Business is warfare and it’s time for Blacks to get in the fight!

By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor | Last updated: Apr 19, 2016 - 10:20:14 AM

NASHVILLE—Business is warfare and an understanding of that reality should govern how Black folk conduct their affairs, spend their money and develop and protect their institutions, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said in a message delivered on the campus of Tennessee State University.

“Who are you Tennessee State? Each one of you is a god,” said Min. Farrakhan as he opened from the stage inside Kean Gymnasium.

The room was full primarily with students April 16 as the Minister delivered the closing address for the BUSI (Black United Summit International) conference, which is devoted to connecting students at historically Black colleges and universities, promoting entrepreneurship and inspiring students with a vision for creating a new reality for Black people.

A lack of knowledge of self has Black people turned backwards, calling one another “yo dog” instead of reflecting “god,” Min. Farrakhan said.

But God himself has chosen Black people in this time to be a resurrected people who will lead the world, the Minister continued.

While it may appear impossible that Black people would rise and rule anything, what is impossible for men becomes a mission for God in the day of manifestation of the reality and power of God, said Min. Farrakhan.

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Business is the activity of life, said the Nation of Islam minister. Blacks need an understanding of what true wealth is and it’s not the paper money issued by the Federal Reserve that is losing its value quickly, he added.

The major U.S. banks are in trouble and U.S. financial and political woes are even fraying relations with her ally Saudi Arabia who holds three-quarters of a trillion dollars in bonds purchased from the U.S. government, he noted.

The American government is not only failing financially but is failing to deliver truth to her citizens, he said. The World Trade Center tragedy in 2001 at the Twin Towers was a false flag operation executed by some inside the government to control the Middle East and remove Islamic governments, he said.***image6**The Minister also commented on the upcoming presidential election and the appeal for votes by Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, who backed a 1990s Crime Bill which devastated Black communities. Blacks are enamored with the Clintons but the Crime Bill was no mistake, he said. The over-incarceration of Blacks that followed was intentional not accidental, said the National Representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. Some Congressional Black Caucus members voted for the Crime Bill because they were enthralled with former president Bill Clinton, he said.

Ms. Clinton is a warrior who helped destroy Libya and unleash havoc in Africa, the Minister said. She is more hawkish than Republican Donald Trump so vote with your eyes open, Min. Farrakhan advised.

“While you sleep in degeneracy, the world is coming down around you,” he warned.

Those who plotted the 911 false flag operation are members of the Synagogue of Satan spoken of in the Bible and must be exposed and my job is to expose them, said Min. Farrakhan.

Black people are the people of God’s choice today, he said. “Somebody has stolen your identity,” he said. But Black suffering in America for 400 years matches biblical descriptions of the people of God, no one better fits that description, he said.

Those who enslaved you will never teach you how to overcome their power, said Min. Farrakhan.

But there is a new knowledge and teaching in the world from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, patriarch of the Nation of Islam, that takes you outside of the box of Western thinking and Western education, he said.*

Malcolm X, who went to the 8th grade, confounded Ivy League scholars and Muhammad Ali who graduated from high school out thought some of America’s wisest interviewers who questioned him, observed Min. Farrakhan.

The boxing champion Ali refused to fight in Vietnam and was bold, saying his fight was in America for justice, said Min. Farrakhan. But, he said, these men were taught wisdom by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

The education given to you by a wise enemy frames you, constricts you, and a wise enemy laughs at you, the Minister told the audience.

Min. Farrakhan talks about the value of land, gold and silver and the ever diminishing value of paper notes from the Federal Reserve. Photo: Erick Muhammad

The more degrees you have the more arrogant you are but your degrees have been unable to change the conditions under which Blacks live and leave you begging others for a job, he said.

“Knowledge is the pass key to open the door to the discovery of yourself,” he said. “You are more than somebody, you are that body that God said he would search the earth for his sheep that was lost. … Nobody has power to correct our condition. We are absolutely destroyed, so a problem for man is a mission for God, so God says, ‘I will come,’ he’s not leaving it to a prophet. We are in the time of the presence of God.”

The mind of God raises you and I have been raised to great heights despite not having the degrees of this world because of my teacher, the Hon. Elijah Muhammad, the Minister said. And, the Min. Farrakhan said, I never graduated from college but I have taught kings and rulers.

“God wants to use you as the cornerstone for a brand new world and a brand new civilization,” he said.

Whites “are going to have to deal with us as men and women when we are enlivened mentally,” the Minister continued. The time for Blacks to serve Whites is up, the Minister stressed.

“Business is warfare,” said Min. Farrakhan, who noted how the body’s immune system fights off that which is seen as an enemy to the body, while Blacks lay down their lives in the face of attacks from the enemy.

The first warfare goes in within the self and you cannot go to war with outside forces until you wake up and see the only enemy you have is the enemy of self, once we wake up the self-accusing spirit, which is the inner voice of the Creator in us, silencing that voice allows us to do evil and not feel anything, he said. Desire overcomes us and then we ignore the messenger of God within, he said.

“Before I can get wisdom in you to do business that will make war on the sorry economic condition of our people, you have to understand how moral correctness will affect your economic condition,” he said.

Illicit affairs outside of marriage cost money, the Minister pointed out. Money that should go to home and family is diverted to partners in extramarital affairs, he noted. “Conscience when you are awakened tells you, ‘man I could have some money in my pocket if I did not have so many outside interests.’ ” He urged women not to give themselves to men without commitment. Don’t be used by men, you are better than that, he said.

