The Year 1974 and Why Farrakhan is Good for Morgan State

By Demetric Muhammad -Guest Columnist- | Last updated: Dec 5, 2014 - 1:18:57 PM

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan addressing the crowd at Morgan State University, Nov. 22.

The recent op-ed in the Baltimore Sun condemning the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was a feeble attempt to dissuade students and members of the Baltimore/Morgan State community from attending the Minister’s lecture on November 22, 2014. It was written by a member of the Jewish community seeking to assassinate Minister Farrakhan’s character and to make his critical analysis of Jewish misdeeds in the Black community a reason for not attending this historic event.

Minister Farrakhan has spoken to the students at Morgan State University on several momentous occasions and all with positive outcomes. As he is always such a well-spring of knowledge, wisdom, inspiration and motivation, the Morgan State students should be commended and congratulated for making such a wise choice of inviting Minister Farrakhan.

The Minister is, according to Jewish apologist Abraham Foxman, the last man standing. Foxman said of the Minister in the April 2013 issue of Haaretz Magazine:

“The only leadership that now exists in that community”—the “African American community”—“is Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan can assemble 20,000 people several times a year.”

Students at Morgan State listening intently to Min. Farrakhan’s message.

Why wouldn’t Black college students want to listen to and be guided by the “last man standing?” It is indeed a wise choice on the part of these courageous young people. In 1974 their parents’ generation came out in droves to be inspired and motivated by Minister Farrakhan. Minister Farrakhan was the keynote speaker at a Black Family Day event in 1974 at Morgan State where 30,000 students, faculty and Baltimore residents attended this electrifying event.

The Minister’s message was reported on in the October 11, 1974 issue of the Muhammad Speaks newspaper. The Muhammad Speaks coverage documented some of the highlights of the Minister’s message that day as he echoed many of the powerful themes and ideas resident within the teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The Minister taught the students:

“You are not a man, until you learn how to love, respect and protect, your Black woman.”

The Minister continued this theme of respect and protection for the woman by teaching the students that:

“The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says to us that the only way we can gain the respect of the civilized world is to take that Black woman honor her, respect her, protect her … ”

Minister Farrakhan was so well received by the students at Morgan State that they invited him to come back and teach them more from the wisdom of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The November 29, 1974 issue of the Muhammad Speaks newspaper reported that nearly 1,000 students filled Murphy auditorium to hear Minister Farrakhan. Muhammad Speaks reporter Lonnie Kashif documents some of the powerful guidance the Minister shared with the students. The Minister said:

“… don’t doubt the power of Allah to make something out of you; don’t doubt the power of Allah to bring you from under the foot of white people and make them bow to you who once groveled in the dust at their feet.”

Jewish propagandist Jay Bernstein, who wrote the Baltimore Sun op-ed condemning Minister Farrakhan’s visit at Morgan State, obviously has a problem with this kind of messaging being given to Black students. This kind of message motivates and inspires Black students toward an enlightened self-interest. It restores in the students a concern for their communities and gives the students an awakening that will prevent these brilliant young people from further exploitation.

Perhaps he would rather these gifted young Black students not know what Minister Farrakhan knows. He called Minister Farrakhan anti-Semitic. And since he opened that door, let’s look inside it to see some of the things that Minister Farrakhan has made known about the hidden misdeeds of the Jews against Blacks. In the Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews series, Minister Farrakhan has made known previously hidden admissions from Jewish scholars, historians and rabbis. Some jaw-dropping revelations include:

“The cotton plantations in many parts of the South were wholly in the hands of the Jews, and as a consequence slavery found its advocates among them.” The Jewish Encyclopedia.

“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.”

Rabbi Bertram Korn, from “Jews and Negro Slavery in the Old South, 1789-1865,” Dr. Korn is a rabbi, historian with degrees from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati.

