Will America, Black and White, heed the warning?

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered a message on Saviours� Day, Feb. 25, 2001 that will be recorded by those who mark historical events as a sounding of the alarm in the new millennium for a recalcitrant nation and hard-hearted people.

The international leader was clear in his message, his voice unwavering. To the wise and the common man and woman, he called for a nation to correct the wrong done to a people and for that people who have suffered to return to themselves and their God.

That nation, the United States of America, stands in the shadow of the Divine Chastisement of God for her sins. Likewise, that suffering people, Black descendants of slaves, also will feel the wrath of God because of their refusal to clean up their lives and come out of a world that is diametrically opposed to the will of God.

Min. Farrakhan stated the obvious, but a fact that most of us refuse to acknowledge�that we are living in Satan�s world and our activities mark us as children of Satan, not of God.

Satan has come into the church and is standing right in the pulpit, Min. Farrakhan noted. He exposed the hypocrisy of the white church for giving Black people a false image of Jesus, the Christ. His rebuke was not some form of reverse racism. No, it was to point out to white Christians and Black Christians that if the historical Jesus was a Black man, then what prompted the Europeans who stole America to give the Native Americans and the Black slaves an image of a white Jesus?

If truthful dialogue cannot take place about these and other sensitive issues, then how will America ever solve her race problem? Truth must take precedence over falsehood. And who can present the truth on behalf of Blacks better than Min. Farrakhan?

While those in the audience viewing Saviours� Day around the world marveled at the youthful and energetic looking Min. Farrakhan�although he�s not 100 percent recovered from surgery�there are many who also were shocked, and saddened, that he looked so fit. Perhaps they were expecting a frail-looking man who could no longer challenge their injustices done to a suffering people. But they don�t know the God that backs him. It is the same God that he is warning America that is about to wreak havoc on the country.

For Blacks who have been lamenting that former vice president Al Gore lost the presidential election, Min. Farrakhan urged them to get over it. That energy, he said, could be better used to unite with one another and begin to make a reality for ourselves. As God chastises America, he will uplift those who are under his protective wings, particularly His people whom He has come to sit on top of civilization, Min. Farrakhan promised.

Black people are somewhat like Jonah, the reluctant prophet. They refuse to acknowledge that they fit the description of the lost sheep and a people whom God would come for, after 400 years of suffering.

It is this reluctance that has kept Blacks in America from enjoying the blessings of God and has set them in the path of a chastisement meant for their oppressors.

Black people, and white people, would be wise to hear Minister Farrakhan�s message and change their lives, rather than continue to slander and throw stones at a man that has told them the truth.