----- Original Message ----- From: Marvin X <xblackxmanx at aol.com> To: <brc-news at lists.tao.ca> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 8:34 PM Subject: [BRC-NEWS] Farrakhan-Moon and the Million Family March
> October 17, 2000
>
> Rev. Farrakhan-Moon and the Million Family March
>
> By Marvin X <xblackxmanx at aol.com>
>
> The magician pulled another rabbit out his hat! Like
> Houdini, he defied gravity with his skills of escape
> from the seemingly impossible task of assembling a million
> people, a task no other leader has dared attempt. This time
> the greatest orator, actor, diplomat and theologian of our
> generation (except one) transcended himself and reached into
> the Divine plane, as only he elaborated so eloquently from
> the podium on his self-proclaimed Day of Atonement. I said
> the greatest theologian except one -- that being The Rev.
> Sun-yung Moon. The San Francisco Examiner didn't submit a
> story on the event, only a photo with the caption that said
> simply "Rev. Moon sponsored the event." To me, this is most
> significant since Rev. Moon played the DL in the Million
> Family March, no doubt smiling behind stage. But why not
> when he had his best student starring in the greatest
> show on earth. Rev. Farrakhan was indeed one of the Most
> Honorable Elijah Muhammad's best students, so we would
> expect no less when he switched teachers. I hope what
> I'm saying is not news to anyone, since the Minister's
> association with the extreme right wing, communist hating
> Rev. Moon has been well publicized in the Nation's paper,
> The Final Call, including his paid visit to Moon's idea
> of paradise, South Korea -- God help us.
>
> In truth -- and this is the key to all that I say and what
> the minister said -- his speech was probably the best that
> it gets in terms of elaborating Rev. Moon's unification
> theology and ritual practice, including his infamous million
> couple marriages, although Rev. Farrakhan-Moon fell short on
> the marriage ritual by a few thousand. Surprisingly, his
> speech centered on a topic I had recently discussed with
> a Sacramento Bee writer: the Qur'anic notion of man having
> three levels of existence -- the animal, the human and the
> divine.
>
> I agree with the Minister that most of the world's people
> exist on the animal plane and never evolve to the human
> plane -- don't even mention the divine. He said it is
> evident by the behavior of the world's people, the religious
> community, the political community, the economic community,
> the ethnic communities, et al. Yes, we behave on the level
> of beasts with our animalistic hatreds of each other, even
> with respect to men and women, and we cannot exclude the
> children who obviously learned quite well from us -- his
> best example of this was when speaking of gangsta rap, he
> turned to the government building behind him and noted it
> was the house of the real gangstas. Yeah, housed inside
> were the gangstas who rule the world, who pimp, murder and
> exploit the world, who pollute and destroy the earth and all
> thereof. In the best tradition of Rev. Moon, he explained
> how religious symbols represent man's attempt to evolve from
> the horizontal (animal or dead plane) to the vertical or
> Divine plane of life. He deconstructed the Christian cross
> and the Jewish star of David for his audience. But he stepped
> deep into Moonism when he labeled most human beings Satanic.
> Rev. Moon says man is satanic because we are cut off from
> God and left to wade and wallow in our animal passions,
> resulting in our children being satanic as well, since
> they come from satanic parents. Certainly, all the
> school killings exemplify this, to say nothing of
> the gang violence.
>
> I consider Minister Farrakhan a friend with whom I disagree.
> I parted with him some years ago when he defended the Bay
> Area Muslim priesthood against charges of exploiting and
> pimping the believers. I told him he should not come to the
> Bay Area upholding these filthy dogs, one of whom drove a
> believers-paid-for Rolls Royce and lived in a believers-
> paid-for house overlooking the Pacific Ocean so large even
> Farrakhan got lost inside it. He replied that Allah is
> merciful. The same pitiful response he gave at the march
> when he presented the children of El Haj Malik El Shabazz
> (Malcolm X) and admitted his role in the murder of their
> father. Is there no end to Allah's mercy for rampant
> skullduggery?
>
> The reader may wonder if I'm a Moonie. No, I'm with
> Laillaha-illa-ilah (Nothing and nobody deserves to be
> worshipped except Allah). But I had an opportunity to study
> Moon's theology and a brief association with his chief aide
> when I was chief assistant to one of our well known writers
> the Moonies were attempting to recruit several years ago. In
> terms of unification theology, no one is better than Rev.
