The Final Call

Weeding Out the Impurities

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No pain, no gain. A baby doesn’t come out of its mother’s womb without suffering. A seed doesn’t emerge from the ground and grow into a flower overnight. A nation doesn’t gain its independence without trials, conflict, and opposition. Creation includes a process of growth, a way to evolve a little bit closer to perfection. Perfection can’t come about without recognizing impurities.

How can you clean something you don’t know is dirty and what are the impurities of the Black community? Let’s consider:

1. Black on Black crime is prevalent while we are witnessing the true face of the White man as young Black males and females die at the hands of a system that works against them.

2. Schools are closing down, teachers are being let go and students are dropping out because the education system doesn’t satisfy the new minds that God has allowed to come into fruition.

3. Disease in the Black community is at an all-time high because of the food we intake. If we’re not dying at the hands of ourselves, at the hands of our enemy, or from the lack of knowledge, we’re dying because of fast food, soul food, radiated food, and genetically modified food.

What are ways to rid ourselves and our communities of these impurities so that we may grow as a nation?

First, stop Black on Black crime. Black on Black crime is a plague to the construction of our nation and our communities. It is destructive. The scriptures describe us as “all gods, children of the Most High.” With that description, we dare look at our brother or our sister with hatred and vitriol? “How can you love God whom you have never seen and hate your brother whom you see every day?”

To solve the problem of being killed at the hands of White police officers and the neighborhood White guy, we must separate. “Separation of the so-called Negroes from their slave-masters’ children is a must. It was the only solution, according to the Bible, for Israel and the Egyptians, and it will prove to be the only solution for America and her slaves, whom she mockingly calls her citizens without granting citizenship,” the Honorable Elijah Muhammad wrote on page 45 of Message to the Black Man.

Second, if the educational system is failing, start educating your own children. The history books don’t teach Black history, but they teach White history. America’s history books dare not go into the essence of Black history because then her willing slaves and lawful captives, would see themselves as something more, see themselves as gods. Now, God is allowing the young people to grow up with empty minds so that their minds may be filled with the right words, be filled with knowledge and truth. We who know the Supreme Wisdom and study the teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad have a responsibility to fill our people up.

Third, stop digesting Big Macs, burger melts, and most importantly, the forbidden swine. I once wrote an article that was published in The Final Call titled, “Soul Food + Fast Food + Radiated Food = Death.” What I forgot to add is genetically modified food. “In America generally, and in inner cities in particular, the Black community has become a food desert that is filled with fast food restaurants that proliferate our community, and with this denatured and hormonally- and chemically-based processed foods,” the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan stated in the 38th episode of his monumental lecture series The Time and What Must be Done. The only way to know what is put into foods that go into our bodies is to grow our own food, because as The Minister has told us, “farming is the engine of our national life.”

Perhaps the most effective way to weed out the impurities in the Black community is to unite. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, “Our unity is more powerful than a hydrogen or atomic bomb.” He also stated, “Our unity would solve 95 percent of our problems.”

How about we unite, stop the killing of self, separate from our open enemy, educate our children and grow our own food on land of our own? What do you say?

(Anisah Muhammad is a 16-year-old writer based in Montgomery, Ala. To read more of her commentaries, visit [email protected]).