WAS THE FOUNDER OF THE NATION OF ISLAM ☪ A WHITE GUY FROM OREGON⁉️

⁣Sliding into home plate, as it were, for my Black History Month episode on the last day of February. Which is fitting, I guess, since this episode is about someone who, despite making his mark on black American history, surprisingly wasn't Black at all.
Where do YOU think Wallace Fard Muhammad disappeared off to?
San Francisco, where he bided his time selling jeans and finally made enough money to finance a little movie called The Room - / membership
Yakub's secret lair on Patmos, where he resumed his role as professor of Tricknology - https://x.com/parsons_tor
Back to Oregon, where he hijacked a plane, demanded $200k, and then parachuted out never to be seen again - / mrsluds
He's been possessing Thimble the Doll all along - / tor.in.oregon
SOURCES & FURTHER INFO
Most of this video was sourced from the book “Finding W.D. Fard: Unveiling the Identity of the Founder of the Nation of Islam” by John Andrew Morrow, ISBN 9-781527-598751
On the prospect of him having a son: https://bliis.org/research/did-w-d-fa...
More info about Naka Nakane: https://www.moosejawtoday.com/local-n...
Romani in Oregon (a tangent, but a fascinating one): https://www.ohs.org/oregon-historical...
Even more of a tangent - someone really did once design a roller coaster that's supposed to kill you. It has never been built. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthana...
Yuba City's Punjabi-Mexican community, whose food my dad grew up eating: https://www.eater.com/2019/4/23/18305...
Tales of the tamale men (focuses on one particular guy in Wyoming; his last name was Khan, but so were most of the tamale men, so the odds that he was a relative of Fard are low but not zero): https://removepaywalls.com/https://ww...
And I'll be honest - knowing Oregon, if I found out that the leader of an explicitly anti-white religion was actually white himself, my first guess for where he's from would probably be Oregon.
Source: ⁣https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIGceyJICwo

⁣AI Overview

Wallace Fard Muhammad, the founder of the Nation of Islam, is a figure with a mysterious past, and the question of whether he was a "white guy from Oregon" is a matter of debate
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Evidence supporting the idea that Fard was a "white guy from Oregon" includes:
FBI records: In the 1960s, the FBI identified Fard as Wallie Dodd Ford, a white ex-convict from San Quentin prison, who was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1891.
San Quentin prison records: According to San Quentin records, Wallie D. Ford was born in Portland, Oregon, on February 25, 1891, the white son of parents born in Hawaii.
Oregon connections: Before moving to Detroit, Fard operated a food cart and later a restaurant in Oregon and California.

However, other evidence and theories suggest different origins for Fard:
Nation of Islam tradition: The Nation of Islam traditionally holds that Fard was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
South Asian connections: Some scholars argue that Fard may have been from the Indian subcontinent (India-Pakistan, Afghanistan), citing his connections to the Ahmadiyya Mosque and the use of Pakistani names.
Other claimed backgrounds: Some sources claim he was a white man from New Zealand, Wikipedia a Turk, or of other diverse origins like Syrian, Moroccan, Greek, or Jewish.
Lies and multiple identities: Fard was known to use many aliases and reportedly provided different origin stories to different people, making it difficult to definitively determine his true identity and background.

In summary:
While the FBI and certain historical records suggest that Wallace Fard Muhammad might have been a white man from Oregon, this claim is disputed by the Nation of Islam and other researchers who propose different origins for him. The true identity of the founder of the Nation of Islam remains uncertain and is a subject of ongoing discussion and investigation.

⁣Origin of Wallace Fard Muhammad - Wikipedia