Orgena
Orgena Tells true History Of Afro-Americans
Reprinted from the December, 1960 (Vol. 1, No. 4) edition of Muhammad
Speaks Newspaper (Page 6)
NEW YORK, N.Y.- A capacity crowd jammed New York’s Town Hall recently
just off Broadway for a three-hour musical performance of the Moslem
spectacular, ORGENA, featuring a star-studded Boston cast,led on by
Boston Moslem Minister Louis X.
The unique musical, which had already been a smash-hit success in three
previous appearances at Boston’s famous John Hancock Hall, was a stirring
two-act dramatization of the history, the plight. and the “Prophetic
Salvation” of the American Negro,The first act, done in a moving and
dramatic style, depicted the Negro during his days in Africa. Employing a
minimum of scenery and a maximum of emotional impact, the Moslems taught
that the Negro once had a happy, prosperous, cultured and highly refined
civilization until the white colonial powers robbed him of his name,
language, and his history. Some of the scenes, especially those depicting
the African’s enslavement and his trip to America ” in chains” (known in
history as the “middle passage”) were particularly graphic.
Following this the unique musical production dealt with the “deceptive
emancipation” of the slaves by dramatizing points to prove that the Negro
was not really set free. In stead, according to the theme of the play,
the Negro was transplanted, cut off, set away from his own culture.
Ignorance, poverty, immorality and crime among Negroes was the result.
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ELIJAH!
In the first act finale, several wayward Negroes, played effectively and
sometime humorously by Moslems, lined the stage as evidence of the
Negro’s emotional and spiritual decadence, The teachings of Messenger
Elijah Muhammad were then offered as the “Only Way Out” as a quartette of
talented young Boston Moslems gave a rousing rendition of ” Come On And
Follow Elijah,” and the wayward Negroes changed their immoral ways and
their lives immediately took on new meaning. The resurrection of the
“dead” Negroes, coupled with the infectiously bouncy music had the
audience on their feet as the first act curtain fell.
After a ten-minute intermission, the Moslems presented the second act, a
diminutive version of the well-known Moslem play: THE TRIAL. As in its
longer version, the Saturday night rendition put the enslavers on trail
for their crimes against darker people. The verdict was guilty.
DR. M.L. KING
Mr. Muhammad’s Boston Moslems are an exceptionally gifted group. they act
well, have remarkable sense of timing and humor and, more than once,
achieved great dramatic impact. The songs of Minister Louis X were most
effective. Even those who flinched when ORGENA took open slaps at the
NAACP, the Urban League, and Dr. Martin Luther King, agreed that the
affair was carried out with dignity.
CARNEGIE HALL
According to the Moslems, the New York showing of ORGENA was the first of
several out-of-town performances. The production is slated Philadelphia’s
Town Hall on November 12th and a return engagement in New York at
Carnegie Hall on Christmas Eve!
The overflow Broadway crowd, about three-fourths of whom seemed to have
been Moslems, exuded warmth and great receptivity. That the Moslems were
able to pack the Broadway house despite the fact that scores of their New
York followers were already enroute to Atlanta Georgia for a rally there
is another indication that the organization must be reckoned with as a
potent factor in the American community.
Words of Comfort, Hope and Promise from the Holy Quran
Thou wilt not find a people who believe in Allah and the Latter Day
loving those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, even though they be
their fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their kinfolk. These
are they into whose hearts He has impressed faith, and strengthened them
with a Spirit from Himself, and He will cause them to enter Gardens
wherein flow rivers,abiding therein. Allah is well-pleased with them and
they are well-pleased with Him. These are Allah’s party. Now surely it is
Allah’s party who are the successful. (Quran 58:22)
Shall I inform you upon whom the devils descend? They descend upon every
lying, sinful one…they give ear, and most of them are liars. (Holy
Quran 26:221)
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Reprinted from the December, 1960 (Vol. 1, No. 4) edition of Muhammad
Speaks Newspaper (Page 7)
They Fell From This…
To This
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Reprinted from the December, 1960 (Vol. 1, No. 4) edition of Muhammad
Speaks Newspaper (Page 8)
Highlights From “ORGENA”
Victims of trickery,our forefathers enter the “Good Ship Jesus”, the
slave ship piloted by Sir John Hawkins.
A party has He guided, adn another party…perdition is justly their due.
Surely
they took the devils for their friends instead of Allah, and they think
that
they are rightly guided. (Quran 7:30)
Let not the Believers take the disbelievers for friends rather than
believers.
And whoever does this has no connection with Allah…except that you guard
yourself against them, guarding carefully. And Allah cautions you against
His
retribution. And to Allah is the eventual coming . ( Quran 3:27)
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Reprinted from the December, 1960 (Vol. 1, No. 4) edition of Muhammad
Speaks Newspaper (Page 9)
Highlights From “ORGENA”
Punch drunk prize fighter
The reefer smoker
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Reprinted from the December, 1960 (Vol. 1, No. 4) edition of Muhammad
Speaks Newspaper (Page 10)
“The Trial” Becomes Broadway Smash Hit
THE TRIAL: this is an original play produced and directed by Minister
Louis X of Muhammad’s Boston temple of Islam. The entire cast consists of
members of the Boston temple of Islam.
The text of this play is taken from the past and present living history.
