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Ministry of Lies: The Truth Behind "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews"

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I think that it is worthwhile to refute hate speech. And this book does a good job of that.

As the author says, "the Jews have had it better than the Blacks in America, in no small part because of the historical advantage derived from the biological accident of white skin." Well, lighter skin. However, "if the Nation of Islam - in junior partnership with white racist antisemites - does somehow transform the U. S. into a country where Black-Jewish cooperation towards goals of minority rights and social justice becomes impossible," Jews and Blacks will both suffer.

The author says that "those who lie to us about the past foreclose our chance to shape the future."

There are numerous untruths in "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews." Brackman exposes many of them in this book. The untruths include claims that Jews "dominated" the slave trade in Medieval Europe, Africa, Latin America, and New England. In fact, Jews played a minor role in all these locations, while Arabs seem to have been the biggest slave traders in Africa. "According to the African historian J. E. Inikori, Arab slavers between the years 650 and 1900 drained Black Africa of 14.4 million people - more than most estimates of slave exports to the Americas during the 400 years of the Atlantic slave trade."

What about Southern Jews? Yes, there were some Southern Jewish slaveowners. In 1830, there were about 225,000 Southern families who owned slaves, including 322 Jewish families. About 59,000 of the families owned twenty or more slaves, including 23 Jewish ones. About 11,000 of the families owned fifty or more slaves including 4 Jewish ones. By the way, the author points out that some "persons of color" owned slaves too. These colored slaveowners "outnumbered the Jewish ones by fifteen to one."

I want all humans to be happy and prosperous, not poor and miserable. And I think we'll have a better chance of that if we value truth, justice, and human rights. This book is to be praised for taking a step in that direction. I recommend it.

If this is true I assume you are calling all the Jews that the NOI quotes/documents in their footnotes and you are calling all the historical documents a lie without in evidence other than your double talk lies. Amazing how Jews call any facts, lies that document the truth but disagree with their Satanic programs.

This book is a refutation of The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews by the Nation of Islam.

Here are some quotations from this 1994 book:

"Some anti-Jewish stereotypes have a kernal of truth underneath the grotesque exaggeration. After all, there were Jewish moneylenders in medieval Europe and Jewish slave traders in the antebellum South. But other charges against the Jews---e.g., ritual murder, well-poisoning---have no plausible basis in reality." (Pg. 31)
"'The Secret Relationship' is an anonymous production. 'The Historical Research Department' identifies no individual members, nor does it indicate their academic credentials. In other words, those responsible themselves remain secret---choosing to hide behind rather than stand behind their scholarship." (Pg. 45)
"Jacob R. Marcus is the leading authority on American Jewry during the colonial period. He is quoted twenty-seven times in 'The Secret Relationship' and cited on numerous other occasions. Never once is his conclusion acknowledged that 'Jewish participation was minimal' in the slave trade with Africa." (Pg. 50-51)
"Black Africa experienced a slow bleed over hundreds of years. The world Jewish community experienced a massive hemorrhage---six million of eighteen million murdered---over just five years." (Pg. 98)

It is truly a pity to see with what weak arguments this work is attacked. Since when must one attend a speech before rectifying bigoted distortions distributed on paper?

It is obvious after reading this book that the author has not even heard Farrakhan speak or at least did not listen with an open mind.

Many of the references are not even based on fact.

I doubt that the author has even been to the mosque to hear any of the ministers.

If you have an opinion on the Nation of Islam, it is better to hear a speech first hand or talk directly to a member. Save your money by not buying this book.

I do not pretend to be an expert on Louis Farrakhan, but if this book accurately quotes his remarks and statements, he is obviously an either woefully misinformed or quite hateful man. He is lying, and this book refutes those lies. It is informative and useful.

If this book inaccurately quotes Louis Farrakhan, then its critics should use that as the basis for their dislike of it. When an author disproves a noted religious figure's statements, and that figure's adherents demonstrate an inexplicable refusal to deny that the statements were made, you can usually be certain that the author is correct.

Louis Farrakhan demonstrates that you don't have to be a white Christian to be a dangerous racist spreading lies and promoting genocide---he's actually the only non-white non-Christian that I know of who is doing so in this country---but that's about all.

I suspect, (and I am Man enough to say that I could be wrong) from the material presented here, that there is a huge degree of fallacy contained within the pages of this book. Let me point out a few things:
1)It was stated that (European)Jewish slavers enslaved only pagan white slaves, and that Jewish slavers ceased to be involved in 1000A.D., 500 years before slaveships started carting off enslaved Africans out of Africa. Yes, there were some Africans who sold out their own African Brothers and Sisters, in service to their White Massa. Yes, there have been cases of white-on-white violence and enslavement, but if European Jews ceased to be involved in the slave trade, and if they were not involved in the TransAtlantic Slave Trade,and if European Jewish slave traders had no part whatsoever in enslaving Black people, as this book states, THEN HOW DID A LOT OF BLACK PEOPLE all over the African Diaspora END UP WITH EUROPEAN JEWISH LAST NAMES such as WALKER, WINKLER, TURNER, COLEMAN, KAUFMAN, AND CONE? Malcolm X (and other Black and SOME White Historians) was not lying when he talked about how European slavemasters forced their names, particularly THEIR LAST NAMES, on African people, to signify their status as property of their WHITE slavemasters. Therefore, the purpose of the X is to signify the UNKNOWN AFRICAN NAME that Black people originally had before being enslaved.
2)There is a lot of emphasis on the Arabs enslaving Africans, and I've seen a lot of white people and IGNORANT Black people say, "Why do you Black Muslims claim the religion of your Arab Slavemasters? Don't you know that Arabs were enslaving Africans before the TransAtlantic Slave Trade?!!!" First of all, yes, there were, and still are some Arabs that are and were enslaving Black people. And there were some cases where some Africans had other Africans in bondage. However, this is NO COMPARISON WHATSOEVER to, and DOES NOT NEGATE OR DIMINISH the slavery that EUROPEANS unleashed on AFRICANS, ASIANS, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, OCEANIC PEOPLES, and SEVERAL OTHER PEOPLES OF COLOR. Why?
1)It was the EUROPEAN who developed and practiced CHATTEL SLAVERY, which is designed to reduce the enslaved to a subhuman state by nearly killing the slave - a state less than a dog. Howard Zinn even states this very same thing in A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
2)And before anybody says, "Well,there were Free Black people who enslaved Black people, or Indians who enslaved Black people brutally in places such as Louisiana", let me say this: YOU CANNOT have Non-whites enslaving other Non-whites without first having WHITES ENSLAVING NON-WHITES.
3)In the book, THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY, by Susanne Everett, she shows how GREEKS AND ROMANS were enslaving African peoples LONG BEFORE the Arabs even thought about it. The Arabs did not come into Africa until the 7th Century A.D. The Greeks came into Africa roughly around the 8th Century B.C., then the Romans came in roughly around the 3rd-2nd Century B.C. Obviously this would have been SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS (roughly around 1400-1500 some odd years) before the Arabs even touched African soil. Therefore, it is MATHEMATICALLY and TRUTHFULLY impossible and assinine to state, "well the Arabs were enslaving Blacks before the Europeans". Also:
a)on pg.15, Susanne Everett states:

It is an uncomfortable fact that the Greeks. . .
were UTTERLY DEPENDENT on slavery. THE ABOLITION
OF SLAVERY IN GREECE WOULD HAVE DISRUPTED THE
WHOLE FABRIC OF ITS SOCIETY. From the 6th century
B.C. in ATHENS and other
GREEK CITIES, slavery effectively replaced
other forms of dependent labor. For the Greeks
of the classical period (480-338 B.C.) it was
UNTHINKABLE THAT SOCIETY SHOULD BE ORGANIZED IN
ANY OTHER WAY. Plato's REPUBLIC was firmly based
ON SLAVE LABOR, although he drew the line, in war,
at enslaving his fellow Greeks - he advised
soldiers to 'keep their hands off one another
and turn their energies AGAINST FOREIGNERS'.

b)On page 17, there is a picture of a Roman slave
market, with 8 slaves. One of the slaves is a
BLACK WOMAN; the other slaves are Whites of
different ages, and genders.

c)On page 12, there is an excerpt from THE ODDYSEY,
dealing with slavery, and a caption which states
that,"Slaves in Ancient Greece . . .were none the
less the absolute CHATTELS of their masters. . ."

