Do you know the name Wallace D. Fard or Wallace Fard Mohammed?

Well I knew the name growing up because the nation of Islam was very prominent,

especially when I became an adult working in the media.

I spent a lot of time at the mosque in Harlem,

spent some time at a mosque in Newark and was following people like Conrad Mohammed and

all around and it was interesting.

It was interesting learning about the nation of Islam, but recently, and I'm going to be

doing more on what I'm watching, right?

And so what I'm watching this week is something on Netflix called Who Killed Malcolm and I'm going to get more in

depth probably I'm probably going to do two or three more podcasts on the making of

who killed Malcolm but as I watch anything, breadcrums are dropped, right?

So there was a big thing in one of the episodes about Elijah Muhammad and how the Honorable Elagia Mohammed was one of the most

surveilled people during the 50s and 60s in America. The FBI spent more time surveilling him than Martin Luther King and all the other

civil rights leaders.

And it was curious to me because if you look at it they were apolitical,

nation of Islam, they weren't involved in politics,

but they were the most feared organization

and I had to think about that.

And I'm gonna do a whole podcast on fear and why. But I wanna to talk today about Wallace Defard or Wallace

Fard Mohammed because virtually nothing is known about this man. And I'm

always fascinated by people who are able to create an entire movement.

This man built something that to this day still exists is presided over by Minister

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