The Negro Problem

by Charles H. Vail

Published in International Socialist Review, vol. 1, no. 8 (Feb. 1901), pp. 464-470.
Reprinted as a pamphlet by The Comrade Publishing Co., New York, 1902.

To many the negro problem was forever solved when the shackles were struck from the four millions of the colored race. This act was thought to fulfill the theory embodied in the Declaration of Independence, — that all men were created free and equal. The emancipation of the negro from chattel slavery — an act necessary to modern capitalist industry — was, from the standpoint of economic progress, a great step in advance, but instead of solving the negro problem it merely changed its aspect. The negro was emancipated from chattel slavery, only to be plunged into wage slavery.

This change merely altered the relation in which the negro stood to his master.

The ultimate cause that led to the Northern revolt against the chattel system was its unprofitableness. As soon as industry passed from the individual and manufacturing period into modern mechanical industry, it became unprofitable to own workers as chattels. The change at the North caused New England morality to revolt against the chattel system and inaugurate in its place wage slavery. The new order was exceedingly profitable to the capitalist class and enabled the Northern masters, when the crisis came, to conquer the South and force it to accept capitalism and the wage system. The rapid invasion of the South by capitalism after the civil war — the industrial revolution which supplanted the crude tools by mighty machines — completely overturned previous relations and gave rise to a new negro problem which was none other than the modern problem of labor.

At first the Southern masters looked upon the loss of their slaves as a severe blow, but they soon began to see, what the North had long since known, that the ownership of land and capital meant the virtual ownership of those who must have access to those instruments or starve. The negro had been freed, but as this freedom did not include freedom of access to the means of livelihood he was still as dependent as ever. Being unable to employ himself he was compelled to seek employment, or the use of land upon which to live, at the hands of the very class from whom he had been liberated. In either case he was only able to retain barely enough of the product to keep body and soul together. The competition among the newlyemancipated for an opportunity to secure a livelihood was so great that their labor could be bought for a mere existence wage.

The negro labor had become a commodity, and like all commodities its price was determined by its cost of production. The cost of producing labor-power is the cost of the laborer’s keep.

The master class were able to secure the necessary labor-power to carry on their industries for merely a subsistence wage — for no more than it cost them when they owned the negroes as chattels.

The wage slave spends his own subsistence wage, which, under the chattel system, the owner was obliged to spend for him.

The chattel method was fully as desirable for the slave, for the owner, having a stake in the life and health of his slave, desired to keep him in good condition. The wage slave-owner, however, does not particularly care whether his wage slave lives or dies, for he has no money invested in him and there are thousands of others to take his place. Surely wage slavery is an improvement upon the old method of property in human beings. It saves the useless expense of owning workers as chattels, which necessitates caring for them and involves loss in case of death. The results of slavery are secured by simply owning the means of production.

The new system, with its revolution of industry, gives to the masters, without expense, an industrial reserve army who can only secure employment through their grace. This secures to the master class cheap labor, for laborers, both white and black, having nothing but their labor-power to sell and thus being unable to employ themselves, must compete with each other for an opportunity to earn a livelihood.

In the days of chattel slavery capitalist production on a large scale was impossible, because it was unprofitable for the master to keep more slaves than he could profitably use all the time. He could not afford a reserve army, for he must feed and care for his workers whether he could use them or not. This difficulty is overcome by the wage system. The conditions and even the name of slavery have changed, but the fact remains untouched.

Indeed, slavery is not yet abolished. So long as the laborer is deprived of property in the instruments of production, so long as his labor-power is a commodity which he is obliged to sell to another, he is not a free being, be he white or black. He is simply a slave to a master and from morning until night is as much a bondsman as any negro ever was below Mason and Dixon’s line before the war. Slaves are cheaper now and do more work than at any time in the world’s history. The same principle of subjection that ruled in the chattel system rules in the wage system.

Let us inquire here, of what does slavery consist? It consists in the compulsory using of men for the benefit of the user. One who is forced to yield to another a part of the product of his toil is a slave, no matter where he resides or what may be the color of his skin. This was the condition of the negro before the war and it is his condition today, and not only his condition but the condition of all propertyless workers. That the workman can today change his master does not alter the fact. The negro was a slave, not because of a certain master, but because he must yield a part of the wealth he produced to a master. Today he may desert one master, but he must look up another or starve, and this necessity constitutes his continued slavery. Under the old system he was sure of a master and consequently his livelihood. One of the greatest curses of modern slavery is the fear of the slave that he will lose his position of servitude. Many a negro wage slave, and white as well, would gladly exchange their freedom to leave their master, for a guarantee that their master would not discharge them.

