TO THE TOP: The Exploitation of the Model: Gullible Black Man
TO THE TOP
The Exploitation of the Model: Gullible Black Man
I just listened to Jay Electronica’s new CD “A Written Testimony” and was pleasing surprised to hear the first song of his soundtrack began with a short introduction from one of Minister Louis Farrakhan’s messages. For a moment it was refreshing to hear from a man that has been held in such high esteem by many from the Black community. I expected to be inspired and enlightened with a message from a man of growth. I hope and prayed to hear something other than a rant against Christianity and Jews. But in that single snippet, Minister Farrakhan set up the argument that Jews are the descendants of Yakub and Blacks in America are the true chosen children of Israel. That last referenced piqued my curiosity, as the implications are massive for blacks. It’s gratifying in many ways to go from slavery to suddenly realizing you have descended from the progenitors of salvation. Intrigued I continued to listen as Farrakhan defend this statement.
The message had been delivered on June 26, 2010 in Atlanta, GA. The platform at the Atlanta Civic Center had been beset with plants and elite black folk. Black faces riddled the audience and the vibe of astute anticipation must have resounded in the atmosphere, as it seeped through the video. It felt momentous, like the lead up to the Million Man March back in 1995.
Minister Farrakhan appeared that Saturday Morning like a ray of the sun, decked out in an ivory-colored suit, with golden gazelle-like frames. He was a cross between a preacher and a teacher and exuded an intellectual prowess only matched by scholars whose ascensions had been made long ago. With an oratory style that reminded you of Martin and Malcolm, he addressed the captivated audience.
He delivered a message bound tight with biblical scripture and an overabundance of African American history. He expounded upon stories from the Pentateuch. Those stories of Abraham and Moses, Jacob and Esau. He carefully intertwined the New Testament. He spoke with gravitas of Revelations and Jesus Christ.
He encroached on my beliefs when he relegated Christ to a prophet. His derision and disdain for Jews filtered throughout the message as he insidiously twisted scripture to support a narrative. He demonized the patriarch Jacob. Misconstrued the biblical account of Jacob. He doubled-downed on the NOI’s belief that 6,600 years ago Jacob, or Yakub grafted a white race designed to enslave the true children of Israel or blacks. Minister Farrakhan declared Jacob was not a son of God, but a son of Satan. Farrakhan discredited the story of Moses and the Exodus of Israel from Egypt after 400 years of bondage. Stated there were no historical documents that prove the Israelites were ever in Egypt.
According to Farrakhan and the belief of the NOI, the prophecy God had given to Abram in Genesis 15:13 wasn’t designed for those white-faced Yakub who practiced Judaism in Israel. Farrakhan purports Genesis 15:13 was a prophecy specifically designed for African Americans in the United States. He expounded on how our persecution was foretold by God and he articulated the degradation our ancestors faced as slaves. With intentional iteration he broke down: the 1877 Compromise; the emergence of Jim Crow; and the larceny of sharecropping. He explained this persecution was caused by the Jews—or the Yakub. He didn’t stop there. He went on to illustrate the current condition of black enslavement. He expounded upon how we blacks, are still enslaved by the Yakub, even without chains. Our continued subjection includes the least and the greatest amongst us, those who live in ghettos in profound poverty and those who’ve had the pleasure of being hosted in the white house.
What’s chilling about Farrakhan’s message was his sound argument. The facts are real, which is why I can understand how some would believe in the lies he spewed. But the application of his words was untrue. It very well may be the case some African Americans are the descendants of Abram. It’s not hard to believe, God had told Abram in Genesis 15:13, his seed would be unmeasurable, they would outnumber the stars in the sky.
It’s also a reality, those of us born with black skin are persecuted. We consistently face racism in all forms. Consider the most recent evidence: the death of Aubrey Ahmad. The young 25-year old that was thirsty and because he went and got a drink of water behind a house under construction, he was murdered in cold blood by two white men. Combine the death of an innocent black man, with the implications of COVID and the sudden realization, blacks are dying from the virus at disproportionally higher percentages. Now discussions around blacks and the COVID death rates are silent, as shouts to open the economy ripple across our airways.
