong-Un, he is one of their number one international armament customers. These political dynamics are a triangle of deceptions between China, North Korea and Russia, which North Korea is being deemed America’s so-called number one enemy, but America’s new ally Russia is still supplying all types of military support to North Korea as I write this article in which China also is fully aware of this. What is the common denominator? These are old communist ideological alliances that still possess international value when it is necessary and politically expedient. Putin and Russia is also selling Iran and North Korea weapons and military technology before the United States imposed sanctions and embargoes, and after U.S.impose sanctions.

He will use the skillset of Rex Tillerson as a Seven Oil Sisters operative and agent (Tillerson is on multi payrolls: Russian, the CIA, Israeli lobby and AIPAC and the Rockefellers) and his ultimate agenda will be to instigate more conflicts in the Persian Gulf by using the CIA playbook to infuse propaganda and disinformation against Iran and sell this bullshit to the American people that Iran poses a national security threat, because they continue to desire to become a nuclear powered nation. If they could take back India and Pakistan nuclear capability they would because they believe people of color are irresponsible and to put nuclear weapons in the hands of a so-called radical and militant Islamic government like Iran will be troublesome to the western world, they see it as a threat to the white world and if Iran acquires nuclear weapons this will upset the white world domination and upstage the balance of power in the Middle East.

Russia has always played by its own international rules and they will not block Tillerson and Trump’s plans (they all are on the same team) to attack and invade Iran because there is oil on the table for Lukoil and Rosneft Russian state oil company and untold personal wealth for Trump, Putin, Tillerson and Exxonmobile in which the international alliances means nothing in lieu of the expansion of global white nationalism. Trump’s concept of patriotism is not tied to the United States sovereignty and him and Putin have declared allegiances to breakdown these artificial barriers, sovereignty and boarders will take on an entire new definition relative to international jurisprudence and they are military prepared to squash any national and international rebellions. Russian troops have been deeply rooted in

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No, entity will be allowed to impede their quest for the total completion of the One World Government agenda and the accumulation of wealth, these new global geopolitical strategies will make

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expendable in the opening out of the United States-Eurasia expansionism and power dynamics. In this new power paradigm schemes, it is about moving the entire world into a new direction; thus, the prior NATO alliances in Western Europe will be forced to surrender some aspects of their previous concepts of what sovereignty meant to their so-called democracies. Trump and his administration do not desire to continue the type of international diplomacy that was still linked to an era in American history known as the Cold War. This time has passed and the international political arrangements have become obsolete and have outlived its purpose and usefulness in Trump’s worldview.

They will invoke fear into the psyche of the American people and potentially line the United States up again for another war just like in Afghanistan in 2001 and in Iraq in 2003, and we know that these were induced wars, which was rooted in international grand theft of Afghanistan poppy plant (or Heroin distribution in which the USSR fought a nine year war against the Mujahedeen over the Central Asian heroin trade and the Russians lost a bitter war) and taking over the second largest oil reserves in the world. George W. Bush and the Bush crime family, they wanted a part of this lucrative heroin trade and with the permission of Russiathey agreed that the United Stateswould use its military to fight in the rugged mountainous Afghan terrain to acquire a monopoly over the heroin dope trade coming out of Central Asia.

Russiaafter a nine year war didn't want anymore part of going back to Afghanistan. They also wanted more control over the Central Asia oil pipeline that involved running oil from the Black and CaspianSeas to Siberia. Now, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is a crook exemplar he will use his official capacity to start wars and simultaneously will be running so much international dope and oil from the around the world and funnel it to Exxonmobile and which to involve in the global theft of natural resources in Africa. They have all the puppet African leaders in their hip-pockets in which our continent will become once again a prime target to be further raped and exploited under this new international direction being put forth by Trump. Africa's colonial masters will come back to this wealthy continent with a vengeance. Tillerson is ruthlessness he didn't become an oil tycoon of ExxonMobil because of business niceties; he understands that business is a declaration of war.

Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.

THE FREE THINKER AND FREE THINKING: EQUALS FREEDOM AND SPIRITUALITY

By Fahim A. Knight-El

I am constantly asked by those who visited my Blog about my abbreviated online Bio, which indicates that I am a Free Thinker, and many have doubled down to asked, what does that actually mean? Webster online dictionary defines Free Thinking: "as a philosophical viewpoint which holds that position regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or other dogma." Now, Free Thinking for me was a spiritual calling (or transformation and transition) that can only be obtained by the journey of life, it involved something much deeper than our natural human instincts and intellectual inclinations to achieve and disperse knowledge and challenge ideals. Although, this will forever be a part of the process and to the outside world will perhaps stand as the judgmental variable and parameters of determining whether or not you will be received as a true Free Thinker; this will also be your own proof positive litmus test and will serve as your own personal tangible barometer (not that you should need such verification or affirmation to validate this determination).

The measuring stick will, however, always be rooted in your courage and willingness to weigh all evidence (which will be presented in literary or verbal forms and/or presented in the theoretical and ideological frameworks of organizations and movements) that is presented and not be shy to render a critique and analysis in order to prove that the presented argument was flawed and lacked evidentiary proof or it had met the standards of truth based on the rigorousness of an impartial investigation. I was led to an academic book authored by Mary E. McGann titled, Critical Thinking and Writing in the Disciplines this book became good training ground for me in becoming a critical thinker and what that entailed.

I grew up between the PentecostalHolyChurchand the BaptistChurch faith traditions. The Pentecostal experience was always full of spiritual energy, there were shouting, speaking in tongues, singing, crying, dancing, plenty of testimonies, out loud scripture readings—it was an environment of spiritual electricity (they would congregate what appeared to be seven days a week and the ministers wore the titles of prophets and apostles and each service was like a high powered revival (I am speaking now directly to black folk this was our collective experience)—I would covertly be playing behind my mother's back with my brothers and sisters and with other devious children in the church (you were not allowed to eat candy, talk and definitely not play). These were some long sessions and as a child you tried to make the best of all this preaching; I knew from time-to-time I had to yell out with other members 'thank you Jesus', I would then be safe from momma's wrath (it seemed like she had eyes in the back of her head).

My mother and other Elders would enter a realm of spirit referred to as the Holy Ghost or become touched by the holy spirit and it was liken to an outer-body experience, which is unexplainable outside of the black Christian holiness experiences and traditions. I know white folk think they understand this, but they do not; this spiritual energy goes back to our ancient African ancestors and was the embodiment of invoking traditional African religious-ethos that made its way through the horrific and horrid voyage known as the Transatlantic Slave Trade, a crime against humanity (they could not kill our spirit) and it survived in our DNA and made its way across the Atlantic Ocean. The Black Christian Pentecostal is a living testimony of our continued connectedness to our African heritage even to this very day the drums, tambourines, the organ and piano and at times the beauty of the black human acapela voices was music to the ears (the human voice by far is the greatest instrument ever created).

I did not arrive at this stage, because, it was something that I initially sought, but I do believe that I was predestined to be one of those free spirited souls that could not be confined by the gravitational pull of proselytizing indoctrination of intended doctrines; of course even this would prove to be to shallow to bind me to accept one single thought as my life path. I met this Zinn Master in my life’s journey and he told me that nothing in life was coincidental or accidental (or occurred by happenstance) and wherever, we are in space and time, that is where we are supposed to be and he looked at me and said the universe arranges these things even before our allowed physical carination, and given permission to exist on this plane (in this sphere).

I looked at him as though, he had lost his mind; he must have detected my lack of comprehension and my inability to process these thoughts at that time. He only said that one day, I would understand that All real lessons have a duality in meaning and interpretation, but must first be understood from the spiritual realm (this was a metaphysical discourse). I was offered a small book titled, Tao The Ching by Lao Tzu, this book of ancient Chinese wisdom and philosophy freed my mind of the western dialectic worldview into accepting the eastern ancient Sages and Gurus wisdom and spiritual principles as having a much deeper meaning and the wisdom therein just felt that it was God talking directly to you.

In 2006 Rhonda Byrne published a book titled, The Secret, she pulled together twenty-four highly touted spiritualist who shared various intellectual and spiritual experiences and involvement in the esoteric, occult and Gnostic schools of thoughts in order to make an attempt to package ancient wisdom that had shaped humanity’s spiritual existences based on the universal principles of good that had touched all cultures, races, nationalities and this knowledge had alter humanity’s orientation to life down through the ages of time—these various spiritual intellectuals shared mystical, mythical, healing, and indigenous knowledge that was rooted in the folklore of ancient civilizations and the benefits of the observance of metaphysical outcomes. Some of them spoke outside of the concepts of organized religion. It was a clear indication that western man had failed and his failure has led to an earthly and human imbalance; it has placed him on a collision course with the universal powers.

I think European New Age thinkers such as Eckhart Tolle who authored the book titled, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenmentand A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purposeand even Reverend Rick Warren who authored the book titled, The Purpose Driven Life; these Caucasians have come deeply in contact with our indigenous knowledge and are articulating it on a broader scale, but they must not forget that they have borrowed this wisdom from the fathers and mothers of civilization. I was given this little pocket sizes book titled, As Man Thinketh by James Allen that I still carry every place I go, it is full of powerful wisdom and jewels and with little doubt Allen had drank from the fountain of the ancient masters and had adopted their universal principles.

This wisdom affected me differently than the wisdom of Qur'anand the Bible yet, I totally understood that all of this had an interconnectedness with the original divine source although this wisdom contained in the Tao The Ching left know doubt that it had been passed down my many ancient generations and it even predated the Bhagavad Gita ,it sent me on a spiritual journey, it also predated the 'Pslams of David' and from those pages, I was a changed human being—I truly tapped in my Pineal gland. Energy and power source that has baffled Europeans for over 6,000, but indigenous and original people of the earth within their spiritual customs, rites, sacraments, practices and rituals knew how to alter energy polarities and shift energy sources to transcend into Astro-beings this was the highest form of enlightenment. I balanced this off by being exposed to Ra Un Nefer Amen books titled, Metu Neter, Vol. 1: The Great Oracle of Tehuti and the Egyptian System of Spiritual Cultivation andMetu Neter Vol. 2: Anuk Ausar, The Kamitic Initiation System.

Erich Von Daniken in his book titled, The Chariots of the Gods, it would be his white Eurocentric intellectualism that put him in denial of the great Pyramids of Kemet (Egypt) were constructed by the indigenous Nubians who had occupied Kemet for over 20,000 years before European intervention, they were the original Egyptians. These recent wars in Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, etc., have led to the theft, looting and discretion of ancient artifacts of antiquity (these assaults were carried out systematically) but let me be clear these artifacts did not belong to the Semitic Arab imposters nor the Europeans and was not part of the Islamic dynasties.

Black people had established civilizations centuries prior to their arrival on the African continent. Many of these ancient cities like Tripoli, Cairo and Baghdad housed valuable treasures. The Europeans have stolen indigenous peoples cultural artifacts and our linkages with time is in white museums in Paris, London, Berlin, Moscow, Rome, Cyprus, Lisbon, Toronto, etc.. I know the great black archivist and curator Arthur Alfonso Schomburg probably is turning over in his grave at how we have allowed these cultural bandits to steal and house our history and tradition in defiled white institutions.

My next awakened, there was Nation of Islam minister in Durham, North Carolina named Minister Ray Muhammad (Minister Muhammad and I became good friends) he would teach quite often about the importance of submission and surrendering your will to do the will of God; he had a free willing spirit and was a graduate of a HBCU Texas Southern University in Houston, out of the Mid Atlantic Athletic Conference (MEAC) of course I have a common bond with all HBCU graduates and my feelings were no different towards Minister Muhammad. Minister Ray Muhammad would often state where you are right now is where you are supposed to be and no one arrives at these spaces and times of their own volition or by osmosis God brought you there (this was leading me towards my evolution into Free Thinking). He gave me a better understanding of Master Fard Muhammad and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

The biggest leap into becoming a Free Thinker, is to allow yourself to move beyond the confinement of dogmas, philosophy, theologies, political bias, etc., which taught me not to permit nor allow exclusivity in one school of thought to captivate my ideological imagination because this will erect and create artificial barriers, which could disallow the appreciating of the diversity and the expansiveness of knowledge and truth. Thus, you will also learn through practical experience and through life trials and error the value and ultimate value of principles that are better understood and received by others as positive examples when observed and lived and reflected as transparent ethics for everyone to see our lives as an open book (we should live our lives as living examples of universal good).

Free Thinkers are only loyal to their quest to discover the truth regardless of how painful the findings maybe, it is this clarion call that allows us to escape our natural attachment to familiar shared ideologies. But will always demonstrate the ability, as well as determination and willingness to look beyond those safe and comfort zones, which to objectively weigh all knowledge and thought on the larger scale of determining proof. With the Free Thinker’s mindset there are no safety nets that will stand in their way to determining the truth at all cost. Free Thinkers are ordinarily met with skepticism and suspiciousness because, we have been taught from early on to unquestionably accept doctrines and a worldviews that validates and support the status quo.

Yet, the Free Thinkers possess the courage to engage and upstage contrary perspectives to the popular version of the truth (you will pay a heavy personal cost, if you ever choose to become a Free Thinker) will cause them to be ridiculed, isolated, it could even cause more sinister acts. Once the Free Thinker has arrived at this lofty position, it will often lead them to revisited previous held beliefs and debunk them for more sound information and by this stage in their development, they would have learned to put all emotions to the a side—this makes the dismantling and reconstruction process much easier.

