Integration has failed the Black man and woman of America. Black people have tested out the integration experiment for decades. The results are conclusive: it does not work! As the mask of civility of the White race continues to slip off, it is time, now, for Black people to revisit the longstanding program and position of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam; that is, separation between Black and White.

In his book, “Message to the Blackman in America,” the Honorable Elijah Muhammad writes, “Our former slave-masters, knowing of our dependence upon them, maliciously and hatefully adopted attitudes and social and educational systems that have deprived us of the opportunity to become free and independent right up to the present day.”

He has maintained that the offer of integration was and is a trick. 

“WE BELIEVE that the offer of integration is hypocritical and is made by those who are trying to deceive the Black peoples into believing that their 400-year-old open enemies of freedom, justice and equality are, all of a sudden, their ‘friends.’ Furthermore, we believe that such deception is intended to prevent Black people from realizing that the time in history has arrived for the separation from the Whites of this nation,” Mr. Muhammad writes in Point No. 9 of “What The Muslims Believe,” published in “Message to the Blackman in America” and on the inside back page of every Final Call newspaper.

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The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, National Representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and his chief student and helper, has been warning Black people of the White race’s “mask of civility” being peeled back, like the layers of an onion.

“As Caucasians begin to feel threatened and their security is compromised, the mask of civility comes off—and then you see murder coming out of their hearts and their eyes. It is the same in France. It is the same in Belgium.

It is the same in Norway and Sweden and Finland and Denmark. It is the same in Germany and in Russia. All over our planet, the hatred of Black is manifesting,” Minister Farrakhan said in Part 27 of his 2013 lecture series, “The Time and What Must be Done.”

Violent attacks on Blacks

In April, Andrew Lester, White, shot 16-year-old Ralph Yarl in the head after the Black teenager mistakenly rang the wrong doorbell in Kansas City, Missouri. While Ralph has been at home recovering, Mr. Lester, who has been out on bond, appeared in court June 1 where a judge set preliminary hearing dates for Aug. 31 and Sept. 1. He pleaded not guilty to the two felony charges against him: first-degree assault and armed criminal action.

Ralph’s shooting sparked demonstrations and protests in the city.

“Are we back in the 1950s with the Jim Crow laws? Are we moving backward with that? Because here we are with a young man being shot in the head just for ringing a doorbell. He didn’t even touch the door; just for ringing the doorbell. And so, we have a huge fight on our hands,” Khadijah Hardaway, vice president and lead organizer of Justice for Wyandotte, said to The Final Call.

This chart shows, according to the FBI, the number of anti-Black hate crimes reported in the U.S. over the years. Graphic: The Final Call

Fear and hatred are “the fabric of this country,” she said. “It’s what it was built on. It’s what it makes its money off of. It makes its money off the criminal justice system. And I think, let’s just put it bluntly, White supremacy is threaded through, in particular, the state of Missouri,” she added.

On the East Coast, Daniel Penny, White, choked Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old Black man, to death on a New York City subway on May 1. Mr. Neely was a Michael Jackson impersonator who had fallen on hard times and had been struggling with mental health. An autopsy ruled his death a homicide due to compression of the neck.

Mr. Penny, a U.S. Marine veteran, is facing a charge of second-degree manslaughter and is out on bond. His next court date is July 17.

Meanwhile, a viral video depicted a White, New York City hospital worker attempting to steal a Citi Bike from a young Black man who had already paid for it. In the video, the woman starts “crying” and screaming for help after being confronted.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump tweeted, “This is unacceptable! A white woman was caught on camera attempting to STEAL a Citi Bike from a young Black man in NYC. She grossly tried to weaponize her tears to paint this man as a threat. This is EXACTLY the type of behavior that has endangered so many Black men in the past!”

Just one state over, in Pennsylvania, four men were arrested and charged after a Black, Lehigh University student accused them of calling him the n-word, chasing him to his dorm, and assaulting him in early April. 

