10 Reasons to Support Farrakhans Presence On College Campuses

Weekly Newsletter Volume 3, Number 15

by Demetric Muhammad

1. Minister Farrakhans Message of Self-Reliance is perfect for Black college students. The Chronicle of Higher Education published an article, written by Ohio University professor of economics Richard Vedder, titled Why Did 17 Million Students Go to College? In this article Vedder documented all the Americans with high-level-education degrees that are either not working in their field or not working at all. Over 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees (over 8,000 of them

have doctoral or profes-sional degrees), along with over 80,000 bar-

tenders, and over 18,000 parking lot attendants. All told, some 17,000,000 Americans with col-lege degrees are doing jobs that the BLS [Bureau of Labor Statistics] says require less than the skill levels associated with a bachelors degree. At least 5,057 PhDs are working as janitors. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhans mes-sage is the antidote to this problem of students graduating from school and being unable to get a job commensurate with their skills, talents, abilities and education. Minister Farrakhan has long taught what is a staple of NOI teachingsthat Black students should get an education that enables them to go into business, become en-

Minister Farrakhans Southern College Tour

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Minister Farrakhan addressed student leaders from HB-

CUs at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on April 2,

2011. Photo: Mikal Veale

trepreneurs and be in a position to employ our own people. Jews do this all the time and they are suc-cessful.

2. Minister Farrakhan teaches students to avoid the pitfalls of student loan debt. The Minister spoke recently at UC Berkeley, where students gradu-ate with an average debt of $16,056, according to a recent NBC article written by Ayesha Minhaj. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan teaches that debt is slavery. The Nation of Islam has always taught Black people that we should be thrifty and spend and invest our money wisely. The Ministers message to the students will guide them into fields that will give them the greatest ROI or return on their investment of time, money and effort.

3. The ban against Minister Farrakhan on college campuses is a weapon in the ongoing economic, political and social crucifixion of strong Black lead-ership. The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume 2, lists many who were victims of Jewish castigation and consequent economic retaliation only because they dared to critique Jewish behavior and venture into the arena of economic independence. (Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Booker T. Washington, Oprah Winfrey, Julian Bond and Bishop Desmond Tutu et al have all been labeled at some point in their careers as anti-Semitic.)

The paternalistic Jewish strategy for Black self-helpknown as non-economic liberalismwas developed by the Jewish president and founder of the NAACP, Joel Spingarn. Spingarn and his Jewish and Gentile cohorts steered Blacks far away from the world of commerce and trade and banking and finance, even though, according to the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Jews were pioneers in the pri-mary stages of capitalist development and therefore held a dominant position in these cultural economic functions which may be called the nervous system of capitalist economy. Banking, the stock market, export and import fall within this classification. Joel Spingarn nonetheless advised W.E.B. Dubois and the NAACP to adopt the lame-duck strategy of

non-economic liberalism. This pointed avoidance of economics has made all our efforts in the fields of politics, education and law futile, because our activi-ties lacked a collective economic component.

4. Zionist criticism of Minister Farrakhan is unjustified. Raising the Ministers words to the level of deeds is an illogical fallacy. It is especially irrational when you consider that Farrakhans words have never harmed a Jewish man, woman or child. On the contrary, Jewish views of Blacks have had harmful effects all throughout history. For instance,

the so-called Curse of Hama Jewish Talmudic inventionalleges all Blacks and Africans have been cursed Black by the God of Abraham. This myth per-mitted the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to be carried on with religious zeal and fervor. And the Jews were sophisticated masters in this trade in Black human cargo. According to Dr. Arnold

Wiznitzer, Jews dominated the slave trade....The buyers who appeared at the auctions were almost always Jews, and because of this lack of competitors they could buy slaves at low prices. Slave trading, asserts Wiesenthal Center scholar Dr. Harold Brack-man, became a Jewish mercantile specialty. The Jewish Encyclopedia adds that Jewish commercial activity included a monopoly of the slave trade. In fact, a Jewish shipper had a monopoly on trade to the notorious slave dungeon at Gore Islandthe Aus-chwitz of the Black Holocaust. Dr. Rabbi Bertram Korn unequivocally stated: It would seem to be realistic to conclude that any Jew who could afford to own slaves and had need for their services would do so....Jews participated in every aspect and process of the exploitation of the defenseless blacks.

5. Blacks must be encouraged to unite as Jews and other ethnic groups in America have done. Minister Farrakhan encourages cooperation, broth-erhood and operational unity in his message to the students. The idea of unity is a strong theme in the religion of Islam. Eugenicist and racist Lothrop Stoddard, quoting British naval officer Charles El-liott, wrote in The Rising Tide of Color Against White

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The Ministers message to the students will guide them into fields that will give them the greatest ROI or return on their

investment of time, money and effort.

World Supremacy that Islam can still give [the Black Africans] a unity of which they are other-wise incapable.

6. Black youth of today are largely viewed as incorrigible. The source of influence for todays youth comes primarily from the Hip-Hop culture. And it is Minister Farrakhan who is the godfather of the Hip-Hop culture, as his 10-year New York ministry helped birth the popular youth culture in the Bronx in 1972. Hip-Hop bears the imprint of Minister Farrakhan, for it is a hybrid art form combining spoken word, musical accom-paniment and performance art. Minister Farrakhans pub-lic life reveals a devotion to the spoken word of truth and a musical virtuosity, as dem-onstrated by his mastery of the violin and concert perfor-mance. His connection to the Hip-Hop community auto-matically grants him entry to our youths hearts and minds.

7. Jewish Groups attack Farrakhan but the Nation of Islam teachings are laced with concepts familiar and agreeable to Jews. The Nation of Islam agrees with Jews that education, economic autono-my, marriage and family, ethnic loyalty, knowledge sharing and a disciplined personal life make com-munities strong and constitute the path to power. The Ministers message, therefore, if internalized by the students, becomes an equalizing force propel-ling the Black students from ignominy and poverty to honor and abundance, thus enabling them to share company with Jews and other members of the human family that are successfulnot only in busi-ness, but in all areas of life.

8. Minister Farrakhans spirit of revolutionary defiance is necessarily contagious. Jesus, Muham-mad, Martin Luther King Jr., Marcus Garvey and the great change agents of history never com-promised truth and principle to avoid controversy. They all were known for speaking truth to power. If the students internalize this spirit, they will become what the Black people of America need of a new intelligentsia that is passionate, principled,

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purified and prepared to lead our people toward a full and complete freedom.

9. There is a need for an Anti-War Movement among Black Students. Black, Latino and poor White youth make up the U. S. armed forces. They will be the casualties in Americas projected war with Iran. Americas foreign policies are influenced by the greedy multi-national corporations whose desire is to control and capitalize on the precious natural resources of other countries. These are the

same corporations that en-joy close relationships with the banks that become rich through student-loan debt. It is no accident that often the only opportunity for forgiveness of student loan debt comes in the guise of a military offer to repay student loans if they join the armed forces. The voice of Minister Farrakhan, like that of his teacher the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, warns the students not to join the U.S. governments war effort in

the Muslim world. Minister Farrakhan condemns Americas long history of using the poor to fight the wars of the rich, and his message to the students is that they should be conscientious objectors.

10. Minister Farrakhan awakens the students to their divine destiny. Every generation must make its mark on history. Black youth are the descendants of the Africans brought to America to be made slaves. That experience of enslavement has a scriptural and religious parallel: the Biblical and Quranic narra-tives of the enslavement of the Children of Israel. According to both Scriptures, it was the youth of the wandering Children of Israel who forged the way for their entire people to inhabit Gods Prom-ised Land. It was the youth, led by Joshua and Caleb, who were unafraid of and conquered the giants in that land and were consequently dubbed the Joshua Generation. Minister Farrakhan teach-es that Black youth are indeed the Joshua Genera-tion for our people. His message is the inspirational food that Black youth need to see themselves as this new generation of fearless leaders.

at South Africa owes its beginnings and continued energy to White and Black student demands that their colleges divest their South African investments.