d)On page 25 is a picture of a statue of a Nubian/
Kemetan slave that was a house slave in a Greek
house. The caption reads, "The Household Slaves
Of Ancient Greece". A caption reads that the
statue is of, "a black slave boy probably bought
FROM THE UPPER NILE", and that he is leaning
against an amphora, a Grecian vase.
4)In the documentary, "A Great and Mighty Walk", The late great Dr. John Henrick Clarke talks about how the Ancient Africans were asking the Arabs to get their Greek and Roman slave masters off their backs. He says (and this is nearly an exact quote), "They (the Arabs) did get their European slavemasters off the Africans' backs - but the Arabs also REPLACED them on the African's backs". He goes on to show and discuss how the Arabs introduced Africans to Allah and the enslavement that they brought along with that.

5)Michael Bradley, a white historian, talks about the Hyksos, a EURASIAN predecessor of White Jews, who invaded Kemet in the 15th Century B.C. and enslaved several of the Kemetan people (who by the way, WERE BLACK AFRICANS). He speaks of the hypocrisy of how the Exodus story has been taught to have us thinking that White Jews were enslaved in Egypt, when it was actually the other way around - the Hyksos, predecessors of White Jews, unleashed a brutal enslavement on the Black Kemetans, for roughly 400 some years (Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm............), until they were driven out by the Black Pharaoh Ahmose I. By the way, this would have been some 1500 years BEFORE the year 1000 A.D., when European Jewish slavers "ceased to be involved" in the slave trade, as this author would have people to believe.
6)Before anyone yells out reverse racism or rants about this being "Anti-Semitic", let me quote Roman historian TACITUS who wrote this in the 1ST CENTURY (Hmmmmm. . .Who else lived in the 1st Century?Hint: he was hung on a cross):

"Many say that the Jews come from ETHIOPIA."

7)Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannon talks about the original Jews who were and STILL ARE of AFRICAN ORIGIN, in WE, THE BLACK JEWS.

I don't agree with everything Farrakhan says, but he does speak a lot of truths that ameriKKKa refuses to deal with. I also doubt that the author of THIS BOOK has studied Farrakhan or the Nation of Islam with any serious depth to effectively critique what the N.O.I. has said, shown, and proved. I also doubt that he met with Tony Martin to discuss what Tony Martin published, either; or if he did, he probably had a MONOLOG instead of a DIALOGUE with Tony Martin. I also doubt that he has studied the ORIGINAL origins of the Jewish people, as I have stated in points 6 and 7, above. And I SERIOUSLY doubt that what I stated above, could be refuted, which in closing, would render Harold Brackman's book faulty. Find out for yourself.

Obviously the author of the following quote is a .........?
"demonstrates that you don't have to be a white Christian to be a dangerous racist spreading lies and promoting genocide---he's actually the only non-white non-Christian that I know of who is doing so in this country"

Harold Brackman's work here brings several questions for a reader to deal with. What is/was the motive for even writing a refutation to the Nation of Islam's book? In analyizing the references and cross-referencing said references with the NOI book, it becomes apparent that Harold Brackman's sources are extremely faulty, outright distortions, with degrees of hyperbole mixed in.

The main question a studious reader must ask is, what is it about the jewish people, both past and currently, incites so much examination? This examination includes the scisms within jewish culture, how jewish people conduct commerce, the defense of the nation/state of israel to name few. Harold Brackman's work, we come to find out has been paid for by his jewish employers. That fact alone is cause for some skepticism as to the acurracy of his sources and his motives for writing the book. Corrolatively, one has to ask a similar question regarding the NOI research department in writing their book.
Since the jewish people's motives seemed to get attacked by various groups and individuals, it would be intelligent to answer the question, what precisely is anti-semitism, and is being jewish a racial category separate from the acrual religion of judiasm? Harold Brackman's work would have gone alot further in establishing a dialogue if the above questions had of been placed in his discussion, and answered cogently by jewish person's. Lastly, for the reader who is looking for a validation of vitrol against the NOI, Harold Brackman provides this activity. This work is not unbiased. As a reader of this work, I continually asked the question, is there a definition of racism clearly gleaned from this work or not. The answer was no! It would be much more sensible if jewish leaders convened an intelligent forum or conference, and addressed the NOI work to the public. If jewish leaders would do this, then this work might be taken a bit more seriously than simply a BLACK male scholar being used as a pawn in a very trecherous game.This book is not work it's purchase price!!