Muhammad, who favored the creation of a separate school district for black students in Dallas, also led a series of angry, confrontational disruptions of school board meetings in that city. In May 1996 one such meeting was cancelled after NBPP members threatened to attend with loaded weapons.
On September 5, 1998, Muhammad keynoted the so-called “Million Youth March” in Harlem, New York, an event that drew about 6,000 people. The major theme of the day was summed up by one of the rally’s co-organizers Erica Ford, who told the crowd, “The police are our [blacks’] number one enemy, brothers and sisters. ... We can’t get these people off our backs.” NBPP leader Malik Zulu Shabazz concurred, “Police brutality is out of control, and we must unite to defeat them, and destroy them by any means necessary.” Muhammad himself encouraged the attendees to physically attack police officers before leaving the premises. “Get to whaling on their asses today,” he instructed. Some people did in fact throw chairs and bottles at the police.
Muhammad continued his work with NBPP, striving to foster interracial hatred and ultimately a full-blown race war in the United States, until he died unexpectedly of a brain aneurysm on February 17, 2001, at the age of 53, in Atlanta.
I wonder if that sudden brain aneurysm was 9mm induced.
Anyway, he’ll start no more fires.