The loss of the security of existence is the fearful price which the negro has been obliged to pay for his so-called liberty. The insecurity of the wage worker is the greatest curse of the present system. Closely connected with this is the dependence which inheres in the wage system. The wage worker is absolutely dependent for his daily bread upon the favor or whim of his master. Indeed, the wage earner is a wage slave. The intensity of this slavery depends upon the amount of time which the workers are compelled to work gratuitously for others. Under present conditions they must work the greater portion of their time for some one else. It is thus that the wage-earning class is a slave to the employing class. Workingmen may change their master, but they are still at the mercy of the master class. The choice of the chattel slave was between work and the lash ; the choice of a wage slave is between work and starvation. The whip of hunger is all sufficient to drive the wage slave to his task.

The worker today, then, is a slave, bound by the pressure of economic wants to compulsory servitude to idle capitalist masters. He is obliged to sell his liberties in exchange for the means of subsistence. He is under the greatest tyranny of which it is possible to conceive — the tyranny of want. By this lash men are driven to work long hours and in unwholesome occupations, and to live in tenement rookeries in our city slums that for vileness would surpass the slave quarters of old. The man who has no work or is compelled to submit to wages dictated by a corporation, and is at the beck and call of a master for ten hours a day, has not much personal liberty to brag of over his prototype — the chattel slave. A man thus conditioned is far from free.

John Stuart Mill said that “the majority of laborers have as little choice of occupation or freedom of locomotion, are practically as dependent on fixed rules and on the will of others, as they could be in any system short of actual slavery.” This is the condition into which the negro was “liberated.” It is quite evident that he has not yet secured anything worthy to be called freedom — he is still in need of emancipation.

The changed conditions which transformed the negro into a wage slave, identifies the negro problem with the labor problem as a whole, the solution of which is the abolition of wage slavery and the emancipation of both black and white from the servitude to capitalist masters. This can only be accomplished by collective ownership of the means of production and distribution.

Socialism is the only remedy — it is the only escape from personal or class rule. It would put an end to economic despotism and establish popular self-government in the industrial realm.

Economic democracy is a corollary of political democracy. We want every person engaged in industry, whether male or female, white or black, to have a voice in making the rules under which they must work. Under socialism the workers would elect their own directors, regulate their hours of work and determine the conditions under which production would be carried on. We may be sure that when this power is vested in the producing class, the factories will be arranged according to convenience and beauty, and all disagreeable smells, vapor, smoke, etc., eliminated, the buildings well lighted, heated, and ventilated, and every precaution taken against accidents. In other words, under socialism the laborers would have absolute freedom in the economic sphere in place of the present absolute servitude. Socialists emphasize the need of this economic freedom, for it is the basis of all freedom. Intellectual and moral freedom is practically nullified today through the absence of economic liberty.

Not only would socialism secure to the laborers greater liberty within the economic sphere, but what would be of more importance is the liberty that the regime would secure to all outside this realm. The real restrictions today are economic. We are prevented from doing the things we would like to do, not by governmental restrictions, but by limited means. I would like to take a trip abroad. No statute prohibits me, but I am restricted by the lack of the needed resources. Socialism would increase resources by securing to all steady employment and the full product of their toil. Today labor is exploited out of fully 80 percent of the wealth it brings into being. Socialism will abolish this exploitation.

But it is not only freedom of labor but freedom from labor that socialists seek. With a scientific organization of industry, eliminating all the wastes of the present system, two or three hours a day would suffice to supply all the comforts and even luxuries of life. This would secure to the laborer the leisure necessary to enable him to develop his faculties and which could be devoted to recreation and travel.

Socialism, then, would secure to the laborers the utmost freedom both within and without the economic sphere. It would enable men to live as men and would secure to each, regardless of his nationality, the best opportunity for free development and movement. There can be no liberty in economic dependence. The man who is in want or in the fear of want is not a free man. No man is free if he does not possess the means of livelihood. As long as he must look to the pleasure or profit of another for his living he is not independent, and without independence there can be no freedom. Freedom will become the heritage of all as soon as socialism is realized, because it will guarantee to all security, independence and prosperity by securing labor to all and recompensing each according to performance. Socialism contains the only hope for either black or white.

True liberty and freedom can only be attained in the cooperative commonwealth.

