There is nothing preventing a white person from obtaining NoI materials. They are sold on the streets in New York and Newark. I stop and chat with the NoI people: they are surprised to see me, but are always correct and friendly. They may hate me, but they are happy to sell me a copy of their paper. Maybe they have a quota to sell.
The teachings of the Nation of Islam are looney, but I have heard some of the same points (like reparations) made by "respectable" minority spokesmen.
I have met Wallace D. Mohammed, and have heard him speak. He is a mild-mannered, modest person. He actually has a much bigger following than Farakhan, but you notice whom the media favors most with their attention! In his talk, Wallace D. even made fun of some of his father's beliefs, and the audience laughed heartily.
I lived a few blocks away from Louis Farrakhan, and occassionally chatted with the Bow-Tie brigade that would hang out in front of the Hyde Park Starbucks. Extremely polite, much more so than the black Israelites.
bull. When lined up at a stop light they ignore you here in the area, and if you are driving by they look the other way. They hold the paper up for people to see as they walk by and cover it up or fold it down when they go by a person that isn't of color. Maybe it is different here. It is the same with the purfume guys that are selling for them.