The legality of White racism and the illusion of Black Progress

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"All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over a white – except by taqwa (piety) and good action.” - Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah (may Allah’s peace and blessings Be Upon him).

(This excerpt is from the last sermon Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him, delivered on the Ninth Day of Dhul-Hijjah 10 A.H. in the 'Uranah valley of Mount Arafat' in Makkah, Saudi Arabia).

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, traveled overseas with his national laboring staff, which included his national Imam, Sultan Rahman Muhammad, to Saudi Arabia. Their trip took them to Medina and Makkah, where they performed Umrah during the month Holy month of Ramadhan in 2019. (The Umrah is sometimes known as the lesser pilgrimage or the minor pilgrimage, in comparison to the annual Hajj pilgrimage of Al-Islam). On social media in 2019, some folks began reminiscing and reanalyzing the time a former world leader name Col Muammar el-Qaddafi offered a billion dollars to help the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and oppressed Black people in America. However, White hegemony demanded that Black people be denied this gift. White domination must maintain Black people’s status as an oppressed and exploitative group in America.

I hope this commentary inspires you all to read an old dated New York Times article titled- Officials To Block Qaddafi Gift to Farrakhan. The article was published on August 28, 1996. It discussed the US government blocking the former Libyan President Col Muammar el-Qaddafi from giving the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, and the Nation of Islam, one billion dollars to help liberate oppressed Black people in America from White hegemony. When Col. Qaddafi was alive, he committed the wealth of Libya to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. He, Qaddafi, said this during the Minister Farrakhan’s World Friendship Tour in 1996. (Col Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed leader of Libya, was captured and killed on October 20th, 2011).

Some political and historical analysis must be studied to really understand the warped reasoning behind the United States oppressing Black people using White supremacy and the system of racism.

White supremacy and the system of racism have been in existence since the founding of America. And Black people have been the most victimized by White domination.

Unfortunately, America is still in denial about any culpability the oppression of Black people at the hands of White supremacy and the system of racism.

The system of Racism in America is based upon White supremacy. It backed up by the social, political, economic, and cultural power of whiteness.

The system of racism reduces non-White people, particularly Black people, down to the lowest realms of society. American racism views all non-White culture and non-White people as inferior people. America’s brand of racism always exonerates itself from being racist. However, to present a facade of equality for Black people in the United States, she creates a fictional appearance to the world that progress has been successfully made through the creation of Civil Rights legislation and the integration of Black people into her society.

But this is far from the truth.

America does not want the world to know that White supremacy and the system of racism are still failing the Black community.

When you read this commentary, you will understand clearly why racism had to be legally protected by the system, why there is an illusion of Black progress in America, and why the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan must be portrayed as a teacher of hate.

Back in 1996, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s World Friendship Tour stopped in Libya while on his way to visiting many of other countries on the continent of Africa. After the success of the Million March in 1995, when over 2 million Black men showed up to recommit themselves to Black women, Black youth, the Black family, to stopping senseless community violence amongst Black people, empowering the Black community, and continuing the struggle against White supremacy and racism; the whole world took notice of the power and the respected leadership of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. The world became interested in the liberation struggles of Black people in America all over again.

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan filled their curiosity by giving world leaders an analysis on the oppression of Black people, American White racism, and the illusion of Black Progress in America.

Inspired by the international lessons of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad (the co-founder of the Nation of Islam), the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan learned that Black people are all over the world. He said that his teacher, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, taught him that 196, 940, 000 square miles of the planet earth belongs to the original Blackman and Black women. Believing in the wisdom of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan reminded the world that America’s White prosperity came as a direct result of the exploitation of Africa and the racial oppression and enslavement of Black people in America.

Years of organizing and speaking to clergymen, activists, and leaders around the nation, and around the world; the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan cemented his legitimate leadership passport onto the international world stage. He was received by Presidents, governments, dignitaries, clergymen, and leaders in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Arab world, and the Muslim world. Minister Farrakhan did this to connect and commit the world to help liberate oppressed Black people in America.

After suffering from hundreds of years of legal White supremacy, legal racism, legal enslavement, legal racial discrimination, legal racial terror, legally sanction police violence, and legal racial subjugation without any reparations to rectify Black people’s hurt from America’s injustices towards Black people; the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan told the world that this is why Black people continue to be oppressed and limited to second class citizens.

It was in this context that Qaddafi offered the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan a billion dollars to help him empower and liberate Black people in America.