Moreover, admittedly most human beings who are learned and unlearned will never become a Free Thinker, because this is truly a journey less traveled and human beings find it easy to think inside the box, it makes associations more accommodating and it suffices the normalization of this world’s order in spite of injustice, corruption, inequalities, etc., Free Thinkers are revolutionary in their thought patterns—Buddha, Confucius, Zoroaster, Gandhi, Jesus, Mohammed, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Muhammad Ali. They had transcended (or was born) earthly expectations and had moved deep into the spiritual realm, a place that we all should look to obtain and arrive it is the only true gate to freedom.

This spiritual plateau opens you up to be used by the universal forces of good—honesty, self-denial, forgiveness and leads to the greatest expression of love, which is unconditional love. Free Think is teaching me to understand what love truly means on a much higher level and to forgive is the greatest act of human freedom, to relinquish and free others from our perceptions (in particular those whom we believed have transgressed against us) exonerate them that you might release yourself from an unjust self-affliction of imprisonment and bondage that continues to create cycles of pain and suffering in our conscience and sub-conscience minds. This quest often will immediately become conflictive with a world that was built on deception and "ism".

We must seek to look outside of this world that was constructed on disinformation and propaganda and have the uncanny ability to reconstruct a worldview that challenges the popular version of the truth in order to create a new societal and personal paradigm. The true Free Thinker innately either already has these skills of possessing the ability to reason and analyze and/or on the journey they are acquired and developed by way of the experience of various Paths in which the Creator or Supreme Being or whatever Higher expression that is the source of your spiritual inclinations and guide that factor into our lives. Let me not sound contradictory; spirituality is beyond the concepts of Supreme Beings or religious concepts and often functions as an independent variable outside of organized religious terminology and phraseology.

The inclination (of surrendering yourself) to walk your life in a Free Thinker’s space will be a deep evolutionary process for the human being (and was the biggest step that I ever made in my life), it will be more impactful than even the DNA that we inherited from our mothers and fathers (although this plays a factor into our development). However, this goes beyond the meeting of sperm and ova of human biological science. Truly a magnificent God/human and miraculous phenomenon that from an egg coming together with male sperm during conception (new life is formulated) that allows us to extend past our biological substances that was transferred in chromosomes and our nucleus and atomic make up produced an independent human being referred to as our offspring who has a mind and thoughts of their own.

Yes, their parents shared DNA will always be a part of their human essences. Let me stop here; I was a poor student in science, although I started out as a biology major in college. My Science major peers were serious and disciplined students and I wasn’t at that time in my life. So forgive me for recklessly trying to use a scientific analogy to paint a picture in my life. I was learning about concepts of microbiology and organic chemistry and physics. I woke up during that semester and said what the hell am I doing here and I immediately consulted by academic advisor and changed my major. I often wonder where my life would have been, if I had become a scientist or medical doctor; I know that in life nothing was coincidental and as quickly as that thought entered my brain, my Free Thinking immediately absolved those thoughts. I am doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing; anything else does not exist in my time and space.

THE BLACK MAN’S HISTORICAL LEGAL ARGUMENT

By Fahim A. Knight-El

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I have at times been engaged in debates with Eurocentric white supremacist mindsets and reactionary Negro mindsets about racism, reparations, slavery, freedom and our quest for social justice. Many of them make every attempt to dismiss the so-called African American historical suffering and injustices under white America (tentacles of white supremacy) as something of the past and we should just forget about this tragedy and allow us as a nation to move forward towards racial harmony and national healing (I often refer them to Dr. Joy DeGury's book titled, Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome) in which she maintained that so-called African Americans were never permitted to heal and we are presently living our lives as victims in trauma some 400 years later. My mind leads me to think about the profound book authored by Randal Robinson titled, The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks, which gives us a picture of how this country was built by African slaves, our intellect, resilience and unrewarded labor that constituted our blood, sweat and tears which laid the foundation of the United States—this debt has never even been acknowledged or repaid. It is coded in my blood and my DNA to remember the African/black Holocaust and the dehumanization affect Chattel slavery has had on the collective consciousness of my people of African descent (this criminal event made us a dispossessed and marginalized people, although, we are over 160 years removed from the actual experience). This is why I have always applauded our social-psychologists such as Amos Wilson who authored the book titled, A Blueprint for Black Power a Moral, Political and Economic Imparative for the Twenty-First Century and Dr. Naim Akbar, Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery.

I have also always applauded the historical liberation work of Martin Delaney, Henry Highland Garnet, Paul Cuffee, Marcus Garvey, Bishop McNeal Turner, Drew Ali, etc.—they had it right. The only solution to ever ending this racial social disharmony and divisiveness inside America is the eradication of white denial and a dispersing of justice for the so-called American Negro (reparations must be apart of this discussion without this there cannot be any atonement or reconciliation)—no civil rights legislation and not even an elected body of fifty plus Negroes in the U.S. Congress (Congressional Black Caucus) they don't possess the ability or political wither-all to resolving our historical and present dilemma (they think with a slave mentality). Thus, they have no real political lobbying influence and power to put forth the black agenda and are to fearful of truly lobbying on behalf of so-called Africans in America and throughout the disapora (these Negroes only lobby for the crumbs that falls from the rich man Lazarus' table). They do not have the power of the pharmaceutical industries lobby, National Rifle Association lobby, Military Manufacturers and the military industry lobby nor the Jewish Lobby, which to mold and shape public policy in the interest of black people.

White America is quick to make the assessment that if you are dissatisfied with America, why don't you leave? We did not asked to come here my ancestors were brought to these shores against their will (America is our exiled home). I do not mind leaving America, but I often have to remind them that they are not in a moral or legal position to evict me and us off the indigenous people's lands—the Native Americans are our brothers and sisters, and are the only true landlords over the Americas. But before I/we leave there are some poignant conditions and unfinished business, which must start with calculating 310 years of owed reparations that must be attached to our human suffering, and while you at it calculate the past owed interest on the slave debt (@ 25% on the dollar). Then multiply this owed gross amount in the area of pain and suffering (what happened to the black man and black woman cannot have a monetize value, the damage is beyond dollars and cents). Also, have the Bank of England and the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank to wire transfer my/our owed monetary debt in Yuan Renminbi currency (Chinese dollars) and deposited it in a Swiss bank (Basil or Geneva) account. And while they are at it petition the United Nations and World Court and turn yourself into theHague Tribunal (Hague, Netherlands) in order to be charged with war crimes against humanity; do not forget to travel the slave routes of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Middle Passage and bring as much sage that you can transport and be prepared to burn sage over the Atlantic ocean for next 100 years and give my people the proper burial (what is happening to you all is their souls and spirits are haunting you politically, economically and socially; this was the beginning of our trail of tears—Marcus Garvey said look for me in the world wind). Lets not stop there by first turning yourselves into the custody of U.S. Federal courts and eventually from there may be will transport you to an Islamic country where Sharia is the law. These are my conditions for leaving.

Just as Minister Malcolm X stated in 1960s they are good at making the victims the criminals, and the criminals the victims. The Europeans have decimated the entire African continent (and the globe) based on imperialism and colonialism. They have destroyed Africa's political, social and economic structures and disrupted its cultural continuity as a people (the BerlinConference in 1884-1885 led to the partitioning of Africa, which divided the continent into little nation-states in order to serve the exploitive interest of the European powers--King Leopold ll opened the conference up in the name of God ). They are still there on the continent of Africa under the auspices of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (two of the global rogue International banks) exploiting the natural resources and propping up corrupt dictatorships who work and serve in the interest of Western Europe (neo-colonialism)—I trust President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe over the negative propaganda being reported against him by western media (he rightfully redressed African people's land and territory that were stolen by European settlers under Ian Douglas Smith and prior white colonial masters). I cannot forget the inhuman slaughtering of Africans in the diamond mines carried out by Cecil Rhodes in Zimbabwe in the name of capitalism. Europe and Europeans as I have stated above owes Africans on the continent and throughout the Diaspora a great debt.

When the Europeans settlers (the dregs of Europe) in the 1600s arrived to the Eastern Seaboard to what they called the ‘New World’ Christopher Columbus in 1492, was actually lost when he landed on the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola in which the Native Americans (Carib and the Arwak) were there sixteen thousand years before Columbus arrival and what eventually would be called the United States of America—there were two million Native Americans so-called ‘Indians’ (indigenous original people) who were also victims of his practices of white supremacy and global genocide of the darker people of the earth. The Aboriginal people of New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Australiawere also victims of systemic practices of racism; the people of India and Asiawere victims of his practice of global genocide.

But many who advocate that we are now living in a post-racial era (they were using the 2008 election of President Barack Obama, the first so-called black president as the measuring stick to positively quantify America's present day race relations). And desired to conveniently overlook these racist motivated historical crimes. Perhaps the election of Donald J. Trump to the office of President, and him tapping into the real racial sentiments of Americaand appointing all of them ultra white nationalist to his cabinet, which may have shook us back to reality—Americais a racist nation to its core.

This is why I have always kept black social issues in the forefront of my discussions and conversations; thus, my focus will always be on exposing and bringing greater awareness to the plight of so-called African people and to expose what took place with the original people because of the level of oppression and tyranny they have experienced; which as I stated above, it is often intentionally overlooked by Eurocentric thinkers and intellectuals. However, for me this isn't about race as much as it is about European and American imperialism—injustice that is what I am exposing (It just happened to be that the people who committed these above mentioned crimes and atrocities were Europeans).

I first met Dr. Michael Eric Dyson at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in North Carolina in which he was upsetting white folk based on his so-called controversial scholarship (writing and speaking truth to power); Dr. Dyson has published a new book titled, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White

America

.I have not read the book, but I recently saw Dyson talking about the book on CNN and as a public intellectual who often gives sound views on race issues and I am quite sure his recent analysis on race, class, white supremacy, Donald Trump, and on the present and future forecast will be timely.

No. I am not an American citizen, I am one of the 100 million victims of Americanism, my ancestors did not arrive to Americaon the Nina, Pinta nor the Santa Marianor did we receive an immigration passport/visa or a green card. But we arrived in the hulls of slave ships (who were stolen from the Hinterlands and placed in slave dungeons at Elmina Castle off the coast of Ghana and Goree Island off the coast of Senegal) and did not receive an official welcoming from the Immigration Naturalization Services (INS). We did not get the opportunity to declare American citizenship like other so-called immigrant people who arrived at Ellis Island (off the Hudson River of New York and New Jersey) my ancestors arrived in chains as political prisoners. Where is the political asylum for the 400 year suffering and persecution of the ex-slaves, victims of the worst crime ever committed against humanity?

Andrew Hacker in his monumental book titled, Two Nations: Black and White Separate, Hostile, Unequal stated, “RACE HAS BEEN an Americaobsession since the first Europeans sighted "savages" on these shores. In time, those original inhabitants would be subdued or slaughtered, and finally sequestered out of view. But race in America took on a deeper and more disturbing meaning with the importation of Africans as slaves. Bondage would later be condemned as an awful injustice and the nation's shame, even as we have come to acknowledge the stamina and skill it took to survive in a system where humans could be bought and sold and punished like animals. Nor are these antecedents buried away in the past. That Americans of African origin once wore the chains of chattels remains alive in the memory of both races and continues to separate them”.

Hacker continues, “Black Americans are Americans, yet they still subsist as aliens in the only land they know. Other groups may remain outside the mainstream-some religious sects, for example-but they do so voluntarily. In contrast, blacks must endure a segregation that is far from freely chosen. So America may be seen as two separate nations. Of course, there are places where the races mingle. Yet in most significant respects, the separation is pervasive and penetrating. As a social and human division, it surpasses all others-even gender-in intensity and subordination.” (Reference: Andrew Hacker; “Two Nations: Black and White Separate, Hostile, Unequal” pg. 3).

The so-called African Americans must be properly educated about their history and the political and economic issues surrounding our sojourn and define for them who they were before the advent of slavery and the white man. Chattel Slavery systematically made us blind, deaf and dumb to the knowledge of self. I am with my Moorish family quest and claim for a recognized nationality; however it must be based on us first knowing that our legacy and heritage (land rights) go much further back than the Europeans labeling us as Americans, black, Ethiopians, Negroes, Colored, African, African American, etc. I have an entire collection of various editions of Black’s Law Dictionaries in my library (we have to know and understand the legal definitions of 'black' and 'American' as defined by Black's Law Dictionary).

These false racial/ethnic labels allows for them to manipulate our sovereignty and nationality these so-called generic racial labels will continue to nullify our legal grievances to claiming our nationality, which compromises our lawful recognition as Moors (Muurs) a sovereign, independent and indigenous nation who were here before Atlantis disappeared and was geologically repositioned. We are the direct descendants of the ancient Moors (Muurs) and aborigines. This is perhaps the world's best kept secret that is now coming to light; Prophet Noble Drew Ali raised this point in early 1900s in which he tied our descent linage to the ancient biblical Canaanites and Moabites (the original Hebrews and Israelites were black).