Black Lives Matter concept with black person amongst white

The Jim Crow era may have passed in name, but the White supremacist mindset that ruled the era is still present. Oklahoma county officials were caught on a voice recording making racist remarks after a public meeting in March. The publisher of McCurtain Gazette-News left the recorder in the room and later released portions of the recording and the transcript to the public.

The conversation takes place between former McCurtain County Commissioner Mark Jennings, who has since resigned, Sheriff Kevin Clardy, Sheriff Investigator Alicia Manning and jail administrator Larry Hendrix, who is on paid leave.

They discuss how “back in the day,” a Black man could be beaten and thrown in a cell or taken down to a creek to be lynched and how “it’s not like that no more” because “they got more rights,” according to the released transcript.

“Criminal charges should have been filed as soon as the recording was made public. Justice would require all the officials who were in that conversation to face criminal charges. Anything less than that is just unacceptable,” Dion Devon Osborne, managing editor for The Black Wall Street Times out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, said to The Final Call.

He feels that the threat of violence against Black lives is as high as it has ever been. “There are so many different ways that we’ve been under attack that it’s impossible to always see it coming. So honestly, I think that the U.S. government needs to organize some type of task force on hate crimes against Black Americans,” he said.

White fear

In April, The Leadership Conference Education Fund, a national civil rights group, released a report titled, “Cause for Concern 2024: The State of Hate.” The report warns that increased hate, particularly from White supremacists, will continue into the 2024 election and that hate crimes have nearly doubled since 2015. It also states that anti-Black violence remains the standard and that “Black Americans remain the most frequent victims of hate crimes.”

“I think part of it is that we never actually reckoned with what this country has done. We have just kind of continued on. We’ll pass little bills here and there, but we’ve never received reparations, so we’ve never been made whole from the original crimes, from slavery to Jim Crow to segregation to redlining to police, excessive force. It’s ingrained in the country’s DNA,” Mr. Osborne said.

Gwen Grant, president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, believes that many of the racial incidents in the country have to do with the fear of losing power.

“We’re getting that there’s this browning of America that I think is concerning for White folks, and they’re afraid of losing power and, therefore, they power and, therefore, they are responding in numerous ways. And if you look at the policies across the country in highly conservative states, they are passing legislation that would prohibit and sensor educators and prohibit the teaching of the Black experience in America, the real history of this country,” she said to The Final Call. “They’re attacking the education system. They’re rolling back voting. They’re refusing to address gun laws in a responsible manner.”

She said the question should be, what can and should White people be doing? “The problem of race in America is not a Black problem; It’s a White problem. And it will be solved when White people decide that they want to fix the mess that they created,” she said. “What are White people willing to do with the power that they have to fix this problem of race in America that they created?”

These conditions even impact the health of Black people. A recent study released by JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) stated that there were an estimated 1.63 million excess deaths among Black Americans between 1999-2020. The study defined “excess deaths” as an estimate of how many people died above and beyond what is expected.

According to a review of the report by the Missouri Independent, “because so many Black people die young— with many years of life ahead of them—their higher mortality rate from 1999 to 2020 resulted in a cumulative loss of more than 80 million years of life compared with the White population, the study showed.”

According to missouriindependent.com, “High mortality rates among Black people have less to do with genetics than with the country’s long history of discrimination, which has undermined educational, housing, and job opportunities for generations of Black people, said Clyde Yancy, an author of the study and chief of cardiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.”

Separation: The people’s choice

Black people across the country are waking up to the reality of the best and only solution for the race problem in America. 

Twitter user @tearsansorries tweeted, “Separation vs Segregation…Black People need their own space,their own communities, their own hospitals, their own everything. Segregation was forced by laws and death. Separation will be voluntary.”

Several Twitter users commented under a social media post that went viral, showcasing the first Black-developed micro-community in College Park, Georgia, called South Park Cottages.

“Yeah nobody wants to go to school or live around you White Supremacist. Yes black people run from these White people. We are no longer going to be around people and a society that hates us. Reparations and Separation!!!!” tweeted one user, @AndrewM08711161.

