Black men Will Avoid Being Made Obsolete by White Supremacy

“The ancient Egyptians had developed a very complex religious system, called the Mysteries, which was also the first system of salvation. As such, it regarded the human body as a prison house of the soul, which could be liberated from its bodily impediments, through the disciplines of the Arts and Sciences, and advanced from the level of a mortal to that of a God.”

-Dr. George G.M. James author of Stolen Legacy

(I will use African and Black interchangeably for people of African descent)

I recently saw a live stream of my former student at Weequahic High School in Newark, NJ broadcast her outrage over a Black man killing a Black woman (the Black woman was in a relationship with the Blackman) and her daughter in Ohio. The victims were from Newark, NJ. My former student was very angry about the senseless killing of the mother and child. She said in a statement on social media, “n -words are b-words. Men are supposed to be the providers and protectors of women, children, and family. Men are not supposed to be the killers of their wives or mates.” You can read about the story in its entirety by clicking on this link(https://www.rlsmedia.com/article/update-woman-child-found-shot-dead-inside-ohio-house-was-former-newark-nj-resident-0?fbclid=IwAR0eDCVgT4yNReGsa-UmeE3PAXzVSJQazrGubq8Sl03N3RHbPhQ5bs9G2b4). In another part of America, in Newark, NJ nine people were shot through the window of senseless community violence in a drive -by shooting on June 30, 2022. All the victims miraculously survived. You can read the article from this link (Shooting in N.J. city leaves 9 people wounded, officials say https://www.nj.com/essex/2022/06/multiple-shooting-in-nj-city-leaves-9-people-wounded-officials-say.html). The reason why I posted my student’s anger over the killing of a mother and her child and the drive-by shooting in the city of Newark is because the incidents were conducted by Black males. In many quarters of the Black community in the US, and all over the world, Black men are committing various acts of senseless community violence. Black men are not alone with conducting violence in the Black community. On the flip side, the police are committing violent acts upon the Black community; which for the most part are conducted by white men. But that is another discussion for another day. However, we as Black people must look both ways on the road to avoid senseless community violence and police violence at all times in America. And as a community leader, I am equally outraged with both senseless community violence and police violence plaguing the Black community. Both senseless community violence and police violence are two major issues affecting Black life in America. I have personally spent a great deal of my activist’s career fighting against both police violence and senseless community violence. Yes, masses of people will get out in the streets to protest police violence. And rightfully so. But when it comes to senseless community violence, very few lift a voice of anger to protest the senseless violence in the Black community. This is because when it comes specifically to reasons senseless community violence takes place in the Black community; most of us do not have a clear analysis (understanding) as to why some of the most reactionary acts of senseless community violence are still manifesting itself in 2022 and lack the drive to fix the problem. Most of the conditions that created senseless community violence stems from decades of poverty and centuries of institutional racism. Frankly, addressing senseless community violence takes long term hard work. Many people are unwilling to commit themselves to prolonged struggles to find the solutions to the problems with senseless community violence in the Black community. However, there is another reason why community senseless violence still prevails amongst Black people. And that is the lack of the knowledge of self. The masses of Black people, particularly Blackmen, don’t know our origin in the world, nor know our place in the world as the fathers of civilization. We must add some history, and I will add some of the lessons of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the 120 lessons of the Nation of Gods and Earths (NGE), to have a better understanding as to why white supremacy works to consistently disconnect Black people, particularly Black men, from the knowledge of self. As a Muslim the belief in Tauheed (Arabic for the oneness of the Creator), and following the Sunnah (the way) of Prophet Muhammad ibn Abdullah (May the Peace and Blessings of God Be Upon him) are paramount in Al-Islam. However, in Al-Islam people are given the right to acquire the knowledge of self for their culture. As an African American, my people's culture were denied the knowledge of self in American slavery and segregation to keep us in a permanent oppressive state. However, the road to liberation begins with the knowledge of self. This is why the knowledge of self is equally important. It gives a people purpose in life, self esteem, pride, respect for humanity, and Black empowerment. for this reason, the Creator blessed African people in America with Black power leaders, Black liberation movements, and Black liberation theology. They worked independently of white hegemony. They came into existence to educate Black people on the knowledge self, especially the Black man. And they did these things without the approval of white people or any non Black cultural groups. The wisdom of these Black leaders and Black movements are still with us today to tap into to help African people, especially Black men, find the pathway to the knowledge of self for power and self determination.