The United Nations in my opinion, is a very important piece in our overall fight for recognition (which the theoretical foundation of our fight will always be rooted in our quest for freedom, justice and equality). The United States and the other European nations must be charged with violating the human rights of so-called African Americans who were the victims of 310 years of unjust brutality and our case one day by the grace of God will be heard in the U.N. Chambers of the Human Rights Commission in which Chattel slavery represented a war crime and crimes against humanity. Minister Malcolm X in 1965, was assassinated not by members of the Nation of Islam; the CIA and the FBI cannot escape culpability in brother Malcolm’s murder, because of his political intentions of taking our international grievances to the United Nations in order to charge the United Statesof being in violation of African Americans human rights (surely Minister Malcolm X had made a political transition and had moved beyond civil rights). Minister Malcolm X founded the Organization of Afro American Unity (UNIA), which to internationally advocate on behalf of the so-called African American, in particular after his suspension and departure from the Nation of Islam (this plank made Minister Malcolm X a dangerous man and set him on a collision course with the powers-that-be).

The enemy has always sent stool pigeons and agent provocateurs to derail the political, economic and social progress of progressive black movements and organizations. J. Edgar Hoover from the 1950s up until the 1970s utilized the F.B.I. counterintelligence program better known as Cointelpro where the United States Government systematically infiltrated black organizations and spied on its leadership such as: Paul Robeson, Kwame Ture, Jamil Al-Amin, Robert Williams, W.E.B. Dubois, Fannie Lou Hamer, Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X and the OAAU, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale and the Black Panther Party, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and SCLC, A. Phillip Randolph and the labor movements, Imari Abubakari Obadele and Chokwe Lumumba of the Republic of New Afrika, etc.
We know that with the office of Homeland Security and the U.S. Patriot Act the internal surveillance relative to spying and intelligence gathering without legal warrants have been acerbated since 9/11, which allows government intervention (in violation of civil liberties) in the affairs of not just militant and radical groups and individuals but are even spying on ordinary citizens. They justify this in the name of national security interest and by labeling us Enemy Combatants. Edward Snowden should be hailed as an American hero but when the governments use propaganda and disinformation they keep the masses confused and mentally discombobulated.

The above perspective layout an overview of the sinister and diabolical capitalist interest of how slavery and our forced captivity eventually turned us in to a commodity (agreed European property). Now, what our nation (Moorish nation, the so-called American Negro) is missing, was that our slavery status moved us towards a perpetual transition in 1913, with the establishment of two entities that would have the continued responsibility of serving and sanctioning our historical and illegal kidnapping: the Federal Reserve Act, and the Internal Revenue Service (keeps us in this legal bondage). These two entities assured that Unified Commercial Code (UCC) would forever define and link us to a present and historical status as being Chattel and/or property of the white man's USAcorporation.

This will also allow the Dred Scott Decision (1857) and Missouri Compromise (1820) to forever on one hand mandate us as illegal aliens and yet dupe us into believing that the U.S. Constitution was ratified and that would later add the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, which so-called made us United States citizens and Americans (I do not think so).

They defined maritime law or International waters as having its own sovereignty and jurisprudence differs from Continental U.S. territories (these rules of law are uniquely different). So our legal signed agreement with the U.S. Corporation is our collective acceptance to continue to be defined by the above constitutional amendments and agreeing to participate in the affairs of the U.S.corporation.

But also as Moors (Muurs), we cannot have it both ways. If we understand the legality question of nationality and sovereignty (better than most so-called American Negroes), it places us in a very unique position. We cannot continue to raise the most prolific and divisive symbol of our oppression, which is the American flag that stood for slavery, death and Christianity to the so-called American Negro. The American flag has no place in our religious and philosophical framework and ideology. If we are serious about creating a different set of freedom language lexicon and as we explore the legal definitions by using the science of etymology and epistemology to breakdown these non-binding and false racial identities applied to the so-called American Negro (we have to also challenge ourselves and our institutions). Moreover, we can no longer raise the American and the United States flag in our Moorish Science Temples and meetings (as one of visible symbols and we cannot declare recognition of this republic or give credence to their nationhood by signing on to this).

I think in the early 1900s the Prophet Noble Drew Ali was concerned about using the best of intelligence by protecting the Moorish Science Temple from being attacked by the powerful United States Government and didn't want to subject his followers to being charged with sedition and treason and un-American activity. I think we have the responsibility of respecting the United Statessovereignty, but not showing any patriotic allegiance to their flag or national anthem or any of their patriotic symbols

I am baffled that in 2017, the Moorish Science Temples of America simultaneously claim sovereign independency as Moorish Americans and to justify this contradictory and reactionary symbol known as the American flag by having it present in our places of worship; this is a sign of paying homage to our slave master's legacy—meaning his flag and his sovereignty, which in my opinion is illegal and unlawful. This symbol (in 1776 declared the United States by way of the Declaration of Independence a sovereign nation from British rule) was raised by the Europeans or the white man to justify his war crimes against us as Moors and under this flag he committed murder, genocide, land thievery, and led to the discretion of sacred edifices and holy lands in North America and South America. Much of it was legally belonging to indigenous Moors (in fact all of it).

If we refer to ourselves as "Moorish American" this represent a legal oxymoron and it compromises and deflates our overall legal position within the U.S. courts and the International courts. We should never allow ourselves to be referred and defined as hyphenated "Americans". No, I am not "Moorish American" and we should burn that damn American flag in our temples and throw it out and raise the sovereign flag of Allah, the Moorish God. I believe in complete sovereignty and I understand my nationality will not include any legal linkages to the term Americaor American. So that is the challenge that is confronting us as Moors (Muurs), if we are serious about changing the nationality paradigm and breaking the legal cycles of Chattel Slavery and declaring ourselves a free people.

Some of the American history that I have researched stated that only the six or seven original European settlers who settled as the Thirteen Original Colonies and those who stole the Americaswould be classified as Americans and no indigenous people could ever be legally classified as "Americans". So once again we as Moors (Muurs) have to totally discard the American flag and trust in Allah, and move the Prophet Noble Drew Ali's principles and teachings to the next ether. The Prophet Noble Drew Ali was clear about his political, theological and philosophical directions in his treatise the Holy Koran Circle Seven, so I am challenging the Muurs to up their demands and quest, as well as affirmation towards the legal mandates to permanently and legally declare the so-called American Negro a recognized nationality within the United Nations in order to have a place amongst the body of other sovereign nations.

We have to move beyond all these theoretical arguments into establishing a political international law plan of action and become proactive in transitioning us towards claiming our rightful nationality and sovereignty (beyond the rhetoric). Thus, are we prepared to petition the United Nations (which will entail charging the United States Government and other European powers with war crimes against humanity) and wage the legal defense from the international jurisprudence side and work to acquire the monetary resources to wage this monumental legal battle in order to make us legally whole again. This will entail a defense that will tear at the very core and root of the United States Constitution and cause for having some of the best legal minds to frame and defend this argument, which will involve reinterpreting the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. This will lead to relinquishing our 'American' nationality and debunking our so-called ‘American citizenship’ classification status and overturning the Dred Scott Decision and truly declaring ourselves in name and principle free from the bondages of white supremacy.

FREEMASONRY: THE HIGHER DEGREE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

By Fahim A. Knight-El

The Masonic universal lessons, if properly mastered by the black Masonic Craft, it will create a new level of energy inside the lodge that will truly cause the sun that rises in the East (symbolic of the Worshipful Master) and crosses the prime meridian moving from East to West and setting in preparation for a new day to create new Masonic life. The Senior Warden in the West and Junior Warden in the South should reflect the light coming from the Worshipful Master stationed in the East and in the physical world, the earth is always in rotation (orbit) and in motion (causing the regeneration of planetary life). All of these designated lodge stations are not just arranged in a coincidental format or as some meaningless floor plan. The lodge layout including its furnishing from the alter (emanating from the sacred text to the working tools) are meant to be symbolic, emblematic and allegorical given to us in Speculative Masonic lessons. Best described in the spiritual sciences of the columns of Boaz and Jachin in which the mystical and metaphysical lessons of correlating the terrain and celestial universal bodies that are rooted in the philosophical lessons interpreted and defined in the First and Second Degree work explained in Morals and Dogmas by Albert Pike.

The Worshipful Master is symbolic and emblematic of the sun just as the physical sun rises in the East (the lodge opens up from the East), which the physical sun sits 93 million miles away from the earth and is responsible for energizing the earth with a radiant light (creating motion and life), which gives and sustains all life on earth. Thus, as the earth rotates on its axis around the sun (which takes a complete revolution of 365 days to complete the journey) and tilts on its axis allowing for us in the Western Hemisphere to experience four seasons (summer, winter, spring and fall).

The Worshipful Master is the leader of the Blue lodge and has the responsibility of creating the spirit of Brotherly Love and harmony within the lodge. A morally good Worshipful Master who is well learned and well studied his wisdom will radiate throughout the lodge (shining upon seeds that are expected to germinate in due intellectual and spiritual season). He has the awesome responsibility of nurturing and feeding the Craft by conveying Speculative Masonic knowledge and staying aligned with the twenty-five landmarks of Masonry; performing sound ritual work and creating meaningful community relationships and inspiring the brotherhood to be good stewards of morality, friendship and brotherly love. I know that it is a lot of work and responsibility serving in leadership as the Worshipful Master, but if all of us do our little part it makes the work less heavy and less burdensome. We often asked the question, which is greater, sun light or moon light? Both of them possess a universal purpose of light equity in our solar system (neither is greater). But each is dependent upon the other to create sustainable life on Earth (that equates to a physical balance). That is how we as brothers should operate by having a willingness and spirit of assisting for the benefit of the whole. I do think it starts from good leadership at the top by having the ability and inspiration to regenerating a new levels of interest based on study (this is the only true path and solution, which will sustain long term interest and support the future foundation of Masonry).

It is the sun's energy that balances day and night—our total existence is dependent upon the sun rising and replenishing our food sources and allowing human biology to continue to evolve (the sun represents life and death to all life forms on earth). This universal principle of cause and affect has been in existence for over five billion years or at least, as old as the earth itself. Many ancient cultures and people have always revered the sun and often was Deified throughout world civilizations, because of its power, majesty and mystery (when I was a young primary and secondary student, they taught us that only nine planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto) existed in our solar system; they now have an inclination to believe that there are possibly six more unknown planets and many more undiscovered planets (reference: Robert Hewitt Brown; Stellar Theology and Mansonic Astronomy).

Now, astrophysics have expanded this original hypothesis relative to many more planetary possibilities (science is never stagnate); the space travel, exploration and science will continue to reveal just how much we do not know nor understand about the complexities and comprehensive factors and variables that makes up and governs the universe. Some have tried to explain the macrocosm and microcosm universe via Tarot cards and by way of the twelve Zodiac signs as being related to air, water, earth and fire as representations of the lower scales of human personality and the high scales of our personal spiritual centeredness that evolved and revolved around our spiritual DNA, which had metaphysical implications based on the astrological arrangements of the stars when our Earth day was preordained and our return as solar beings (some of this must be understood within the Kemetic principles of MAAT). Every real student of Masonry must be a student of numerology and esoteric science; philosophical Masonry was built and structured on ancient numerical codes of the building of King Solomon’s Templethat was being led by Grand Master Hiram Abiff. The temple was being constructed and built from the template of Imhotep who built the first step pyramid in Kemet and was perhaps the first world known mathematician (yes, he lived before Pythagoras).

Also, Freemasonry borrowed the astrological lessons of the sun and built allegorical philosophical schools of thought (better known as Speculative Masonry) that was incorporated in the various aspects and forms of the Freemasonic ritual, which brought into existence the symbolic legend of Grand Master Hiram Abiff, the Master Builder in which the biblical Hiram from the land of Tyree has no resemblance to the Masonic allegory of the greatest grandmaster recorded in the Freemasonic legend (he like Jesus was slain and resurrected). The sun every year dies in the winter (winter solstice) and is reborn or resurrected during Easter (spring time nature comes back to life during the summer solstice). Many of the ancient Kemetic folklores were also rooted in the resurrection story of Ausr, Aset and Huru. Ausr was murdered by his jealous brother Set who placed his body in a chess that was chained and buried deep into the Nile river and when his sisterNephthys found and discovered her brother’s body, it was cutup into fourteen pieces and the only part that was missing was his penis (this is best understood in the phallic worship practices in Kemet). These Kemetic folklore teachings can be found inR.T. Rundle Clark book titled, Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt. Man has had a long historical infatuation with sun Gods and according to Manly P. Hall as a phenomenon was found in every culture and in his exhaustive research titled, The Secret Teaches of All Ages, he traced many so-called pagan origins and sun cults being historically practiced by people throughout the earth. They culturally emulated the moving of the sun as the earth rotates on her axis and in the western hemisphere (and constructed religious systems around this concept); we experience the winter and summer solstice (the word 'sol' Latin word that translates to mean sun and 'stice' meaning to stand still according Gerald Massey's book titled, The Book of the Beginnings.