“Black people being desperate to live among white people instead of making a safe and beautiful place for themselves first has been very pathetic to watch. This is a separation not a segregation,” another user, @PhilipAjay2, tweeted.

The divine solution

For Zaki Baruti, president/general of the Universal African Peoples Organization, the White race’s mask of civility has always been off.

“When you look at the Vietnam War, when you look at what they did in Iraq based on a lie of weapons of mass destruction, when they went in and killed masses of people in Afghanistan, when they overthrew the elected government of Chile under the leadership of (Salvador) Allende, when you look at what they did in the Congo with the assassination of Patrice Lumumba,” he said to The Final Call. “They have always just shown their evil ways, their bloodsucking ways.”

He noted the importance of Black people being in tune with their Creator and being filled with the courage, tenacity, wisdom and knowledge to neutralize America’s systems through the power of the Black dollar and to “create a new society, a revolutionary society, based on the principles of communalism.”  

In a Final Call newspaper year-end interview for 2016, Min. Farrakhan spoke on the “White lash” and how many Black people have “fallen in love with our open enemy, because we have hope that one day they will receive us as an equal or treat us as an equal.” 

“And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to us that is not going to happen. Any kind of unity with our former slave masters and their children has to be on their terms and not on ours. Otherwise, their power and their arms and their will, will be against our rise as it always has been,” Minister Farrakhan said.

White people are now lashing (out) due to the rise of the darker people of the earth and because to many, “make America great again” meant “make America White again” and “bring back White power,” the Minister added. He warned that the “wind will blow on Black people” until the realization that “we cannot get along in peace with this people after giving them 400 years of our sweat and blood and receiving in return some of the worst treatment ever accorded to a human being.”

“And when they see this mask of civility taken off and now you see an enemy that hates our shadow. And like Abraham Lincoln said, ‘you suffer from being here with us and we suffer from your presence among us,’” Minister Farrakhan said. “This is going to come to a head and the Will of God will be carried out, which is that the Black and the Brown and the Red, we must go free in a land of our own; not under White supremacy but ruled under our own wisdom, knowledge, understanding and the guidance of God.”

Integration has failed the Black man and woman of America. Black people have tested out the integration experiment for decades. The results are conclusive: it does not work! As the mask of civility of the White race continues to slip off, it is time, now, for Black people to revisit the longstanding program and position of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam; that is, separation between Black and White.

In his book, “Message to the Blackman in America,” the Honorable Elijah Muhammad writes, “Our former slave-masters, knowing of our dependence upon them, maliciously and hatefully adopted attitudes and social and educational systems that have deprived us of the opportunity to become free and independent right up to the present day.”

He has maintained that the offer of integration was and is a trick. 

“WE BELIEVE that the offer of integration is hypocritical and is made by those who are trying to deceive the Black peoples into believing that their 400-year-old open enemies of freedom, justice and equality are, all of a sudden, their ‘friends.’ Furthermore, we believe that such deception is intended to prevent Black people from realizing that the time in history has arrived for the separation from the Whites of this nation,” Mr. Muhammad writes in Point No. 9 of “What The Muslims Believe,” published in “Message to the Blackman in America” and on the inside back page of every Final Call newspaper.

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, National Representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and his chief student and helper, has been warning Black people of the White race’s “mask of civility” being peeled back, like the layers of an onion.

“As Caucasians begin to feel threatened and their security is compromised, the mask of civility comes off—and then you see murder coming out of their hearts and their eyes. It is the same in France. It is the same in Belgium. It is the same in Norway and Sweden and Finland and Denmark. It is the same in Germany and in Russia. All over our planet, the hatred of Black is manifesting,” Minister Farrakhan said in Part 27 of his 2013 lecture series, “The Time and What Must be Done.”

Violent attacks on Blacks

In April, Andrew Lester, White, shot 16-year-old Ralph Yarl in the head after the Black teenager mistakenly rang the wrong doorbell in Kansas City, Missouri. While Ralph has been at home recovering, Mr. Lester, who has been out on bond, appeared in court June 1 where a judge set preliminary hearing dates for Aug. 31 and Sept. 1. He pleaded not guilty to the two felony charges against him: first-degree assault and armed criminal action.