But it may be said that although socialism would emancipate the negro from economic servitude, it would not completely solve the negro problem unless its advent would destroy race prejudices. This is precisely what socialism would do. Of course, it would not accomplish it all at once, but race prejudices cannot exist with true enlightenment. Socialism would educate and enlighten the race. It would secure to the laborers, whether black or white, the full opportunities for the education of their children. Socialism would not only demand that all children be educated, but it would make compulsory education effective by removing the incentive to deprive children of instruction. Today thousands of children, white and black, are robbed of the bright days of childhood simply because employers can make money out of them. The income of the parents being insufficient to keep them in school, they are with- drawn from the school and sent to the factory. It does but little good to pass laws prohibiting child labor so long as it is beneficial to both parents and capitalists; they will conspire in some way to evade the law. The lack of learning, then, is not the fault of our schools but of our economic system which deprives the poor of the opportunity of utilizing them. Socialism would secure to all children this opportunity by giving to the head of the family sufficient income so that his children would not be obliged to become breadwinners. Socialism would not only secure to the child an education but it would secure to the adult ample leisure for the cultivation of those tastes which his training has awakened. These blessings would not be confined to the white race ; socialism recognizes no class nor race distinction. It draws no line of exclusion. Under socialism the negro will enjoy, equally with the whites, the advantages and opportunities for culture and refinement. In this higher education we may be sure race prejudices will be obliterated.

Not only will universal enlightenment destroy this low prejudice but abolition of competition will aid in working the same result. The struggle between the black and white to sell themselves in the auction of the new slave market has, in many quarters, engendered bitter race feeling, and that they might bid the fiercer against each other the masters have fanned this prejudice into hate. In other sections, as in the coal mines and railroad camps, the blacks have been used by the masters as a club to beat down striking whites. This antagonism will cease under socialism, and with it the hatred which springs from all class conflicts. It will even disappear under the present system just in proportion as workingmen recognize the solidarity of human labor. Socialism emphasizes the fact that the interests of all laborers are identical regardless of race or sex. In this common class interest race distinctions are forgotten. If this is true of socialists today, how much more will it be true when humanity is lifted to the higher plane where the economic interests of all are identical.

Socialism, then, is the only solution of the negro problem. It offers to this much-wronged race the joys and privileges of an emancipated humanity. It proposes to make him joint owner with his white neighbor in the nation’s capital, and to secure him equal opportunity for the attainment of wealth and progress. Socialism will secure to him the enjoyment of the inalienable rights of all men to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Today, in common with all wage slaves, he is deprived, by an economic system of inequality, of the privilege of exercising such rights. In the new economic environment where the negro will enjoy equality of opportunity, he will take on a new development.

The only hope for the colored race is in socialism, that system of society that gives to every individual, without regard to race, color or sex, an equal opportunity to develop the best within him. In such a society an individual’s social position will be determined by the use he makes of his opportunities — by what he becomes.

Socialism, then, is the only hope for the negro and for humanity. To realize this ideal is the mission of the working class.

Modern production is wiping out all distinctions of race and color and dividing society into two classes — the laborers and the capitalists. The interests of these two classes are diametrically opposed, and the time has come for the black and the white to join hands at the ballot box against the common enemy — capitalism.

The Socialist Party is the only political organization that has anything to offer the colored race. The Republican and Democrat parties are both parties of capitalism and could not help the negro if they would and would not if they could. There is absolutely no choice between these two parties so far as the rights of labor are concerned. They both represent the interests of the capitalist class and their sham battles are for the purpose of dividing the laborers into various factions lest they unite to secure their freedom.

The experience of the negro since the civil war has proven that the colored race will never secure equal opportunities so long as the present system exists. They were given the ballot by the Republican party, because that party wished to use them as a tool against the Democrats. The white laborer was originally endowed with the franchise for precisely the same motives. When the mercantile class wished to wipe out the last thread of landed aristocracy they gave the ballot to the workers and used them as a weapon to accomplish that end. The laborers have been continually deceived and intimidated into doing the master’s bidding ever since. The negro, perhaps, has been the most deceived of any branch of the working class. He has been taught that he is the special ward of the Republican Party, and he has turned in the midst of the barbaric outrages committed by Southern fanatics and asked his supposed friends for help, but his appeals have fallen on deaf ears. The recent disfranchisement of the negro in the South is but an indication of what capitalists will soon try to do with all the workers regardless of color and regardless of location. The conditions of forty or fifty years ago have changed. The capitalist class of the North and the South have now joined hands as the owners of wage slaves, and while the Democratic Party represents the interests of the small capitalist and the Republican Party the interests of the large capitalist, the interests of both are opposed to the laborer.

