These wackos have always fascinated me. Someone mentioned earlier that while the NOI has become largely irrelevant in more recent years, that had Kiwi Farms (and any type of social media) existed in the 90s, these fuckers would almost certainly have had a lengthy thread. And one particular NOI member of would have been lolcow material.
Meet Shahrazad Ali. A woman with a penchant for Afrocentric clothing including matching "crowns" which look mysteriously like KFC buckets covered in fabric (despite Elijah Muhammad's direct instructions not to wear Afrocentric styles), she published a controversial book in 1989 called "The Blackman's Guide to Understanding the Black woman". In this book that contains no bibliography or research (when called on it, she would claim that the act of citing sources was a tool of the white devil and that she was not obligated to follow his rules), Sister Ali characterizes the American Black female as a promiscuous, foul-mouthed, drug-addicted, money-hungry bitch who emasculates the Blackman on the daily. She urges the Blackman to take back control of his woman; one method she suggests (among several) is to give her "an open-handed slap in the mouth". Needless to say, the media jumped on this quote and soon Ali was a household name. Many Black-owned book outlets across the country refused to carry the book and some even burned it. Such controversy led to several talk show appearances, particularly Phil Donahue and Sally Jessy Raphael (isn't it funny how these people hate whitey but won't think twice about using white people's programs to spread their bullshit?). She was also parodied on In Living Color.
Donahue (September 20, 1990) Notice what happens towards the end when an audience member mentions something about Islam. You’ll have to put it back to the beginning to see the whole thing.
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Sally Jessy Raphael (summer 1990) This one is broken up into four parts. Sadly, they cut out a segment in the middle where a crazy Afrocentric named Mildred Penn Lee (the fat woman in the blue dress) confronted Ali and told her she didn’t think Ali had even written the book herself.
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Geraldo Rivera (1990) Another four-parter.
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To be fair, Sister Ali did publish a companion guide for Blackwomen about the Blackman in 1992, but it didn’t create nearly the same level of backlash as the first one. Then in 1994, she published “Are You Still a Slave?”, a bizarre book containing a fifty-question true or false test to let the readers see just how many behaviors allegedly passed down from slavery they subconsciously practice today. The gist of it is basically that any positive interaction a black person has with a white person is because they subconsciously are kissing whitey’s ass to curry favor.
Is this still you?? *TURN UP THE VOLUME*
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In Living Color parody (starts at 8:14)
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She pretty much fell off the radar after that. She reappeared briefly on Dr. Drew On-Call on HLN in 2013 where she espoused similar bullshit before again fading back into obscurity.
