Sudanese army soldiers rejoice after taking control of presidential palace in Khartoum on Friday, 21st March 2025. (Photo by AFP)
In a statement released on Friday, Sudan’s army said its troops had recaptured the presidential palace in downtown Khartoum after nearly two years of conflict with the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The palace was the last heavily guarded bastion of the rival group, AP reported.
“Today the flag is raised, the palace is back, and the journey continues until victory is complete,” Sudan’s Information Minister Khaled al-Aiser wrote on the social platform X.
Social media videos showed Sudanese army soldiers inside the palace, giving the date as the 21st day of Ramadan. A Sudanese military officer wearing a captain’s epaulettes announced in the video and confirmed that the troops were inside the compound.
The RSF later issued a statement claiming its forces “are still present in the vicinity of the area, fighting bravely.”
A drone attack on the palace, believed to have been launched by the RSF, reportedly killed troops and journalists with Sudanese state television.
The RSF said they had killed dozens in the attack, adding that the battle for the Republican Palace is not over yet.
Despite the seizure of the palace, the RSF still controls large parts of the country, including much of the western Darfur region, which has been the scene of the deadliest violence since April 2023.
Although the RSF still has positions in Khartoum, its foothold there is more tenuous than at any point since the conflict began, and the trajectory suggests the RSF will be pushed out completely, said Ahmed Soliman, a senior research fellow at Chatham House.
The RSF rapidly seized the presidential palace in Khartoum, along with the rest of the city, after war broke out in April 2023 over the group's integration into the armed forces.
Sudan has been unstable since the removal of President Omar al-Bashir in 2019.
The head of the UN children’s agency has said the conflict has created the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. UNICEF on Friday separately decried the looting of food aid meant for malnourished children at Al Bashir Hospital on the outskirts of Khartoum.
The war has killed more than 28,000 people, forced millions to flee their homes, and left some families eating grass in a desperate attempt to survive as famine sweeps parts of the country. Other estimates suggest a far higher death toll.
[Editor’s note: The following article contains an edited distillation of the hour long message delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan as Part 37 of his 58-week Lecture Series “The Time and What Must Be Done.”]
In the 3rd Chapter, the 26th verse of the Holy Qur’an, Allah is telling Muhammad to say: “O Allah, Owner of the Kingdom, Thou givest the kingdom to whom Thou pleasest, and takest away the kingdom from whom Thou pleasest, and Thou exaltest whom Thou pleasest and abasest whom Thou pleasest.
In Thine hand is the good. Surely, Thou art Possessor of power over all things.” So to believe in God and to follow God’s Guidance and Admonition is the real doing of good!
In the Book of Genesis, Chapter 1, verse 28, it reads: “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and [over] every creeping thing that crawleth upon the earth.”
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So looking again at the abuse by those who are the stewards of the Earth and its animals and resources: Well, you were given time to rule, but God knew what you were going to do. And that’s why the angels said to Allah (Surah 2, verse 30):
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“What will you place in the earth as a ruler but that which will create mischief and cause the shedding of blood?”—and by so doing, the present rulers have violated their stewardship over a creation that they had nothing to do with its creation.
This is Allah (God’s) creation, and you violated it by your misuse and abuse of His Creation.
How our food is denatured through added hormones, unnatural chemical ripening
In his monumental book How to Eat to Live, Book 2, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad talks about “the denaturing of food”; and he tells us that when we go to the health food store to buy pills, the pills are not satisfactory to give you the nutrients that have been taken from the food.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad writes on Page 93, in Chapter 25, “Food Robbed of Natural Vitamins”: “When the vitamins and proteins are chemically taken out of natural foods, it makes the food less valuable.
The chemicals used to take out vitamins and proteins from their natural place in food and the chemicals used to keep and preserve the vitamins and proteins make it not too safe for us to eat vitamins and proteins in pills and liquid form. It is a pity that the good food is robbed for the sake of a commercial dollar.”
On Pages 107-108, in Chapter 29, “Swine Eats Anything,” he writes: “America’s markets are loaded with swine, and loaded with vegetables and fruits which are preserved and made to look beautiful by having poisonous chemicals poured upon them.
