Eight Videos of Nation Of Islam (NOI) Drill Teams From 2011 To 2023 (with information & comments)

Jaleel Muhammad, Feb 26, 2018

Saturday, February 24, 2018 // Chicago, IL

This was the 40th Anniversary of leadership by The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan for the Nation of Islam after the departure of The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The East Coast Regional Drill Team created a drill showcase of both the FOI and Jr. FOI honoring The Minister for his dedicated service and obedience.

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases eight YouTube videos of Nation of Islam drills.

This post also includes selected comments from one of these videos' discussion threads as well as a Final Call 2019 article excerpt and other information about the Nation of Islam and its drills.

The content of this post is presented for religious, cultural, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are associated with these Nation of Islam drills and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.  
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This post is part of an ongoing pancocojams series about African American drill teams.

Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/09/nation-of-islam-drill-team-videos.html for a 2012 pancocojams post about the Nation Of Islam drill teams.

Also, click  the tab below or google pancocojams: African American church drill teams to find other pancocojams posts on this subject.

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ARTICLE EXCERPT ABOUT THE NATION OF ISLAM DRILLS
From https://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/National_News_2/Annual-Saviours-Day-drill-competition-excites-the-crowd.shtml "Annual Saviours’ Day drill competition excites the crowd"
by Anisah Muhammad, last update Feb 20, 2019 
"CHICAGO—The Nation of Islam’s annual Saviours’ Day Drill Competition took place February 16 at the McCormick Place here.
"Drill, as described by the Nation of Islam, is the exercise of the Gods. Its purpose is to instill discipline and to teach the idea of moving as a unit.

Like previous years, the competition started with students from Muhammad University of Islam praying in Arabic. Rapper Neelam Hakim followed with a performance of her song “I’ll Be the King.”

The competition was co-hosted by Ilia Rashad Muhammad from Memphis and Qadir Hakim, also known by his rap name “Goalden Chyld.”

“This is no anger type of competition. You’re looking at different brothers and sisters from different cities, but they’re all one team,” Ilia Muhammad said.

The categories by which teams were judged were military posture, creativity, precision, degree of difficulty, appearance and the voice of the drill instructor.

Judges consisted of student MGT and FOI captains, student ministers and former drill champions.

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The Jr. MGT of the Nation of Islam were the first up to perform. Teams from Detroit, Miami, Chicago and Atlanta lit up the crowd.

Teams have three minutes to perform. At two minutes and 45 seconds, a warning is given. If they go past the three-minute mark, they are penalized.

Jr. FOI teams from Houston, Los Angeles and Miami were next on the stage, followed by MGT from Richmond, Va., and Detroit.

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The Vanguard is a highly contested category every year. Teams from Newark, Atlanta and Chicago performed their drill routine. Following them were FOI from Detroit, New York and Chicago.

After the drill executions, martial artists demonstrated during intermission, the period when the judges deliberate about winners. The intermission also included a rap cypher featuring Goalden Chyld, AK47 and Kenny Muhammad, also known as the Nation of Islam “Human Beat Box.”

First place winners were Chicago Jr. MGT, Houston Jr. FOI, Detroit MGT, Chicago Vanguard and Chicago FOI.

Ruqaya Muhammad competed on the Chicago Vanguard team. In the past, she competed as a Jr. MGT.

“I got on the Vanguard team. This my first time drilling with them. I was very nervous because I’ve never drilled with a hat on,” she said.

She said when she’s on the stage, nothing goes through her head.

“I literally zone everything out,” she said.

Lakeisha Muhammad from Houston was attracted to the energy and the spirit of all of the drillers.

“Just to see them gave me tears to know that we are here to push forward and represent the Minister and let the Minister know we got his back. He got some warriors,” she said."...
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This article also includes photographs of the winning teams in this competition.

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COMMENTS FROM THE DISCUSSION THREAD FOR THE FIRST VIDEO THAT IS EMBEDDED IN THIS PANCOCOJAMS POST

Numbers are added for referencing purposes only. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd3Pl29fkFg&t=52s

1. Lany Ken, 2018
" "Can you stand the test, 40 years no rest, our leader is the best" BARS!"

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2. Brown Knoo, 2020
"Real BARS"
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In the context of this comment, the word "bars" is a high compliment that refers to the creativity of the lyrics hitting the beats. The word "bars" as a compliment is closely associated with Rap/High Hop. Click https://pinkwafer.club/2022/04/11/what-is-a-bar-in-rap/ for more information about "bar" particularly in reference to Rap/Hip Hop. 