Business is the activity of life and when you are not busy you are not alive because nature requires that every living thing do something for itself, said Min. Farrakhan. “How are you going to make a job for yourself? If this is what you come to Tennessee State for, to get education to go out and beg the White man for a job, you are in bad shape brother and sister. Because he doesn’t have enough jobs for his millions of unemployed and history says he will look out for himself first, if you get a shake at all. So college has to prepare you for the reality of life or these are plantations.”

When you start realizing the value of knowledge and how it separates man from beast than the search for and acquisition of knowledge is what the battle of life is all about, he said. There is a natural curiosity to learn, he added.

Proper knowledge allows for questioning of what is said to you as you understand what was and what is to come, said Min. Farrakhan.

The Jewish people study and are successful in mastering disciplines of law, education, entertainment and medicine, hold one third of the seats on the Supreme Court and their powerful AIPAC lobby generates billions of U.S. tax dollars for Israel, he said. No matter where they are Jewishness is what they have in common and what they use for a common benefit and they are connected to their Jewish brothers and sisters, he said. But where is your connection? he asked the audience. Something is wrong with knowledge that limits you to Nashville or a little town, he said. “The Jewish people you should study them,” he said.

Others come to the Black community as immigrants and benefit from Black consumer dollars but do not invest in Black progress, he noted. Don’t be angry at the immigrants, be mad at yourself for failing to follow the example of those who are truly learned, the Minister said.

Business is providing for the things that you need, he said. Real money is not found in paper notes but in silver, gold and land acquisition, he said. One day the paper money used in America will have no value, pool your dollars and buy land which is real wealth, he said. The Minister added that the Hon. Elijah Muhammad said gold would one day be the medium of exchange. He held a gold coin and showed it to the audience.

Black leaders like nationalist Marcus Garvey in the 1920s and educator Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee Institute, were attacked or miscast because they were pushing Blacks to acquire land and pool their resources, he said. Meanwhile Jews helped found the NAACP which focused on a philosophy of non-economic liberalism that did not build Black economic power because building a Black economy would take money from their pockets, said Min. Farrakhan.

Under segregation Blacks had businesses and money circulated in the community and coming out of slavery Blacks built 60 towns and the successful Black Wall Street District in Tulsa, Okla., he said. But those towns are nearly all gone just as Black businesses, like Johnson Products, Co., Phat Farm, Essence magazine and the BET network, were taken over by Whites, said Min. Farrakhan. You are not allowed to have anything that threatens the idea of White supremacy, he said.

“What is it that when we get in a certain height as business, they give us an offer we can’t refuse? Then what gave pride to Black people is now in the hands of White people and the dynamic of that business changes,” said Min. Farrakhan.

“It’s because business is warfare! When you are going to be an independent Black businessman or woman you build it up, they see it, they come and get it,” he said.

But there is a new mind in Black America today, a mindset that followed the Minister’s call to boycott 2015 holiday spending and in Waxahachie, Texas Muslims led Black consumers to support a Black-owned store not far from a Korean merchant, who called the police.

“In Chicago Black people were just looking for a Black business, traveling, ‘oh there’s one,’ and they wanted to spend their money with their own. That’s a new day for us,” he said. Wal-Mart and Macy’s suffered store closures while Best Buy and Target suffered financial loses as well, he said.

“Now we are waking up,” he said. “Stop spending your money foolishly. Everything we find love for they capitalize on it.”

“Business is warfare, it’s time that we go to war. Spend your money with your own,” said Min. Farrakhan. He also called for holding Nike, Mercedes Benz and other corporations accountable, not for endorsement contracts with athletes, but for giving money back to the Black community. The money could be placed in a national treasury for Black development. Even Dr. Martin Luther King called for economic withdrawal if businesses failed to deal fairly with Black people, said Min. Farrakhan. Blacks need an army to do business, he added. “See all the soldiers that came with me?” he asked as the audience exploded into applause.

Alexis Weems, who goes to Lipscomb University in Nashville, came with her mother to Kean Hall gymnasium. The 21-year-old student from Lewisburg, Tenn., was struck by the message and took notes. “It was a lot of stuff you haven’t thought about like how big agriculture is. If you control that, you don’t have to worry about how to provide for yourself,” she said. “The night was great.”

“We are so thankful, we are so blessed, we are so honored that you visited Tennessee State University. We are just happy that you chose to stop by here and visit with us and talk with us and just feed us,” said TSU President Glenda Baskin Glover. Dr. Glover, who is an attorney, certified public accountant and who holds a doctorate degree in business, spoke at the end of the evening.

Dr. Glover sat on stage with the Minister and warmly embraced him throughout his visit. She hosted a reception at the university’s official residence that was attended by gospel legend Bobby Jones, national and local leaders of the TSU Alumni Association, student leaders, pastors and high level members of her staff, university employees and allies. The high spirited evening included a proclamation presented to the Minister by Harold M. Love, Jr., a state representative. Nation of Islam headquarters officials, Final Call staff and Regional and local Laborers and Student Ministers from along the East Coast, the South East Region and other parts of the country attended the Friday night reception and the Saturday speech.

Samuel X Gray, who co-founded BUSI with Leonard Omarr Muhammad in 2012, presented the Minister with an award for his service at the end of the program. Tariq Muhammad, who now leads the NOI Student Association and attends TSU, brought the Minister on with a rousing intro. Min. Farrakhan is a special man, said Tariq Muhammad. “Let me say it like this, Jesus said, ‘I am the good shepherd,’ the good shepherd will lay down his life for the sheep. We have a man in our midst today who has literally sacrificed his life for our people,” he said.

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