A Black Man Can Save America, Again

By Ilia Rashad Muhammad -Guest Columnist- | Last updated: Nov 29, 2015 - 9:08:26 AM

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan speaks at the National Mall on Oct. 10. The beautiful display of love, unity, peace, and order demonstrated on the National Mall on 10-10-15 gave America yet another glimpse of the potential healing America could benefit from if she accepts the solution coming from Min. Farrakhan.

Americans may be surprised to uncover the early history of a sick, disease- ridden Colonial America and how this country was saved by an enslaved Black man with a foreign knowledge.

When White America was suffering from the smallpox disease (the same smallpox they deliberately used to kill off the Native Americans), they were dying by the hundreds without a solution to their self-induced epidemic.

This brings us to Cotton Mather— if that name rings a bell, it’s probably from an old high school history lesson. He was an acclaimed Puritan Minister in Boston who stood out when the smallpox disease was killing his fellow White Christian community in large numbers during the 18th century. He led a campaign to support the inoculation method, which involved using some of the smallpox virus on a person’s body to build an immunity to the disease. What’s fascinating about Mather was actually not him, but it was his Black slave, Onesimus, who in 1706, showed Mather this inoculation process that he learned from his childhood in Africa.

Mather was prompted to share Onesimus’s knowledge with the suffering Colony, but since this treatment was introduced by a Black slave, it became difficult to win White Christians to accept it—even though it could heal their society from its disease-ridden condition.

The opposition to Mather’s inoculation proposals were largely based on racism, not on medical arguments alone because this method was adopted from foreign practices in the Eastern, Islamic, and African world. Some of Mather’s esteemed critics like Dr. Emanuel Timonius and Jacobus Pylarinus accused him using “negroish evidence,” which didn’t meet their White standards. Despite dying in epidemic numbers, several colonial leaders rejected a solution to the problems they were facing because it stemmed from a Black man.

Since this radical treatment proved to be more effective than any of the previous ideas they had employed, inoculation was eventually accepted, but only after years of suffering and hundreds of Bostonians had already lost their lives. Where would America and the world be if its leaders didn’t yield to the right guidance of a Black slave who brought a controversially foreign idea that embodied the solution for a dying nation?

Today’s Dilemma

This is a question that must be answered today because America is suffering from all manner of spiritual, mental, physical, and social diseases. Like the smallpox epidemic during the colonial period, America is suffering from the very diseases it inflicted upon the darker people of the world—White Supremacy. This racist ideology has been systemized, institutionalized, and normalized, and is the very poison that has contaminated every aspect of American society: education, religion, politics, criminal-justice systems, and socio-economic factors. While this sickness has infected the entire globe, America’s leaders don’t seem too bothered to eradicate it, even if the solution is right in their midst.

Like Onesimus, there is a Black man in America who has been voicing a radical solution to this country’s sinsick problems. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and his teacher, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, have traced the pathology of this country’s enslavement, subversion, and continued mistreatment of the world’s indigenous people to the disease of White Supremacy—but will America accept the proven solutions they offer to these problems?

Armed with nothing more than truth and right guidance, the N.O.I.’s work is based on cleaning up the mess that White America has made out of her former slaves. The poverty, criminal behavior, and mis-education witnessed in America are all sicknesses that the Muslims aim to combat. In fact the men of the N.O.I., known as the Fruit of Islam (F.O.I.), have longstanding track records of going into the most violent gang-terrorized, drug-infested communities and cleaning them up without the use of arms or carnal weapons. In the 1980s-1990s the F.O.I. (dubbed the Dope Busters) marched into housing projects like Mayfair Mansions in Washington, D.C. and several others in various cities where they virtually ended crime and drug abuse with results that even the police departments were unable to attain.

Even the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recognized Farrakhan’s methods as the solution to their national problem by establishing contracts with N.O.I. affiliated security companies. The reduction in crime and drug activity that resulted from the F.O.I.’s work remains unmatched. Even Black conservative and longtime critic of the N.O.I., Armstrong Williams, in an article titled “The Nation of Islam Could Be Chicago’s savior” stated, “the Nation of Islam brings to the table things that other private security firms and the police don’t: Credibility within the community.”

The solution for America’s sick inner-cities was obvious, even among Farrakhan’s Jewish detractors like Marc Stern—former Legal Director of the American Jewish Congress (AJC) acknowledged that the N.O.I. performs a service that no other organization can do. Still the AJC, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), other Jewish interest groups pulled political strings to have N.O.I. Security contracts rescinded and prevented, resulting in Black communities being overcome by the influx of drugs and violent gang activities again.

Williams acknowledged what other residents, legislators, and even Jewish groups acknowledged—that Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam have proven to be effective at curbing violence and drug abuse among Black people.

Well what’s the problem? It’s the same problem Colonial America faced when Whites refused to accept the healing for the country’s sickness— it’s because the solution came from a Black man. The insanity of White Supremacy disables America from accepting viable solutions for its grave problems.

The innate racism of powerful Jewish groups like the ADL and AJC prove they are the enemy to the progress of Black people and America because they refuse to accept proven solutions to America’s core problems. They were the primary forces behind having the HUD contracts with NOI Security rescinded and prevented, resulting in those Black families and communities being re-victimized by drugs and violence.

After Armstrong Williams publicized that the N.O.I. should be supported to curb violence in Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods, Morton Klein of the ZOA called on presidential candidate Ben Carson to disassociate from him. This is yet another example of how influential Jews try to control and intimidate Black leaders for publicly acknowledging the good works of Minister Farrakhan—much the same way the Bible depicts how Jews threatened those who spoke favorably of Jesus:

“But no one would speak about Him publicly for fear of the Jews.” (John 7:13)

America’s leaders are faced with a dilemma: continue to ignore the proven solutions coming from a Black man while the country plummets into increased ignominy, or accept the reality that Farrakhan offers a unique pedagogy of teaching and training his people that restores America’s downtrodden into upstanding leaders in unprecedented ways.

In the Holy Qur’an, Allah (God) warns, “And indeed We sent (messengers) to nations before thee then We seized them with distress and affliction that they might humble themselves.” (Al-An’am 6:42).

Aside from the natural disasters, economic woes, and constant political turmoil, America is drowning in a sea of grave dissatisfaction on the verge of total chaos, and Farrakhan is offering a life preserver. Wouldn’t it be foolish for a drowning person to reject a life preserver simply because it came from a Black man? Today America is suffering on many levels and its leaders are rejecting the man and the methods of inoculating its core disease of White Supremacy—a disease most Americans fail to even recognize despite its severity. The beautiful display of love, unity, peace, and order demonstrated on the National Mall on 10-10-15 gave America yet another glimpse of the potential healing America could benefit from if she accepts the solution coming from a misunderstood Black man, Minister Farrakhan.

(Ilia Rashad Muhammad is a member of the NOI Research Team and author of the highly acclaimed book, UFOs And The Nation Of Islam: The Source, Proof and Reality of The Wheels.)

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