This author, reporting for Black Issues In Higher Education in the 1990s, had a front row seat at many events raising Black awareness. The Cheikh Anta Diop conference at Temple University; the Whitney Young annual conference, and the honoring of the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, both at the University of Pennsylva-nia; and the Afro-German conference at Penn State University. One thing is for sure: Africans and Afri-cans in the Diaspora became a hot topic on college campuses across the nation.

In the 1980s, after a lull in the college campus ac-tivism of the sixties and seventies, there was a much-needed awakening by Min. Farrakhan and his surro-gates. Farrakhan began rebuilding the work of Nation

of Islam leader the Hon. Elijah Muhammad in late 1977, and his influ-ence on college campuses in the 1980s throughout most of the 1990s grew to become second to that of no other Black leader.

With his presence and the presentations made by representatives, a new crop of student leaders

that were members of the NOI emerged. Such student activists as Ati Cushmeer and Ashahed Muhammad became the presidents of Arizona State Universitys Black Student Union. During the same period on the East Coast, Conrad X Tilliard became the president of the Black Student League at the University of Penn-sylvania and James C. X Ball (now Jamil Muhammad) was elected the president of the Howard University Student Association.

NOI student activists, along with other student organizations, were responsible for the much-sought-after presence of Farrakhan and his representatives on college campuses. One such coalition of student orga-nizations was responsible for Farrakhans 1988 appear-ance at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Todays student groups across the nation are pick-ing up the banner and forming coalitions and invit-ing Min. Farrakhan to come and give a much-needed message of hope and inspiration. Whether its a coali-tion of student organizations at Howard University or

Farrakhans College Tour Represents A Return To

Student ActivismBy Jehron Muhammad

In 1960, the actions of Black college students from North Carolina A&T University in Durham at a Woolworth lunch counter sparked a wave of sit-ins in college towns across the South. Such actions on college campuses gave rise to civil rights organizations like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

This same period saw campus activism move beyond sit-ins as a result of students internalizing the messages of Nation of Islam (NOI) spokesperson Minister Malcolm X. His message of self-reliance and empowerment gave rise to cultural awareness among Black students, awakened Black pride and engendered a blossoming of true Black Nationalism. Students around America called for Black Studies curricula and for a greater Black representation on campus faculties.

NOI leader the Honorable Minister Louis Farra-khan echoed this history during his historic recent ap-pearance at University of California, Berkeley, where Min. Malcolm was banned in 1961.

His lecture at UC Berkeley is part of a college tour that began at Howard University and continues at four Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) in the South (April 11-16), including Alabama A&M University, Tennessee State University, Lemoyne-Owen College and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

The importance of this lecture tour, and the role such inspirational and motivational voices have played in the rise of activism on college campuses, cannot be overlooked. The anti-Vietnam War demonstrations were inspired in part by another NOI spokespersonheavyweight champion of the world Muhammad Ali. His refusal to be drafted sparked widespread refusals and activism. The anti-apartheid movement directed

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Min. FARRAKHANs Southern College Tour

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5a coalition of student groups like the Alabama A&M Democrats and the Alabama A&M Poetry Club at Alabama A&M University, a new wave of activism on college campuses is emerging and requesting Farra-khan to jumpstart their movement.

Naysayers to the Ministers upcoming speech at Alabama A&M should listen to Rev. Al Garrett, who represents a group of ministers, including a Jewish rabbi, from the Interfaith Mission Service. Garrett, who along with his group is scheduled to meet with A&M president Dr. Andrew Hugine Jr., told a Hunts-ville Times reporter: It would seem to be wiser to have a panel discussion afterward to discuss what he [Farrakhan] has said. We really need to know and understand who this individual is who represents a group of people who are thinking the same thing.

Already Farrakhans message to college students is beginning to take effect.

Senzwa Ntshepe, a sophomore at George Washing-ton University in Wash. D.C., after viewing Min. Far-rakhans UC Berkeley lecture online with a group of campus friends, said: I believe that it is imperative no, obligatory for students to be active in their local, regional and national communities.