Kersey Graves in the book titled, The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors; he underscored at least 16 sun Gods and World Saviors who were erected and shared similar pagan themes as Jesus Christ. For example, in ancient Kemet (Egypt) the Sun's birth, death, resurrection and ascension were charted and depicted long before the ancient Asiatic calendar known as the lunar charting (the Muslim and Islamic world charts the moon and sun based on the lunar calendar, which the western world has taking notice by observing the Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan) and even long before the Greek and Roman calendar known as the Gregorian calendar, the western charting of the sun/moon and of time created the International Dateline established in Greenwich, England. The Kemetic folklore of Ausar, Aset and Huru, which was one of the original 'Christ' stories that predated the story of Yeshusa Ben Yosef (Jesus, the son of Joseph) by many thousands of years according to John G. Jackson's Book titled, Christianity Before Christ and J,S.M Ward's book titled, Who was Hiram Abiff? Yeshusa Ben Yosef was not born on December 25, but the pagan birth of the sun god was born in which Christianity borrowed one of the natural creation stories and implied a theological interpretation from much older secular pagan societies and reversed the Sun god with Son of God Jesus (or Yeshusa) the human being became the center of this solar concept (Christians in the United States worship on Sun-Day). Constantine at the Council of Nicea (Turkey) in 325 AD established the Nicean Creed, which fostered in a perverted and corrupt version of Christianity—this is what governs the Roman Catholic church and papal religious system to this very day (reference: Reza Aslan: Zealots: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth).

There were pyramidal numerical codes that were based in a system of geometry and physics and there were principles being practiced by the Nubian people that were unknown to the conventional western scientists and after thirty-one (31) Dynastic periods recorded in ancient Egyptian history and thousands of years of unearthing by archeologist and Egyptologist they are still at square one. Kemet has only revealed more questions than answers, which have baffled western scientists for centuries and continues to baffle them in 2017. The Kemetic understanding of engineering and architecture have not been duplicated nor decoded by some of the most brilliant Caucasian scientists—although the Nubians left behind plenty of evidence, that has determined them to have been the most advanced civilizations ever record in the annals of time and human history. They left behind artifacts and archeological ruins that do not fully begin to tell the story of what the scribes had written in the Ancient Coffin Text.

The Greeks: Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, etc., stole much of ancient Kemetic knowledge and called it Greek Mythology. Dr. George G.M. James in 1954, authored the book titled, Stolen Legacy, which he dismantled and deconstructed the notion that Greek Mythology was a superior culture to Kemet (Egypt) and historically proposed that the Greeks stole (Kemetic Philosophy) their knowledge came from ancient Kemet (Egypt)—these set of truths, also challenged the premise of schools of thought that were germane to Eurocentric Freemasonry having its origin in Greece and Roman and later in England (one of the greatest lies ever told). Let's not make any mistake most of these lessons of authorship by the Greeks were plagiarized from more ancient teachings and texts discovered and taught by African people of Kemet and Kush. Many of these European mystics stole and borrowed this knowledge from black people and based on white supremacy has refused to acknowledge their black mothers and fathers.

If anyone has ever read my body of work, it would be clear where I stand politically, economically, socially and culturally; I am unapologetic about being a Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanist in which my Masonic views have always been Afrocentric and my historical evidence have always led to me Africa (not Jerusalem, Mecca, London, Rome, Scotland, etc.) but I am not oblivious to these nations ties to the development of Freemasonry and its origins in Europe. Freemasonry began with black people, those Africans who had relationships with Amen-Ra and Ptahhotep in ancient Kemet in which Dr. Ashra Kwesi makes this point in his archeological and historical findings and testimonies of the Kemetic origins of Freemasonry. Their history was older than the sun, moon and stars and studied within the Egyptian Mystery Schools where mystical lessons were given in all the esoteric, Occult and Gnostic schools of thought—Masonic scholars such as Albert Mackey, Robert MaCoy, Manly P. Hall, etc. They really did not have the spirit or the knowledge to accurately decipher and interpreted the Kemetic lessons taught in the 'Coffin Text' and many of the ancient Kemetic lessons became corrupted by the Greeks and Romans. Speculative Masonry becomes a beautifully put together puzzle when you look deeper into the esoteric, Gnostic and occult teachings and schools of thought. It will carry us into both the secular and sacredness of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It will lead us even further into the ancient Kemetic Schools of thought, but the Square and Compass should also serve as a moral guide. I know that African people had this knowledge long before 1711 or 1717 these dates are important to Caucasian Masonry. I have challenged them every step of the way.

Thus, one of the most important lessons in our development along the way relative to our personal Masonic journey was the requirement and personal belief in Deity this was the utmost condition and perquisite in which our Masonic foundation would rest upon. Let me explain this in this way; Deity represents mere perfection and is not subject to human error or imperfection. This most important requisite was given to us as a reminder to always keep it out front, because man is surely destined to fail us, but it we have strong convictions in Deity in spite of what name we chose to call him by, it is him alone that stand and functions independent of our human imperfections and fragility—the guiding light, the Source of it All. The belief in Deity has the power to change our reality; we can trust and seek refuge in him, as well as find comfort in something greater than ourselves. When you entered into the lodge, it was a process of rituals that were designed to bring the poor blind candidate from darkness into light and you were brought in without the benefit of material substances; just like an infant who enters this world naked and bare and dependent upon its mother for life substances and the mother will be there to meet the needs of this new life—providing it with the physical material it needs to develop and progress (how long will we extend our personal cabletow to reach a distressed brother or a member of the human family?).

Nevertheless, every brother came to Freemasonry of his own freewill and accord and after the Deacons and Wardens escorted and took us on a symbolic journey (circumambulation) to be examined and reexamined by the Senior Warden (West) and the Worshipful Master (East). It was to bring the new candidate to the understanding that you had to approach the celestial lodge in proper ancient and due form (someone initially held our hands and guided us in this manner). Thus, after being brought from darkness to light and being physically released from the physical restraints (It was symbolic to let us know that we are free to explore and are not bound by any restraints). The Worshipful Master admonished the ritual by telling the candidate(s) that what was enacted was mere allegory and simultaneously reminded the candidate that now there would be something more greater and meaningful which shall hold the newly made brothers together in an everlasting bond of brotherhood and friendship, which was ritualized and pledged in ones potential commitment to Morality, Friendship and Brotherly Love. The instructional part for the Masons was that you did not come to the lodge because of the Worshipful Master, Senior Warden or the Junior Warden; you came because God led you to the lodge and gave you the intestinal fortitude to complete the journey (essentially you came of your own freewill and accord).

All of us as human beings are flawed souls, but we cannot fall victim to other people's character flaws unless we lose sight of why we joined Masonry, our coming wasn't about anyone else but ourselves. Remember there is no power greater than the Grand Architect of the Universe. Also it was at that point, that your own eyes were giving back to you and you now had the unrestricted vision to see and understand what was taking place with you and around you. The guides (Junior Steward and Senior Steward) relinquished their duty of being your help-meet of moving you as a poor-blind candidate. This was to further teach you that guidance and Masonic understanding would be your responsibility to further your travels from this day forward (the quest to obtain knowledge and wisdom becomes an eternal journey). The Worshipful Master (who sits in the East) instructs the candidate that as a human being he would have to depend on someone, somewhere in life no different that him depending on someone who guided him through the ritual of the lodge as a poor blind candidate. At some point in the ceremony the Master of the lodge would state I am ordering the Chaplin to pray for you all as candidates and yet he quickly said, but one day you are going to have to pray for yourself.

During your third degree raising the Worshipful Master said as I instructed you on the First Degree work about the benefit of prayer, it would be a time for you to pray for yourself and he stated now is the time to pray. So all of these instructional rituals have deep meanings other than the Speculative Masonic intent, but it was telling and teaching us that we have a moral and ethical responsibility as enlightened men to move and create positive energy and standards that would truly make the good man better—this was explained best on the Bible (based on the obligations you swore to uphold) in which the square and compass served as your guide and tool (this was to remind us that life will be full of directions and spiritual guidance). This will lead us to the principles and path of following in our conduct, which should be rooted in being Plum, Level and Square. The working tools have a duality in meaning and intent, they could appear to the mundane as perhaps the mere workmen's tools of an Operative Masonic craftsman, but in Masonry you are taught to view and accept the working tools in a more noble and glorious purpose beyond the physical intent and purpose offered under Operative Masonry (reference: Allen Roberts, The Craft and its Symbols). We should always transition our thoughts to the spiritual realm and learn to use the working tools to find the God within.

Knowledge (let me clarify right knowledge) is powerful and a persuasive tool, in particular when, we understand that the entire world is indebted to the contributions African civilizations have made to humanity. The Blue Lodge, Consistory, Shrine Temple and all our Masonic Houses should be classrooms where the knowledge of self is taught; European Freemasonry is a system based on robbery and is shrouded in lies and deceptions—the origin of mystical enlightenment was well developed before they exited the hills and cave-sides of Europe 6,000 years ago and before they were created on the island of Patmos. I am going to let you into a little secret; white Freemasons are Moslem Sons and all the Shrine rituals are an enactment of his history after exiting the hillside and cave-sides of Europe (we ran him 2,200 miles across the hot Arabian Desert). Prophet Musa or Moses was an half original man who was sent to civilize him in which this allowed and required him to study for 35-50 years before he could come amongst us and do trade, etc., this civilization study process made him into a Muslim by faith and a righteous believer in Islam (Moslem Son and Freemasonry would be the vehicle for him to practice Islam in secrecy) but he is not our brother by nature.

This is best understood in the teachings of the Mystic Shrine—we taught him about Allah, taught him how to pray and prostrate, gave him the Qur’an and taught him about the importance of the ritual of circumambulation of the Kaaba, which was built by Abraham and his son Ishmael in the Holy City of Mecca (we gave him the true meaning of the black stone). We also led him to Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah of 1,400 years ago (but initially we only allowed him to obtain 32 degrees of knowledge this kept him at a frozen state as stated above, it did not make him our brother by nature). Those Caucasian Moslem Sons who remained diligent in their submission and surrendering to Allah, we conferred one more degree of knowledge by giving him 33 1/3 degree but we made him a true Sovereign Grand Inspector General (taught him that the black man was God and he had an obligation to bow down). Some we invited into the mystic teachings of Sufism and this knowledge was so deep in esoteric religiosity and spiritualism (shrouded in symbolism) in which some Sunni and Shia Muslims consider the teachings and practices of Sufism as heretic and anti-Islam. It has always stood outside of traditional Islam (Sunni and Shia), because of the spiritual and heighten internal spiritual awareness of linking God directly to a higher elevation of mind, body and spirit (far beyond the traditional teachings of Islam rooted in the spiritual complexities of the cosmos and universe and all that it encompasses is embodied in the mystic teachings of Sufism).

No, Sufi Sheik out of Mecca, Turkey, Iran or Senegal stands as the experts in all of Sufism interpretations; moreover, I have learned that this mystic path led me to the conclusion that the more I studied; I am still an ill-equipped student of this knowledge—I am a blind neophyte and I am not to arrogant to let you all know this. I am absolute no authority on this mystic and spiritual tradition, thus as great as the Sufi scholar Idris Shah was in his explanations and commentaries on Sufism, he was no authority—Sufism is beyond systematic Islamic theology; it is the only true and authentic form of Islam. Sister Tynetta Muhammad of the Nation of Islam in her teachings and body of work understood this better than most of the Nation of Islam ministers in which she made attempts to infuse the Nation of Islam’s theology in direct correlation to the philosophical mystical teachings of Sufism. It is not coincidental that the Seventh letter of the alphabet, which is the letter G. (I believe that Master Fard Muhammad and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad were fully aware of these linkages) to truly understand Allah and all his attributes (I am not talking about that mystery God that does not exist), you must understand the higher codes of numerology and the constellations of the stars and the mathematical and spiritual equations that are presented in the universal order and schemes. There was a lot to the 24 Wise Scientist and how history renews itself every 25,000 years in advance and then we live it, but this is truly another subject for another time. I take no credit for none of this, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was a master teacher and I am just one of his students.

We have allowed the Caucasian /Arab/Semites of Iran, Yemen, Albania, Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, etc., to convert to Islam and Moslem Sons (high degree masons) and we allowed them to experience our mystic way of life through Sufi Orders such as: Alians, Bektashi Order, Mevlevi Order, Ba 'Alawiyya, Chishti Order, Jerrahi, Naqshbandi, Mujaddidi, Ni'matullāhī, Qadiriyya, Qalandariyya, Sarwari Qadiriyya, Shadhiliyya, Suhrawardiyya, Ashrafi Family, Saifiah (Naqshbandiah), and Uwaisi. Freemasonry nor his conversion to Islam will ever make him our brother (this was the mistake that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad's son Imam Warith Deen Mohammed made in 1975).

Turkey was under the Islamic flag, the sun, moon and star and before the Caucasian was allowed to be received as a Moslem Son (Shriner) he had to voluntarily take a secret Shahada (confession of faith—“lā ʾilāha ʾillā-llāh, muḥammadur-rasūlu-llāh”it translate to mean:“There is no god but God. Muhammad is the messenger of God”. The Arabs and the Semite Muslims are closely akin to the Caucasian man. We initially used the Muslims of Turkey (Turkey is the only nation that sits on two continents Asia and Europe, they served as gatekeepers—at the Caucasus Mountain between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea and before he exited with this knowledge we mandated that he put the sword above the sun, moon and star (so he could always visualize and stand perpendicular on the square of freedom, justice and equality) and to also remind him of his obligation to being a righteous Moslem Son (Shriner).

