Khalid Abdul Muhammad (born Harold Moore, Jr.; January 12, 1948 – February 17, 2001) was an African American activist who came to prominence as the National Assistant to Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam (NOI).
After a 1993 speech at Kean College Khalid was condemned and removed from his position in the Nation of Islam by Louis Farrakhan, he then served as the National Chairman of the New Black Panther Party until his death in 2001. His views were considered controversial among most Americans, but his angry condemnations of white power gained him the support of many black youth.
On May 21, 1997, he delivered a heated speech at San Francisco State University in which he criticized Jews, whites, Catholics and homosexuals. He endorsed a Holocaust denial position, asserted Jewish control over U.S. policy, and alleged Jewish involvement in various conspiracies.[5]
In 1998, Muhammad organized the Million Youth March in New York City. The march was controversial from its inception as New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani denied organizers a permit, calling it a hate march. A court ruled that the event could go on but scaled back its duration and size. At the conclusion of the rally, just as Muhammad appeared on the stage to speak, the demonstration was interrupted by a low-flying police helicopter that acted as a signal for more than 3,000 police in riot gear, including some mounted on horseback, to come in and disperse the crowd. In response, Muhammad exhorted the rally participants to attack the oncoming police, to beat them with rails, and to shoot them with their own guns. Dozens were arrested, and 30 officers and five civilians were injured.[6][7] Mayor Giuliani said that the march turned out to be precisely what he predicted, “filled with hatred, horrible, awful, vicious, anti-Semitic and other anti-white rhetoric, as well as exhortations to kill people, murder people...the speeches given today should not occur [at] any place.”[6] In subsequent activism, Muhammad convened a second march in 1999 that drew roughly 90 participants and no incidents with the police, even though he made threats that his speech would include all his beliefs beforehand.
Audio clips of some of his speeches:
Quotes from the video above:'You'll find white on top black on the bottom'
'We're all in jail'
'American owes us repirations, the states of Mississipi, Alabama, Georgia, you have the Carolinas here, North and South, in that general area' (3.02-3.15)
'We are victims of white capitalism' (4.05)
(To an audience member) '400 years' (Audience member:'Yes sir') 'And I ask you your name sitting in the audience and you still give a white mans name...100 years up from slavery' (4.18-30)
'No i didn't find what my spiritual big brother Malcolm did in Mecca, I found Racism' (5.58)
The themes and ideas that Khalid Abdul Muhammad are clear, Black seperatism, reclaiming of Southern States, and Black supremacy. The ideas may seem extreme but have seeped into less radical forms of influence in popular culture such as music: In popular cultureMuhammad was notably featured by the hip-hop group Public Enemy on the introduction of its 1988 track "Night of the Living Baseheads," from the album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back:
“ Have you forgotten that once we were brought here, we were robbed of our name, robbed of our language. We lost our religion, our culture, our god...and many of us, by the way we act, we even lost our minds. ”
He also appeared in rapper Ice Cube's albums Death Certificate (1991) and Lethal Injection (1993) as a guest. On the former, Muhammad appeared on the tracks "Death" and "The Birth". On the latter, he appeared on the song "Cave Bitch," a song ridiculing white women who chase Black men. He also appeared on MC Ren's 1996 album The Villain in Black on the track "Muhammad Speaks," where he spoke about the history of rights of the African-Americans. Tupac Amaru Shakur's Makaveli album also features Muhammad on the track "White Man's World."
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