as “half black and half white. He was made in this way to enable him to be accepted by the black people in America, and to lead them, while at the same time he was enabled to move undiscovered among the white people, so that he could understand and judge the enemy of the blacks” (167).
Teachings of Elijah Muhammad (as told in Haley, 164)
Black people the original inhabitants of the earth
They founded the holy city of Mecca
among this race were 24 wise scientists
One of the scientists, at odds with the rest, created an “especially strong tribe of Shabazz, from which America’s Negroes, so-called, descended.”
Around 6,600 years ago, an upstart “big-headed” scientist named Mr. Yakub becomes dissatisfied with life, preaches and rabble rousing on the streets of Mecca, exiled to island of Patmos with 59,999 of his followers
There he proceeds to genectically engineer as “race of white devils” to thwart the aspirations of the black race
it took 200 years to eradicate the black race on Patmos, another 200 to create the brown race, another 200 to create the red race, another 200 to create the yellow race, and another 200 to create the white race (166).
“On the island of Patmos was nothing but these blond, pale-skinned, cold-blue-eyed devils – savages, nude and shameless; hairy, like animals, they walked on all fours and they lived in trees.”
600 more years passed before they rejoined the black race on the mainland
From there, they were driven by the black race to live as savages in caves in Europe for 2000 years