Lastly, Jesus (Isa Bin Yusuf) the Christ, was teaching the Hebrew Israelites or so-called Jewish Rabbis and Jewish high priest at age twelve and most Biblical theologians and religious scholars view Jesus (Isa Bin Yusuf) life as a mystery during this time span, but at approximately 30 years of age Jesus (I am writing quickly to keep up with my thoughts and at a later date I will do the numerology associated with the Christ), the son of of Joseph returned on the scene and his ministry lasted for about three years and in this short time Jesus changed and reformed humanity with his teachings of a social Gospel; thus, two thousand (2,000) years later, we are still talking about that man known as Jesus (Isa Bin Yusuf) (he taught that the temple of God is within). He said greater things we shall do. We have to challenge our own fears, discipline ourselves and make self-sacrifices; and seek knowledge and wisdom from the cradle to the grave; the first paradigm shift has to take place within (how transparent are we with ourselves?). I read a book called the "Art of War" by Sun Tzu; I have read this book about seven times; it created a driven purpose in my life (it is not a book that you read but a book that you should study). Our ultimate mission should be working towards being the best human being that we can be and use our talents, intellect, treasures and will power to make a difference; I chose to write and enlightened people to the truth and hopefully after I have transitioned from this earth someone will be able to say brother Fahim A. Knight-El made a small difference in the world.

Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah of 1,400 ago in just twenty three years also reformed humanity and there are now over two billion Muslims who surrender their will to do the will of Allah (God) (Muhammad taught that three generations after me, they will be no longer be of me). Yet, all these spiritual and religious paths had their inceptions in ancient Kemet (Egypt) where the Nubian people had developed a complex religio-social systems that were rooted in the ancient practices that predated the 6,000 year customs, rites, sacraments and rituals that have been imposed on humanity by the Europeans.

ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: JUST A REFLECTION

By Fahim A. Knight-El

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In 1996, I was contacted by a professor of history named Dr. Claud Clegg from North Carolina Agriculture and Technology State University in Greensboro, North Carolina (one of best Historical Black Colleges and Universities in America); Clegg was writing a scholarly biography on the Honorable Elijah Muhammad titled, An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad in which he contacted me and requested my assistance in writing this book in which I agreed to assist my brother (lets be clear, I take no credit or responsibility for Dr. Cleggs’ work). I had authored and published a book in 1995 titled, In Defense of the Defender: The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Dr. Clegg whom I liked very much as a person had come across a copy of my book and he thought that I had made some interesting points in my research (and he wanted to further expand his research and as an academician they have the responsibility to sort out an empirical investigative approach, which allows for the researcher to quantify the evidence and establish factual objective credibility). Although, Clegg acknowledged me on page xvi, but on pages of 348 and 349 my brother raked me over the coal; he accused me of being partial and that I had demonstrated little to no objectivity in my research (twenty years ago I must admit my big ego was inflated and his criticism of my work placed me in an emotional space of not receiving constructive criticism, as well as I should have, how dare this Negro disrespect me like that after I had giving him unconditional help.[1]

Thus, I pulled out a copy of my publication after embarking on this article and I also pulled out Dr. Clegg’s book as well, and twenty years later, I had to admit to myself that Dr. Clegg was right. There was a lot that I could have done better with structuring the work and I could have learned a lot from Dr. Clegg. Yet, I do not claim to be an authority on Elijah Muhammad nor the Nation of Islam (I intentionally wrote the thesis in the spirit of truth and was not concern with impartiality).[2] I wrote my book after Spike Lee did that botched up representation of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in the epic film, “Malcolm X”. I felt compelled to defend the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s image and legacy (I think the Messenger’s domestic life and the circumstances surrounding those events as shaped and defined by Lee’s Malcolm X movie further drew a wedge in-between black people and the perception of the Nation of Islam’s leader—in particular whether not his domestic life rendered him a hypocrite, which the enemy has attempted to use to discredit Muhammad’s historical legacy and image. Someone had to answer Spike Lee’s allegations and mischaracterizations of our leader, teacher and guide.[3]

This article is not an exhaustive analysis of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s life nor is it an attempt to serve as an official biographical sketch of the last messenger of Allah; I have felt that may be I had bit off to much to even attempt to writing on such complex Muslim leader in this brief essay and in which the man, message and mission were misunderstood and yet his influence still resonates amongst black people in America some eighty-seven years later. This alone serves as proof positive of how rooted the Nation of Islam was/is in the social, political, economic and the culture of the 20^th and 21^st century of black America’s life, as an organization and movement, it is here to stay. The evidence of its longevity influence is the testament of its presences seen in the existence of approximately twenty (20) to twenty-five (25) Nation of Islam splinter groups and sects who all claim to be representing Elijah Muhammad’s original teachings (some have taking titles such as the prophet like Moses, Mahdi, Imam, Sheikh, the Son of Man, national representative, one even claim he is greater than Master Fard Muhammad, and some have set up independent temples and are ministers over these various Nation of Islam splinter groups).

I have had many of them make pitches at me and I have turned all of them down. I do not need for them to tell or teach me about Elijah, I have found him for myself and as a curator and historian, I have all of Elijah’s books Message to the Blackman in America, How to Eat to Live: Book # 1& #2, The Fall of America, Our Savior Has Arrived, Flag of Islam, ‘Supreme Wisdom” lessons, copies of original “Muhammad Speaks” new paper and many of his audio tapes, etc. I think the Nation of Islam Historical Research Department would be in the best position to have written the official biography on the Life and Times of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Minister Abdul Akbar Muhammad, the international representative of the Nation of Islam had promised over 30 years ago that he was going to write the official history of the Nation of Islam and this has never occurred.[4]However, there are now so many smart well trained intellectuals and scholars who have acquired advance degrees in the social sciences who are now members of our organization and are followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. This is not to imply that Minister Jabril Muhammad who authored the book titled, This is the One: We Need Not Look for Another and the late sister scholar Tynetta Muhammad, perhaps in collaboration could not have written the official biography on Elijah Muhammad. Minister Silis Muhammad leader of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam in the West and his staff had the resources to do so as well.

I think Dr. Wesley Muhammad author of the books Black Arabia & The African Origin of Islam, The Book of God: An Encyclopedia of Proof that the Black Man is God, The Religion of the Black God: Indic Sacred Science & Islam, Understanding the Assault on the Black Man, Black Manhood and Black Masculinity, etc., is more than capable of taking on this assignment and I would be willing to assist him and offer my historical expertise. Ashahed Muhammad who authored the book titled,The Synagogue of Satan has the skills and capabilities. The Nation of Islam has allowed so many of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s siblings and children to have died off (old followers that could have offered firsthand accounts of their experiences—credible oral history testimonies, which could have offered valuable primary source materials to recreating the early history of Elijah Muhammad and the establishment of the Nation of Islam (I do not know how many of Elijah Muhammad’s children by sister Clara Muhammad are still alive; I do know Elijah Muhammad's youngest son Dr. Akbar Muhammad just recently transitioned in 2016). We have allowed white scholars and reactionary bourgeoisie Negro scholars to become the authorities on our leader, teacher and guide. Dr. C. Eric Lincoln in 1961, wrote the first scholarly dissertation on the Nation of Islam titled, The Black Muslim in America, it was Dr. Lincoln’s sociological/historical work that brought the Nation of Islam into the academic classroom (although Mike Wallace of CBS news produced the negative documentary in 1959 titled, ‘The Hate that Hate Produced’.[5]

However, most Nation of Islam believers and followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was very critical of the book, The Black Muslim in America and depicted it as not being totally objective nor an accurate assessment of the theology or the historical accounts of the movement relative to those intricate persons, events, dates, etc., that helped shape and mold the Nation of Islam into becoming one of the most powerful and influential organizations in America. Elijah Muhammad gave Dr. Lincoln access to the Temple meetings and allowed him to interview himself and followers of Nation of Islam for the book. But in 1965, Honorable Elijah Muhammad published the Nation of Islam theological treatise titled, Message to the Blackman in America, this book changed my life.[6] We witnessed the affect that the life given teachings had on the likes of Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Louis Farrakhan (National Representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad), John Muhammad (the brother of Elijah Muhammad) and Minister Hurlon Shah (Yahweh Ben Yahweh), Jeremiah Shabazz (minister over Temple #15), James Shabazz (minister over Temple # 25 Newark, New Jersey), Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad (aka Malik Rashuddin—Harold Moore Vann—former Supreme Captain and Minister of Temple # 27 Los Angles, California), Silis Muhammad (founder of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam in the West out of Atlanta, Georgia), Father Allah (Clarence 13 X Smith founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths), Warithudeen Mohammed (founder of the Muslim American Mission), Solomon Royall (founder of the United Nations of Islam), Marvin Muhammad, (Leland, Mississippi—the son of man), (Eric Muhammad—minister over Temple #15 Atlanta, Georgia).

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad once stated: "of all our studies, history is the most attractive and best qualified to reward our research, as it develops the springs and motives of human actions and displays the consequences of circumstances which operates most powerfully on the destinies of human beings.”Elijah Muhammad was born Elijah Poole on October 7, 1897, in Sandersville, Georgia; he was the seventh of thirteen children (eight (8) boys and five (5) girls born to Willie, Sr. and Marie Poole. The family was poor sharecroppers living in rural racist Georgia who experienced on a daily basis the evil effects of Jim Crow, a period in U.S. history where segregation was made legal due to the1896 Supreme Court Decision of Plessy versus Ferguson—separate but equal became constitutional and the law of the land.[7]

Elijah Poole (Elijah Muhammad) ironically was born in1897 only one year after the above mentioned United States Supreme Court decision (Plessy versus Ferguson 1896). Poole at a young age, witnessed one of his closest friends being lynched and hung from a tree in Georgia and this left an indelible and haunting impact on the psyche of the man who would later become the teacher of freedom, Justice, and equality for the so-called American Negro (and would become the last messenger of Allah) and would be giving the task to confront white supremacy (when viewing the history of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad as much as it was important to view him within the collective historical black experience, it was equally important to place him within the context of the religious-ethos of black Islamic religious nationalism). Thus, the witnessing of the racist lynching event would forever change Elijah Muhammad's life growing up as a young boy in the deep south in which the incident would be perpetually etched in his mind. Elijah Muhammad’s father was a Baptist minister who preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ by instilling Christian principles and values into his children and home. Elijah Muhammad also had a perceptive grandfather who understood aspects of biblical history and theology and would often refer to the young Elijah as the Biblical Prophet, Elijah, spoken of in the Book of Malachi. It was reported that young Elijah Poole demonstrated leadership ability at a very young age; moreover, settling family disputes and possessing wisdomfar beyond his young age. Elijah Poole (Elijah Muhammad) would witness the social contradictions existing in America, the so-called home of the free with their empty chants of democracy when it came to the plight of Black people in

America

, as far as racism and social injustice—this would later become his motivation to becoming a race leader.[8]

In doing my historical background reading and my preliminary assessment; it quickly reminded me that a crime against humanity had taken place under Chattel Slavery (1555-1865) in which no other people on the planet had experienced what the so-called American Negro had experience in their over 450 years sojourn in the United States of America (which is equalvent to a war crime). America was/is a hostile society towards Africans and indigenous people (this includes the so-called Native Americans) whatAndrew Hacker describes in his monumental book titled, Two Nations: Black and White Separate, Hostile, Unequal stated, “race has been an American obsession since the first Europeans sighted "savages" on these shores. In time, those original inhabitants would be subdued or slaughtered, and finally sequestered out of view. But race in America took on a deeper and more disturbing meaning with the importation of Africans as slaves. Bondage would later be condemned as an awful injustice and the nation's shame, even as we have come to acknowledge the stamina and skill it took to survive in a system where humans could be bought and sold and punished like animals. Nor are these antecedents buried away in the past. That Americans of African origin once wore the chains of chattels remains alive in the memory of both races and continues to separate them”.[9]

In approximately 1919, at age twenty-two (22) Muhammad migrated to Macon, Georgia, seeking employment and a few years later in 1923, he migrated north to Detroit, Michiganwhere he married Clara Evans. Muhammad reportedly worked in the automobile industry in which some Nation of Islam historians maintained that Muhammad was laid off from work and things got so bad that he started consuming alcohol and even joined the welfare lines. In 1931, someone invited Elijah Muhammad to hear this strange man preaching a strange doctrine in Detroit, Michigan. Elijah Muhammad was reported to have said that he recognized right away that the man doing the teaching was God himself. After one of W.F. Muhammad speeches, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad whispered to W.F. Muhammad, "I know who you are, you are God Himself."W.F. Muhammad whispered back to Elijah and said: "that's right, but is not time for my identity to be revealed."[10]Having recognized who he was, W.F. Muhammad drew the Honorable Elijah Muhammad closer to him for three and one-half years Master Fard Muhammad personally taught him how to affectively use the Bible and Qur’an and gave him the “Supreme Wisdom Lessons” in which he was instructed to commit them to memory. He was giving an examination on the lessons by Master Fard Muhammad and in a question and answer catechism format the answers had to be answered in return 100% correctly (according to the Department of Supreme Wisdom and the Rules of Islam). Early on in the Nation of Islam these lessons were only to be giving to authorized and registered Nation of Islam members (the local Temple/mosque ministers, captains and secretary played an official role in a believer becoming a registered Muslim. Registered Muslims were Muslims who had written a Savior letter, which was approved by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and this qualified them to receiving an X or holy name after going through the student enrollment process and reciting the lessons one hundred percent correctly in order to officially join the temple (mosque).

