Photo above posted on Fb by Saladin Ameer Muhammad African Americans are suffering today because of their recent ancestors’ rejection (during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s) of good advice that came from Elijah Muhammad and the Nation Of Islam ( NOI ). Elijah Muhammad did not teach true Al-Islam; nevertheless he was an inspiration sent by The Creator of the Heavens and Earth, to his people; the mentally enslaved African Americans. He was not a prophet, but he was a messenger sent to uplift the people of African descent; living in ‘the wilderness of North America’. He taught his people from the Bible instead of the Qur’an, because the majority of African Americans were Christians; and he was not knowledgeable of the Qur’an. Many African American today will heap praises on Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali; while totally ignoring these two men leader and teacher; Elijah Muhammad. But Elijah Muhammad was the spark that gave both of these men life. Not just these two famous personalities; but thousands of African American men and women. African American boys and girls became men and women. Elijah Muhammad made ‘men’ out of many ‘boys.’ If more Negroes had listened to him, African Americans would be more successful now in America. During the 1960s because of Elijah Muhammad’s spokesman Malcolm X and heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, the message of the Nation of Islam was well known among many African Americans. The weekly newspaper, Muhammad Speaks, started by Malcolm X, was sold in every major city in America. African Americans would have made much better progress in America if the majority had accepted the teachings of Elijah Muhammad and the NOI during those years. The sad situation that African Americans now find themselves in; would not be the same if their mothers and fathers had followed Elijah Muhammad. Alas, the only thing the majority of African Americans took from the teachings of Elijah Muhammad and the NOI; was to call themselves ‘ black .’ THE BLACKMAN Elijah Muhammad and the leaders of the NOI was the only group that advocated the term ‘black’ as a racial identification for people of African descent; rather than ‘Negro.’ Negro, since the 1920s was the official name for our race in America. Every newspaper, magazine, radio, television etc. all over the world, referred to people of African descent, as Negroes. There is no evidence that there was any individual or group, before the 1960s, that advocated the term black as a racial identification for African Americans except Elijah Muhammad and the NOI. Malcolm X ridicules the term Negro on many occasions in his speeches. Because of Malcolm X’s constant ridiculing of Negroes; t he term Negro became synonymous with being an ‘ Uncle Tom. ‘ An Uncle Tom was an insulting term that meant a person of African descent, loved Caucasians and everything that Caucasians did; rather than love their own people. Because of this constant ridiculing of the term negro, by members of the NOI; after the mid 1960s, no African American leader or any other person of African descent, wanted to be referred to as a Negro. The militant groups that were created after Malcolm X’s death in the mid 1960s, all called themselves ‘black this or black that.’ Black became a hip and rebellious term. It also became synonymous with being proud of your African, racial heritage. In time the word Negro disappeared completely from newspapers, radio, and television, as a racial identification for African Americans. All because of the NOI and Elijah Muhammad’s promotion of black as a racial identification for our people. James Brown once said, in response to a compliment of his song, “Say it Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud;” that the inspiration for his song came from Elijah Muhammad. WHAT ELSE DID AFRICAN AMERICANS ACCEPT FROM ELIJAH MUHAMMAD?

All the other thing that Elijah Muhammad taught like:

1: People of African descent should stop worshiping a Caucasian image, as The Creator.

He also taught that African Americans should stop worshiping a Caucasian, so-called son of the Creator.

But the majority of African Americans rejected this advice.

Elijah Muhammad taught, that this worship of a Caucasian image as a god:

Made his people believe that Caucasians were a superior race.

Made them believe that Caucasians were more intelligent and more beautiful, than they were.

Made them subliminally believe, that all Caucasians were related to the Creator.

Made them believe, that all Caucasians were more favoured by The Creator, than any other race of people.

THE SIGNS OF INFERIORITY



To show their subservience to Caucasian beauty standards; the majority of women of African descent, were straightening their hair and many were bleaching their skins in order to look like Caucasian women .

2: Elijah Muhammad also taught African Americans:

To stop using the slave family names given to our ancestors by Caucasians during slavery.

The slave masters gave their slaves their European names, in order to mark them as their property.