There are thousands, and hundreds of thousands of herds of cattle and sheep and there are hundreds of thousands of fowls. Yet, Americans decorate their tables with the divinely -prohibited flesh—the swine—and represent themselves as being the true Christian followers of Jesus.”
Well, in Chapter 47, “Doctor Falls Victim of Same Sickness,” on Page 158, he writes: “IF THE MEDICAL DOCTORS and the theologian teachers and scientists of chemicals, are indulging and are not successful in expanding their own lives in what they are offering to us to eat and drink, then why should we follow their way of life?
The chemical doctors go to the earth to get chemicals to heal themselves and us. These chemicals soon will destroy both [them and us]. [Our] bodies were not made to be supported by chemicals for health and longevity.
The fact is the body of man was not to be drugged. …” And they are turning down, now, much of their medication, which is absolutely poison and detrimental to us.
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It is prophesied in the Holy Qur’an that when The God of Truth, Freedom, Justice and Equality comes, He will force this evil world to confess its evil. And this, they are now doing. So there are forces, now, pushing the small farmer out, causing the small farmers to lose their farms so that these farms can be eaten up by the larger corporate farmers.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration approve techniques that are being developed to fatten the sheep and the cows faster. Hormones are injected into them, going against the natural way, to fatten them to get them to market faster; the coloring and other additives added to the food is denaturing the food!
And because of the distances that food now has to travel to come to the marketplace, chemical preservatives are added to keep the food from rotting, rather than the family farmer, who lived at the outskirts of the city; and could bring their produce fresh directly to the city so we have it fresh, today.
You, the farmer, the worker, pick it “today,” it’s in the market tomorrow; and, it’s brought up by the people in “the next few days”: So we did not have to use chemicals to preserve or to help the ripening process by pulling it from the vine before it is ripe;
Or taking it from the ground before it is ripe. So all of these techniques to produce more money is also producing more disease in food that lacks nutritional value. Our food is being denatured.
In 2009, a Times magazine health segment writer, M.J. Stephey, asked the question, “Eating Your Veggies: Not As Good For You?” He reports on a Journal of Horticultural Science, February 2009 report on “Declining Fruit and Vegetable Nutrient Composition: What is the Evidence?”;
He writes: “According to Donald R. Davis, a former research associate with the Biochemical Institute at the University of Texas, Austin. Mr. Davis claims the average vegetable found in today’s supermarket is anywhere from 5% to 40% or more lower in minerals (including magnesium, iron, calcium and zinc) than those harvested just 50 years ago.”
When you compare the loss of land, the death of the industry of farming and the small farmer, and then you look at the value of the food that was produced by the small farmer and the value of the food that is being produced by the large corporate-owned farmers.
You will find the disparity is what we are suffering from. So the pharmaceutical companies are getting rich to produce chemistry to overturn the effect of the chemical value of foods.
In other words: The natural function of your body is continued by the natural producing of food and drink. But when you alter the food, then that begins the altering of the function of the organs of your body, producing disease.
So that these pharmaceutical companies, now, are getting wealthy; because when you get sick you go to the doctor, he sends you to the pharmacy; and the pharmacy, now, is drugging you and charging us all kinds of money to keep us alive. But what quality of life do we have?
Leaders, activists, and citizens from across the country attended the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
Thousands of people gathered in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
The event honored the bravery of those who, on March 7, 1965, risked their lives for voting rights as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge, only to be met with brutal violence from state troopers.
Leaders, activists, and citizens from across the country attended the remembrance held March 9, reflecting on the sacrifices made while acknowledging the ongoing fight for civil rights and justice.
The commemoration included speeches from civil rights leaders, elected officials, and descendants of those who marched in 1965, emphasizing the importance of preserving and continuing the legacy of the movement.
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Attendees participated in a symbolic march across the historic bridge, retracing the steps of John Lewis, Amelia Boynton Robinson, and countless others who stood against injustice.
Many reflected on the significance of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was passed months after the march, and the modern-day challenges to voting rights and racial equality.
