Excerpt from Chapter 1:
America Is On Her Deathbed
America is clearly suffering and from my vantage point,
America lies on her deathbed, in dire need of guidance and a new direction.
If you examine her vital signs, you will have to agree that they show
America is steadily on the decline.
The root of her suffering is basic immorality and vanity, where greed, lust
and inordinate self-interest have become the way of life.
When the desire for the realization of self-interest becomes excessive, the
first casualty in this struggle is “truth.” The leaders in the society, in
their struggle to achieve inordinate self-interests, engage in hiding the
light of truth from the American people.
Without truth, the American people are left paralyzed, unable to
constructively address their problems. Eventually, their only response will
be to react destructively because their very lives are at peril’s door, and
they know not why they are in this condition nor how to save themselves.
So the country could be facing revolution because, in the main, the
government and leadership have hidden the truth and will not or does not
have a solution for the suffering and the root problems of the people of
this country.
Gross vanity, greed, lust and inordinate self-interest have divided the
country along the lines of class, race and sex. We live in one country with
two realities, separate and unequal: one rich, one poor; one White, one
Black; one predator, one prey; one skilled, one non-skilled; one
slave-master, one slave.
Classism, racism and sexism are used to keep the people divided, and these
three evils threaten to sink and destroy the entire country. America must
deal effectively with these lines of division or face anarchy and
revolution.
If the greatest political system is democracy and the right to choose
leadership, and if only half of the people are participating in this
democracy; then the people are demonstrating their gross dissatisfaction
with their own leadership and government. This dissatisfaction must bring
about a change. The question becomes: Who will bring about the change? Who
will offer solutions to the problems faced by the people and what kind of
change will there be?
How will you deal with a solution, a Divine solution, a torchlight, if it is
not carried by someone of your own class, sex, faith, color, party or
nationality? How will you deal with a solution when it comes from a source
you least expect? Would you cast the solution aside or seek to destroy the
bearer of the solution? Or would you thank God for giving you an answer to
your problems and your prayers?
The Bible states, “No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a
secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which
come in may see the light.” (Luke 11:33) It is the purpose of the wickedly
wise to hide the truth so that people won’t see a way to get themselves out
of their present circumstance, so those who rule can continue to dominate
and subjugate the people to feed their own lusts and greed.
I submit to you that this is a dangerous time to play with the people and
their earnest desire for liberty. It’s a dangerous time to play with people
whose hunger and thirst is for justice and truth. Like Moses and Aaron were
unto Pharaoh, I humbly state that I am here, as a student and helper of the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad, to tell the truth.
We, the followers of Elijah Muhammad, are here to demonstrate our love for
our people and our concern for the worsening condition of America and its
people, whether the people of America feel the need to reciprocate or not. I
am here to present a torchlight that is intended to save ourselves, as well
as all of America, if she will only take heed.
Order
a torchlight for America
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