Malik Zulu Shabazz on Farrakhan's call to "Accept Responsibility to Build Our Community"

MALIK ZULU SHABAZZ
(Photo: Kenneth Muhammad)

Ashahed M. Muhammad: Brother Malik, the message you just heard from Minister Farrakhan, what are your thoughts, what's your reaction?

Malik Zulu Shabazz: It was extremely powerful, he covered everything from Pres. Barack Obama, what he can do and what he cannot do. He (Farrakhan) got down to what we should do for our people. He gave an excellent analysis on Israel and the influence of the Israeli lobby and Zionists on the United States government. I say all the way around it was a divine message.
He has inspired me greatly to go back to work and I will do whatever I can, and anybody that I am connected with, we will help him with whatever we can. He is still the leader of the hour and I am talking to all Black people all over the earth and all oppressed people.

NYOIL Speaks on Farrakhan's call to "Accept Responsibility to Build Our Community"

NYOIL
(Photo: Mikal Veale)

Ashahed M. Muhammad: What are your thoughts on the message you just heard from Minister Farrakhan?

NYOIL: Well what I think he (Farrakhan) is doing at this particular point is delivering a message that requires us to consolidate. This is something that is important to my company, Petroleum Empire Media Group. It's constant consolidation, something that Dr. Ron Daniels taught me which was cooperation without conformity; which means that we don't have to bow down to the exact same thing but we can still cooperate and get things done. Working in that capacity, I just see that message coming across, the opportunity being present.

The Nation of Islam represents hundreds of thousands of brothers and sisters that would be the market that an artist like myself is looking for. The audience that I am looking to speak to and represent; the model of what conscious, cultural and positive teachings can be and mean for us. I just thought his message was phenomenal. When I first heard him at the State of the Black World II--live that is--he validated much of what I believed and he just continues to do so and he inspires me. I am ready to work harder. I am fired up and ready to go!

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