This year’s anniversary served as both a tribute and a call to action, reminding the nation that the fight for justice is far from over. The presence of thousands demonstrated the lasting impact of the Selma movement and the enduring power of collective action.
As the country faces new debates over voting rights and social justice, the spirit of Bloody Sunday continues to inspire activism.
Crowd gathers near the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday on March 9. Photos: Charles Abdul-Wali Muhammad
Kitooro — According to recent figures published by Johns Hopkins University, over 2.7 million cases of Covid-19 have been detected worldwide, with 192,019 deaths and 752,148 people now recovered.
In Africa, Nigeria has logged about 981 cases and 31 deaths; South Africa about 3,953 cases and 75 deaths; Ghana about 1,279 cases and 10 deaths and Kenya about 336 cases and 14 deaths. Those numbers may seem small now but in countries without adequate social distancing and shutdowns of society, the pandemic has a serious impact and will, hopefully, avoid catastrophic conditions related to the impact of Covid-19—and not just the loss of life. Africa is facing a food crisis because of locust infestation in some areas which could be made worse with people and equipment unable to move easily from country to country.
“We will only halt Covid-19 through solidarity,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organization director-general. “Countries, health partners, manufacturers, and the private sector must act together and ensure that the fruits of science and research can benefit everybody.”
The Final Call newspaper recently organized an important online discussion of the Covid-19 impact on the Motherland, which included the economic impact, the social impact and pandemic concerns either unique to Africa or unsettled, unique concerns germane to the continent. It was livestreamed April 23.
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“I was working with Dr. Ndongo Sylla, an economist from Senegal, on how to control the narrative about Africa and creating a platform to get accurate information out. Then the coronavirus hit and I suggested we pull together African professionals that represented the entire continent. We wanted a wholistic approach,” said Jehron Muhammad, Final Call Africa Watch columnist who organized the forum.
“We also included Dr. Desta Muhammad who was trained in Cuba because they have sent doctors all over the world. Cuba has a track record of dealing with pandemics but America hates Cuba and won’t let them help us. Cuba was instrumental in helping China as well,” he said.
The forum covered topics such as testing, economics, women’s issues, leadership and China’s role in Africa.The scholars, activists and advocates who convened online over a video platform were from Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Kenya and Sudan as well as Chicago and Philadelphia.
Final Call Editor-in-Chief Naba’a Muhammad and journalist Khalil Charles, who lives in Istanbul, Turkey, and has lived in Sudan, were co-moderators. Philadelphia-based writer Jehron Muhammad organized and introduced the session. Participants included Dr. Desta Valdez Muhammad, who was trained in Cuba’s medical school and practices in California; Senegalese economist Dr. Sylla; Kenyan activist and African women’s advocate Crystal Simeoni of Femnet, who is also a fellow with the London School of Economics; Leah Eryenyu of Uganda, who is a research, advocacy and movement building manager with Akina Mama Afrika and works on the intersection between gender oppression and economic exploitation; Redge Nkosi of First Source Money and Public Banking in South Africa; Christobel Phiri of Southern African Trust in Johannesburg; Riaz K. Tayob of the Southern and East African Institute in South Africa; and Mekki Elmograbi of MC-Media in Sudan, who sent in a video as part of the discussion.
The online session was called “Africa: The Economic Ramifications of the Coronavirus Pandemic.”
Panelists talked about the challenges of the pandemic, which has closed some borders and put people out of work as social distancing and shutdowns are employed to control spread of the disease.
That may be working given the small number of those infected, who often came from abroad or were visiting abroad and contracted and brought the disease back home, but there are concerns about violence and killings by security forces to keep people in their homes, said panelists.
Most Africans also cannot afford to work from home and must earn a living as social safety nets are frayed and nations are swamped with debt that sucks up money that could be used for services and infrastructure.
“Each (Covid-19) test costs $50. Targeted mass testing must be balanced against the cost of testing,” explained Ms. Simeoni, who works for one of Africa’s largest women’s rights networks.
