Yakub & The Origins Of White Supremacy: Message To The White Man & Woman In America [Paperback]

Dorothy Blake (Author), Ph.D. Fardan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2001

For Black Students, most of whom had been denied access to their history through inadequate schooling still controlled by white Eurocentric thinking, the discovery of great black civilizations, beautiful traditions, ancient religion, honorable ancestors, and indeed, the very orings of life itself, as their own heritage was truly uplifting and inspiring for them.

Product Details

• Paperback: 146 pages
• Publisher: Lushena Books (November 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 193009728X
• ISBN-13: 978-1930097285
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,297,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Others have done this better., March 24, 2008

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Von Junzt (San Diego, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yakub & The Origins Of White Supremacy: Message To The White Man & Woman In America (Paperback)

I bought this book hoping to learn more about the Nation of Islam's idea of Yakub, the man Elijah Muhammad said created the white, blue-eyed devils. I was sorely disappointed. Blake Fardan barely touches on the story in this book. I read the whole book, but even though it's less than 150 pages, I somewhat regret wasting my valuable time.

What Blake Fardan does write is a treatise on how whites have abused blacks. Some of this material is true and worthy of consideration -- but has been dealt with much more adequately by other authors. The horrors of the slave trade, for example, is amply dealt with in most histories, and institutional racism does continue to be a problem. Her portrayal of whites stealing culture from black Egyptians and hiding it in the rituals of Freemasonry is ill supported by the facts available to a Ph.D. in anthropology, however, and one would have expected her to have buttressed this argument with more data than secondary sources which can be obtained from grocery store paperbacks. This is the doctrine of Elijah Muhammad -- but we can learn that from the man himself. Entities within the U.S. government may well have been involved in distributing narcotics within the United States, but she should cite more than one source to prove this.

Blake Fardan is incapable of understanding that social forces are impersonal as well as personal. The 5+ pages spent on how the white man has evilly planted the need for expensive car stereos into the black man's heart could be better understood with a reference to Rousseau -- society creates needs that did not exist in nature. I think black men should be able to decide for themselves whether they want subwoofers, though I understand that capitalism and capitalists generated this desire. Blake Fardan seems to think whites should be kind and not sell subwoofers.

Troubingly, Blake Fardan does pervert the teachings of the Nation for her own ideological gain. Blake Fardan is a white woman, one of those who joined the Nation during a brief window following Warith Deen Muhammad's restructuring of the organization. She portrays herself as somehow a Caucasian but not white. This runs counter to the whole idea of Yakub, which is that Yakub created whites such that they are biologically inferior and inclined towards evil. This largely is a tract about how Blake Fardan herself should be held blameless, while she wags her finger at the rest of Western civilization. One wishes Blake Fardan had done something more worthwhile to alleviate her white liberal guilt.

Perhaps the most irritating part of the book are its many typoes and Blake Fardan's poor writing style. It seems to have been poorly digitized via some scanning and OCR software and never proofread. This is in addition to the weak writing one expects in a blog but not in a published book that has gone through three editions.

In short, if you're thinking of buying this book, save your money. And if you're thinking of getting it out of some library that foolishly bought it, save your time. If you want to know about the teachings of the Nation of Islam, read Elijah Muhammad's Message to the Blackman in America (or, for the Yakub story specifically, Nasir Makr Hakim's compilation of his writings, Yakub: The Father of Mankind). If you want to read about how whites have oppressed other ethnic groups, that material abounds elsewhere. Fardan Blake's espoused purpose, galvanizing the white man and woman to action, could have been served much better with a more thoughtful and less inflammatory (and proofread!) book.

10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting book, March 31, 2005

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Kool Side (Paris, France & SF Bay Area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yakub & The Origins Of White Supremacy: Message To The White Man & Woman In America (Paperback)

Dorothy Blake is historicly the first white/devil/caucasian/muslim son however you want to call pale skin humans to have join the Nation of Islam, shortly after Wallace Muhammad opened the doors to whites and started the move towards orthodox Islam. She left though as Wallace left away the early teaching of his father (in which she believes) about whites crafted origins.

So the book is interesting as it brings her perspective on Elijah Muhammad's teachings. This is a good book to collect basic informations on white supremacy, african civilizations and slavery, but you'll have to check other sources for some more in depth knowledge.
The theology and analysis exposed in the book find its limit though, as usual when you look at questions of "races", spirituality and civilisations from that perspective. The book have many truth and make good points though, but there could have been much more things to say and analyses to make. Her message to white folks is of importance and an urgent reality. A good read.

"Message to the publisher" : did anybody proof read that book? it is full of ridiculous typos, i couldn't believe that book went to print like this! i hope this will be fixed for future reprints.

3.0 out of 5 stars a nice read for the individual looking to enter the world of White supremacy, December 23, 2009

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L. L. Jackson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yakub & The Origins Of White Supremacy: Message To The White Man & Woman In America (Paperback)

i enjoyed this book. i had never heard of Yakub, until a friend introduced me and thus to this book. it surely ignited a new fire in my brain; removed yet another ignorant part. besides all the typos and grammatical errors, since the average person isn't an English buff, it's really a good read for the new minds discovering the world of White supremacy. i've now started reading some of the other books she's cited. approach this book with an open mind. if you find yourself shaking your head while reading this book and saying "no way" or "yea, right. hogwash" then you're denying your brain the expansion that it's owed. this read doesn't answer everything but it has you asking questions that you never have and searching brutally for the answers. happy reading.

p.s. still not convinced of the "Yakub experiment". pure evolution. nothing more.