What people, and some of us Black folks, do not understand, or even want to understand, is how the legality of racism in America created Black oppression in America to this very day. No other group, only with the exception of Native Americans, experienced White racism totally making Black people a permanent underclass. Black people were, and, are, purposely forced to be at the bottom of American society. To keep Black people racially subjugated, and second class citizens; racist white people created an American legal system that established laws to protect the racial mistreatment of Black people. As a consequence of an American racist legal system, Black people experienced hundreds of years of legal slavery; the legal outlawing of Black marriages; the legal outlawing of Black people speaking, reading, and writing in our own Afrikan and Arabic languages; the legal outlawing of Black womanhood; the legal outlawing of Black manhood; the legal outlawing of Black youth-hood; the legal outlawing of possessing Afrikan and Islamic names; the legal outlawing of reading the Bible; the legal outlawing of Afrikan cultural traditions; the legal outlawing of Black people practicing Afrikan spirituality; the legal outlawing of Black people practicing religion of Al-Islam; the legal creation of Black codes; the nearly one hundred years of legal segregation; the legal separation of the Black family; the legal outlawing of the Black family; the legal outlawing of Black parenthood; the legal criminalization of Black leaders; legal criminalization of Black youth; the legal denial of an public and private school education; the legal denying of Black people’s right to own property; the legal denying of Black people receiving business loans; the legal denying of Black people justice in the courts; the legal support of White racial violence towards Black people; the legal justification for police brutality; and legally justifying the annihilation of Black towns and cities in America by racist whites.

In the 1950s, Black people got tired of the racial subjugation and daily racial discrimination by racist White people in the Twentieth Century. In mass demonstrations, Black people fearlessly began to fight back against racism and White supremacy in America. As a result of mass rallies by Black people, and the unfortunate murder of Black Freedom and Black revolutionary activists; we won our right to Civil Rights. We also develop some Black pride while holding racism and White supremacy accountable to social justice. By the way, we had to redevelop and reconstruct Black cultural pride in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s because White racism deliberately created Black self-hatred in Black people for hundreds of years in America through slavery and segregation.

While Black people struggled for civil rights, Black people forced all kinds of coalitions and alliances with progressive Whites and other non-Black cultures (i.e. Latinos, Native Americans, Jews, etc) to change racist laws that subjugated Black people down to the lowest realms of America society. Black people put the Black agenda on the hearts and minds and lips of all people in America. As a result of Black people successfully organizing massive protests locally and nationally for civil rights, America’s racist system had to make concessions to Black oppression for a minute. The system of racism allowed some Black faces in high places (i.e. Black Mayors, Black CEOs, Black School Superintendants, Black police Chiefs, Black US Congresspeople, Black record executives, etc) When this happened, many people in America, including many Black people, believed Black freedom was achieved. By the 1970s, we had more Black Mayors, Black Councilpersons, Black judges, Black Congressmen, Black Businesses, Black educational opportunities, Black TV shows, Black entertainers, Black athletes, and Black Freedom that we have ever experienced before in America. But at the end of the day, racism controls Black faces in high places always in America. Black faces in high places gets its marching orders from America’s racist power structure. This is why since the 1970s, policies, and laws were not put in place to give Black people reparations.

Just like in today’s contemporary Black America, Black faces in high places are still controlled by the racist establishment. Policies and laws have not been passed to give Black people justice in America. For example, we had eight years of Barack Obama as President, he sat in the chair of the most powerful position in the world, but did nothing to support any policies of reparations (a policy that repairs the damages done to Black people as a direct, and indirect, result of racial oppression in America).

In 2008 and 2012 elections, Black people gave nearly 90% of our vote to President Obama, but we received no commitment to Black reparations. We as Black people should have seen this tricknology coming, but we were blinded by the possibility of seeing a Blackman in the Whitehouse. Many Black people believed our community needed to have a strong, positive, and powerful Black image in America. And rightly so. After hundreds of years of White supremacist Ideology fictitiously creating racist Black images in the world; and experiencing legal second class citizenship denying Black people freedoms in United States for decades, 2008 and 2012 were times to make history electing the first Black American into the highest office in the land. Cosmetically, President Barack Obama made us feel good. Therefore, we as a Black people, and Black leadership, gave our majority support to President Obama without a commitment to Black reparations. Although many of us argued that he was the better candidate to lead the United States in 2008 and 2012, and he was the better candidate for President. Obama saved the country from the brink of another Great Depression and provided affordable health care for all people. However, in the end, the Black community was left hanging by President Barack Obama and the US government. Tricknology had worked on us completely. (Tricknology is an Afrikan centric term that means the study of the science of mass manipulation of Black people by power people. It's usage originated with the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam.)