Maafa:

As a student of history, and as Muslim of African ancestry; there are lessons in our neighborhood that gives us a real education on our oppression. They are the following: African world history, the lessons of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and the lessons of the Nation of Gods and Earth. They all teach us the actual facts on the horrors of the Black Holocaust-the enslavement of Black people. In Kiswahili it is called the Maafa. The term Maafa means a great disaster.

In the Americas, US slavery psychologically and culturally damaged the Black man and the Black woman.

After nearly 246 years of US slavery, and 400 years of slavery overall in the Americas, slavery ended in the US in 1865. However, Black people never received any form of reparations to remedy the inhuman and horrific treatment we received by white people in America during slavery. The philosophical basis for slavery was the factitious white supremacists belief that Black people were inherently inferior backed up by white violence.

Even after slavery ended, and the era of reconstruction disintegrated in the late 1870s, another racial caste system was put in place to keep Black people in a permanent state of oppression. This racist caste system was called-US segregation. And US segregation in America lasted from 1896 to 1965. This is nearly 100 years of legal racism directed at Black people. We must also remember, the philosophical basis for US segregation was again the factitious white supremacists belief that Black people were inherently inferior backed up by white violence.

So let’s do the math. Let’s add 246 of American slavery plus 100 US segregation. We get 346 years of legal white supremacy and racial violence. After many centuries of racial violence directed at African people to make us submit to slavery and segregation (both American slavery and segregation were extremely violent towards people of African descent), I think it is fair to say that the Black community has internalized violence to manifest it against ourselves. Now I am not making any excuses for Black people to be violent, but we are mimicking the violent behaviors of our oppressors.

But let us get back to US slavery using history and the lessons of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the lessons Nation of Gods and Earths to give us a proper analysis of our condition.

History, the lessons of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and the lessons of the Nation of Gods and Earths teaches us that Black people were captured in Africa and made into slaves. History, the lessons of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and lessons of the Nation of Gods and Earths teaches us that to maintain the US system of enslaving Black people, white people indoctrinated into the minds and culture of Black people for us to believe we were uncivilized and savage negroes (n-words). But most importantly, white people made us believe we were a people without a history and culture.

Through this system of miseducation, white people intentionally and deliberately, trained Black people (men and women) to never acquire the knowledge of self (Black history) for hundreds of years, especially Black men.

History scholars on US enslavement call this experience the seasoning process to dislocate and de-center African people from our history and culture. In other words, Black people were forcibly white washed into the culture of Europeans. And its effects have lasted from the times of slavery to the present!

But the lessons of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Gods and Earths explain the oppressive slave making process of Black people in the same beam of light as history from a Black liberation theology angle.

The oppression of Black for hundreds years without any recourse made some of us see the white man as the devil (oppressor).

White people made us eat foods that were unhealthy for us. But the white man’s foods were not just something you physically eat. It was also the wrong information about our culture and history for the Black mind.

In the lessons of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the 1-36 degrees of his teachings are called English Lesson C-1 from the Supreme Wisdom, a book of instructions given to him by Master Fard Muhammad (the Founder of the Nation of Islam). The 10th degree starts by saying, “because the devil taught him how to eat the wrong foods.” It ends with degree 11 saying, “Does this have anything to do with above question #10.” Then the 12th degree follow up statement says, “Yes it made him other than self.” This racist tradition of keeping Black people miseducated is still in existence today.

Both Black men and Black women in America, and throughout the western world, are taught and trained to hate ourselves, to hate our Black woman, to hate our Black men, and to hate everything African 24 hours of the day every day from everyday life to television to social media.

