Minister Donna Farrakhan, daughter of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, was the keynote speaker for the Muhammad Mosque #28 Saviours’ Day Awards Banquet held recently. Farrakhan is the third of nine children born to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. As a teenager, she accompanied her father and aided him with the day-to-day operations and his office ministry.
Farrakhan focused her comments on the African American community citing the infamous Willie Lynch letter as evidence of the current state of affairs. She said that not discussing history is one of the main problems with African Americans today.
“My father always taught us about the condition and the love that we should have for our people. It was always a history lesson. Much like the Jews give to their children. They talk about the holocaust in my family and we talk about slavery. Slavery is not talked about in the black family as often as it should be.
“Just as it is important that the Jewish people make you and their children remember their suffering it is equally important that we must do the same. Other than that, how would they understand why we are in the condition we are in as of people 2006 at the bottom of civilization if we do not tell them our plot in this country?
“We must never forget slavery because this is the end result. We are trying to clean up the end product of slavery, which is a broken black man and a broken black woman,” she said.
Farrakhan also said the current state of the black community is the product of Willie Lynch.
“Black folks been here for more than 450 years and we can barely got anything. They come from abroad to America and reaped the benefits of our suffering. I’m very passionate about our condition. The truth of the matter is we’re not going anywhere uniting with other people if black men and black women are disunited.
Farrakhan quoted the famous Willie Lynch letter from 1712 where the slave owner gives advice and instructions to fellow slave owners about how to break slaves. She said Lynch’s racist instruction on “breaking” black women is at the base of tensions between African American men and women.
“When in complete submission she (black woman) would train her offspring in the early years to submit to labor. The ordeal caused her to move from her psychological dependent state to a frozen independent state. She would raise her male and female offspring in reversed roles for fear of the young males’ life,” Farrakhan read.
“She would psychologically train him to be mentally weak and dependent but physically strong because she has become psychologically independent. She would try to train her female offspring to be psychologically independent.
“What you have got is you got the negro woman out front and the negro man behind and scared. I didn’t make this up. This is not a Muslim writing this is the Willie Lynch letter, a portion of it,” Farrakhan said.
Because of her commitment to enhancing the quality of life of the less fortunate and oppressed people in our society, Farrakhan has been working diligently to forge strong bonds of unity among people of many walks of life, from numerous countries around the world. She has toured and lectured extensively as the national director or the Women of the Millions More.