Many southern blacks migrated from the south (there were a number of great migration movements periods in the history of African-Americans) to northern metropolis in the early 1900s in which blacks were seeking economic and social reprieve and upward mobility—blacks in droves migrated from North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, etc., and west and north to Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, New Jersey, New York, Boston, Chicago, Cary, East Saint Louis, Detroit, St. Louis, Los Angles, etc. However, many blacks did not know, that the so-called northern “promise lands” had similar racial politics disguised as being different, but were more covert in its racist practices (the north was equally discriminatory, segregated and racial injustices towards blacks were no different than what they had experienced in the old south). The affects of racism and white supremacy were systemic and there were no escaping these social contradiction and institutionalized practices even in the north, which were no different than the racist southern life they had left behind, as I have stated above—northern racism no doubt was meant to be more subtly covert. But it had the same strategy and tactic (segregation and a social stratum built on the same racial politics model of the old south); Historian C. Van Woodard maintained in his book titled, The Strange Career of Jim Crow that Jim Crow was more of a northern institutional phenomenon in which made its way south and not visa versa.[11]

In 1929, during President Herbert Hoover's tenure the United Stateswent into an economic depression, which destabilized the economic and social fiber of the American society. Historians referred to it as the Great Depression. The United Statesfinancial markets were made to collapse, which devastated the social, political, economic structures of the

United States

(poverty was far reaching during this period in American history, which led to a restructuring of public policy and created agencies that are still in existence today). The international bankers and the central banking cartel called-in the United States debt in which the Depression of 1929 was induced and created economic instability that sent the

United States

into the abysmal and led to the election of the democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 1932 New Deal Movement.[12]

But in ParadiseValley, a black ghetto section of Detroit, a voice of change appeared on the scene, preaching from the Bible and the Holy Qur’an. He called himself W.F. Muhammad (he looked Caucasian in appearance and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught that he came looking like the enemy and appearing as a thief in the night). But prior to his departure he gave us his true name of W.F. Muhammad: he was known by W.D. Fard, Professor Fard, Mr. Ford, Wali Fard, Wallace Fard Muhammad and various other names.[13]He stated that he come to North America by himself, seeking his long lost Uncle— the so-called American 'Negro' who was brought to the shores of North America as slaves 379 years ago. W.F. Muhammad was born on February 26, 1877, in the Holy City of Mecca, Saudi Arabia from the Quarysh bloodline of Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah (570 AD-632 A D.).[14]

This is what W.F. Muhammad taught Elijah Muhammad about his origin and family lineage: “Alphonoso Muhammad was supposed come to the shores of North America with his life giving teachings, bound to the lost and found. In 1870 Alphonoso Muhammad told his Asiatic brothers, the I-men {Imam} that he himself could not carry out such a mission in the western hemisphere because of the fact that he was a cold black seed and white America did not allow a black man to come freely to its shores without official business with its government. So the I-men {Imam} told him how to produce a child who would be original in capacity of the brain, but show off a complexion that would make appear, to the naked eye, as white; but to the lost and found, as high yellow person, in order that he may get through the lines and reach the lost tribe. Alphonoso knew what he must do! He took a white woman for a wife, by the name Mimmie, who’s family was Muslim, also they attended school together outside of Mecca. She born unto Alphonoso two children, the first one, a female named Saleema, the second a male…our prophet Wallace Fard Muhammad”.[15]

W.F. Muhammad declared that he had one mission, and that was to find one from amongst the so-called American Negro that slept—Elijah Muhammad and raise him up as a Messenger unto himself. The Holy Qur'an in Chapter 2, refers to Allah (God) sending a Warner to a people to whom no warner had ever come before. The Arabs nor any people of the so-called Middle Eastern region can claim this prophecy, because prior to Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Messengership 1,400 years ago, Allah (God) sent Abraham and Ishmael as Warners to the Arabs and all the prophets of old toiled in that geographical region of the world (Tigris Euphrates region, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel, Abyssinia, etc.,--Abraham, Moses, Lut, David, Solomon, Jesus, Muhammad, etc., according to the three major faith traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam all of God’s prophets appeared in that region of the world. But the Holy Qur'an speaks of a Warner coming to a virgin people that have never had a prophet or messenger and the Muslims of the Nation of Islam believed this was none other than the Black man and woman of America. This is well documented in Minister Nasir Makr Hakim (Editor) of the Autobiographically Authoritative vol. titled: The True Mission of Elijah Muhammad: Messenger of Allah; cited on pp. 206-207.

There has been a long standing debate between the Moors and the black Muslims on whether or not the Nation of Islam founders had any connections to Prophet Noble Drew Ali and the Moorish Science Temple of America. This writer, believes that it was definitely possible that Master Fard Muhammad could have been part of the Moorish Science Temple of America. But here is my contention; we are going to take both men at their word. Master Fard Muhammad said according to the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad that he was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 1877, and he proclaimed that he was a direct descendent of Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah who lived over 1,400 years ago and Quraish Tribe.

This ethnic ancestral testimony tied Master Fard Muhammad (the Mahdi) directly to the most prominent figure in the religion of Islam; this declaration would give him present and future credibility as a legitimate Muslim leader (the Honorable Elijah Muhammad who taught that this man was God in person). In addition, he in theory understood the theological necessity of interweaving and rooting the Nation of Islam’s history and theological philosophy into ‘legitimate’ Islamic history (this was not coincidental it was strategic). Although, the Nation of Islam’s theology would be tempered with an unorthodox mixture of Islamic allegory and religious mysticism uniquely orchestrated for an organization with an objective and motive of presenting a doctrine that would be able touch and reach black people based on their historical experiences under Chattel Slavery and the affect the 310 year dehumanization process had on them as a subjugated people.[16] Now, according to mainstream Islam all the above would be perceived as the teachings of heretics (and un-Islamic) of course I would disagree with that assessment. This defines the religious and theological dynamics of the mindset of how Nation of Islam evolved as an Islamic group and organization, certain aspects of the Nation of Islam’s sociological structure as it pertains to organizational inner workings must never be viewed outside of the collective context of the black historical experience in which both Master Fard Muhammad and Elijah Muhammad understood.[17]But historically the organization’s cohesive thread has been charismatic and authoritarian leadership personalities such as W.D. Fard Muhammad, Abdul Muhammad (an early rivalry to Elijah Muhammad), Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Wallace Deen Muhammad, Clarence 13 X, Louis Farrakhan, Khallid Abdul Muhammad, etc.

Prophet Noble Drew Ali said, he was born on January 8, 1886, I believe in a little Indian town known as Cherokee, North Carolina (some believed that he had Native American indigenous blood flowing through his veins). Master Fard Muhammad according to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was in and out of America for some 20 years prior to make his self known to the so-called Lost-Found American Negro on July 4, 1930; so doing the math Master Fard Muhammad was in America in approximately 1910 and according historians, Prophet Noble Drew Ali set-up his first Moorish Science Temple (the first Temple was named Canaanite Temple) in Newark, New Jersey in 1913, but eventually making his mark in Chicago.[18]

If we accept that Master Fard Muhammad was born in Mecca (the citadel of the Islamic religion); he probably had already come in contact with some aspects of Islam, perhaps long before he would have met Prophet Noble Ali; if they ever met at all. So, then would you agree that Master Fard Muhammad was a Muslim and follower of Islam before he would have met Prophet Ali and perhaps did not become a Muslim nor accepted Islam under the Prophet Noble Drew Ali’s leadership as some overzealous Moors have maintained. Some black nationalist writers and scholars argue that both men, W.F. Muhammad and Elijah Muhammad were heavily influenced by Gullam Ahmed and the Ahmadiyya movement (this contention might have merit and validity based on Master Fard Muhammad introducing the Nation of Islam to the Pakistani version of the Holy Qur’an as translated by Mualana Muhammad Ali). Gullam Ahmed and Ahmadiyya were one of the first immigrant Muslim sects that made an attempt to introduce the religion of Islam to African Americans in the early 1900s.[19] I also believe that Prophet Noble Drew Ali at some point was involved in Freemasonry and accepted part of the Masonic worldview; there is a lot of historical and organizational evidence that validates this very point, but none of it had been fully historically substantiated.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad arrived in Detroit,Michigan in approximately 1923 and there is a highly likely-hood that he may have come in contact with the teachings of Prophet Noble Drew Ali (Abdul Sharrieff Ali) more so than Master Fard Muhammad. There is no doubt that you can see the infusion and the interdependency of the two Islamic schools of thought and the similarities are strikingly between the two organizations Moorish Science Temple and the Nation of Islam (Moors would argue that Elijah Muhammad was known in the Moorish Science movement as Elijah Muhammad-Bey and was once a Moor).[20]Perhaps W.F. Muhammad understood that Noble Drew Ali being a native born African in America had a better understanding of the social, political, economic and spiritual plight of the Black man and woman of America and his brand of Islam was more attractive to the African American—the blind, deaf and dumb at that time in our historical development.

I think Master Fard Muhammad was perhaps taught under the theological system of Sunni Islam (it was evident that he had knowledge of eastern-based Islam), but quickly learnt that this approach would be ineffective based on our condition as a people. Muhammad may have even borrowed some of the teachings from the Moorish Science Temple of America and the Prophet Drew Ali and perhaps some of this introduction to the teachings of the Moors were shared with him from the mouth of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who I believe possible had more than just a casual contact with Prophet Drew Ali, but not necessarily as a member (I think it is more to this story but both groups refuse to allow objective and non-bias research to determine the truthful outcome). Moreover, after reviewing and studying Moors religious theoretical doctrine (I think Elijah Muhammad), he had come to the conclusion and understanding that in order to bring the teaching of Islam to the African American or ex-slaves, it had to be tactfully and strategically done). Prophet Drew Ali raised one of the most essential questions relative to the so-called American Negro and that was the question of nationality (which still remains unresolved in 2017, because this declaration of sovereignty is tied to land rights and reparation and must be revisited as Moorish indigenous people of Canaanites and Moabite descendents). Ali declared African Americans nationality to be Moorish American (this proclamation and declaration alone will always allow me to give Prophet Noble Drew Ali tremendous respect).[21]

We have to move beyond these type arguments and become proactive in moving us towards claiming our rightful nationality (beyond the rhetoric). So how do you suggest in a legal and practical way that we create a collective national sovereignty? Thus, are we prepared to petition the United Nations (which will entail charging the United States Government and other European powers with war crimes against humanity) and wage the legal defense from the jurisprudence side and work to acquire the monetary resources to wage this monumental legal battle. This will entail a defense that will tear at the very core and root of the United States Constitution and cause for having some of the best legal minds to frame this argument, which will involve reinterpreting the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment (this will lead to relinquishing the 'American' nationality and debunking the citizenship classification status) and overturning the Dred Scott decision.

However, both Prophet Noble Drew Ali and Messenger Elijah Muhammad were Freemasons (this is strictly my opinion as far as the Prophet, but Elijah Muhammad admitted that he was a Mason) and we still do not know fully the role that the Masonic worldview played in the organizational development of both organizations. Many of my Moorish Science Temple brothers would dispute this contention that I am making about Prophet Noble Drew Ali being a Freemason, but the symbolism, the Islamic lexicon and some of the teachings in the Holy Koran Circle 7 resemble and mirror the degree teachings that relates to the working tools taught in Blue Lodge Masonry. I definitely see the philosophical links to the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (better known as the black Shriners).[22] I admit this overview of Moorish Science Temple and the Prophet Drew Ali is insufficient and does not begin to tell the story of the first black Islamic organization in

America

W.F. Muhammad posed as a silk salesman from the East who went door-to-door throughout Detroit’s Black ghetto (a black section of Detroit known as the bottom) as I have stated previously, selling black people royal silk from the Holy Land of Mecca. Upon gaining entrance into a person's home, W.F. Muhammad would begin teaching them the knowledge of self instructing them on the principles of the Muslim diet in accordance what is written in the Qur'an and Bible. He would also give them history lessons about their divine heritage and royal culture. We are taught that W.F. Muhammad was in and out of America for about twenty years prior to revealing his identity. He made his presence known publicly on July 4, 1930, and declared himself the Mahdi of the Muslim World and the Christ of the Christian world.[23]

W.F. Muhammad gave the Honorable Elijah Muhammad the name Elijah Karriem, the attribute Karriem, was one of the ninety-nine names of Allah, which translate to mean the 'generous one'. Prior to W.F. Muhammad's departure, he told the Believers his name was true name was Wali Fard Muhammad. He also, renamed Elijah Karriem to Elijah Muhammad. The attribute Muhammad interpret to mean worthy of praiseand is also the name of God. By 1934, he told the Lost-Found Nation of Islam in the West that they did not need him any longer, because they had Karriem. Some historical records reported that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad escorted Master Fard Muhammad to a Chicago airport where he boarded an airplane bound for Mecca(one thing for sure since 1934 W.F. Muhammad disappeared never to be seen again).[24] The Honorable Elijah slowly begin revealing Master Fard Muhammad's true identity as Allah, who came in the person, to the lost found Nation of Islam, and that he was his appointed Messenger.Some of the early members of the Nation of Islam accepted his divine claim, but others such as AbdulMuhammad and the Elijah Muhammad brother Kalot refused to accept the Messenger's claim. Thus, a counter-sect rose under Abdul Muhammad's leadership and eventually the Messenger had to leave Detroitfor fear of his life; The Honorable Elijah Muhammad had to travel using aliases to conceal his identity for safety reasons. He would travel to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, DC , Richmond , Pittsburgh, etc., teaching Islam and in 1935 he established Temple No. 2. Chicago.[25]

In 1942, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and charged and convicted him of U.S. military draft evasion, although, the Messenger was 45 years old. The draft mandated according to the Selected Service ordered men between the ages of 18-44 to voluntarily sign up for World War II. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was a conscientious objector because of his Islamic religious affiliation and his age placed him outside of the age requirement. However, he was still prosecuted unjustly within United States Federal Courts. Muhammad was sentenced to almost five years in Federal Prison in Milan, Michigan.[26]The United States Government pursuant to disinformation and propaganda called him a Japanese sympathizer and went as far as calling him a Japanese spy (they were attempting to charge him with sedition and treason). All of these charges were mere false and trumped up designed to justify unjust United States government actions and to assassinate the Honorable Elijah Muhammad's public character and attempt to ruin his credibility amongst black people in

America

. The United States Government did not desire any opposition voices who opposed their imperialist attacks against the innocent Japanese people in which later they would charge black leaders such as Paul Robenson and W.E.B. Dubois with un-American activity, they both declared themselves to being affiliated with communism and the communist party. They deemed the Honorable Elijah Muhammad a threat to the United States Government national security just as Minister Louis Farrakhan is viewed today an a threat to the United States national security interest; this is not because he has issued any threats nor is an Enemy Combatant or an militant radical Islamic sympathizer. But they fear that their messages have power to give life to people and possible move 40-50 million so-called American Negroes forward economically, politically and socially.

