The eight steps of atonement address the sin that caused the human race to live outside of Allah�s (God�s) consciousness for the last 6,000 years.

The fact that a man of African descent living in America, was the one Allah (God) used to make the call, is even far beyond the comprehension of those who responded to the call.

Many Black Americans are so vividly aware of their own oppression and the oppression of their ancestors that they forget that the whole human race, being separated from Allah (God), is indeed living lives of oppression.

As we begin to respect Allah�s (God�s) call to us through the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the need for us to atone, we will begin to see that all oppression is rooted in sin. When we recognize this fact, the illusion of race will no longer blind us from the reality of character. We then for the first time will be able to understand Allah�s (God�s) words expressed through Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., when he said, "Don�t judge a man by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character."

Our sins, not confessed and repented of, cause us to imagine enemies and opposition that do not exist.

Your perception of reality is distorted by your sin. Your interpretation of your perception is further distorted. Therefore, you and others, with different distortions, can never come to an agreement of what, why and how something happened or what should be done to correct the situation.

However as each person takes the eight steps of atonement, their view of reality becomes accurate and their interpretation becomes precise. They therefore have the ability to see the cause of a problem. Then they can further see alternatives, other options, opportunities, and possibilities.

Without atonement, the problem is traced to the wrong cause�usually to a person or a group of people. The unatoned become angry, feel inferior, and live a life full of hate while overtly and covertly complaining.

Only the atoned can come into an open, constitutional and democratic meeting discussing real problems and legislating, adjudicating, executing, and administrating real solutions.

The new millennium is the spiritual river of Jordan. Only those who take the eight steps of atonement will cross into the new millennium of institutional sovereignty and economic independence.

Even after chattel slavery had ended, many former slaves moved back to the plantations and made no real change in themselves or their social conditions.

The physical millennium will begin January 1, 2000, but the spiritual millennium began October 16, 1995.

In the future, the question will not be whether you partied out the old millennium into the new. The question will be, "did you attend or watch the Million Man March, and did you attend or watch the Million Family March?"