“Over 70 percent of our labor force is informal (don’t have traditional jobs). We have to find hybrid ways to manage the virus. The city (Nairobi) is on curfew from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. We have contact tracing and mandatory quarantine for anyone testing positive,” she said of Kenya.
She echoed those who call for greater global collaboration on health services and against the pandemic. “This is needed especially when countries are becoming more nationalist in their approaches,” said Ms. Simeoni.
Leah Eryenyu, based in Kampala, Uganda, told the live stream audience, “I think one of the things that needs to happen is that the African Union needs to step in because that is the accountability mechanism for states on the continent, and I would say, put in check errant leaders or leaders that are actually putting their citizens lives in danger. But even closer to home, we have regional economic blocs. In the case of Tanzania, it is the East African Community that comprises six countries including Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan, and Burundi.”
“If I can just give a case of Uganda where you have, you had about 10 million people living in poverty, that means that those are people that make about $1.25 a day. That’s their daily income and they’re saying that the shock of the pandemic is going to catapult about 15 million more people into poverty.
“Just because the economy opens does not mean that everything is going to spring back to life. People are still going to have a lot of debt. People are not going to have any money to actually spend even when the shops open. So, it means that there’s a real big need for relief,” she argued.
Final Call Editor in Chief Naba’a Muhammad, who co-moderated the forum, said, “We are witnessing the global system of White supremacy. Through this, White nations settle their differences among themselves to assert their domination over Black people regardless of whether they are in Africa, the United States or Brazil.”
He asked the panelists about the type of global leadership necessary to confront this pandemic. “Weak leadership is affecting the way the pandemic is playing out,” Christabel Phiri of Southern Africa Trust based in Johanesburg said.
“The pandemic has brought to light the weak health care systems we have,” she added.
Ms. Simeoni responded, “There is apartheid in the global governance of Africa. We don’t sit at the table, but we are expected to implement the policies. Africans have to put money in a Covid Relief fund.”
“The pandemic has created an opportunity for African countries to work together. We don’t even trade among ourselves. This could be the start,” she added.
Dr. Sylla, the Senegalese economist, said, “As with many other African countries there are a lot of people who work in the informal sector who cannot afford the lockdown. They cannot afford to be in a situation and face an economic crisis. The (Senegalese) government has tried to aid these people with the food aid program.”
“For the rest of West Africa, you could say the situation is manageable. We have to take care that the official numbers mostly reveal the weak testing capacity in Africa,” he warned.
Dr. Sylla argued African nations must also begin taking out loans in their own currency based on their own projections, resources and collateral. Taking out loans in the currency of Western nations weakens Africa, increases the costs of the loans and undermines true sovereignty, he argued.
The second half of the three-hour forum was moderated by Khalil Yusuf Charles, deputy news editor for TRT World based in Istanbul, Turkey. “The speakers gave important points and solutions about what should be done. I was struck by Dr. Sylla’s remarks about money and finances. He made a strong case about the pseudo-colonialization going on there,” Mr. Charles told The Final Call.
“Ms. Simeoni from Kenya raised concerns about African leadership. Does Africa have the kind of leadership necessary to handle this crisis? The verdict is still out on that. Our goal for this forum was to give everyone a platform to talk about local production, vaccines, social distancing, infrastructure issues, the brutality of the situation, domestic violence issues for women and border trade,” he continued.
“In South Africa, we are looking at this as a Great Lockdown. Just like we had the Great Depression and the Great Recession,” said Redge Nkosi of First Source Money and Public Banking based in Pretoria.
“Testing has increased across the continent. In South Africa we’ve tested 143,570, the largest amount of testing on the continent, 3,953 tested positive, 1,473 recovered and deaths 375,” he said.
“The largest lockdown period was extended for two weeks. We expect to lift the lockdown at the end of the month. Surprisingly the most infections are in the richest areas of the country. Not the slums where we would expect the slums to be highly impacted,” he said.
While social distancing has been recommended for everyone all over the world this may be difficult to enforce in Africa. Many people without the comfort of bank savings or credit cards may see the cure as worse than the disease and risk breaking the law to work just to feed their families. There are also social norms to overcome.