Ralph’s shooting sparked demonstrations and protests in the city.

“Are we back in the 1950s with the Jim Crow laws? Are we moving backward with that? Because here we are with a young man being shot in the head just for ringing a doorbell. He didn’t even touch the door; just for ringing the doorbell. And so, we have a huge fight on our hands,” Khadijah Hardaway, vice president and lead organizer of Justice for Wyandotte, said to The Final Call.

Fear and hatred are “the fabric of this country,” she said. “It’s what it was built on. It’s what it makes its money off of. It makes its money off the criminal justice system. And I think, let’s just put it bluntly, White supremacy is threaded through, in particular, the state of Missouri,” she added.

On the East Coast, Daniel Penny, White, choked Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old Black man, to death on a New York City subway on May 1. Mr. Neely was a Michael Jackson impersonator who had fallen on hard times and had been struggling with mental health. An autopsy ruled his death a homicide due to compression of the neck.

Mr. Penny, a U.S. Marine veteran, is facing a charge of second-degree manslaughter and is out on bond. His next court date is July 17.

Meanwhile, a viral video depicted a White, New York City hospital worker attempting to steal a Citi Bike from a young Black man who had already paid for it. In the video, the woman starts “crying” and screaming for help after being confronted.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump tweeted, “This is unacceptable! A white woman was caught on camera attempting to STEAL a Citi Bike from a young Black man in NYC. She grossly tried to weaponize her tears to paint this man as a threat. This is EXACTLY the type of behavior that has endangered so many Black men in the past!”

Just one state over, in Pennsylvania, four men were arrested and charged after a Black, Lehigh University student accused them of calling him the n-word, chasing him to his dorm, and assaulting him in early April. 

The Jim Crow era may have passed in name, but the White supremacist mindset that ruled the era is still present. Oklahoma county officials were caught on a voice recording making racist remarks after a public meeting in March. The publisher of McCurtain Gazette-News left the recorder in the room and later released portions of the recording and the transcript to the public. The conversation takes place between former McCurtain County Commissioner Mark Jennings, who has since resigned, Sheriff Kevin Clardy, Sheriff Investigator Alicia Manning and jail administrator Larry Hendrix, who is on paid leave.

They discuss how “back in the day,” a Black man could be beaten and thrown in a cell or taken down to a creek to be lynched and how “it’s not like that no more” because “they got more rights,” according to the released transcript.

“Criminal charges should have been filed as soon as the recording was made public. Justice would require all the officials who were in that conversation to face criminal charges. Anything less than that is just unacceptable,” Dion Devon Osborne, managing editor for The Black Wall Street Times out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, said to The Final Call.

He feels that the threat of violence against Black lives is as high as it has ever been. “There are so many different ways that we’ve been under attack that it’s impossible to always see it coming. So honestly, I think that the U.S. government needs to organize some type of task force on hate crimes against Black Americans,” he said.

White fear

In April, The Leadership Conference Education Fund, a national civil rights group, released a report titled, “Cause for Concern 2024: The State of Hate.” The report warns that increased hate, particularly from White supremacists, will continue into the 2024 election and that hate crimes have nearly doubled since 2015. It also states that anti-Black violence remains the standard and that “Black Americans remain the most frequent victims of hate crimes.”

“I think part of it is that we never actually reckoned with what this country has done. We have just kind of continued on. We’ll pass little bills here and there, but we’ve never received reparations, so we’ve never been made whole from the original crimes, from slavery to Jim Crow to segregation to redlining to police, excessive force. It’s ingrained in the country’s DNA,” Mr. Osborne said.

Gwen Grant, president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, believes that many of the racial incidents in the country have to do with the fear of losing power.