May the negro wage slave become awakened to his own interests, the interests of the class of which he is a member, and cast his ballot for the only party that stands for human emancipation — the Socialist Party. When socialism supplants capitalism the negro problem will be forever solved.

Edited by Tim Davenport 1000 Flowers Publishing, Corvallis, OR · July 2013 · Non-commercial reproduction permitted.

Holy Night and Naturalization Ceremony Photos, Oct 12th-13th 2018

Long overdue are these photos of our Naturalization Ceremony. Pardon self as I had a hard time dwindling it down. Be prepared to feast your eyes on some marvelous images of our Sacred Ceremony.

Public Service Annoucement About Naturalization To All Citizens And Moorish-Americans

Source: Video made by Elijah Hasan. Video was uploaded to the New York Republic Youtube channel under subordinate Temple #1 – NY Republic

A young brother speaking on the policy of freedom of President Abraham Lincoln and Naturalization to become a True American U.S.A. Citizen which is all under the Hebrew Code which backs up the Nationality and Birthrights of Moorish-Americans. Some of the many degrees of truth brought by Prophet Noble Drew Ali if we study. The process of Naturalization according to law was demonstrated by Grand Sheik Richardson Dingle-El when he resurrected the 13th Amendment with 20 sections. More information pertaining to Naturalization, along with Colonization, Compensation and the National side of the Moorish Movement can be learned through the classes of the Moorish School of Law and History. Any questions for clarity can be sent to the Sunday LIVE weekly conference call email at townhall@moorishamericannationalrepublic.com and your questions will be answered on our conference call.

Moorish Children Sunday School Lesson

Similarities and Differences of The Moorish Science Temple of America and The Vatican city-State.

VENN DIAGRAM uses overlapping circles or shapes to compare (similarities) and contrast (differences) two different things.

3 Things Our Sunday School Children are being Taught

1. We are the only Moorish Movement that is teaching the National Side of The Movement – according A Warning From The Prophet in 1928.

2. We are the only Moorish Temple not registered like a church, non profit, or 501c3.

3. We are the only Moorish Movement legally Naturalizing, taking the Oath of Amnesty and registering with The Moorish National Bureau of Vital Statistics located in Baltimore, Maryland Republic to be recognized by the Government and the Nations of the earth.

The Children’s Sunday School, A Reader’s Theater Presentation of “Amerika Is Afrika” poem

Our officials demonstrating Civics on The Mentoring Clinic WOLB Talk 1010

Our officials demonstrating Civics on The Mentoring Clinic WOLB Talk 1010

Breaking Bread with The Nation of Islam

Below are pictures of our beloved National Officials of The Moorish Science Temple, The Divine and National Movement Of North America Inc., #13, The Moorish American National Republic making ground breaking moves in order to link with our SisTers and Brothers of the Nation of Islam. A big thank you deposited unto one of our beloved Deputy Sheik Roy Bey for establishing the opportunity to link our National Grand Sheik J. Bratton-Bey with one of the head Mosques located in Harlem, New York, Mosque #7 under the leadership of Senior Minister H. Muhammad. A relationship and communication has been established and we look forward to supporting the efforts of bridging the gap between the families.

     

The Warning For Moors Who Are Confused On How To Navigate And The Need To Learn About the National Side Is Getting Louder And More Serious

The law enforcement agencies, local, State and Federal agencies are forming task forces, investigating intelligence units to come down on and counter so called sovereign citizens. Those who are so called white sovereign citizens, melanated so called sovereign citizens and Moors who are under that banner and recognized as such who are out of line with the authority and teachings of Prophet Noble Drew Ali. You can read the full article at the bottom of this post by clicking on the link. As it has been explained on our Sunday Conference Calls a few times, so called sovereign citizen paperwork, so called sovereign language, UCC (Uniform Commercial Codes), United Nation Declarations, Expatriation procedures, etc has infected the Moorish movement. Prophet Noble Drew Ali has been noted to have said “If you want European Grand Sheiks, I can give them to you.” Meaning, Prophet Noble Drew Ali got tired of the Moors always running to the Europeans and accepting their verification over his lessons of freedom and salvation. Some Moors with good intentions who have not been properly educated, some with criminal or negro mentalities, those looking to get a quick fix or to get over have mixed what European so called sovereign groups have been demonstrating, and mixing those demonstrations with the documents and information that Prophet Noble Drew Ali was bringing to our people for our salvation.

