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I remember once a Filipino man came to our door he was selling Bibles. That was really “strange” to me, because all the homes that I had visited as a young man, all the Black homes had a picture of “Jesus,” a White person. When I was 11 years of age, I was sent by my mother to New York to spend part of the summer with my uncle and my uncle had on his wall a picture of a Black man! In my house, in Boston, we had pictures on our mantelpiece, one of whom was Queen Elizabeth and King George, and the other was a White representation of “Jesus.” But in my uncle’s home, a Black man was on the wall.

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I always felt the pain of those that I would read about in The Crisis Magazine, or, in The Afro-American or The Pittsburgh Courier, when we would read of the “lynchings” and the “burnings” and the “castrations” and the terrible torture of Black people when White people felt that we had done something “improper.” And so my heart ached to see our people free so, I started to look for somebody who would address the concerns of our people. I was upset, because I was a Christian and I loved Jesus Christ but when I was a young man, White Christians were doing horrible things to Black Christians, and no intercession was taken on our behalf. I cried myself to sleep many nights, especially after coming from church and my Sunday school class, where I would ask my Sunday school teacher: “If God gave Moses to The Children of Israel to deliver them from the hard bondage of Pharaoh, and if God always stood on the side of the ‘enslaved’ and the ‘oppressed,’ why hasn’t God sent someone to us?” My pastors and my Sunday school teachers had no answer for me. I am so thankful to Almighty God Allah for the day that I met the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.Ī child born with an enduring love for a downtrodden peopleĪs a young man, I always desired to see Black people free.

Elijah Muhammad: The Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam.