“The value of the Black woman is worth more than the value of the Earth.” This was the message of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, the national minister for the Nation of Islam, who addressed a national audience of women Saturday, April 18.
Broadcasting live from Mosque Miriam in Chicago to Mosque No. 7 in Harlem, N.Y., Farrakhan stressed the importance of nation building and reminded the global Black population that “a nation can rise no higher than its women.”
Farrakhan’s first call to address Black women exclusively came just after the Million Man March occurred. It was during a trip to Atlanta, where he was approached by a Black woman who requested he address and uplift the Black woman the way he empowers the Black man in America. Since that time, the first “Save Our Girls” event occurred in Atlanta, with more than 10,000 Black women in attendance. Since Farrakhan’s decision to focus on Black women, other Christian ministers such as T.D. Jakes and several others have stepped forward to follow the lead of Farrakhan by having Black women-only events to uplift the Black woman. “Your base is the home,” Farrakhan said, “but is not necessarily your place.”
He went on to ask Black women, “Who are you that God would have to call you in to protect you? It is because the woman who carries the secret of God would have to be called in to be protected from this new creature that was coming, who would in his heart and mind seek to destroy the moral character of women all over the Earth.”
The Black woman, Farrakhan remarked, holds the secret of God and civilization. He explained his premise: “The woman had to be put under the control of the man. The freedom that she had to walk beside the man in building worlds was or had to be protected. Everything you see in the world was built by the original people: the Black man and the Black woman. God created you from a single being and spread from these two many men and women. He created you, not from a rib, but from a single being. God created man from one of a kind. In the nature of that being is the fundamental essence of what a man is: It’s the creation of woman. As man is created from God’s image, the original Black woman is created in the image of God and man. A Black woman is the second self of God.”
The Sphinx of the Egypt, the first wonder of the world, Farrakhan noted, reminds the world that Black people are the original builders of the world. “You are not a johnny-come-lately,” he remarked. “You are the original builders of every great civilization. It started from you.
“The Black woman is the first woman on the Earth, and no one knows how she got here or how old he is. No one was there to record the beginning of the Black woman because she came out of God. Sh’s a co-creator with God. Everything that is created in the world the Black woman had a hand in creating.”
