CHICAGO, IL (PRWEB) January 08, 2013
In a wide-ranging year end interview with Final Call News, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan offered analysis of the year that was and insight into what is to come in 2013. He also announced an historic 52-week lecture series titled, The Time and What Must Be Done, which will begin January 12 via Internet, cable access television, radio and on MP3/DVD.
Among the issues and topics addressed were concerns about the misuse of entertainment and culture, the serious implications of the popular movie Django Unchained in the current racial climate, rising violence in a society spinning out of control, challenges facing President Obama, international affairs and the Nation of Islam ministers continued effort to reach Black youth. The full interview was released Saturday, January 5 at http://www.finalcall.com and http://www.noi.org/thetime and the series will air at the same web address.
Min. Farrakhan, in answering a question, encouraged single Black mothers to stand firm on solid spiritual and moral ground in raising their sons. Meanwhile, he said the efforts to remake Black men properly to care for their women and children must be dramatically increased.
The New Year should be a time of deep reflection and commitment, praying that God will help us go through this year and bring us safely into the next, said Min. Farrakhan, in a New Years Day roundtable discussion conducted by Richard B. Muhammad, editor of The Final Call newspaper, assistant editor Ashahed Muhammad, and staff writer Starla Muhammad at the newspapers offices.
We intend for the next 52 weeks to deal with the subject that was given by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, The Time and What Must Be Done. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad finished his time among us with a series of lectures called the Theology of Time. And we in this time want our people to understand that time is the yardstick that judges our actions, said Min. Farrakhan.
If we understand that we are supposed to be free men and women, then we must not act as slaves, that as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught me, is not good subject and verb agreement. We are in the present and our actions should not be of the past mentality of a slave who sits around begging others, give me, give me, give me, give me. No. Im free now; let me do something for myself. But you (America) should help usbecause we gave you all that we had, 310 years of chattel slavery, 150 years as a free slave. We built the economy of the South that fueled the industrial revolution of the North. We fought in every war that America has had, not for our freedom, but for Americas freedom and for the freedom of others who came to America and found the American Dream and built it on the nightmare of Black existence. Its time now for the Black man and woman to realize its on us to make a future for ourselves, and our children and our unborn generations. And I will be doing everything I can in this year to provide that guidance but I am telling you as the Quran says, By the time surely man is in loss, except those who believe and do good and enjoin one another to truth and enjoin one another to patience. The time will judge our actions and if our actions are not correspondent to the time we will continue down the road of intense regret over great loss.
To view the interview in its entirety, visit http://www.noi.org or http://www.finalcall.com.