Giving the slaves their European names showed that they owned them.

That they were an subdued people. That they were not a free people.

The names identified which slave master the slaves belonged to.

Elijah Muhammad said, by continuing to use these slave names; so long after the end of slavery, showed that mentally, we still belonged to Caucasians.

He said that all members of the NOI would temporarily use our first names but our last names should be an X.

An X would be our last name; because we didn’t know our historical family name from Africa.

That African family name was unknown.

He said in time we would get rid of the X, when we received a name associated with our religion of Islam.

Or as he put it we would receive a “holy name.”

3: Elijah Muhammad taught that husbands should take full responsibility (financially, educationally, spiritually) for their families.

4: Also that our women should be better mothers to their children. To show their children an example of decency and modesty.

5: For our people to stop drinking alcohol and taking drugs.

6: He taught us how to eat to live. He told us that we were digging our graves with our teeth by feeding our bodies unhealthy foods (like pork) and chemically made drinks.

7: He told us to stop committing fornication and adultery.

To stop wasting our energies partying every weekend.

8: To stop wasting our earnings gambling (playing the numbers), and to use our hard earned money to develop the economic foundation of our communities.

That we should pool our resources (combine our money) in order to develop our own communities.

9: To stop the senseless violence among our young men who were being attracted to criminal and gang life, etc etc.

All of Elijah Muhammad’s common sense messages to the people of African descent were soundly rejected.

Except calling themselves ‘ black ‘.

The majority of our people jumped on the ‘calling ourselves black bandwagon.’

I believe this swift change was aided by the media and those who have been manipulating the Caucasian people for centuries.

This helped their scheme by further dividing the races (white, black).

False love of Malcolm X

African Americans loved Elijah Muhammad’s spokesman, Malcolm X.

They loved him when he spoke against Caucasian America or the US government or when he became more militant after leaving the NOI.

But they totally ignored the majority of what Malcolm spoke about in regards to Elijah Muhammad’s teachings; except as I said before to call themselves ‘black.’

Even now the majority of our people want to be identified as ‘black.’

Unfortunately, since we have been calling ourselves black; we are now more divided than we have ever been in our history.

Do the research yourself.

Many of our people now believe that we have recently become united; because there are so many among us shouting that, “ black lives matter .”

But that slogan ‘black lives matter’ seemed to be addressed primarily to Caucasians.

The advocates of the black lives matter campaign, keep on running up to Caucasian politicians, demanding they say that black people matter.

We are once again begging Caucasians, to accept and respect us as a people.

We are begging Caucasians, to respect our lives as being equal to the lives of others.

But what are we doing concretely among ourselves to stop the daily, senseless ‘black on black’ killings in our own neighborhoods?

In the majority of African American communities we are doing absolutely nothing.

Many are waiting for some politician from the city, state or Federal government to step in and solve the problem.

Does ‘black lives’ only matter when Caucasians are shooting and killing blacks?

Doesn’t ‘black lives’ matter when African Americans are shooting and killing other African Americans?

All of our so-called ‘black’ leaders should have been meeting (monthly at least) to formulate a plan to stop this ‘black on black’ crime epidemic. This should have been done many, many years ago. Instead these so-called ‘black’ leaders keep claiming that it is because of lack of job opportunities, no economic development in our communities, racism, etc. etc. Still waiting and wanting others to do for us what we MUST do for ourselves. Many of them are now blaming President Obama because he didn’t solve the problems of ‘blacks’ in America. Many of these silly minded people claim that Obama didn’t have a ‘ black agenda’ . So no matter how much we proclaim to Caucasians that ‘black lives matter;’ nothing will change, until we African Americans develop a strategy to make our people and communities better as Elijah Muhammad taught us. WHY DID OUR PEOPLE REJECT ELIJAH MUHAMMAD? Oh, why did African Americans reject what Elijah Muhammad taught? Was it because he taught us that the ‘white’ man was the devil? The majority of people of African descent then, and many still do, have an overwhelming love for Caucasians. African Americans had been taught to worship Caucasian imagery as god since their ancestors were slaves. Their slave ancestors had been told that Jesus had suffered; just like they were suffering from slavery and racial mistreatment. They were told that Jesus understood their suffering. That Jesus loved them. That Jesus was one Caucasian who loved them unconditionally. And if they prayed to Jesus; he would one day end their suffering. Our people always wanted to see the good in all Caucasians. We forgave them for their faults; because we wanted them to change their hearts; and behave as kind and loving as Jesus was. Despite the hateful, brutal and terrible treatment we received from Caucasians we still believed that everything that was good, pure and beautiful was ‘white.’ We had been taught that everything ‘angelic and godly’ was white. Elijah Muhammad was trying to break that psychological chain of slavery that surrounded our hearts and minds by telling us that the ‘white man’ was the devil. We believed that we could not do anything unless Caucasians gave us approval. In addition, the majority of our women believed that the only way to be beautiful was to imitate Caucasian women. And many of our men in the entertainment industry and gangster life ‘conked’ (straightened) their hair. They believed it made them more handsome. There was no question in our people’s minds that Caucasians were more physically beautiful than we were. Elijah Muhammad sent an electric jolt to our system by telling us that, ‘ the white man was the devil. ‘

Elijah Muhammad did not teach ‘white’ people were devils; so that we should hate Caucasians.

Elijah Muhammad DID NOT hate Caucasians.

He taught the members of the NOI, to respect everyone who treated them with respect; even if that person was a Caucasian.

He taught them that ‘the duty of a civilized man, was to teach civilization’ to people whose behaviour was like a savage.

If many of the Caucasian peoples’ behaviour was savage we had to exemplify a more civilized behaviour, in response to their savagery.

That they had to show Caucasian Americans and people of African descent; that civilization was not skin color but how Human Beings treated each other.

He wanted to prove that Caucasians were not the only ones with the keys to a successful life.

He was trying to get his people away from dependency on Caucasians.

So instead of becoming independent in both body and mind; we rejected everything Elijah Muhammad taught, except as I said so many times before, calling our race ‘ black .’

For this rejection of good advice from Elijah Muhammad; The Creator of the Heavens and Earth has allowed African Americans to wander aimlessly and un-united for the past 40 years in the “Wilderness of North America.’

After the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975, his son Wallace Mohammed, became the leader of the then Nation of Islam.

Wallace Mohammed taught that Caucasians were not a race of devils as his father had said.

He taught that there were devils among all races of people.

The behaviour of a person dictated whether they were good or evil; not because of their race.

No Human Being was born evil.

He later changed the name from the Nation of Islam (NOI) to The World Community of Islam in the West .

Minister Farrakhan later separated himself from the World Community of Islam in The West and reformed a new Nation Of Islam.

But this new Nation Of Islam under Minister Farrakhan, has been nothing like it was during the lifetime of Elijah Muhammad.

For 33 years Imam Wallace Mohamed shone a bright light of true Islam to all Americans.

He taught us that The All-Mighty Creator was more important than anything in life.

He showed us clearly that The Merciful Creator has always been with African Americans, even during the darkest days of slavery.

That their ancestors suffering had created a certain kind of spirit and mentality in them.

A spirit and mentality that was capable of solving the world’s problems.

And that it was African Americans’ complete faith and trust in a Merciful Creator; is the reason why they have survived such a brutal and oppressive history in America.

Survive in a sense that they didn’t become filled with rage and hate against the people responsible for their historical oppression.

He gave sound guidance on how to improve our people’s life in America and the world; but, the majority of our people totally ignored what he taught.

During the time of Wallace Mohammed’s leadership, many of our people had turned away from trusting in our Creator.

Many African Americans fell under the spell of Atheism .

They blamed Caucasian Christians for their enslavement and brutal treatment after slavery end.

In their condemnation of Christianity they have foolishly rejected all religion.

Many are now turning back to worshiping the ‘gods’ that the people of Ancient Egypt and some of the primitive tribes in Africa worshiped.

Historically many ancient African Nations including Egypt, brought punishment and destruction upon themselves, for worshiping false gods.

When Clear Guidance came to some of those African Nations from The All-Mighty Creator, they rejected it.

Many intelligent people with religious insight knows that what happened to the people of Africa (enslavement and colonization) was Divine Punishment for some wrongdoing done in the past.