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3. Michelle Hunter, 2018
"Stepping with the NOI in Word and Deed Leadership of Justice for All.👏 Bravo"

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4. George T Davis, 2018
"I like how the new generation FOI are doing there thing im looking looking forward towards the saviours Day 2019 drill competition"

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5. 3089280288, 2019
"Modern step s show with hardly any basic commands"

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6. L E, 2018
"Way better and more significant than the Greek fraternities."

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7. David Quinn, 2022
"That's exactly what I was thinking!"

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8. Qiydaar Yanaan, 2018
"That's some steppin there"

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9. Curtis Knight, 2022
"That's Military drill, not steppin, we don't step, we perform complex military drill maneuvers."

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10. Ahmad Majid, 2020
"One of the best exhibitions of all I’ve seen. 🤲🏿✨💪🏿"

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11. MEANMUG713, 2019
"Jaleel Muhammad this isn’t the Islam prophet Muhammad pbuh taught us

Female and women together laughing and clapping, no segregation; where in the Quran or Hadith did it say you should meet up and do funny soldier dances"

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12. Jaleel Muhammad
"Zuljanah Raspect First of all, the proper term is drilling(the exercise of the gods). This instills disciple, unity, submission, and precision. Secondly, during prayer and mosque meetings genders are separated. Not all occasions call for separation but we do show respect at all times. Thirdly, where in the Quran does it forbid what I just stated? Which is what you see here."

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13. Aziatic B1ack, 2023
"This ain't a dance! This is a show of discipline. Peace."

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14. Darlene Rahaman, 2021
"@MEANMUG713  The "dances" are not a dance. Plus, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has women to speak from the podium. There are female ministers. If your Islam is so correct, then how come there are no female Imams, ministers in your way of Islam? TALK TO ME!"

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ADDITIONAL SHOWCASE VIDEOS

These videos are presented in chronological order based on the video's publishing date..

Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - 2012 Saviour's Day Drill Competition/Chicago FOI

jewels4 dmind, Apr 5, 2012
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Here's information about the meaning of "Saviour's Day" in the Nation of Islam:

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saviours%27_Day#:~:text=Saviours'%20Day%20is%20a%20holiday,was%20established%20by%20Elijah%20Muhammad.

"Saviours' Day is a holiday of the Nation of Islam commemorating the birth of its founder, Master Wallace Fard Muhammad (W. D. Fard), officially stated to be February 26, 1877. It was established by Elijah Muhammad.

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Louis Farrakhan reconvened Saviours' Day in 1981 when he reestablished the Nation of Islam under his leadership.[4] Under Farrakhan's leadership, the annual commemoration has become a three-day gathering with speakers, seminars and workshops"..
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"Fruit of Islam" (FOI) is the name of the male Nation of Islam drill teams.
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Here are some comments from this video's discussion thread (WARNING- One of these comments includes the pejorative referent "hymie") Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.

1.Arvence Muhammad, 2021
"I miss those days. We had so much fun performing this routine. It was so emotional and spiritual. All praise is due to Allah! 🙏🏾"

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2. 24Adrian24, 2021
"Crisp, sharp, movement!  With great discipline comes great success!"

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3. Charles Coderre, 2022
"success at what?"

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4. 24Adrian24, 2022
"Anything."

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5. Charles Coderre, 2022
"@24Adrian24  When I was about 9 yrs old (early '60s) I wanted to join the boy/cub scouts. My dad no way-I fought in WW2 against a nation that had little boys marching around in uniforms (hitler youth). Why is being being repeated today? BTW does "anything" include nuclear physics, neurosurgery, quantum mechanics, anything useful at all?"

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6. 24Adrian24, 2022
"Hitler's youth praised Hitler.  These young brothers praise God.  Huge difference.  Anything means everything."

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #3 - Nation Of Islam Drill Teams

Creative Truth Seeker, Feb 18, 2013

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #4 - Detroit M.G.T and G.C.C/ Vanguard at mosque #1

Donna Muhammad, Mar 4, 2017
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Here's an excerpt about the Nation Of Islam's MGT and GCC

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Girls_Training#:~:text=Muslim%20Girls%20Training%20%26%20General%20Civilization,to%20the%20Fruit%20of%20Islam.
"Muslim Girls Training & General Civilization Class (MGT & GCC) is the all-female training program of the Nation of Islam. It is often considered to be the counterpart for girls and women to the Fruit of Islam.

