By Messenger Elijah Muhammad
Text Reprinted from the January 23, 1970 edition of Muhammad Speaks
Newspaper
"... Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and has revealed them unto babes." (Bible Mt. 11: 25)
The Black leaders and black intellectuals of our people and I may add, the Black educators and Black teachers, seem to be so far off from the knowledge of the time in which we now live.
It is a fatal mistake to be without the knowledge of the time, as a knowledge of the time is more important how than it has ever been on the face of the earth- especially since the time the Black People were kidnapped and brought into the Western Hemisphere, by the enemy of the Black People.
Here in America we have been ill-treated day and night by our Black father’s kidnappers. We were reared up by our enemy, the white slave master, blind, deaf and dumb to the true knowledge of self and of any one else.
Now today, it is a proven fact-a manifest truth, that even the Black educators and Black spiritual teachers (preachers) are really ignorant to the time in which we now live.
They are making fatal mistakes in the way that they are teaching and leading, our poor spiritually blind, deaf and dumb Black brothers.
Nor are they able to see out of the see out of the spiritual obscurity that the evil white slave-masters reared our Black fathers up in.
I read in the newspapers, and in listening to the news that is coming over the air on radio and television, that the government is forcing the integration of schools in Mississippi and that the Black Mayor is with the government to force integration on the schools.
This show’s the Black Mayor’s ignorance of the times.
This is the time of separation and the Divine Supreme Being Is Ordering it.
There is no mistake about the separation nor the time in which it should be taking place.
How plainly the Bible teaches every one that reads it that there will come a Great separation.
Jesus prophesied himself that the God Would Bring About a Great Separation between the two peoples (Black and white) -in a parable of the separation of sheeps from the goats. This parable is well understood and we have heard it all of our lives.
The prophecy teaches us that when this great separation started taking place, it would be the end of the world that we have known. (Bible, Matthew, Chapter 25.)
The separation of people had its beginning with the making of the white race.
The two peoples (Black and white) had to be separated because the white race was made to be an enemy to the Black Nation and the Black God(Yakub) who was a member of the Black Nation, made the white race from his knowledge of the germ of the Original Black Man.
This the wisdom that he put in this white race to teach them to rule us for a short period of time six thousand (6.000) years.
This period of time of six thousand (6.000) years has now been up for over one-half of a century.
The poor Black intellectual teacher of my Black people, who long for equality in the society of the white people, is blind to the time that he should become actually a teacher of his own kind in the way of independence.
He should not be teaching his Black people that which the white slave-master enslaved us with and which he seeks to keep the Black people enslaved with the same type of education.
It is bitter and grievous to the Black Man who can see, to see how far from the truth of our salvation our Black leaders are.
Separation is inevitable, regardless to whether or not you or I like it. We must separate.
What can we do to oppose the Aims and Purposes of Allah (God)-especially in His Time for the salvation of we, the Black Members of our Aboriginal Black Nation of the earth.
Take time and think over the white man’s own record of the history of what happened after he kidnapped us from out own native land and Black people.
The enemy used us for four hundred (400) years like a tool for himself. He showed no mercy whatsoever on our lives or our own property.
With all this knowledge of the history, past and present before you, you want to sit down with him and you want your children to be reared up by the children of the white man, in their schools, with their children-like our grand-parents, were reared up in the back-yard and earth-floor kitchens of the white slave-master’s log cabin.
If you were forced to choose between segregation and integration you would be better off to ask the southern white people to give segregation back to you.
Integration is like a snake swallowing down a frog. Just why do you want to be integrated with and sit up and be taught the same slavery curriculum as we have always been taught?
Elijah Muhammad
Messenger of Allah.
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