“Social distancing in Sudan is a very big challenge for this community. The situation has forced people to have social distances like three meters or five meters. People now still shake hands. They sit together very closely. It doesn’t matter if they need to do that or not. A lot of people, they didn’t close their mosques. They pray together and now we are heading to taraweeh prayers in Ramadan,” said Mekki Elmograbi, a writer based in Khartoum via a recorded statement.
“Even if they didn’t pray in the mosque, they’ll pray at home or in small mosques. This is not because they are challenging the government, but it is tough and hard for the Sudanese community to have this social distance. Although there is an awareness with this challenge, but they can’t change their habits in just a few days,” he said.
Much of the discussion centered on governance and economics and what takes priority. “We must put people first not the economy,” argued Riaz K. Tayob of the Southern and East African Institute, who works in South Africa.
“Africans lack a national development plan. That’s why China has gotten away with what it has. Africa needs to set its own benchmarks. That way it doesn’t matter who the developer is, Africa is focused on their benchmarks. This pandemic is a cardiac arrest for the entire global economy,” he said.
Panelists called for a more united African approach to the pandemic and for progress on the continent. What’s needed is true Pan Africanism, which seeks common benefit, not continent-wide “African liberalism,” which imitates Western economic thought and is obsessed with growth and profit versus the welfare of people, they said.
The IMF and other international lending and financial institutions have pushed programs that decimated social goods, like national health care in favor of public-private partnerships with fees and many cannot afford for services. Too often the focus has been on tackling specific diseases like malaria versus building hospitals and health capacity and focusing on prevention and things like clean water. Too often these institutions have forced austerity programs on African nations in exchange for loans but these programs decimate the social and other needed services, said panelists.
There is a lack of U.S. leadership, which includes pulling funding from the World Health Organization, and Europe but there is not a unified African Union voice calling for debt relief, which would free up money for services and development, panelists argued.
There is fear that if Covid-19 numbers rise in Africa, the health systems will be overrun and in Uganda, for example, there is fear of people who recovered from coronavirus and a stigma for those who come back to their communities after quarantine.
In Senegal, the month of April will be a critical month to see if the pandemic will grow, said Dr. Sylla.
Women who work in marketplaces or who are often food vendors or own small restaurants are specially hit hard by the loss of income, said panelists.
There is also a need for collaboration with Cuba, not just with doctors but with technology sharing and developing Covid-19 tests on the continent, said panelists.
Dr. Desta Muhammad said the Cuban health care model, which focuses on prevention, common good, uses small health centers and regular interaction with local residents can help Africa. In Cuba, the first interaction with health workers is not in hospitals but in regular contact, she said. When an epidemic or illness strikes the health workers already know those who are most vulnerable, she explained.
While Africa faces challenges, panelists said there is room for optimism and the pandemic’s aftermath will leave room for creating something new and different and they want their brothers and sisters in America and the Diaspora to be part of the solution.
DECEIVING, DEFAMING, DESTROYING: The Jewish onslaught against Blacks as part of campaign to destroy Farrakhan
The Jewish assault on entertainer Nick Cannon and efforts to bludgeon him into submission were the latest moves in a long history of anti-Black bullying and coercion by Jews obsessed with the destruction of Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan—no matter the cost or the collateral damage.
Nick Cannon Photo: MGN Online
“The Masked Singer” television show host, who has also been active in demands for Black justice, was targeted after an interview with Professor Griff of Public Enemy was made public. In the interview, which has been removed from the internet, Mr. Cannon talks about how the experience or harsh life in the caves of Europe deprived Caucasians of melanin, which causes dark skin pigmentation, and created a less compassionate, more aggressive being, which ravaged the globe—especially the darker peoples of the earth.
There was also a discussion of who fulfills the biblical prophesy of the children of Israel today and whether Blacks in America, after 400 years of service and affliction, are actually that people.
Mr. Cannon had been a guest at Min. Farrakhan’s home July 4 and was present in “The Garden” as the Minister delivered a stirring message of warning, a call for repentance and spoke directly to the so-called Jews who have stalked, opposed and tried to kill him through a cancer radiation treatment.