Clara Muhammad, wife of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, led and oversaw the Nation of Islam in the absence of Mr. Muhammad. In 1946, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was released from prison and immediately started working to rebuild the Nation of Islam.[27]In approximately 1947, Malcolm Little who was incarcerated where he became introduced to the Nation of Islam “Life Giving Teachings” through his brother Reginald X Little. In 1952, Malcolm X was released from prison and eventually became a devout student and follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in the city of DetroitTemple#1. Malcolm X's conversion, hard work and charisma attracted many young intellectuals because of his ability to articulate the Life Giving Teachings and convey Elijah Muhammad’s message unlike any other minister prior to 1960. Minister Malcolm X was a fierce debater and spellbinding orator, no one could rationally defeat. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said he taught Minister Malcolm X unlike he taught any other student minister. On March 8, 1964, after Minister Malcolm X’s defection, Elijah Muhammad said he would never again train another minister like he trained Minister Malcolm X.[28]

Messenger Muhammad knew that Nation of Islam would fall, rise and never to fall again but he gave all us an eternal word of taking the Nation of Islam into the hereafter. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said he fully understood Minister Malcolm X was going to betray him even before his defection took place. If one does not accept the Honorable Elijah Muhammad's divinity thenit ishistorically or theologicallyimpossible to understand the internal conflicts between Minister Malcolm X and his mentor the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.[29]

On February 21, 1965, Minister Malcolm X was assassinated by Black Muslim agent provocateurs working for the United States Government (for those who do not know the U.S. Government murdered Minister Malcolm X). Malcolm X charged the Honorable Elijah Muhammad with committing adultery with a number of his personal secretaries. These charges angered numerous members of the Nation of Islam. They viewed it as mudslinging and slanderous. Thus, at the internal instigation of the F.B.I and J. Edgar Hoover, the zealots rose from within the ranks in which a conspiracy was hatched to assassinate Minister Malcolm X. Many scholars and layperson due to the Freedom of Information Act have acquired declassified documents, which proves and leaves little doubt that Minister Malcolm X’s assassination was straight out of the playbook of the FBI Cointelpro agenda.[30]

However, some scholars and laypersons have tried to connect Minister Louis Farrakhan to the Malcolm X conspiracy and ultimately being complicit in the assassination of Minister Malcolm X. But in all reality at that time in Minister Farrakhan’s organizational status relative the pecking order of power and decision-making, it would not have been his decision to make of giving the order to assassinate Minister Malcolm X this was above his pay grade: Elijah Muhammad, Jr., Supreme Captain Raymond Sharrief, Herbert Muhammad, Elijah Muhammad, Jr. Abayass Rasoull, John Ali, etc. could have given a sanction to an inside hit on Minister Malcolm X (but even this notion is mere circumstantial evidence, but we do know this much Newark Temple #25 played a major role in Malcolm X’s assassination). Minister Farrakhan did not have that unilateral authority or support from the Nation of Islam's Fruit of Islam (FOI) or the organizational hierarchy at that time to render such decisive decision.[31]The Nation of Islam soared after Minister Malcolm X's death. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was billed in 1966 as the "most powerful Black man in

America

." The New York Times Magazine wrote the following about Elijah Muhammad: "Alone of all Negro leaders Elijah Muhammad has a vivid awareness of the vital need of a new birth in any drastic human transformation, and he alone mastered the technique of staging a new identity .. .It is worth remembering that what Elijah Muhammad is doing to the Negro is in a sense, what Americahas done to the immigrant from Europe."

In 1959, Elijah Muhammad visited Mecca as a guest of the Sunni Saudi Arabian government where he performed the Hajj ritual (he made minor Hajj Umrah along with his two sons Herbert and Wallace Muhammad); the Messenger stated: we "You and I may go to Howard, we 'may go to York of England, or go to Al-Ahzar in Cairo and get degrees from all of these great seats of learning ... On visiting with a couple of my sons in what they called the Near East, in 1959, I began in Turkey. We traveled from Turkey down to Africa Ethiopia and the

Sudan

. We visited Arabia (Mecca and Medinah), and we visited

Pakistan

. We returned home from Lahore, Pakistan , on about the 6th of January, 1960." The Honorable Elijah Muhammad interpreted the Hajj ritual as follows: "1 visited Mecca in 1959. The whole city was all a sign of being my people here in America. The veil of the Kaaba means that we were veiled from the truth of Allah (God). My mentally dead people will be the rulers."[32]

Muhammad labored for forty-four years seeking to elevate the blind, deaf, and dumb so-called American Negro and teach him the knowledge of self. The corporate control media along with his Uncle Tom ‘Negroes’ now seek to write Elijah Muhammad out of history because of his uncompromising political positions. They systematically propped up Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, two students of Elijah Muhammad, but will not mention their teacher. Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali eventually compromised with the enemy, but Elijah Muhammad refused to give in. I became so disgusted with how the media was portraying the Honorable Elijah Muhammad that I wrote a book in 1995 titled, In Defense of the Defender: The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.[33]

This writer cited this history to silence the Orthodox Sunni Muslims, who claim that the Nation of Islam is some clandestine Quasi-Islamic organization with no recognition from Mecca(not that the Nation of Islam historically has ever sought recognition from the Arabs). No Orthodox Sunni Islamic leader within the United States commanded the type of respect that Elijah Muhammad received from the imposter Arab rulers of Meccaand from Muslim leadership around the world. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad paved the way for all Nation of Islam members to go to Mecca and make Hajj. But the challenge confronting the Nation of Islam is today; is remaining sovereign of Arab theological dictates.

By 1974, the Nation of Islam was a 70 million dollar empire with the “Muhammad Speaks” newspaper being the most widely circulated journal in black America .The Messenger purchased thousands of acres of farm land in Georgia, Alabama, and Michiganto grow, can, and deliver Nation of Islam’s food products throughout Black America. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad established a bank to have access to carrying out international trade; in particular, to transfer letters of credit relative to his fish and seafood deals with the government of Peru and other trade deals in the Far East. Elijah Muhammad only had a fourth grade education but received 360 degrees of knowledge from Allah, who came in the person of Master Fard Muhammad.

[1]Claude Andrew Clegg lll, An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad. (New York: St.Martin’s Press, 1997) 349.

[2]Ibid. 348.

[3]Fahim A. Knight-El, In Defense of the Defender: The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. (Durham: Fahim and Associates, 1994) 282-291.

[4]Abdul Akbar Muhammad, “A Concise History of the Nation of Islam’, a taped audio lecture series conducted by Minister Akbar Muhammad in which some of the lectures were recorded from Muhammad’s Mosque 7 Harlem, New York, 1980s.

[5]Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X. (New York: Ballentine Books, 1964) 238.

[6]Elijah Muhammad, Message to the Black man in America. (Chicago: Muhammad’s Temple #2, 1965).

[7]Jesus Muhammad-Ali The Evolution of the Nation of Islam the Story of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Chicago: JMA Publishing, 2002) 24-31.

[8]Ibid, Akbar Muhammad.

[9]Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White Separate, Hostile, Unequal. (New York: Scribner Publishing, 2003) 2-3.

[10]Mattias Gardell, In the Name of Elijah Muhammad: Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1996) 50.

[11]C. Van Woodard, The Strange Career of Jim Crow. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1966) 17-19.

[12]William Greider, Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987) 89.

[13]Elijah Muhammad: Message to the Blackman in America. (Chicago: Muhammad’s Temple # 2, 1965). 16

[14]Ibid. Muhammad, 16.

[15]Elijah Muhammad, carbon copy of Muslin Lessons; not clear if these lessons were part of the “Student Enrollment” lessons that were giving and authorized by Master Fard Muhammad between 1931-1934).

[16]Ibid, Elijah Muhammad, 294.

[17]

[18]Arthur H. Fauset, Moorish ScienceTempleof

America

. (New Jersey: Universal Research Associates, 1944) 1-2.

[19]Karl Evanzz, The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad

[20]Yvonne Yazbeck and Jane Idleman Smith, Mission to America: Five Islamic Sectarian Communities in North America. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1993), 92.

[21]Dennis Walker, Islam and the Search for African-American Nationhood; Elijah Muhammad, Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. (Atlanta: Clarity Press, Inc., 2005) 215-224.

[22]Fahim A. Knight-El, Freemasonry (Moslem Sons) and Islam: What Do They Share? (Durham: Fahim and Associates, 2005) 24-28.

[23]Nasir Muhammad, The True Missionof Elijah Muhammad: Messenger of Allah. (Atlanta: MEMPS Publication, 1997) 36-41.

[24]Ibid, 39.

[25]Ibid, Gardell. 58.

[26]William H. Banks, The Black Muslim. (New York: Chelsea House, 1997) 45-47.

[27]Ibid, 46.

[28]Ibid, 56-59.

[29]Ibid,. Alex Haley, 295.

[30]Zak A. Kondo, Conspiracies: Unravelling the Assassination of Malcolm X. (Washington, DC, Nubia Press, 1993) 1999.

[31]Ibid, 191-195.

[32] Ibid, Clegg, 136-145

[33]Ibid, Knight-El.

LET OUR FOOD BE OUR MEDICINE AND OUR MEDICINE BE OUR FOOD

By Fahim A. Knight-El

We are presently living in the age of information and the digital age where media is constantly shaping and molding public opinion. Information is being acquired in real time. Yet, advertisers have always chimed into methods and ways to influence consumers in what products/brands they should purchase and the corporate media has always played a huge part in market and consumer influence. Marketing firms now have highly trained psychologist and social scientists experts (masters of social engineering) on staff who have studied human behavior and human impulses working along side advertisers (this is not coincidental). For example, they strategically use colors, enticing displays, music, mind catching props and stocking schemes to appeal to the human brain and to trigger certain emotions in the consumer, which causes us to often purchase consumer products that we do not need. These techniques are rooted in the persuasive power of subliminal seduction and the consumer often do not know why they are attached to a product or service and/or what led them to spend their money.

I am a proponent of healthy eating, wellness, organic agriculture and sustainable living. This writer, thinks that all food grown (imported and/or exported) in the United States of America should be mandated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be grown as agriculture products free of pesticides, free of being genetically modified, free of chemicals and dangerous toxic substances that will alter or impact the natural process of our food chain and agribusiness—that has the potential to negatively impact our long term and short term health prognosis (grown with the highest quality and prepared with the utmost health and safety standards in mind, that is safe for human consumption and to insure good societal health). Moreover, in the last fifteen to twenty years scientists have entered into a very dangerous paradigm relative to creating what I deem as 'Frankstein' foods better known as Genetic Modified Organism (GMO). We do not know enough about the long term and short term health affects that GMO foods could possibly have on human beings and how it will impact future society (is this a health risk that we are willing to take?). The pharmaceutical companies, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Center for Disease Control (CDC), etc; are working in cahoots with high level U.S. governmental politicians and with private business conglomerates that are more powerful than governments to move us more toward a GMO and synthetic drug society (they have induced these market trends based on profit motives).

I think to allow powerful corporate conglomerates such as Monsanto, DuPont, Bayer, etc., to monopolize the agricultural food seeds (in direct violation of U.S. anti-trust laws) and use their wealth and influence to alter our food processes in the name of profit incentive in my opinion is a crime against humanity. We as a society might look back on when GMO was allowed to enter our food markets and perhaps in the not so distance future will come to see linkages to higher incidents of all forms of cancer, Diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer,autism, down syndrome, child and adult obesity, mental health diseases, hypertension, etc., will the GMO food paradigm potentially increase early mortality rate in the U.S.?

