THEM_on_Prophet_Muha.. - Dr. Wesley Muhammad

Writing in the Pittsburgh Courier <strong>THEM</strong> said:
Muhammad found the stone out of place and had it put back
into its proper place. This act of Muhammad shows that he was
not the fulfiller of the sign which the stone represents, but rather a
prototype of that which the stone represents. 42
A prototype is “an original model on which something is
patterned; archetype; an individual that exhibits the essential
features of a later type.” 43 Though not impossible, it is difficult
to imagine a Caucasian (“white man”), no matter how
singularly righteous, being the prototype of the last black
Messenger of the Black God, Allah. The Prophet of Arabia
is also prototype of the Last Messenger in that both were
sent to their own black communities (black Arabs and black
Americans), in contrast to the prophets prior to Prophet
Muhammd who were sent to the white race.
If this is the case, why then did <strong>THEM</strong> emphasize the
‘whiteness’ of the Prophet as distinct from the ‘blackness’ of
the unhewn ‘stone’ of the last Day? I don’t know. However,
this too is perfectly consistent with Classical Arabic
Tradition.
Above we quoted the tradition according to which God
gave the Arabs (and the Semites in general) a black
complexion that was luminous and free of blemish, a
complexion called in Arabic ‘white’ (al-udma wa l-bay§∙),
but to Africans he gave only a black, we might say unhewn
42 “The History of Jesus,” A6.
43 Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary Tenth Edition (Springfield,
Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 2001) s.v.
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