“We’re getting that there’s this browning of America that I think is concerning for White folks, and they’re afraid of losing power and, therefore, they power and, therefore, they are responding in numerous ways. And if you look at the policies across the country in highly conservative states, they are passing legislation that would prohibit and sensor educators and prohibit the teaching of the Black experience in America, the real history of this country,” she said to The Final Call. “They’re attacking the education system. They’re rolling back voting. They’re refusing to address gun laws in a responsible manner.”

She said the question should be, what can and should White people be doing? “The problem of race in America is not a Black problem; It’s a White problem. And it will be solved when White people decide that they want to fix the mess that they created,” she said. “What are White people willing to do with the power that they have to fix this problem of race in America that they created?”

These conditions even impact the health of Black people. A recent study released by JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) stated that there were an estimated 1.63 million excess deaths among Black Americans between 1999-2020. The study defined “excess deaths” as an estimate of how many people died above and beyond what is expected.

According to a review of the report by the Missouri Independent, “because so many Black people die young— with many years of life ahead of them—their higher mortality rate from 1999 to 2020 resulted in a cumulative loss of more than 80 million years of life compared with the White population, the study showed.”

According to missouriindependent.com, “High mortality rates among Black people have less to do with genetics than with the country’s long history of discrimination, which has undermined educational, housing, and job opportunities for generations of Black people, said Clyde Yancy, an author of the study and chief of cardiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.”

Separation: The people’s choice

Black people across the country are waking up to the reality of the best and only solution for the race problem in America. 

Twitter user @tearsansorries tweeted, “Separation vs Segregation…Black People need their own space,their own communities, their own hospitals, their own everything. Segregation was forced by laws and death. Separation will be voluntary.”

Several Twitter users commented under a social media post that went viral, showcasing the first Black-developed micro-community in College Park, Georgia, called South Park Cottages.

“Yeah nobody wants to go to school or live around you White Supremacist. Yes black people run from these White people. We are no longer going to be around people and a society that hates us. Reparations and Separation!!!!” tweeted one user, @AndrewM08711161.

“Black people being desperate to live among white people instead of making a safe and beautiful place for themselves first has been very pathetic to watch. This is a separation not a segregation,” another user, @PhilipAjay2, tweeted.

The divine solution

For Zaki Baruti, president/general of the Universal African Peoples Organization, the White race’s mask of civility has always been off.

“When you look at the Vietnam War, when you look at what they did in Iraq based on a lie of weapons of mass destruction, when they went in and killed masses of people in Afghanistan, when they overthrew the elected government of Chile under the leadership of (Salvador) Allende, when you look at what they did in the Congo with the assassination of Patrice Lumumba,” he said to The Final Call. “They have always just shown their evil ways, their bloodsucking ways.”

He noted the importance of Black people being in tune with their Creator and being filled with the courage, tenacity, wisdom and knowledge to neutralize America’s systems through the power of the Black dollar and to “create a new society, a revolutionary society, based on the principles of communalism.”  

In a Final Call newspaper year-end interview for 2016, Min. Farrakhan spoke on the “White lash” and how many Black people have “fallen in love with our open enemy, because we have hope that one day they will receive us as an equal or treat us as an equal.” 

“And the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to us that is not going to happen. Any kind of unity with our former slave masters and their children has to be on their terms and not on ours. Otherwise, their power and their arms and their will, will be against our rise as it always has been,” Minister Farrakhan said.

White people are now lashing (out) due to the rise of the darker people of the earth and because to many, “make America great again” meant “make America White again” and “bring back White power,” the Minister added. He warned that the “wind will blow on Black people” until the realization that “we cannot get along in peace with this people after giving them 400 years of our sweat and blood and receiving in return some of the worst treatment ever accorded to a human being.”

“And when they see this mask of civility taken off and now you see an enemy that hates our shadow. And like Abraham Lincoln said, ‘you suffer from being here with us and we suffer from your presence among us,’” Minister Farrakhan said. “This is going to come to a head and the Will of God will be carried out, which is that the Black and the Brown and the Red, we must go free in a land of our own; not under White supremacy but ruled under our own wisdom, knowledge, understanding and the guidance of God.”