There are just too many health unknowns about the GMO science because it is relatively new and still evolving in which to adequately assess and evaluate the health and nutritional risk will ultimately take decades of scientific testing (yet that should not curtail our speculations and inquiry to proceed with caution when it comes to assessing any process that alters our food from its natural and original state, moreover should be enough to sound the alarm in spite of the government signing off on bio-tech food as allegedly being safe). Some European countries do not allow GMO foods to be imported or grown in their countries (for example, GMO is banned in Germany, Scotland, France, Italy, Austria, Greece, Poland, and Belgium). The United Statesshould have followed the lead of other western and industrialized nations whom many have shown reservations about Genetic Modified Organism and are fearful of the possible health ramifications. Although, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared GMO to be safe for human consumption, it has many nations in the world skeptical of this unproven contention.

I think all GMO foods and products grown, manufactured and sold should have warning labels from the oversight regulatory agencies such as the Center for Disease Control (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that state on the labeling packages (GMO is considered toxic, poison, hazardous, biohazard, etc.).

1).GMO food products have been altered from its original state and all the health science and evidence are not in and any human consumption of this product could lead to long term and short term illnesses and even death. Eat at your own risk.

2). GMO products could possibly put you at risk for cancer, heart disease, obesity, Diabetes, etc., and/or other debilitating diseases, which could lead to sickness and an even death. Eat at your own risk.

3). All GMO products could negatively affect your human reproduction, infertility and could cause childbirth deformities and sterilization. Eat at your own risk.

4). I advise all consumers who partake and consume GMO products at your own risk, but we legally indemnify ourselves from any potential lawsuits or litigation that might be directly or indirectly caused by human consumption of any and all GMO products.

I think we all in the United States of America and the entire human family could benefit from good natural health practices and cures presented by herbal doctors, homeopathic practitioners, organic nutritional scientist, and natural healers who have been led to revisited the curing, healing and treatment remedies of plant based medicines in order to create a more natural path to wellness—these ancient sciences have been around since the dawn of time. Health care should be a human entitlement and nationalized with no free market incentives. The food and pharmaceutical racketeers do not desire for us to know that natural herbal medicinal healing power was here and practiced for generations amongst all indigenous people and cultures of the earth (they were the first practitioners of holistic natural medicine).

Indigenous people of mother earth understood the mind, body and spirit and how these entities worked in direct correlations to the spiritual laws of the universe and applied these sciences in unison to living in harmony with God and all its creation. Social Darwinism and the survival of the fittest was rooted in European ethos and at the formation of the United States, it would be the impetus to the establishment of rugged capitalism and what Adam Smith called in his book titled, The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations the inception of the free enterprise system which has created global social and economic disparities. Moreover, when indigenous people planted and farmed crops they did so in respect of the universal principles that governs mother earth; the Europeans worked and did just the opposite and this is what has created a universal imbalance on the earth between God and man, this is the root of the mindset that has led to the exploitation of human and natural resources that have truly upset the physical and spiritual balance on the planet.

They as I have stated above, created such an imbalance in nature that the bees are being destroyed and crops and plants are not being adequately pollinated and this has led to bee farms and bees are now being imported in which to pollinate farmer’s crops. The wealth disparity phenomenon in America and throughout the globe is systematically being driven by greed (there is enough resources on the earth to comfortably sustain every human being on the planet) relative to having wholesome and healthy foods, which should not be a barrier based on false economic and social standards of living models that are rooted in greed and capitalism that benefits the few and subjugate the masses. The Earth's energy has moved into a negative sphere and it is destined to continue to turn against man until we learn how to once again live in harmony and peace with this magnificent planet we call earth and is considered our home.

My African ancestors (in particular my great, great, great grandparents who arrived to Georgiaand were made slaves) did not have an almanac chart, which to advise them when it would be in the best complimentary good of the universe to put seeds in the ground. Many so-called African American farmers in the old South could not read and write and by the white man’s standards they were considered illiterate; but they were highly literate about God, the astrological powers and phenomenon in observing and obeying the principles relative to the laws of cause and effect and the powers that governs the laws of attraction. Indigenous people understood the importance of living in the Kemetic spirit of Maat—harmony, justice, balance, equilibrium, reciprocity, etc.

Many Africans who were forced into Chattel slavery had direct blood lineages to the Dogons and were well versed in the meaning of the constellations of the stars and studied the moon and communicated in a spiritual way with the heavenly bodies, which instructed them on the highest level of agriculture/horticulture science and they knew how to systematically chart the sun, moon and stars (these black farmers knowledge were beyond some of the astrological pseudo science associated with daily horoscope readings—their charts were written deep into the subconscious of the human psyche) to ensure the harvest outcome would be abundantly rewarding based on their projection of the phases of the moon (they never planted out of season and everything we ate was naturally grown and organic). They were in direct communication with a higher spiritual force and they had respect for the land.

They did not rely on pharmaceutical drugs and synthetic medicines as treatment alternatives, they went directly to Mother Earth for all medicinal solutions. I preach to young African American sisters the importance of having a willingness to learn about what it means to be the Goddesses of the universe (our babies and what we put in them is sacred, it will determine if we have a future as a people). There is no alternative to breastfeeding (God does not make any mistake in his creation, mother's milk is the life blood of our children's health for today and tomorrow) cow milk and formulas are manufactured in the laboratories of the wickedly wise who practice 'tricknology' and stand opposite of God and his will as the Creator. The black woman has to be the scientist in the house by ensuring the family is getting wholesome cooked food and prepared (eating live and non-GMO foods and having a daily diet of organic foods). Yes, having a garden and practicing sustainable planting and eating from the harvest, it is both physical and spiritually rewarding. Our sisters in particular have to be the natural healers, doctors, nutritionist and homeopathic scientists.

I was going through my library looking for a certain book and I pulled out a book that I have had for some years, it was not the book of my intentions. Yet, I believe that I was led to this book and it was beyond coincidental, which was authored by Kurt Mendelssohn titled, The Riddle of the Pyramids, I started skimming through the pages of the book and just started reading and more I read there was a section in the book dealing with Imhotep whom the Greeks called Asklepios he was the father of medicine and the Greeks stole their Hippocratic oath from the black Nubian scientist. Powerful not so coincidental knowledge, Imhotep built the first step pyramid.

Moving right along Dr. Sebi held a dual citizenship status of American and Honduran, perhaps was one of the greatest and most profound natural Healers in the late 20^th and 21^st century in which he was assassinated in Hondurasthis past August 2016 and as I write this article, we still do not know the full circumstances surrounding our brother's death. Our Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members and Negro leader have been relatively silent on Dr. Sebi's death. We should support Donald Trump’s agenda of deporting every illegal Honduran alien in the United States until we get answers from the Honduran Government about what happened to Dr. Sebi and the cause of him dying in a filthy Honduran jail. We should force the CBC to initiate congressional hearings into the death of Dr. Sebi and if they fail to comply to an open investigation, our black lawmakers should lobby the full congress to impose economic sanctions and embargoes against the nation of

Honduras

Dr. Sebi’s perspective on homeopathic treatments, organic natural cures, and wellness put him on a collision course (he was perhaps the only natural herbalist and healer who took on the United States Government after being indicted for practicing medicine without a license and won his case in the New York Supreme Court). Dr. Sebi had cured black people who had cancer, diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, hypertension, HIV, etc. I believe the United States Government was complicit in the assassination. Dr. Sebi’s natural approach to medicine and dispensing treatments solely from organic plant based herbs and natural healing products were creating positive health results, but in the end this did not matter in the grand scheme of things—all though this might have appeared as unconventional medicine to some, but the American Medical Association were fully aware of the health benefits of natural homeopathic medicine; the pharmaceutical companies saw him as threat to their profit and capitalist interest (our health is played as a commodity on the stock exchange, it is about money).

They prefered creating prescription drug dependence and causing addiction on prescription medications (giving rise to legal medicated dope feigns) and feeding the long money chain associated with occidental medicine and/or synthetic medicines as opposed to supporting natural herbal based treatments (which is better and less expensive, as well as being a lot less dangerous relative to the side effects). Dr. Sebi was deemed a threat because he offered inexpensive organic wellness treatments to black people Dr. Sebi was definitely assassinated, because his perspective on wellness was transformative on the lives of us as Africans on the continent and us who live in the Diaspora (Dr. Sebi became a threat to the powers that-be). Organic food growing is essential to our personal and collective sustainability (liberation means nothing, if we cannot feed ourselves all revolutions are based on land). Our Elders and great grandparents knew how to use the blessings and life offerings that came from Mother Earth to cure and treat diseases, viruses, sicknesses and illnesses by understanding the natural environment in which they lived (man and woman first studied from the natural creation) and from there found every solution that lends itself to the question of life sustainability. The ancient masters of the universe taught African people (and this knowledge was passed down to them old black farmers in the south) they did not rely on pharmaceutical drugs and synthetic medicines as treatment alternatives (unnatural and chemical based remedies), they went directly to Mother Earth for all medicinal solutions.

But it all starts from having the knowledge of self and using our kitchen as our sacred sanctuaries to cook and prepare wholesome foods that have life (yes digging a plot in our yard and planting is an excellent first step and eating from our harvest is next to heaven on earth). We must make our food our medicine and our medicine our food. The health and wellness pieces that I have written are perhaps some of the most vital pieces in our struggle for liberation and those writings outweigh everything that I have written relative to philosophy and ideology. We have no more time for saying I am not equipped or I am not prepared, if we are not ready and prepared to move forward in 2017, our future off-springs will render us a generation of cowards and beggars who did nothing, but worked in complicit with the devil and his white supremacy agenda. I must always emphasize the importance of studying liberating materials. Here are some titles on my reading list and are in my library:Alkaline Herbal Medicine: Reverse Disease and Heal the Electric Body by Aqiyl Aniys, How To Eat To Live, by Elijah Muhammad, African Holistic Health, by Llaila Afrika: Heal Thyself for Health and Longevity by Queen Mother Afua, Vaccines are Dangerous by Curtis Cost, Colin Health: The Key to a Vibrant Life by Norman W. Walker, The Herb Book by John Lust, The Master Cleanser with Special Needs and Problems by Stanley Burroughs, The Natural Way by Dr. Paul Goss, More Ultimate Healing by Bottom Line Publication, The Hog: Should it be Used for Food, etc.

The huge food conglomerates who specializes in Genetic Modified Organism (GMO) foods and products such as Monsanto, DuPont, Bayer (biotech giants), etc; in which ties them directly to powerful international trading companies like Archer, Daniel, Midland (ADM), Cargill, ConAgra, Tate and Lyle, etc., this is a huge industry that has residual off spins to teaching universities such as Harvard University, University of California--San Francisco, Duke University, Columbia University, John Hopkins University, Stanford University, Yale University, etc. Educational endowments are established by billionaire Invisible Hand Elitist (research grants are allocated and disbursed and fellowships are made available) and the pharmaceutical companies use their lobbying influence on Capitol Hill and monetary influence, as well as power to persuade these prestigious teaching universities to initiate and fast-track in getting potential profitable medicines and treatment therapies moving in the right direction pursuant to getting approved for clinical and research trials, that are often endorsed in the interest of capitalist motives and not necessarily in the best heath interest of the American people or the international society at large (synthetic medicines are a trillion dollar industry).

The National Rifle Association (NRA), the weaponry and armament lobby who solicited U.S.government contracts to buy and sell weapons around the world, the Jewish Lobby and the pharmaceutical lobby are some of the most powerful lobby groups on Capitol Hill and in WashingtonDC. Dr. Sebi and others who teaches natural healing and homeopathic alternative treatments will never be well received—just think over this as I have stated above Monsanto has a patent on the seeds (monopoly on the food chain), which violates all the universal laws established by God and go against the will of the Supreme Being—this also goes against the United States jurisprudence systems relative to antitrust laws and laws that governs corporate monopoly. Monsanto actually controls whether or not humanity will continue to exist (and has patents on creating GMO 'Frankstein' food).

Lastly, we should be on the street corners proselytizing—in the churches, synagogues, mosques, etc., in the institutions of higher learning and academics or wherever our people are teaching them and imparting the knowledge and wisdom to awaken and enlightened them to the pending danger that lie ahead. I am quite sure most of you who visited my Blog understand and have already decoded Donald Trump's political agenda and have deciphered why he has all these white ultra nationalist billionaires in his cabinet. However, Trump coming to power and the present national and global predicament cannot be assessed outside of the scheme of white supremacy. We all have a personal responsibility to take it upon ourselves to make a bigger difference in our personal lives and the community (we have no choice the handwriting is on the wall). We can no longer shun our God giving responsibility, in particular, if you know and understand who God and the devil is. We do not need charismatic leaders to guide us anymore—you are the messenger (interpreted to mean Abraham, Moses, Noah, Jesus and Muhammad are dead and will not be returning to this earth, but you are here now). If you have been awakened to some of this knowledge then you have a mandate from a Higher Source and a responsibility to enlightened and stand on that which you know to be the truth. We all will forever be students in our eternal quest to know and learn. Yet, our spiritual and intellectual growth will always revolve around how discipline we are when it comes to study and developing ourselves as human beings. We have to be willing to do the research and internalize our history, traditions and culture before European slavery, colonialism and imperialism. Truth frees our bodies and minds only then will we put ourselves in the best position to alter change. All knowledge is inspired and we take no credit for the universal wisdom, it belongs and comes from God and we are only vessels and servants being used to execute his will.