(Jehron Muhammad, who writes from Philadel-phia, Pa., can be reached at Jehronn@msn.com)

By Demetric MuhammadEvery generation must make its mark on his-

tory. Black youth are the descendants of the Africans brought to America to be made slaves. That experi-ence of enslavement has a scriptural or religious parallel: the Biblical and Quranic enslavement of the Children of Israel. It was the youth of the Children of Israelthe former slaves that rebelled against Moses divine directive and were thus condemned to wander in the wildernesswho forged the way for their entire people to inhabit Gods Promised Land. It was the youthled by Joshua and Calebwho were unafraid of and conquered the giants in that land and were therefore dubbed the Joshua Generation. Minister Farrakhan teaches that Black youth must become a

Joshua Generation for our people. This idea of a scriptural parallel or correspondent

theme or a fulfillment of scripture where the Black college student is concerned is a critical aspect of any analysis of the significance of Minister Farrakhans tour. At the root of such an analysis is the identity of Black People in America as revealed in the Scriptures. Minister Farrakhan has taught that the Jews of the State of Israel and elsewhere in the world are not the Children of Israel described in the Bible and Holy Quran. And most would be surprised to learn that leading Jewish historians and archeologists of Tel Aviv University in Israel agree with the Ministers position. Professors Shlomo Sand, Zeev Herzog and Israel Finkelstein all teach at Tel Aviv University and have written extensively on this point.

But the Minister also teaches that Blacks in Amer-ica are the real Children of Israel. This is the most con-troversial aspect of Minister Farrakhans position. Still, the fact remains that Blacks have been enslaved in America for more than 400 years. Consider that fact in light of the following verse: Then the LORD said to him, Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years (Genesis 15:13). All told, there are at least 98 passages in the Bible that connect the history of Blacks in America to the prophecy of the Children of Israel.

But the greatest scriptural principles relevant to Minister Farrakhans college tour are those that flow from the example of Jesus the Messiah. Jesus was the best that the Children of Israel ever produced. Jesus

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6was a courageous and principled youth. Jesus was filled with the divine spirit of revolutionary defiance when he ran corrupt moneychangers out of the tem-ple. Jesus was a respecter of women. Jesus was born to satisfy a need and a longing in his people. Like Joshua and Caleb he had a divine destinyand he ac-complished it as a young man. Never can anyone look at the life of Jesus, crucified while still in his 30s, and opine the oft-repeated truism that youth is wasted on the young. No, Jesus lived a purpose-driven life as a young man. Jesus gave his life for the deliverance of his people. He did not waste his youth in idle or frivo-lous pursuits. And this is what Minister Farrakhan is calling Black students to do: Be Like Jesus.

In a beautiful and enlightening exegesis of the 19th chapter of Luke, Minister Farrakhan once taught that Jesus gave freedom to a colt that was bound and tied. Minister Farrakhan explained that the colt, or young horse, represented the young college student. The colt had a master that he was tied and bound to, but Jesus said that the master had need of him. The Minister went on to teach that this referred to how the young Black intelligentsia is controlled by forces outside the Black community. These forces prevent the Black intel-ligentsia from truly serving our people in a way that satisfies their need and longing to secure justice, ob-tain actual equality, and be fully and completely free.

He lamented that the best and brightest of our people are not using their brilliance and creativity to lift Black people out of poverty, ignorance and despair.

The Minister says that God is the master that has need of or a plan for the Black college student. His plan is that the youth use their talents, knowledge, skill and ability to build a new society, civilization and world. God has put in the young a new and differ-ent spirit from that of their parents generation. In the young is a courageous and uncompromising mind and attitude that only need cultivation and guidance. And there is no better guide than the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.

Demetric Muhammad is in the student ministry class of Muhammad Mosque No. 55 in Memphis, Tennessee. He is also the author of In the Light of Scripture and A Complete Dictionary of the Supreme Wisdom Lessons.

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