Farrakhan uses the story of Jacob and Moses to disprove certain Christian theological beliefs yet uses those same scriptures to defend the premise that African American’s are the chosen children of Israel. He uses the story of Jacob breeding the sheep in Genesis 30 and intermingles this story with the story of Yakub. Maybe there’s some truth to the grafting of the white man, but relating this with Jacob creates a problem with timing. More importantly, I’m of the mindset that God is not limited by what he can Create. He created man and woman without any assistance. I happened to believe he created a black race and a white race. The same way he created Israel, Islam, and Christianity. God doesn’t need some obscure-big faced black man to create anything for Himself. He speaks things and they exist. Farrakhan would have us believe that Jacob is Yakub and that all white men of Jewish descent are devils. That’s not Godly, God’s love has never been restricted to race.
As I watched and listened to Minister Farrakhan, I realized he was using a Modeling technique. The same way businesses use models to structure companies. Farrakhan used the model created by white slave owners to deal with black slaves. The same model was used during the 1877 Compromise and Jim Crow. Farrakhan used a model that exploits the credulous black man. It’s this idea that black men are so gullible they will believe any story told to them and will go for anything that promises something enchanting. The continued success of this model depends upon blacks being ignorant of the truth and the mindset they’re too lazy to determine truth for themselves. The lack of intellectual capital increases profits.
The way to keep blacks blind is to embellish on some truth and hide the facts from sight. Black slaves were taught scripture interpreted by slave owners and then made it illegal for them to read or write. Farrakhan touted a great deal of information in Atlanta. He advised his brothers and sister to get his two books and read them for knowledge and understanding, and he and shunned education. Farrakhan learned from the tricks of the white man. To anchor his model, he used visible and interactive techniques. He supported the lies he told with scripture, facts, and slides. Like 12-years a slave and like the black men that sold their black brothers and sister to the white man, reducing their troops, the gullible black man believed every word Farrakhan spewed. They took in all the wiles of the devil.
While business models are designed to net companies a prophet, I couldn’t help but wonder what was Farrakhan’s motivation for using the model of the gullible black man? I believe Farrakhan intent is much more insidious than simple money. The man is in his mid-late 80’s so I can’t imagine at this point in his life money is of any real concern. But legacy is something different. If we take the sum-total of his argument it points to legacy. His argument, if Israelites weren’t persecuted for 400 years in Egypt and if Jesus Christ wasn’t the Messiah, it means the promise God made to Abram in Genesis 13 has yet to be fulfilled. If we conclude those stolen from the shores of Africa and brought over to the United States are the chosen children of Israel, who are persecuted by the Yakub, we can also conclude that Elijah Muhammad, was the one spoken of by the Prophets in the Old Testament, the one that would come before the Messiah. And if such is true, that makes Farrakhan the Messiah. That becomes his legacy.
It’s needless to say, that logic presents a problem for Farrakhan and his teachings, especially when you impute Malcolm X into this equation. Malcolm X exposed the fallacy of the Yakub belief after he returned to US from his visit to Mecca. He repented and admitted the errancy in his belief. Malcolm X also exposed Elijah Muhammad for the womanizer he had become, having affairs and birthing more than 23 children between his wife and other young women that worked for him as secretaries. As Christ gathered an array of followers because of his teaching, so Malcolm X was leading a lot of black men to the truth.
If you had factored in Malcolm X it would be easier to conclude he was the Messiah, as he enlightened a nation that believed a lie and he was murdered by his own. But if Malcolm X was the Messiah, that would make Farrakhan more like Judas. Perhaps that’s what’s driving Farrakhan to elevate himself to the rank of Son of Man. We’ve lived long enough to learn Malcolm X didn’t raise from the dead, as Jesus Christ had done. Malcolm X may very well have been a prophet, but he was certainly no Messiah, and Farrakhan is no Judas, though he commits blaspheme.
That brings me back to Jay Electronica and that soundbite, I wonder if he believed the picture he painted throughout “The Written Testimony.” According to social media Jay had an affair with a Yakub and that would make his disdain for the Jewish Race fake. He becomes more of a hypocrite when I consider this body of work. I think Jay is motivated to ignore his own hypocrisy because he has something intentional in mind. In fact, I believe Jay Electronica, Louis Farrakhan, and Jayz (who is one of my all-time favorite rappers) are all trapped inside of Satan’s web. They’re all guilty of using this same model to dupe the black man into believing a theory they know to be false. To exploit the black man for vainglory and as Jay Electronica profits financially, just like Jay Z profits in power and Farrakhan keeps rising.
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