The Plan to Keep Us Lost in the Wilderness of North America and the World:

As the lessons of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad further continues in the section called the Lost-Found Muslim Lesson #2 degrees 1-40 , it states that many of us have fallen into the 85%. This percentage represents the masses of people. In the 1-40, degree 14 says, “Who are the 85%? They are the uncivilized people, poison animal eaters, slaves of a mental death and power, people who do not know who the true and living GOD is or their origin in this world and worship what they know not what, who are easily led in the wrong direction but hard to be led in the right direction.”

Forcing us into the realm of the 85% are the 10%. Degree number 14 of the 1-40 says, “Who are the 10%? They are the rich slave makers of the poor, who teach the poor lies to believe the Almighty True and living GOD is a spook and cannot be seen by the physical eye. Otherwise known as the blood suckers of the poor.”

In another part of the lesson of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the 16th degree of the 1-40 says, “Who are the 5% on this poor part of the planet earth?” They are the Poor Righteous Teachers who do not believe in the teachings of the 10%, who are all wise and righteous and know who the true and living GOD is and teach the Almighty True and Living GOD is the Son of Man, Supreme Being, Blackman from Asia, who teaches Freedom, Justice and Equality to all human families of the planet earth, otherwise known as civilized people, also Muslims and Muslim Sons.”

Without a true knowledge of self, the Blackman will never reach power in America and in the world. But most importantly, the Black man will never be at peace.

This is why, at every turn in the US and in the world, we as Black people are prevented from receiving a true knowledge of self, especially Black men. Why? It is simple. The purpose is to set us Black men up for annihilation, destruction, and for own self destruction.

The Program to Place the Black man On Top of Civilization:

But despite white supremacy’s movement to make Black men obsolete, the Supreme Mathematics of 120 Lessons of the Nation of Gods and Earths given the youth in the 1960s by Father Allah (the founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths). His lessons teaches us that Black men are the foundation for life. To quote the Supreme Mathematics, we are “knowledge-the foundation of all existence.”

For centuries, and still counting, many of our Black men have become lost in North America due to the lack of the knowledge of self. But the Lessons of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Gods and Earth teaches us that all is not lost! This process of waking up the Blackman and Black woman to the knowledge of self started with a few pioneers in Black liberation.

Some of the class of the 5% are what we now call Black Nationalists, Pan Africanists, and Afrocentrists. Although they never taught the importance of the knowledge of self from the perspective of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Gods and Earths; they understood that Black people must know our history for us to find the pathway to Black empowerment and Black liberation. They are Black people such as Martin Delaney, Dr. W.E.B. Du Boise, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Joel A. Rogers, the Honorable Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X (Omowale El Hajj Malik El Shabazz), Kwame Ture, Huey P. Newton, Imari Obadele, Kwame Nkrumah, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Dr. Khalid Abdul Muhammad, Professor Ashra Kwesi, Professor Merira Kwesi, Dr. Yosef Ben Jochannan, Dr. Chancellor Williams, Dr. John G. Jackson, Dr. Francis Wells Cresling, Dr. Molefi Kete, Dr. Rikhty Amen, Dr. Maulana Karenga, Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop, Dr. Theophil Obenga, Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Dr. Na’am Akbar, Dr. Jacob H. Carruthers, Dr. Wade Nobles, Dr. Asa Hilliard, Professor James Small, and Dr. John Henrik Clarke, to name a few.

Not to get off topic, but I know some y’all are saying to yourselves, what are these strange “lessons.”

The Lessons:

The origin of the lessons go back to the early 20th century. New revolutions took place in the Islamic community. It created a Black liberation theological educational curriculum directed at the African community in America to put the Black man on top of the world.

First In Newark, Noble Drew Ali started the Moorish Science Temple in 1913.

Then in 1930, Master Fard Muhammad (founder of the Nation of Islam) and the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad (Co-founder of the Nation of Islam) came into existence teaching the knowledge of self in Detroit, Michigan in the early 1930s. Their movements impacted Black neighborhoods from all over the US, and in the world, from the 20th century to the present.

