ATH: Imam W. D. Mohammed(ra) "I'm The Product Of A Strategy" UNC Wilmington

I want to begin by saying that I am a product of, well maybe an experiment but for sure a strategy.    We believed in a myth that was for us reality, a myth of the origin of man, the origin of the world, I doubt if this myth will ever be that well known like the many myth s that I’ve read of in my studies and in my effort to try to understand the reason for this experience, experiment that I am a product of.

If you would do some research to find out how the Nation of Islam began that’s led by Minister Farrakhan now, you would have to come across the name Fard, spelled Fard but pronounced Farad, Fard.  Fard was not a black, an African American or a Negro as we once called our self.  We believe not that he was an Asiatic from what is now called Pakistan, but when he came to America is was not called Pakistan ..., it was just India.

And we also believed that he had bad experiences in America because many Indians or Asians are also black, colored, literally black, he was not, he was light brown skinned person.  But even a light brown skin person may have some bad experiences or might have had some bad experiences in the early 30's or late 30's or 40's or 50's and even the 60's, in some parts of America, or in some circumstances.

And we believe that  the bad experiences he had perhaps going all the way back to his country, India, Muslim India, Muslim India when Muslim India was under Great Britain or England.  However, when he saw our condition as blacks in America he sympathized with us.  And I believe he was motivated by a bit of anger,too.  But I do believe that the man who brought the concept of the Nation of Islam to the ghetto of Detroit finally to the vast areas of Chicago, then to Milwaukee, preached in these cities and got my father, Elijah Muhammad started, showed him how to do it, how to preach new message and how to organize the people.