> Moon in syncretizing the world's religions. The downfall of
> Moon's theology is that he concludes with himself as the New
> Messiah, all the other prophets (Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, et
> al.) being only stepping stones to himself. Herein lies the
> extreme danger of Moonism and any who associate with it, for
> one is easily duped by the intelligence of his theology. Yes,
> if one studies Rev. Moon, one will conclude he is a very
> bright guy, but don't study too long or you will "study
> wrong," i.e., one will be sucked into the vortex of the
> Moon......
>
> Let me say it another way, it's like taking a hit of crack
> cocaine: one hit and you're hooked -- yes, even the best
> minds of our generation -- as we see with Farrakhan. He is
> the man who vowed to revive the teachings of the Honorable
> Elijah Muhammad, but has apparently disavowed them. He
> certainly is no longer a Black Muslim or Black Nationalist,
> but has stepped into the multi-racial, integration mode of
> the so-called Negro civil rites tradition, stealing the
> mantel from Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. or shall we say he
> simply picked up the baton, since no one else was qualified
> to continue the race of the race.... So this is Farrakhan's
> hour, for better or worse, get ready for it, just keep an
> eye out for that Asian connection on the DL -- South Korea
> is not my idea of Paradise, but who knows where paradise
> is, anyway? Apparently our women find Korean hair, eyes and
> nails quite appealing... why not a Korean brain full of Rev.
> Moon's fantastic theological notions and right-wing poppycock?
> Take your pick, South Korea or Jonestown! Just remember Dr.
> Nathan Hare warned us:
>
> "In his powerlessness and victimization, with nothing left
> to lean on, the black man is likely to mount the seesaw, if
> not the roller coaster of racial psycho-social dependency
> and messianic religiosity.... In the bottomless caverns of
> addiction in any form, there seems no amount of religiosity,
> coke, crack, alcohol or sex sufficient to sedate the social
> angst and shattered cultural strivings...." (Somethin' Proper
> by Marvin X, Black Bird Press, 1998, introduction by Dr.
> Nathan Hare, p. v)
>
> In conclusion, the Million Family March was a great attempt
> to recognize the essential problem of our sojourn here in
> the wilderness of North America: the necessity of salvaging,
> reconstructing and reconfiguring our families the American
> experience has all but destroyed. Consider, one million
> African Americans in prison, forced into slave labor by the
> U.S. constitution. Imagine the related socio-economic costs
> to families of these inmates, not to mention the larger
> society. But at $50,000 per year per inmate, they are a
> valuable cog in the wheel of the prison-industrial complex.
> It is doubtful America will seriously consider Farrakhan's
> proposal to release them back to the motherland -- they are
> too valuable locked behind bars. In the process of destroying
> the Black family, the white family was destroyed as well. By
> keeping us on the animal plane, the white man became a beast
> himself. Baldwin said, "The murder of my child will not make
> your child safe...."
>
> In spite of his new theological leanings, we should
> applaud Minister Farrakhan for attempting to help us make
> the transition from animal to divine. Maybe in a thousand
> years we'll get there. At least he gave the call, yeah,
> perhaps the final call. The old Book tells us the people
> were destroyed for lack of knowledge. Will we heed the
> essence of his message and step to the front of the line or
> remain in the darkness of the animal plane? Whatever we do,
> let us not confuse the message with the messenger! Truth is
> eternal and independent of anyone or anything; truth transcends
> race, sex, gender, nation, religion, ideology or philosophy!
> Bacon said, "Truth will not make you rich, but it will make
> you free!"
>
> --
>
> The reader is invited to visit Marvin's World:
> <http://www.marvinx.com>. Read his essay "Religion and
> Revolution." Check out his autobiographical history of the
> black arts/black liberation movement SOMETHIN' PROPER (Black
> Bird Press, Castro Valley, Calif., 1998, Small Press Distribution
> <http://www.spdbooks.org>). Marvin X currently has the longest
> running African American drama in the Bay Area and Northern
> Cali, ONE DAY IN THE LIFE, a tragi-comedy of addiction and
> recovery -- third year running. For play bookings or to
> arrange a lecture/reading/performance by Marvin X,
> contact him at 510-535-9199. email:
> <xblackxmanx at aol.com>.
>
> Copyright (c) 2000 Marvin X. All Rights Reserved.
>
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