For African Americans to now go back and resurrect these idol gods for worship, makes no sense.

That is just like people deciding to worship the gods that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah worshiped.

The results will be the same.

Divine Punishment for setting up idol gods to the One True Lord-Creator.

We have been under a curse for the past 40 years for our rejection of good moral and social advice from our Creator that came through Elijah Muhammad.

It is now 2019 and our people are still begging Caucasians to respect us.

But the daily behaviour of African Americans in our neighborhoods, shows that we have no respect for the property and lives of each other.

Robbing and murdering each other shows a lack of love for the members of their own race.

We also continue to hear that some darker skinned members of the race, are being mistreated by other African Americans.

We have to value and respect each other before others will value and respect us.

Some of us who faithfully followed the moral messages of the NOI under Elijah Muhammad, became more useful members to our people, our country and to the Human Family.

We were attracted to the more important things taught by the NOI, not just that the ‘white man is the devil.’

Or that the ‘Asiatic blackman’ was god.

African Americans MUST now take full responsibility for the growth and development of our people and our neighborhoods.

We must work to improve the sad situation of the African American people.

We are the ONLY ones that can do this.

We must stop waiting for Caucasian Americans to solve our problems.

We must first proclaim to each other that ‘black lives matter.’

Then once we fully accept that; then it will never be necessary to say that to any other race.

The members of other races will then see a unified race of people of African descent.

They will see the love and respect that we have for each other.

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“We don’t seem to realise that it is not ingrained in any race of people to have respect for IMITATORS.

No race of people on Earth, will have true respect for people who are doing everything they can, to change their physical appearance in order to look like another race.

No race of people on Earth will have respect for the people of African descent until we learn to respect our own physical beauty.

We must be truly proud of our dark complexion; our thick kinky hair; our broad noses and our thick lips.”

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Warith (or Wallace) Deen Mohammed the son of Elijah Muhammad. Taught true Islam for 33 years. Early in his leadership, he advised people of African descent, to stop calling our race ‘black.’ READ ALSO: Calling Caucasians ‘white people’ makes them believe that they are a superior race. You are unwittingly promoting racism and Caucasian supremacy, whenever you call Caucasians, ‘white’. Click below to ‘read’ the complete article. Thanks. https://chiniquy.wordpress.com/2015/06/07/the-error-in-calling-caucasians-white/ I posted this on Facebook 5 years ago. The above article came from this Fb post 🙂 Remember folks, that the Nation of Islam (NOI) under the leadership of the Honourable Elijah Muhammad with his articulate spokesman Malcolm X was primarily responsible for stopping African Americans from calling themselves, “Colored or Negro people,” and to start calling themselves “blacks.” Malcolm ridiculed the term Negro on so many occasions that most of the African American leadership stopped using it. Looks at documentaries made about our people during the 1950s and early 1960s. Negro was the accepted term used to identify African Americans After Malcolm’s death many up and coming radicals used the term blacks instead of Negroes to show their radicalism. The media and also many of our people who were viewed by many as “uncle toms” started using the term blacks to identify African Americans. Too bad African Americans didn’t follow the moral, business and social message of the NOI as taught by Elijah Muhammad. He taught us to stop drinking alcohol, stop taking drugs, stop all immoral activities, get married and to take care of our families, taught us how to eat the proper and beneficial foods, to take care of our neighbourhoods, establish businesses in our community, buy products from anywhere in the world (especially from Africa), establish a strong financial base for our people here in America, educate our children so that they will be able to compete with anyone on Earth etc. All these things that Elijah Muhammad taught has been ignored by the majority of African American except using the term, ‘black’ as a racial identification. We are under the delusional thinking that calling ourselves ‘blacks’ has united us. Far from it! We are more divided now than we have ever been since our ancestors were kidnapped from Africa and enslaved in the Americas. (In America now) Our people are in a much better situation, educationally and financially to bring about major changes in the condition and thinking of African Americans. Instead we find the majority of our people wasting their finances and energies imitating the behaviour of Caucasian Americans. Our people don’t believe that the bad situation that exist among African

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