One of the main reasons why many Moors are confused is because they have not been educated about the “National” side of our Divine and National movement. The National side is where the laws of freedom, the laws that protect our members, Citizens and students; the full process of proclaiming your nationality and the laws that gives us the right to do everything we need to do in order to build a Nation and Government in Love, Truth, Peace Freedom and Justice with privileges, immunities and protection. The laws of freedom involves the four Proclamations of Abraham Lincoln, the 13th Amendment with 20 sections; not to be confused with the 13th Amendment with 2 sections most know of today, the Hebrew codes that pertains to freedom as shown by Leviticus 25:10 written on the Liberty Bell; understanding how the Moorish National Bureau of Vital Statistics was set up by Grand Sheik Richardson Dingle-El by going to the Pentagon to speak to the military on the naturalization and recording process for all Moorish-Americans to come back lawfully into the Constitutional fold and Union and correct their status, religion, race, name, birth certificate and jurisdiction; and really understand what our Holy Koran, Moorish literature, 101 Questionnaire, Our Authority, our Charter Warrant & Dispensation and our Divine Constitution and By-Laws is really saying especially the “degrees” in Act 6.

There are a few Moorish Science Temples that are not properly registered so they have no saving power or able to do anything political; there are some that only deal with the Divine side and not teaching the National side; along with inner fighting, egos, etc. So it is understandable why many people have turned away their ear, choose to navigate by themselves or mix different procedures in order to stop from getting misused and abused in society by the de facto jurisdiction because of this confusion and stagnation of the greatest movement on the planet. However the

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The Divine and National Movement of North America, Inc; #13

The Moorish National Republic

have been blowing the horn of the National side and have reached out to the many Moorish leaders, factions, groups and well known individuals about really taking a look at the laws of freedom, naturalization, Constitutional law and understand exactly what our founder intended and taught so that our movement no longer stay in turmoil and the people have a solid foundation on how to save themselves with the protection of a Temple and Moorish Government. By not taking a proper look at what the National side is really about, the local, State and Federal agencies are making a list, forming many task forces and different investigative bodies to come down with force against some leaders, Temples, groups and those who claim to be so called sovereign citizens and following behind so called Europeans sovereign citizens on how they wish to do things.

So lets clear up some of the confusion. Lets deal with those who wish to call themselves sovereign citizens. Through study of law and what Prophet Noble Drew Ali has set up, Prophet Noble Drew Ali is the only true Sovereign, the only true Creditor in the western hemisphere. Those who become members and Citizens in his movement are his heir. Prophet Noble Drew Ali demonstrated this by how he registered our movement, what has been recorded for public record the and the language of our Charter, Holy Koran, 101 Questionnaire and Divine Constitution and By-Laws. No “one” individual can be a sovereign. You will see if you study, your God or higher power is your sovereign, which is then represented by the head of the Nation and Government. So anyone wishing to be an individual sovereign is in error of law and Divine law. Hence our “Divine” and “National” movement. The Dred Scott case showed that there is a sovereign “community”, “body” politic, We The People, not an individual. The language that some of our people wish to use will do nothing but get them jammed up in the end, it will seem as confused legal jargon, being a paper terrorist, delusions of grandeur or being a sovereign in black. Studying the language of Prophet Noble Drew Ali is key. As a Prophet, Adept, Angel and Ali, it would only make sense that Prophet Noble Drew Ali had foreseen what was to come and understood the language of law. So misguided Moors or individuals who wish to use the words Native American, Native Indian, American Indian, Amerindian, Aboriginal, First People, First Nation, Original People, Indigenous, Paleo, Pre-Adamite, Autochthon, etc in their documents to prove that is who they are not dealing with specifics and history on who they really are. Nether do they understand the language and information of what Prophet Noble Drew Ali was stating in chapters 45 and 47 in our Moorish Holy Koran and questions 12, 13, 14, 30-32 in the 101 Questions. Those listed above only “describes” the Moor and Moorish Americans, and does not have any holistic saving power; so the de facto jurisdiction will be able to find a way to get jurisdiction or break treaties.

As it has been and will continue to be stated at the beginning of each Sunday Conference Call, the UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) is a trap. By studying the timeline, one will see that that the UCC was formed to counteract what Prophet Noble Drew Ali have done, which is take hold of the land, resources and we have the mandate to prove it. The UCC was birthed in 1942 and crystallized in 1952. It is “fashioned” after or ancient laws and customs of trade and commerce that Moors was the originator of, however Moors do not have to use it in this day and time for our salvation. Also using the UCC and UCC-1 filing to secure your STRAWMAN is committing a fraud. It was explained earlier who the true Creditor is, Prophet Noble Drew Ali and when Moors and those unnaturalized (see Black’s Law Dictionary 9th edition for definition of unnaturalized) come under the Temple and Moorish Government they will be protected and under the umbrella of the true Creditor.