History

The Muslim Girls Training & General Civilization Class is one of the institutions established in 1933 by Wallace Fard Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam.[1] He also established the University of Islam schools and the Fruit of Islam in that year before vanishing in 1934.[2] The classes were developed to teach domestic duties like cooking and nutrition, sewing, cleaning, housekeeping, child-rearing, religious instruction and the role of women in Muslim life and even personal hygiene and self-defense. Classes are generally held at least once a week. [3]"

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #5 - Drill Competition Saviours' Day 2011 Part 1

The Official Final Call Inc. Store House of Truth, Feb 8, 2018

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #6 - Drill Competition Saviours' Day 2012 Part 3

The Official Final Call Inc. Store House of Truth, Feb 5, 2018
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Here is a comment exchange from this video's discussion thread:

1. Ms. Prissy. 2019
"Sorry for my lack of knowing, but where or when are these drills used? Do they just do it for saviors day?"

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2. Naajia M., 2020
"Don't apologize, thank you for asking. Drill is the exercise of the Gods, it teaches you to hear and obey and is also a form of military training. During Saviours' Day, we (in the Nation of Islam) do have a drill competition but this is not just something we do during Saviours' Day.  We do drill exhibitions for events in the community and as overall exercise to practice hearing and obeying just like other militaries. The Nation of Islam is not an organization, its absolute military."

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #7 -Youth Sunday Drill 4/21/19

Dinand Muhammad. Apr 21, 2019

Jr. MGT Drill
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Here's a comment from this YouTube video's discussion thread:
Islamic Shinobi. 2023

"To those who dont know what this is, the NOI drills to train/prepare themselves (I mean OURselves. Junior FOI here. >:D to listen and take instructions. Now there's just something about the THUNDER that drilling that people love, now we have drill competitions, and shows. These sistas right here, they did REAL good! Why is Atlanta never mentioned with how outstanding they are? 😅I wish I could drill like that instead of the basics. SOMEBODY needs to host junior FOI class where im from, cause I dont want anything to be overwhelming when I turn 16 and register as an actual FOI.😅

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #8 -  2023 Saviours' Day Drill Competition - Los Angeles FOI WEST POINT - February 26, 2023

OGMFG TV, Mar 3, 2023  #FOI

WEST POINT

We Are The Man Manufacturing Plant

We Stand On The Shoulders Of Giants

This Is Only The Beginning

The Takeover Is Here.

YOUR 2023 SAVIOURS' DAY FOI DRILL TEAM CHAMPIONS!
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Here are some comments from this video's discussion thread:

March 2023

1. Destiny Bomar
"My favorite drill from Saviours’ Day weekend!"

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2. Bilal Manj
"Absolutely Awesome ❤"

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3. THE NATION Youth
"Done deal in the name of the Lord 🤲🏾

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4. Gorrilla T.O.
"Soooldier!"

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April 2023

5. Pamela K Muhammad
"Allah U Akbar! F.O. I."

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6. A K
"Did they win ?"

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7. OGMFG TV
"Absolutely!"

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The Egyptian Word "Hotep" & Its Various Contemporary African American Meanings

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post provides information and comments about the use of the Egyptian word "hotep" in the United States.

The content of this post is presented for etymological, historical, and cultural purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
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Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-black-consciousness-movement-spike.html for the companion post "The Black Consciousness Movement, Spike Lee's Movie "School Daze" & The Vernacular Word "Woke""

Also, click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/02/excerpts-from-online-articles.html for a related pancocojams post on the word "alafia".

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THE STANDARD MEANING OF THE WORD "HOTEP"
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotephttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotep
"Hotep (ḥtp) is an Egyptian word that roughly translates as "to be at peace". It is regularly found in the names of ancient Egyptian figures such as Hotepsekhemwy (ḥr ḥtp-sḫm.wj "the two powers are at peace"), the first ruler of Egypt's Second Dynasty.[1]".....

"Hotep" is a commonly used greeting in Afrocentric circles.[6][7][8]....

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WHAT "AFROCENTRIC MEANS"
The word "afrocentric" is used throughout this post. Here's one definition for that term:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrocentrism
...."In general, Afrocentrism is usually manifested in a focus on African-American culture and the history of Africa, and involves an African diaspora version of an African-centered view of history and culture to portray the achievements and development of Africans who have been marginalized....