“The female slave was a sex tool beneath the level of moral considerations. She was an economic good, useful, in addition to her menial labor, for breeding more slaves. To attain that purpose, the master mated her promiscuously according to his breeding plans. The master himself and his sons and other members of his household took turns with her for the increase of the family wealth, as well as for satisfaction of their extra-marital sex desires. Guests and neighbors too were invited to that luxury.”

Dr. Louis Epstein, author of Sex Laws and Customs in Judaism

Bernstein is angry that Minister Farrakhan has exposed this history to the Black community. It is a history that needs to be told. Unless we as Black people know the history of what happened to us, we will look upon one another in our miserable condition and draw the wrong conclusions.

It is ironic that in 1974 when Minister Farrakhan was at Morgan State awakening the Black students to their duty and responsibility to God, family and community, Jewish leaders were doing something entirely different.

Crowd applauding at Morgan State University Photo: Jehron Muhammad

In 1974 the Anti-Defamation League of B’Nai B’rith (ADL) and the American Jewish Congress joined forces to legally fight against Affirmative Action. In other words, while Minister Farrakhan was giving Black college students purpose and guidance for their education, Jewish groups were working to reduce the number of Black students able to enter into college. The case DeFunis v. Odegaard has been dubbed in some Jewish publications “the greatest legal battle in the history of America.” The ADL had pressured a young Sephardic Jewish student Marco DeFunis, Jr., to sue for entry into Washington University Law School after he had been initially denied. His argument was that the school’s admission policy favored Blacks to the exclusion of qualified Whites.

DeFunis v. Odegaard was at the time widely viewed as a betrayal of Black progress by supposed Jewish allies. Civil rights leaders were disappointed. Maryland Congressman Parren J. Mitchell said:

“If the court rules in favor of DeFunis, we’ve lost our one weapon to get Blacks into colleges and professional schools—affirmative action. No school will let us in out of the goodness of its heart, without the pressure of the law and courts backing us up.”

The value of Minister Farrakhan’s visit to the students at Morgan State is even more important in light of another critical event that took place in 1974. It was then that Dr. Richard Hammerschlag, a neuro-chemist working for the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California revealed ominous truths at the American Chemical Society’s national meeting in Los Angeles. Dr. Hammerschlag revealed that the U.S. military was involved in genetic research to develop a weapon capable of wiping out Black people while excluding other ethnic groups.

Dr. Hammerschlag cited a November 1970 article written by Carl Larson in the magazine Military Review on the work being done to create “ethnic weapons.” Dr. Hammerschlag pointed out in his presentation that new information indicates that there are “many blood proteins (known as polymorphisms) that exist in several different genetically controlled forms in human populations.” And based on this, substances can be created to adversely affect a specific ethnic population that has a particular type of polymorphism without affecting other ethnic populations. He added that as a result of “the newly developed, binary nerve gases, the possibility of genetically selective weapons becomes entirely feasible and quite probable.”

What Dr. Hammerschlag pointed out in 1974 appears to have come to fruition in 2014. Minister Farrakhan is on record warning the Black community of the creation of “race-based weapons.”

The Minister said in his very popular lecture titled “Justifiable Homicide: Black Youth In Peril” that:

“Another method [of depopulation] is disease infection through bio-weapons such as Ebola and AIDS, which are race targeting weapons. There is a weapon that can be put in a room where there are Black and White people, and it will kill only the Black and spare the White, because it is a genotype weapon that is designed for your genes, for your race, for your kind.”

The Morgan State students, I am sure, are just as stunned as others are in the Black community that the only 2 people in America who have died from the Ebola virus are Black males. And the only countries around the world that are suffering from Ebola are Black African countries.

All of these critical issues of the day are well within the grasp of Minister Farrakhan to dissect, analyze, guide and instruct us on. We don’t need Jewish propagandists interfering with who we listen to in the Black community. It’s clear that if we let them guide us, we won’t be in college classrooms; we will be back on plantations.

Demetric Muhammad is in the student ministry class of Muhammad Mosque No. 55 in Memphis, Tennessee and an author.

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