Perspectives
Black Love Is Rebellion
by Jasmine Gates —Guest Columnist— Have we considered love? It’s a question that should come to mind when the topic of Black Rebellion is being discussed. Do we understand the power of love is not just how it feels, but the impact it leaves because of its ability to shift a thing like a curse that plagues an entire lineage? Do we...
Muhammad’s Wisdom, Warning and Diagnosing America’s Time of Confusion
In an extraordinary display of open rebellion, White groups on January 6, 2021, stormed the U. S. Capitol. What is all the more confusing and perplexing is that the activities of these groups that many have condemned as an insurrection was lead and inspired by President Donald J. Trump. Throughout Black America, there has been outrage and amazement at how...
The Day of America’s Downfall
“And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?” Matthew 12:26-33, King James Version “Mr. Trump is tearing away the skin of the onion of White civility, and the more he pulls the skin of that onion back, he’s beginning to show something in the character of the Whites that follow him...
The Wicked Use of Science and Chemistry to Stop Black Liberation
“… they would not teach our people the science of modern warfare (defense), birth control or chemistry.”Hon. Elijah Muhammad “The devil desires only to create enmity and hatred among you by means of intoxicants and games of chance, and to keep you back from the remembrance of Allah and from prayer. Will you then keep back?”Holy Qur’an 5:91 “The slave may...
Nashville and no peace for a troubled America
“America, in trying to hold her place as the greatest power among the nations of earth, is one of the most troubled countries on earth today.” The Honorable Elijah Muhammad As the year was closing, it included a literal bang with the explosion of a bomb laden recreational vehicle on the streets of Nashville in Tennessee. And while authorities at...
Why Black People Cannot Trust The Pfizer Vaccine
The Pfizer pharmaceutical company beat everyone to the punch by being the first Covid-19 vaccine to be granted Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA. There is an aggressive media and government campaign to “ blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans to the front of the line, ahead of whites.” The Department of Veterans Affairs has apparently determined that these groups...
Modern Lynchings By Law
By Aaron Greene The U.S. death penalty has always been a symbol of White supremacy and a violation of human rights law. Having already executed 12 people this year, the Trump administration plans to execute five people, four of them Black, during this lame duck period. This would be the first time a president has carried out executions during a...
U.S. Centrism: The Radical Betrayal of Global Solidarity
By @Blacks4Peace | Guest Columnist “… Somebody must say to America, America if you have contempt for life, if you exploit human beings by seeing them as less than human, if you will treat human beings as a means to an end, you thingafy those human beings. And if you will thingafy persons, you will exploit them economically. And if...
The Shame of a Nation: Hunger in America
The holiday known as Thanksgiving has come and gone but there is an ever present reality that remains—hunger in America. The day that mocks the slaughter of the indigenous people of this nation comes with plenty of good and sincere efforts to show love and provide a momentary reprieve from suffering in the richest country in the world. It is...
Broken Promises in a Troubled Land
President Barack Obama’s new book, “A Promised Land,” is a best seller and has drawn a variety of responses as the former leader of the free world shared his thoughts about time in office and America’s future. Fareed Zakaria, political commentator and host of a CNN Sunday morning talk show, made some interesting observations about the Obama book during a...