Then, Father Allah (the Founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths better known as the 5% Percenters) brought a deeper philosophical understanding of the knowledge of self to Black people taught by Master Fard Muhammad and the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

He started his mission in 1964. Father Allah created the 120 lessons, and its tradition of showing and proving (reference information with evidence) in history. Father Allah woke up the masses of Black people to the greatness of the knowledge self, particularly Black youth. Black people began to receive the 120 lessons from the Nation of Gods and Earths in the streets without a building. Father Allah did this without the permission of a community leader, or a minister, or an Imam, or a priest, or a priestess.

At one time, he was a former member and soldier in the Nation of Islam’s Muhammad Mosque #7 in Harlem in New York City. The 120 lessons of the Nation of Gods and Earths he developed are called the Book of Life. It consists of 8 components. The 120 Lessons are the following: the Supreme Alphabet, the Supreme Mathematics, the Student Enrollment (1-10), the 1-36, the 1-14, the 1-40, the Actual Facts, and the Solar facts. And all the Gods and Earths study and follow the 120. They also inspire many other Black people to get the knowledge of the 120 Lessons to liberate our minds and bodies from the domination of white people.

In The Student Enrollment (1-10), the Lesson of the 120 Nation of Gods and Earths teaches us in the first degree, “Who is the Original man? The answer is the following, “The Original Man is the Asiatic Blackman, the Maker, the Owner, the Cream of the planet earth, Father of Civilization, and God of the Universe.”

The Religious and Historical Origin of the term Asiatic Blackman:

Some of you are asking the following question: how does this phrase Asiatic Blackman relate to African people. Good question! This phrase has its roots in the “race origins” of Black people in one source called-The Bible. The term was originally borrowed from the Book of Genesis. It is used for the descendants of Ham-son of Noah. It summarizes that Black people are the descendants of Ham. This Hamitic (i.e., the "Asiatic" origin of North African peoples) Asiatic hypothesis race theory holds that the ancient Kemites (Egyptians), and Nile Valley peoples, were the lineal descendants of the biblical Ham, through his son Mizraim.

Another “race theory” in the world during the early 20th Century was that Asia (i.e., Tigris–Euphrates river valley, the Middle East, Indus river, India, China, etc) was the birthplace of humanity. You can read an old book discussing the possibility of the origins of humanity by an European explorer of Africa and journalist named Henry M. Stanley. He wrote a book called -The Origin of the Negro Race. His book was published in 1900. In the book he wrote about how various anthropologists argued that Asia is the origin of Africa and humanity.

However, Stanley is somewhat confusing.

From the outset of the book, Stanley argues without any proof that the world’s humanity started in Asia. But what’s interesting is that he believes that these early Asiatics origin was Black. Unfortunately, white supremacy in the book rears its ugly head by stating the origin of the Asiatics were Aryans ( a fictitious superior race of white people that existed before all people on the planet ). On pages 656-657, he writes, “before stating my theory as to the origin of the negro race, I should like to lead the reader in a general way from that period just preceding the legendary and historic period down to the present condition of negro types found in Africa. At the outset I frankly confess my agreement with those savants who give an Asiatic origin to man, because, first of all, the very earliest records, monumental or written, prove the influence of Asia on Africa, while there seems to be nothing to exhibit African influence on Asia. On the sculptures of Egyptian monuments, on the face of the Sphinx, in the features of the most ancient mummies, and in those of Egyptian wooden and stone statues, I see the Afro Asiatic type as clearly as I see it in the faces of the fellaheen and nobles of the present day. Down to the fifth century before Christ, Egypt was commonly believed to belong to Asia; but though since that period she has been admitted to belong to Africa, because of her river and the land formed by it, moderns as well as the ancients have persisted in acting on the supposition that she is Asiatic. Before the later Asiatics crowded into Egypt, there was, no doubt, an earlier race which we distinguish by the term African, because we find comparatively little of that type in other continents; but it is clear that, whatever proportion of it sought refuge in the interior of Africa, enough individuals were left to make an indelible impression on the newcomers, and form a separate race, which on account of its peculiar character came to be known as Egyptian. From the time when this new race founded the kingdom, formulated its severe religion, and distinguished itself by its aloofness from other peoples, there appears to have been a perpetual struggle as to whether Asiatic or African blood should predominate; and ancient writers were as much puzzled as moderns are as to what continent the old Egyptian race was originally derived from.