Dealing with the United Nations Declarations, what Moors have to ask themselves; do the United Nation have a Charter? The answer is yes. Then ask yourself, if the Moorish Science Temple have a Charter, when you compare them, which language supersedes the other? It will be clear that the Moorish Science Temple Charter is higher than the United Nation’s Charter, so why are Moors using the Declarations under the United Nation Charter? It will be clear Moors do not know or understand the “National” side of the movement or what Prophet Noble Drew Ali brought. In international law, Charters are seen as treaties, in that situation, the Moorish Science Temple charter in its language supersedes every treaty. So as we can see Prophet Noble Drew Ali has closed up every loop hole; and when he said (paraphrasing) “I have the government, I just need the people”, it will be clear Moors just have to get in line and under his protection.

Those misguided Moors and individuals who wish to Expatriate themselves only think that means that they are leaving from under the jurisdiction of the de facto jurisdiction. However Expatriation means:

(Black’s Law Dictionary 4th Edition Revised page 685)

EXPATRIATION – “The voluntary act of abandoning one’s country, and becoming the citizen or subject of another. The Voluntary renunciation or abandonment of nationality and allegiance.” So not only is one leaving the foreign jurisdiction, they are leaving all jurisdiction, laws of the land, basically naked politically and nationality wise. If you listen to our Sunday Conference Calls and recording, and register to be a student in our Moorish School of Law and History you will see that we do not teach or promote such act or actions. We teach what our founder has highlighted and can be confirm in research that we are part and parcel of the “said” government, we strive to be better Citizens and True American Citizens, and take part in a process of law known as naturalization under the Hebrew codes that enable us to comeback into the Constitutional fold as our founder, Prophet Noble Drew Ali has stated, and with study, it also includes coming back into the Union and no longer be in rebellion as highlighted by one of the four Proclamations of Abraham Lincoln called “Proclamation Of Amnesty and Reconstruction”. So we, of the:

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The Divine and National Movement of North America, Inc; #13
The Moorish American National Republic

is in no way against this said government, we are part and parcel of the said government, we are for enforcing the laws to save the nation, upholding Constitutional Law, Proclamations of Abraham Lincoln, 13th Amendment with 20 sections, teaching law and adhering to what our founder, Prophet Noble Drew Ali has stated in his warning and Act 5 of our Divine Constitution and By-Laws:

“I, hereby inform all members that they must end all radical agitating speeches while at work, in their homes or on the streets. We are for peace and not destruction. Stop flashing your cards at Europeans; it causes confusion. Remember your card is for your salvation. Failure to obey these orders will be of severe consequences. We are Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom and Justice, and when these principles are violated, justice must take its course. Any member or group of members who hold malicious feelings toward the temple or the Prophet, or violate the divine covenant of the Moorish Movement will receive their reward from Allah for their unjust deeds. All true Moors will, and must obey the law as laid down to them by their Prophet.” – Divine Warning by Prophet Noble Drew Ali

“This organization of the Moorish Science Temple of America is not to cause any confusion or to overthrow the laws and constitution of the said government but to obey hereby” – Act 5 of the Moorish Divine Constitution and By-Laws

Our Grand Sheik, J. Bratton-Bey has stated on the public Sunday Conference Calls many times that the

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The Moorish American National Republic

is not mixed up with the other Temples, groups or so called sovereign citizen movements, and that Federal Government agencies have contacted us, and we have contacted them, where we have been set aside and clearly distinct from such lawless activity, which also includes communicating with Homeland Security. We therefore encourage and suggest that all Moors, those of our people who are not naturalized under the authority of Prophet Noble Drew Ali and the laws of freedom to please listen to our Sunday Conference Calls and recordings, the information can be found on the left hand side of the page; also register for Citizenship and for the Moorish School of Law classes to be properly educated on our movement, law and history and send in your question to be answered at moorishtownhall@gmail.com

If not, the worst is yet to come as our Prophet Noble Drew Ali has stated. Below, you can read an article posted on a website called Southern Poverty Law Center where you can see how serious the local, State and Federal agencies are taking the situation of Moors being confused and wrapped up in so called sovereign citizens actions – Two North Carolina Detectives Build Program for Dealing with ‘Sovereign Citizens’