European Student Regional Minister of the Nation of Islam (NOI), Brother Hakeem Muhammad, highlighted the global impact of the Million Man March. He remembered joining other people from across the country in a hall via satellite to internationalize the march — Farrakhan had told him to stay in the United Kingdom.
“The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is the greatest brother we could ever wish for. He has a divine side to him,” Muhammad said. “It was his global coming out to the world. A light had been raised in the United States of America — the spiritual light counterbalancing the wickedness that comes out of the United States of America, such as the U.S.’s foreign policy that had been adversely affecting the masses of the people.”
Muhammad, who has been affiliated with the NOI for 39 years, asserts that divine wisdom holds significance only when it is applied in practice. He would be disappointed to see Farrakhan’s words fall on deaf ears.
“I have a responsibility to ensure that the young generation — those who are being born now and those who are infants, those who weren’t around during that time — I have a responsibility to make sure that this event never gets lost and written out of history,” he said.
“I have to work toward personalizing that great historical event of unity displayed amongst us — the greatest demonstration and display of unity amongst us as Black men in the Western Hemisphere for the last 400 years, since our fathers were kidnapped from Africa. I believe that was the greatest springboard for us to ultimately take charge and responsibility for our future.”