by Dr. Ridgely Abdul Mu’min Muhammad

While Black people in America are still debating whether the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was
correct when he predicted the fall of America’s economic system in his 1973 book called the
"Fall of America", so-called white people are busy preparing for such a dreadful day.
While Black people are running hand over feet to get further in debt to live the lifestyle of their
former slave master’s children, white people are simplifying their lives and moving back to the
countryside.

While Black people are busy trying to learn the latest dance and get the latest designer clothes,
white people are learning how to grow their own food in their backyards. While Black people are
spending thousands of dollars on rims for their fancy cars to ride around four square blocks in the
crowded ghettoes of our big cities, white people are learning to drive little tractors to take care
of their vegetable garden.

While Black people are reading music magazines and sports magazines, white people are reading
"Better Homes and Gardens" and "Mother Earth News". According to an article
called "Join the Real Food Revival" in Mother Earth News the US Department of Agriculture
reported that the number of farmers’ markets has increased by more than 80% from 1994 to 2004.
However, from my experience most of the people who shop at these markets are upper class whites, not
the poor whites or Blacks in general except for a few older Blacks who remember what "real
food" tastes like.

I have noticed how tractor dealerships have fewer large farming tractors and more small garden
tractors. I have noticed that around our 1600 acre farm in Southwest Georgia, large farms are being
sold at auction and cut up by real estate developers into 5 and 10 acre tracts. These tracts of land
are being bought up by people who are moving out of the metropolitan areas as though they are
suspecting some type of trouble in those areas. I know of some of these white people building
storage facilities underground for food and water as if they suspect something may be "going
down" in our big cities of America.

I have noticed that almost every city in America now has a four to eight lane military highway
(Interstate highway) looping around the inner city where Black people reside. I have noticed that
most all of the warehouses for food and other necessities are located on the outer rim of such
"loops" and surveillance cameras are placed over these routes supposedly for
"national security" or traffic control. I have noticed that mileage markers in some major
cities indicate the tenth of a mile, not just a mile. Why? Could it be for a grid map location
finder for future military operations in our inner cities?

While Black folks are still "super sizing" it at the fast food restaurants, middle
class whites are taking cooking lessons and going back to eating at home with their families. While
Black women are giving their newborns artificial milk, white mothers are going back to nursing their
babies.

There is a growing market for single home solar energy and wind energy units, while America’s
power grid is being sold at auction to foreign investors. According to a September 7, 2000 article
called "British Power Firm’s Takeover of Niagara Mohawk May Lower Bills in New York"
(http://archive.pulp.tc/html/pma_report.html), the British based National Grid Group bought Niagara
Mohawk. The purchase would extend the London-based company’s U.S. electricity business from New
England to New York and allow it to nearly double its customer base by bringing in 1.5 million
Niagara Mohawk consumers. It would make National Grid the nation’s ninth-largest electric utility.

In the 1980s when I was a professor of Agricultural economics at Black university, I did a number
of research papers on the need for America to rethink the method by which she produced and
distributed her food. This research included an analysis which showed that once you factor in the
non-renewable fossil fuel energy used to produce and transport the food, agriculture was a net
consumer of energy instead of a net producer of energy as designed by our ancestors in Africa. In
Africa we invented the method of growing our food and livestock close to our villages so that we
would not have to travel long distance to hunt and gather. This method of production greatly reduced
the risk of our food supply and allowed us to concentrate on developing and spreading civilization.

However, now we live on top of each other in mega-cities with no direct access to the land or our
food supply. We ship this food for thousands of miles and it sits in warehouses, trucks or stores
for a number of days before we get it. Yet we expect to eat healthy living food. We have been given
a false sense of safety and security by an artificial system an "oil crisis" away from
total collapse. If the flow of oil stops, the trucks stop, the tractors stop and you can’t even
drive to shop.

Back in the 1980’s I proposed a new paradigm of "community supported agriculture" and
"sustainable agriculture". Later I was shocked to see a piece of legislation related to
new agricultural initiatives for the U.S. Department of Agriculture which included these new
paradigms. Now white people have taken "community based agriculture" and
"self-sufficient communities" to a whole new level. They are preparing to survive the fall
of America’s economy and infrastructure.

The white man’s system is falling apart because he can no longer exploit the rest of the world
for oil and useful land as he has done in the past. The lessons of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad
teach us that although the white man is only one eleventh of the population he utilizes almost one
fourth of the useful land. Europe has three times more people per square mile than does Africa.
African are starving because their useful land is controlled by the white man. However, as Africa
wakes up and kicks them out, the white race will be confined to what they can produce. The wise ones
know that they must move into a survival mode instead of an expansive, consumer oriented mode.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad warned us that one day the factories would be closing down. That
day has arrived. General Motors moving plants to China. The whole textile industry closing down in
America and opening in China. The high tech computer industry packing up and moving to India and
China. White folk, seeing the hand writing on the wall, are packing up and setting up communities
out in the wilderness where each family is responsible for specializing in a needed product or
trade. In other words, white people are setting up African style villages, while Blacks in America
and Africa are still flocking to the cities looking for more gold for their labor than they were
receiving in their own villages and neighborhoods.

Suckers are born everyday and die as well. White folk are deploying an old Scythian war tactic
where they get their enemies to chase them into a desolate area, then turn around on them and kill
them while they are weak. Black people in the Southern United States had over 15 million acres of
land which they had purchased 45 years up from slavery. Now we have less than 3 million acres and
don’t even want to keep that.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad left a blueprint for economic development in Message to the Black
Man. When will we dust off this great book, eat the wisdom and act as if we had received the truth
that would make us free in deed? The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan used that wisdom and
re-instituted the Three Year Economic Savings Program. We now have a 1556 acre farm in Georgia to
begin the process of economic development. All things start with the land. However, capital is
needed to work the land and process the raw products of the land so that we can service our people
in a manner in which they are used to, until they wake up and come home.

It was the "African Village" lifestyle which kept civilization and life going on this
planet for millions upon millions of years. We need trucks, processing plants and storage facilities
to reach our people locked in the mega-centers of death until we can wake them up and lead them to
the promised land of self-sufficiency and food security, before the complete "Fall of
America".