Because of its deep seeded truth even the most hardened onlooker soon
succumbs and yields to the impact that stems from the intense acting of
the players. They are not merely acting, but living and reliving the
cause and effects of the very sad state of affairs in world conditions
today.
In the play, the source or root of the earth’s miserable plight, the
confusion, turmoil, prejudices, hatreds, was and bloodshed… is slowly
and firmly pinpointed toward Mr. White-Man…THE DEVIL!
The young followers of Messenger Elijah Muhammad produced this play, “The
Trial,” to enlighten and warn the general public that The Day of the Real
Trial, when God Himself will sit as the Supreme Judge, is near ar hand.
What is now being acted on the stage is only living history, but the Day
of Retribution is fast approaching and the REAL JUDGE is about to begin
the REAL TRIAL of the REAL DEVIL.
First witness against Mr. White -Man is the African, Jomo Nkrumo, who
bitterly describes how Mr. White-Man came to his land, and after winning
the friendship of his people by posing as misssionaries, he forced
millions of them aboard slaveships, and then plundered Africa of its
natural resources of gold, diamonds, oil ,…plus thousands of square
miles of the most fertile soil…
Second witness for the prosecution is Charlie Strongbow, the American
Indian. Seething with rage and ill-disguised contempt,Strongbow is
restrained several times by court attendants to keep him from strangling
Mr. White-Man. Angry and hostile toward the defendant, Strongbow
describes how his people were living in peace and contentment before this
white man came to North America. With deep rooted resentment he tells how
Mr. White-Man killed off millions of Indians by slowly poisoning their
water with arsenic…destroying the buffalo which was vital to them for
food, clothing and shelter…”he came to us also with the bible and the
cross, posing as our great white brother from the East’…filled us with
his whiskey, destroyed over 26 million Indians, then stole this entire
continent…and herded us into reservations to live cooped up like
cattle.”
Final, star witness against Mr. White-Man is the American Negro, Thelma
X. Griffen. The audience listens in awe as she sobbingly describes how
“our people were kidnapped, brought to America in chains at the bottom of
the slaveships by Mr. White-Man, who then stripped us of all knowledge
concerning our own history, culture, language, flag, and even of our God
and our own Religion…raping and ravishing our women at will, beating
and lynching our men.. we were made to pull plows like horses… and he
sold us at the auction block like cattle…”
First witness for the defense is social-climbing Miss Sadie Culpepper,
member of the NAACP, URBAN LEAGUE, and a college graduate…but who is
presently working as a maid on a sleep-in job for some “real good white
folks,” because despite her college degrees, no other position is
presently available to her. But she is satisfied for the time being with
what she has because the NAACP, URBAN LEAGUE and her “white boss lady”
have promised her that if she is patient she will get a better position
as soon as they win their long struggle for “integration.”
The audience is really brought to its feet by Bishop Greene, chief
witness for Mr. White-Man, and easily one of the main stars of the play.
Depicting a typical Negro clergyman, smug and full of self-righteousness,
he was just another drunken bum on the Bowery when the good Mr. White-Man
found him and sent him to the Theological Seminary, and it was there he
found out about his other good white friend “Jesus” and now he is a big
shot Bishop over several churches, he is a respectable and “influential”
member of his community, has homes on Sugar Hill and in Westchester, two
cadillacs and plenty of money… and all because of this good Mr.
White-Man. But the goodly Bishop is soon brought to task by the clever
prosecutor as to “how” he acquired such wealth adn position, and at
“whose exspense.” The prosecutor then succeeds in deflating the
“religious bag of wind” as the defense attorney and the Supreme Judge
look on.
The play reaches a stirring climax when the African-Asian Jury declares
Mr. White-Man “guilty, with no recommendation for mercy.” Admitting that
he is THE REAL DEVIL, Mr.White-Man, defiant to the end brags how he had
successfullydeceived the entire African-Asian World for the past 6000
years…and having so thoroughly robbed them all deaf, dumb, and blind,
his real identity would still be a secret if Mr. Muhammad had not been
divinely missioned by the Supreme Being to uncloak him.
UNMASKED DEVIL
The UNMASKED DEVIL then taunts the Negroes for having willingly followed
him, telling them not to blame him for their troubles but to blame
themselves. He reminds them that their present plight is really their own
fault, for he had no real power over them. He had never compelled them;
he only called and they came.
With shouts of “kill the beast, kill the beast,” ringing in his ears the
audience goes wild as the shrieking white devil, MR. White-Man, is led
away by two huge African-Asian guards to be cast into the LAKE OF
FIRE…and, as the goodly Bishop Greene slinks away looking for a hole to
crawl into.
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Reprinted from the December, 1960 (Vol. 1, No. 4) edition of Muhammad
Speaks Newspaper (Page 11)
Moments From
“THE TRIAL”
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Reprinted from the December, 1960 (Vol. 1, No. 4) edition of Muhammad
Speaks Newspaper (Page 12)
Moments From
“THE TRIAL”
“Confess!”
The man of sin about to be unveiled.
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Reprinted from the December, 1960 (Vol. 1, No. 4) edition of Muhammad
Speaks Newspaper (Page 12)
Moments From
“THE TRIAL”
The Climax!!
“Yes I am the Devil, and this trial has forced me to admit it…but I
would still be under the veil if Muhammad had not unmasked me”
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