Let's look at this from a deeper analysis. Before President Obama became President of the Unites States of America, he was ask by reporters did he support Black reparations in America. He responded by saying, "I have said in the past - and I'll repeat again - that the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed." In other words, If elected Obama was not going to support reparations for Black people. His statement against reparations was reported in the Washington Times' August 3, 2008 article titled, "Obama stands firm against reparations." (https://amp.washingtontimes.com) And Black people received no support for Black reparations when Barack Obama became President of the United States.

But before Black leaders, Black organizations, and Black movements can organize the Black masses past White racism and Black apologists for the racist power structure in America to seize real power to achieve justice in America, the system works to wipe out Black leadership. This is what happens to Black leaders, Black organizations, Black movements, and Black people in America.

The racist power structure reorganizes itself to again force Black people down to the bottom of society. The racist establishment bounced back by unleashing clandestine attacks against Black people, Black organizations and Black leaders, such as Dr. Martin Luther, Jr, Malcolm X, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Dr. Maluana Karenga, Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), H. Rap Brown (Imam Jamil Al-Amin), Huey P. Newton, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Imari Obedele, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Nation of Islam, the US organization, the Original Black Panther Party, the Republic of New Afrika, and many more Black movements in the Black community.

Although Black people made tremendous gains during the 1950s, 60s, and the early 70s, due to the Civil Rights and Black Power movements in America; unfortunately, Black people did not achieve true equality with White people in America.

Unfortunately, Black leaders, Black organizations, and Black movements for Civil Rights and Black Power were obliterated by the US government. Racist former F.B.I director J Edgar Hoover created a secret racist counterintelligence program called COINTELPRO to destroy and discredit Black leaders, Black organizations, and Black movements. And Cointelpro did just that to the Black liberation movements in America.

When this happened, the interests of Black people subsided. Black people, and our Black agenda, were pushed aside for other non-Black oppressed agendas. The coalitions that Black people created with other non-Black oppressed cultures (i.e. Native Americans, Latinos, Jews, Asians, Mexicans, women, Gays, and lesbians, etc) to help empower Black people, while at the same time, fighting for the liberation of all oppressed people, broke apart. Now, other non-Black oppressed cultures began to leave Black people, and the Black agenda, for their own agendas (i.e. Latino rights, Gay rights, women’s right, etc). Non-Black oppressed cultures left Black people, and our Black agenda, alone.

By the late 1970s, Black progress was stopped. Black leaders and Black organizations were not around anymore to give push back to racism and White supremacy to make room for Black progress in this country.

By the 1980s, and in the 1990s, the ashes of the Civil rights and the Black Power Movement left many masses of Black people in the dust. The Black incarceration rates soured in Black America. Disproportionate numbers of Black people began to be locked up in the penal system compared to whites. Police violence increased. Good paying livable wage jobs dried up in and around the Black community. Poverty and joblessness increased dramatically. Black people began to live under depression levels of poverty. Black wealth never became equal to white wealth. Black drug addiction increase in America. Senseless violence in the Black community increased. Black people became the majority of Black homicide victims in America. Racism drained the Black community of money, jobs, and resources. Eventually, these poor conditions increased Black ghettos in America. Black people, and the Black community, became self-destructive.

Black people’s achievement began to lag further and further behind Whites and other non-Black cultures in America.

It is In this context, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan rebuilt the Nation of Islam to continue the fight for Black liberation. He believed that Al- Islam, as interpreted by the Black liberation theological teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, was, and, is, absolutely needed to give some push back to America’s racist system to organize Black people for Black power.

In 1978, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan made the decision to leave the Muslims under the leadership of Imam Warith Deen Mohammed to rebuild the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam.

(Imam Warith Deen was once named Wallace Muhammad. In 1975, after the Honorable Elijah Muhammad departed from the Nation of Islam, the Muhammad family elected Imam Warith Deen Mohammed as the next leader of the Nation of Islam. In three years, Imam Mohammed directed the Nation of Islam into Sunni Al-Islam. His leadership led to one of the main foundations for Al-Islam in America).

Unfortunately, White supremacy and the system of racism does not let up. They continue to use the law, cultural interests, cultural divisions, and all resources to racially subjugate Black people.