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Initially Mr. Cannon stood strong in the face of charges he was anti-Semitic but then apologized, saying he was sorry for hurting the Jewish community and ready to learn about their suffering.
Nation of Islam Student Minister and researcher Demetric Muhammad called the assaults “ritual defamation” designed to incite the murder of the Minister.
Radio host and author Charlamage tha God and Min. Farrakhan
“It is my belief that the ultimate goal of this defamation and character assassination campaign is to inspire and provide a justification for a literal physical assassination of Black America’s most ardent and beloved champion,” said Student Minister Muhammad.
While the Anti-Defamation League, Simon Wiesenthal Center and other Jewish groups wage their 34-year-old war against the Minister and the Nation of Islam, they are enraged that the man and the movement still command great respect, admiration and love.
These anti-Black enemies, however, are intent on crushing any good word, good will or good wishes extended to Min. Farrakhan by tarring admirers and influencers with the false label of “anti-Semite” to destroy their careers, reputations, and businesses.
Jews have most recently threatened the careers or business interests of noted admirers, supporters or even people photographed with a man who has served Black people for over 60 years.
Besides Mr. Cannon, the Jewish media assassins have threatened Sean “Puffy” Combs, whose Revolt TV, ran the Minister’s July 4 message online and was headed toward one million views when shutdown by YouTube.com. Entrepreneur and rapper Ice Cube has been labeled a hater by Jews as were DeSean Jackson, a star player for the Philadelphia Eagles, former NBA player Stephen Jackson and even radio host Charlemagne Da God. Legendary NBA player Allen Iverson was excoriated for posting a photo with the Minister on social media.
DeSean Jackson Photo: MGN Online
What’s behind all the Jewish hate?
“This is all part of a very predictable arc. Part of that arc, of course, is kind of that obligatory call to condemn Minister Farrakhan. This is the call that Tamika Mallory resisted. This is the call that many people have resisted,”observed Dr. Gregg Carr of Howard University and regular contributor to the Roland S. Martin Daily Digital show.
“The Nation of Islam has been unapologetic in its work on behalf of our people … and that is inevitably going to bring the Nation into conflict with people who don’t want to be in last place, either. And some of those people in the history of this country have been White people who happen to be Jewish. And there’s nothing, really, that the Nation has done or can do or that Minister Farrakhan has done or can do that can erase that history of conflict, of situational compromise and coalition,” he said.
He placed the question of anti-Semitism into two categories: the historical journey of Judaism and the politics of Whiteness. He said while it is true that religions are not linked to skin color, there are studies that suggest Judaism emerged out of Northeast Africa and that the first Jews certainly weren’t White.
“The question becomes in 2020, what value is that, when we go into the second category of political meaning and social meaning of people trying to negotiate with Whiteness? The question becomes, is that a topic, is that a subject that enables people of African descent to find some value, some advantage, some weapon in our fight against oppression?” he asked.
(L) (L) Min. Farrakhan and rapper and businessman Ice Cube (Photo: Final Call archives) (R) NBA superstar Allen Iverson and Min. Farrakhan (Photo via Instagram)
White America has never been comfortable with Black people who are unpoliced and free to wield their power and that today, White America has resorted to calling Black people to denounce the Minister rather than facing the Minister or the Nation head on.
“If White America and the racists who are in control cannot eliminate or defeat independent and self-determining Black institutions, they simply begin to pretend like they don’t exist,” Dr. Carr said. “Why don’t you go after the institutions you think are so bad instead of asking people who are not members of those institutions whether or not they condemn those institutions? That, to me, is a confession of sorts.”
Dr. Ray Winbush
Dr. Ray Winbush of Morgan State University pointed out how Minister Farrakhan’s Jewish detractors use a double standard with how they respond or don’t respond to what they claim as anti-Semitism.
“You can be a White supremacist and say things about Ashkenazim Jews and you won’t be vilified,” argued Dr. Winbush.
However, he said, when Black people share something of praise of a man who clearly has helped their community over the past 60 years, Blacks are punished. They are made to visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, make a public apology and denounce the Minister, said Dr. Winbush.