Leaving the primitive African out for the present, let me say that we must go back to pre-Aryan times to find the ancestry of those early Asiatics who, entering Egypt, originated the peculiar Egyptian race. These people are commonly called Turanians, and they have been variously described as "dusky, dark, black, black skinned, and their hair as varying from coarse, straight, black hair," to "curly," "crinkly" and "woolly." The centre of this race appears to have been in the neighborhood of Accad, where, it has been found, a King Sargon reigned about 3800, B. C.

Sixteen hundred miles to the northeast there was developed in process of time a different race altogether, of light complexion, with blue or gray eyes, and "blood brown" and light hair. It was called "Arya," which means the noble or ruling race. Finding its habitat near the Hindoo Koosh too limited, it spread itself westward over the Iranic plateau, and across the Tigris into the Euphrates Valley.”

The Black man-Father of Humanity and Civilization:

Now keep this in mind, the science of anthropology in the 1900 is in its early stages. Most of it is entrenched in white supremacy. Therefore, early white scientists were working to present a “race origin theory” that made Black people inferior and the white man superior. And their false white supremacist information disconnected the origin of humanity to Africa, especially Kemet (Egypt) and the Nile Valley.

But by the 1950s, white paleontology scientists began to concede to the facts of evidence (proof) that Africa is the birthplace of humanity and civilization. White scientists like Louis S. B. Leaky discovered some of the oldest human bones in the world in Kenya, Africa.

Just recently Zoë Corby wrote an article titled- Meave Leakey: ‘Definitely, Africa is where it all began,’ published on Saturday, November 21, 2020. The writer interviewed Dr. Meave Leakey. She writes, “Dr. Leakey’s parents-in-law were Drs. Mary and Louis S. B. Leakey. Dr. Meave Leakey’s husband is Dr. Richard Leakey. Her parents-in-law discovered the world’s oldest human bones in the Olduvai Gorge of Tanzania, Africa in 1959. Early paleontologists didn’t believe that humans could have come from Africa. There was a prejudiced insistence that humans must have originated in Europe. The work to convince the scientific community and the world otherwise was started by my parents-in-law and continued by my husband, myself and my daughter Louise. As I have gone through my career it has become more and more accepted. Definitely Africa is where it all began. The climate and the vegetation were right. And, for me, east Africa is most likely, because if you look at where nonhuman primates are distributed today, they concentrate around the tropics and the equator.” (https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/21/meave-leakey-definitely-africa-is-where-it-all-began)

Then in 1974, a paleontology scientist named Dr. Donald C. Johanson discovered the world’s oldest human bones in Ethiopia, Africa that trumped the ones found in Tanzania in 1959. The human bones he discovered were that of a Black woman. Dr. Johanson called her ‘Lucy.’

In a Time magazine article published on Wednesday, March 4, 2009, Lauren E. Bohn titled her piece-Q&A: 'Lucy' Discoverer Donald C. Johanson. She writes, “Paleoanthropologist Donald C. Johanson is the man who found the woman that shook up our family tree. In 1974, Johanson discovered a 3.2 million-year-old fossil of a female skeleton in Ethiopia that would forever change our understanding of human origins. Dubbed Australopithecus afarensis, she became known to the world as Lucy.” (http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1882969,00.html)

It is also for certain that Master Fard Muhammad, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and Father Allah discredited white supremacist race theorists decades ago by teaching that the origin of Asiatics and humanity is the Blackman.

Now with all this high science I discussed, the one thing remains an actual fact about the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the 120 lessons of the Nation of Gods and Earths; the Blackman is the original man of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Pacific Isles, Australia, North America, and South America. Our people populated the entire planet earth with human beings and with civilization.

Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop, a devout Muslim, lived from December 29, 1923 to February 7, 1986. He became a world renowned historian, Egyptologist, scientist, and political theorist from Senegal, Africa in the 1980s. Dr. Diop had the intellectual temerity to say to the world that Kemet (Egypt) and her people were autochthonous to Africa. He was known for his carbon testing on mummified Kemetic people. His results proved that the Kemetic people were in fact Black people. It is reported that he once said, “the ancestors of the Blacks, who today live mainly in Black Africa, were the first to invent mathematics, astronomy, the calendar, sciences in general, arts, religion, agriculture, social organisation, medicine, writing, technique, architecture.”

Dr. Diop wrote many books, but one of his most important texts is The African Origins of Civilizations: Myth or Reality published in 1974. Dr. Diop documents with sound data, evidence, and research on Africa’s contributions to the world’s civilizations and religions. But he begins his arguments on Africa’s role in the development of the world’s civilizations and religions starting with Kemet. In Kemet, the world found its pathway to civilization and religiosity.

In the preface of the book on pages XIV-XV, Dr. Diop writes, “the ancient Egyptians were Negroes ( in the 1970s, the world was still called Black people negroes). The moral fruit of their civilization is to be counted among the assets of the Black world. Instead of presenting itself to history as an insolvent debtor, the Black world is the very initiator of the “western” civilization flaunted before our eyes today. Pythagorean mathematics, the theory of the four elements of Thales of Miletus, Epicurean materialism, Platonic idealism, Judaism, Islam, and modern science are rooted in Egyptian cosmogony and science. One need only to meditate on Osiris, the redeemer-god, who sacrifices himself, dies, and is resurrected to save mankind, a figure essentially identifiable with Christ.

A visitor to Thebes in the Valley of the Kings can view the Moslem inferno in detail (in the tomb of Seti I, of the Nineteenth Dynasty), 1700 years before the Koran. Osiris at the tribunal of the dead is indeed the “lord” of revealed religions, sitting enthroned on Judgement Day, and we know that certain biblical passages are practically copies of Egyptian moral text.”

The lessons of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Gods and Earths are not the first people to call the Blackman God and the fathers of civilization. Our ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) ancestors were the first people to teach that the Black man can be God through mastering the arts and sciences in their school system called the Mystery schools. White men became students of Kemetic schools. They took that knowledge from Kemet, studied it, mastered it, and then made themselves Gods on earth today. The Masonic order has its origin in Kemet. The Fraternities and Sororities have their origins in Kemet. I know this to be actual facts; because I traveled to Kemet during the summer 2021 with Professors Ashra and Merira Kwesi to study ancient African culture and history in their educational program called-Kemet Nu Man, Thyself Tour. I saw with my own eyes the African origin of western religions (i.e, Judaism, Christianity, Al-Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc), Masons, the arts, the sciences, mathematics, philosophy, government, architecture, the zodiac, the calendar, the soul, monotheism, ethics, morality, God body, and theology. The white man copied the wisdom of our ancestors to empower themselves and their culture. This is why they do not wait for a mystery God to bring them bread, or clothing, or a home, or to build a world for themselves.

Unfortunately, they made us now believe that a mystery God will magically come out of the sky to give us bread, or clothing, or a home, or to help us build a world for ourselves. Please read Dr. George G. M. James’ classic book-Stolen Legacy. This scholar received his Phd from Columbia University in New York City.

His book will give us a clear understanding of our ancestor’s worldview before the domination of white hegemony on the planet earth. Dr. James writes on page 7 in the introduction of the book, “the term Greek philosophy, to begin with, is a misnomer, for there is no such philosophy in existence. The ancient Egyptians had developed a very complex religious system, called the Mysteries, which was also the first system of salvation. As such, it regarded the human body as a prison house of the soul, which could be liberated from its bodily impediments, through the disciplines of the Arts and Sciences, and advanced from the level of a mortal to that of a God. This was the notion of the summum bonum or greatest good, to which all men must aspire, and it also became the basis of all ethical concepts. The Egyptian Mystery System was also a Secret Order, and membership was gained by initiation and a pledge to secrecy. The teaching was graded and delivered orally to the Neophyte; and under these circumstances of secrecy, the Egyptians developed secret systems of writing and teaching, and forbade their Initiates from writing what they had learnt.