This is why White supremacy and the system of racism in America could not let Col Qaddafi give billions to Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and Black people.

But equally importantly, White supremacy and the system of racism in America learned from the lessons of the Black liberation struggles of the 1950s, 60s, and early 70s; how to continue to discretely use COINTELPRO (Counter intelligence Program) tactics in the modern era to portray and label any Black opposition to White supremacy and racism as hate teachers, as unAmericans, as anti-Semites, as homophobic crack pots, and as extremists. This is what racism does to Black leaders in America, especially to leaders like the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Despite all the good work he has done for Black people in America, White supremacy and the system of racism must protect themselves at all costs by castigating Minister Louis Farrakhan as an unIslamic anti-Semitic homophobic Black racist. White supremacy and racism knows full well that the Honorable Minister Farrakhan is not a racist. He is not anti-Semite. He is not homophobic. He has no political or economic power to keep an entire race, or culture, at the bottom of society. Minister Farrakhan has not encouraged his followers to violently attack Whites, Jews, or Gay people. However, to White supremacy and the racist system in America, he is the last known independent world leader of Afrikan still left pointing out the contradictions of White domination in the United States. This is why the racist establishment works to silence his voice in America and in the Muslim Ummah (an Arabic word for community), especially amongst oppressed Black people. White hegemony does not want the Honorable Louis Farrakhan’s voice to inspire masses of Black people to rise up against racial injustice in America.

Therefore, as we continue to argue and debate all the issues (i.e. what Black Mayor is going to control city hall; what Black Councilperson is going to control such and such ward in a city; Is Rev Al Sharpton a real leader of Black people; who is going to control the board of education in the Black community; who is going to control the police department in the Black community; was the Black Lives Matter Movement sold out; are charter schools the best places to educate Black children; are public schools the best places to educate Black children; Is home instruction the best place to educate Black children; are Afrocentric schools the best place to educate Black children; are Islamic schools the best place to educate Black children; Is Cardi B the realist female rapper on the planet; are City Girls a real Hip Hop group; Is Hip Hop good for Black people; Is rap Music whack; Is Rap music really Hip Hop; Is Love and Hip Hop really reality TV; Is someone ghost writing for Drake; Is Hennessy the real drink for Black people; Is Afrocentricity the true pathway for liberating Black people; Are Afrikan religions the best spiritual path of Black people; Is Al-Islam the best spiritual path for Black people; are the Crips the real perpetrators of violence in the Black community; are the Bloods the real perpetrators of violence in the Black community; are the Vice Lords the perpetrators of violence in the Black community; are the Gangster Disciples the real perpetrators of violence in the Black community; Is the Honorable Minister Farrakhan a real Muslim; Is the Golden State Warriors the greatest NBA team of all time) we believe are important to us Black folks, and we should argue these things; but at the end of the day, we are all being misled under an illusion of Black progress and Black Freedom in America

We are not free!!! And we have not achieved Black power to force America’s racist establishment to address a Black agenda, nor reparations, to create real equality for Black people in America.

At the end of the day, racism is still subjugating Black people in America down to the lowest realms of society. Black progress is stagnant. We are still unequal to whites, and now, unfortunately, to other cultures in America

I believe this is why at one time in the 1990s the former Libyan President Col Qaddafi saw the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan as the best chance to help oppressed Black people. Minister Farrakhan was, and, is, the last man left standing for Black liberation. As the onslaught by America’s brand of White supremacy and racism continues to devour Black lives in America, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, and the Nation of Islam, are still fighting on the battlefield of Black liberation. We must be like Minister Farrakhan and inspire a new generation Black people to continue the fight for justice in America.

Asante sana (Kiswahili for thank you very much) for reading my commentary.

O Daboo (Yoruba for go with God until we meet again)

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-Bashir Muhammad Akinyele is a History Teacher, Black Studies Teacher, Community Activist, Chairperson of Weequahic High School's Black History Month Committee, commentary writer, and Co-Producer and Co-Host of the All Politics Are Local, the number #1 political Hip Hip radio show in America. I can be reached at (bashir.akinyele@gmail.com).

Note: Spelling Afrika with a k is not a typo. Using the k in Afrika is the Kiswahili way of writing Africa. Kiswahili is a Pan -Afrikan language. It is spoken in many countries in Afrika. Kiswahili is the language used in Kwanzaa. The holiday of Kwanzaa is celebrated from December 26 to January
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