“As if somehow Black people are not to be critical of Ashkenazim Jews, Israel or anything related to that,” he said.
Jewish dossier on Farrakhan?
And, while the agreement with Mr. Cannon was supposed to create greater sensitivity awareness toward Jewish people, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, who is supposed to be his guide, started by giving Mr. Cannon a dossier on Min. Farrakhan to read.
TMZ reported and aired a video of Rabbi Cooper, of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, saying first Mr. Cannon had to digest anti-Farrakhan tripe as part of his repentance. After his apology came Fox’s announcement that it decided not to fire Mr. Cannon from “The Masked Singer” because he was remorseful.
The Jewish effort is a deliberate strategy to obliterate anyone who comes near Min. Farrakhan to stop any “legitimation.” “The Black community in this country is wrestling with a desperate crisis situation in our inner cities … Farrakhan’s NOI is arguably filling a void for that community,”the ADL noted in a 1994 special report entitled “Mainstreaming Anti-Semitism: The Legitimation of Louis Farrakhan.” By repeating their falsehoods, public shaming, and economic cut-offs these powerful Jews seek to annihilate Black folk, in particular, who refuse to bow.
Minister Farrakhan has stated his work is exposing Satan, evil ones of every race and religion, their ill effect on the world and raising the Black man and woman and the oppressed living under an evil rule.
Nick Cannon
“The reason they hate me is because they know I represent the end of their civilization. I represent the uncovering of their wickedness, fulfilling the judgment that God has come to bring down on America and the world,” explained Minister Farrakhan.
Unlike those Jews who misrepresent Minister Farrakhan to the public, he is not motivated by malice toward the Jewish community. He honors Jews who follow the Torah—a revelation given to Prophet Moses. He condemns all who use religion as a cover for dirty deeds and unjust, ugly practices. He has never taught violence against Jews; boycotted Jewish institutions and the Nation has no record of attacking Jewish people.
“Get to know me from the God within that can tell you if the Minister is false,” he said July 4. “They tell lies to make you think I am a bigot or anti-Semite, so you won’t listen to what I’m saying,” Minister Farrakhan said.
“There is nothing enjoyed more by White racism than placing a Black man on the apology tour, sadly degraded and put in their place, horribly afraid of losing their money or social status,” Dr. Boyce Watkins, entrepreneur and media maker, said on a recent podcast.
Dr. Carr, who isalso chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University, says it’s the same script used every time a Black person embraces the Minister and the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
One, an incident happens: the conversation Nick Cannon had with Professor Griff on his podcast, Cannon’s Class. Two, the person is charged with anti-Semitism. Three, a reaction occurs: in the case of Nick Cannon, Viacom let him go. Four, a statement is made: Nick Cannon tweeted that if he offended anybody, he’s sorry, and that he’s a student continuing to learn.
19 Keys Photo via Twitter
19Keys, a young Black activist out of Los Angeles, also commented on what he described as the “age-old story” of the litmus test.
“When you stand next to truth, it can’t be a moment. It has to be a way of life. Unapologetic. You have to not be a passive revolutionary, but you have to be aggressive and strategic and be willing to live for and die for those causes,” he said. “And you have to pick a side today and also understand and be able to defend the words that you speak with truth and back those up.”
He said anti-Semitic propaganda is a weaponized tool against anyone who has valid criticism.
The forced apologies of Philadelphia Eagles football player DeSean Jackson, who posted a fraudulent statement attributed to Adolph Hitler about Blacks being the true children of Islam and Jews hiding that fact, alongside positive words for a July 4 message by the Minister and Mr. Cannon, who attended the speech in “the Garden” at the Minister’s home in Michigan were pummeled into submission.
Both consented to be being educated on Jewish history through visits to former concentration camps, books, discussions and the like. But they won’t likely be asked to tour settlements of the Ethiopian Jews in Israel who suffer from the highest poverty rate, levels of police brutality, unrest and incarceration. There have also been complaints that the 14,000 Beta Israel remaining in Ethiopia, despite repeated appeals, have not received support from Jewish federations to combat the onslaught of the coronavirus. Perhaps that would be too much like home.