After nearly five thousand years of prohibition against the Greeks, they were permitted to enter Egypt for the purpose of their education. First through the Persian invasion and secondly through the invasion of Alexander the Great. From the sixth century B.C. therefore to the death of Aristotle (322 B.C.) the Greeks made the best of their chance to learn all they could about Egyptian culture; most students received instructions directly from the Egyptian Priests, but after the invasion by Alexander the Great, the Royal temples and libraries were plundered and pillaged, and Aristotle's school converted the library at Alexandria into a research centre. There is no wonder then, that the production of the unusually large number of books ascribed to Aristotle has proved a physical impossibility, for any single man within a lifetime.”

Acting Other Than Our Own Self:

But without a true knowledge of self, the lessons of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Gods and Earths, says that we will act other than self. We will follow everyone else’s traditions, cultures, history, knowledge, wisdom, and understanding except our own.

In today’s times, some of us Black men and Black women really believe in racist definitions of our history. But what is more disturbing in the Black community; our reliance on someone else’s definition of what Black manhood and what Black womanhood means in the US and in the world.

We have become totally oblivious to white supremacy’s (the 10%) goal to make us Black Men obsolete!

This is why some of us Black men really believe the only thing we can be is a negro or a n-word. Some of us really believe that the only thing we can be is an American, or a Democrat, or a Republican. Some of us really believe that the only thing we can be is a gangsta. Some of us really believe that the only thing we can be is a rapper. Some of us really believe that the only thing we can do is sell drugs. Some of us really believe that we can’t free ourselves from substance abuse. Some of us really believe that the only music we can produce is Drill music. Some of us really believe that the only thing we can do is be a killer. Some of us really believe we can’t achieve anything. Some of us really believe we can’t do anything. Some of us really believe we can’t build anything. Some of us really believe we can't work. Some of us really believe we can’t be responsible fathers. Some of us really believe we can’t be husbands. Some of us really believe we can’t build our own Black nation. Some of us really believe we can’t free ourselves from prison. Some of us really believe that we can’t be home owners. Some of us really believe that we can’t run a Fortune 500 company. Some of us really believe that we can’t create our own businesses. Some of us really believe we can’t turn the hood into a neighborhood. Some of us really believe we can’t start our own schools. Some of us really believe we can’t control the public schools, some of us really believe we can’t control the police department. Some of us really believe we can’t control the fire department. Some of us really believe we can’t control city hall. Some of us really believe we can’t control the state house. Some of us really believe we can’t control the White House. Some of us really believe we can’t control Congress. Some of us really believe we can’t be teachers and scholars. Some of us really believe we can’t be married. Some of us really believe we can’t be providers for our families. Some of us really believe we can’t be protectors of our women. Some of us really believe we can’t love the Black woman. Some of us really believe we can’t respect the Black woman. Some of us really believe we can’t respect the Blackman. Some of us really believe we can’t love the Blackman. Some of us really believe we can’t be the mothers of civilizations. Some of us really believe that the Blackman can’t be the fathers of civilization. Some of us really believe that we cannot tap into a faith tradition to draw from the power of the one Creator to become a God on earth!

Summary:

In conclusion, knowledge of self has been birthed into the world to put us on top of the world, especially the Blackman. If we don’t, we as Black men will never make ourselves, our families, our communities, and the Black nation strong and independent and liberated from the vestiges of white supremacy and institutional racism.

-Bashir Muhammad Ptah Akinyele is a community activist, a member of the Muslim community in New Jersey, and a member of ASCAC (the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations). He is also a history and Africana Studies (Black Studies ) teacher at Weequahic High School in Newark, NJ.

P. E. A. C. E (Proper Education Always Corrects Errors)!

Hotep (An Ancient African / kemetic / Egyptian Written Word to Offer Peace)!

As Salaamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakaatuh (May God’s Peace, Blessings, and Mercy Be Upon You)!