“They don’t want them to see that,” said one analyst.
A voice, time for truth
“So much of what Minister Farrakhan says is truth, and many people don’t want that truth to come out,” said Pastor Emeritus Willie Wilson of Union Temple Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. “The Black Lives Matter movement has emboldened people who have never spoken out before; now, they have the courage and confidence to speak up.
“The same would be true with the Minister if he receives more support and unbiased coverage, it would strengthen what he is saying, ultimately opening up things that have been hidden and obscured. It is what they fear,” he said.
Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X, and Min. Farrakhan.
A few Black leaders and celebrities who’ve been called anti-Semitic include President Barack Obama, Angela Davis, Alice Walker, Oprah Winfrey, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton. Not to mention Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa who were subjected to the same slander. The entire list is long and stretches back to Marcus Garvey, the 20th century Black nationalist leader, Minister Malcolm X and beyond.
The game, according to social activist and MOVE member Pam Africa is if you criticize Jews, you are assigned the anti-Semitic label. “It’s a label that intimidates and bullies like the tactics of (President) Trump,” she said. “They use this with people who support the Minister, terrorizing them into their way of thinking, when the truth is staring them right in the face, causing them to run and hide. If they (Jewish people) have a problem, they need to go directly to the source.If you have a problem with the man, at least have the guts to sit down and talk with him. His door is open,” she said.
But those who condemned the Minister weren’t enough. Writing for The Hill Rabbi Marvin Hier declared, “what is most upsetting is the absolute silence from America’s Black leaders and clergy with regard to the hateful, anti-Semitic message (of Minister Farrakhan).“ He also uses the tired Hitler/Farrakhan comparison. Comparing Adolph Hitler with Minister Farrakhan is logically fallacious. You might as well compare rutabaga to chocolate candy.
Dr. Na’im Akbar, former chairmen of the Psychology Departments at Morehouse College and Florida State University, told The Final Call he viewed the July 4 speech by the Minister. Addressing the issues of Rabbi Hier, he observed, “What Jews and White people don’t get is the Minister’s work ain’t about them, and for some reason, there seems to be a determination to shift the conversation to be about them.”
“His message is how do we begin to resurrect and restore the integrity of Black people. Jews and the devil, in general, are incidental. In many articles, they are amazed and insulted that Black people don’t condemn the Minister for doing his work. That is because Black people understand it is not about Jews. It’s not even an integral part of his message.They continuously recycle the false narrative, so they become the center. It is their way of sabotaging the good work that he does.”
Dr. Akbar added, “The Minister has been consistent and unapologetic in his concern for the upliftment of Black people. Not trying to teach others out of racism, his focus is to teach and restore Black people to their own integrity and sanity.”
“For them, this is frightening because there has not been anyone who has stood up like this since Marcus Garvey and Elijah Muhammad. Unfortunately, 21st-century Black leadership is consolatory, always responding to White people. Responding to the antagonist and the antagonist writes the agenda,” he observed.
“Minister Farrakhan keeps us at the center, and the antagonist doesn’t write the agenda. He writes our agenda keeping us at the center, and for them, this is frightening,” Dr. Akbar concluded.
Rapper T.I. attended the July 4 message with his wife, rappers 2Chainz and Rick Ross and former pro basketball player Stephen Jackson, who has been championing justice for his longtime friend, George Floyd, who died in the custody of Minneapolis police officers. (See related story page 8.)
“I haven’t been attacked but as far as I have heard the references to the Minister being anti-Semitic I haven’t heard any words from his mouth personally that would lead me to that conclusion,” he told The Final Call in an exclusive July 16 telephone interview. “And, I’ve been waiting on someone to present something that would allow me the opportunity to see what they say they’ve seen and I always hear them speak his name in the midst of hate and anti-Semitism but I’ve never seen them play the clip of him saying what they claim to be hate speech.
“I have to judge him based on my experiences and what I have heard him say out of his mouth with my ears. I can’t go off with what somebody else tells me what they heard with their ears and that’s just how I feel,” he said.