What is today broadly called Afrocentrism evolved out of the work of African-American intellectuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but flowered into its modern form due to the activism of African-American intellectuals in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and in the development of African-American Studies programs in universities. In strict terms Afrocentrism, as a distinct academic ideology, reached its peak in the 1980s and 1990s.[3] Today it is primarily associated with Molefi Asante.[4]

Proponents of Afrocentrism support the claim that the contributions of various African people have been downplayed or discredited as part of the legacy of colonialism and slavery's pathology of "writing Africans out of history".[5][6] Critics of Afrocentricity accuse it of being pseudohistory,[7] reactive,[8] and therapeutic.[9]
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I consider myself to be afrocentric. In my opinion, an afrocentric person is one who is interested in the histories, cultures, and present circumstances of people of African descent throughout the world. I believe that a person can be afrocentric without judging cultures of African descent to be better or worse than the cultures of other people who aren't of African descent.

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THE USE OF "HOTEP" IN THE UNITED STATES AS A GREETING/FAREWELL WORD MEANING "PEACE"
My position is that certain afrocentric African Americans began using the Egyptian word "Hotep" around the 1980s as a greeting word meaning "peace" in substitution for the Arabic greeting/farewell word "Salaam" (meaning "Peace") or the use of the English word "Peace" itself. "Salaam" was/is itself a shortened form of and a substitution for the Arabic phrases "As salaam alaikum" (greeting term meaning "Peace be unto you") and "Wa alaikum salaam (response: And unto you peace).

Those Arabic phrases were known to Muslims in the United States and elsewhere, including African Americans who were members of the Moorish Science Temple (i.e. Moorish Americans)* from 1913 on and African American who were members of The Nation Of Islam, especially after 1975.**
*Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish_Science_Temple_of_America for information about the Moorish Science Temple. Here's an excerpt from that article:
..."The Moorish Science Temple of America was incorporated under the Illinois Religious Corporation Act 805 ILCS 110. Timothy Drew, known to its members as Prophet Noble Drew Ali, founded the Moorish Science Temple of America in 1913 in Newark, New Jersey, a booming industrial city. After some difficulties, Ali moved to Chicago, establishing a center there, as well as temples in other major cities. The movement expanded rapidly during the late 1920s. The quick expansion of the Moorish Science Temple arose in large part from the search for identity and context among black Americans at the time of the Great Migration to northern and midwestern cities, as they were becoming an urbanized people".
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**Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam for information about the Nation Of Islam (aka Black Muslims)
"The Nation of Islam, abbreviated as NOI, is an African American political and religious movement, founded in Detroit, Michigan, United States, by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad on July 4, 1930.[2]...

After Fard disappeared in June 1934, the Nation of Islam was led by Elijah Muhammad, who established places of worship (called Temples or Mosques), a school named Muhammad University of Islam, farms, and real estate holdings in the United States and abroad.[9] The Nation has long been a strong advocate of African-American businesses.[10]

There were a number of splits and splinter groups during Elijah Muhammad's leadership, most notably the departure of senior leader Malcolm X to become a Sunni Muslim. After Elijah Muhammad's death in 1975, his son, Warith Deen Mohammed, changed the name of the organization to "World Community of Islam in the West" (and twice more after that), and attempted to convert it to a mainstream Sunni Muslim ideology.

In 1977, Louis Farrakhan rejected Warith Deen Mohammed's leadership and re-established the Nation of Islam on the original model. He took over the Nation of Islam's headquarters Temple, Mosque Maryam (Mosque #2) in Chicago, Illinois"...
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Some African Americans who've never been Moorish Americans and/or who have never been members of the Nation of Islam also have used/use those Arabic greeting terms toward members of those organizations and toward other Muslims. For example, from 1967-1969 I was a member of the afrocentric [Black cultural nationalist] organization the "Committee For Unified Newark (CFUN)" (located in Newark, New Jersey). While I had/have never been Muslim and have never been affiliated with the Moorish Science Temple, I greeted members of those organizations with "As salaam alaikum" and I received the standard Arabic response to my greeting.

For the two years that I was a member of that Newark organization, the "ankh" symbol of life was the only Egyptian cultural artifact that I remember being favored. Women who were members of that organization wore ankh necklaces and rings, and men wore ankh medallions. But Arabic names (or the Swahili forms of those names) were very common among members of that afrocentric group-as my name "Azizi" shows.

Instead of the Arabic greeting/farewell phrases or their shortened forms, members of CFUN (the organization which was led by Amiri Baraka, formerly known as [playwright/poet] Le Roi Jones) used the Swahili greeting phrase "Habari Gani" (We were taught that meant "What's the news?"). The response that we were taught for that greeting was "Njema" ("Fine".) And members of that afrocentric cultural organization used the Swahili farewell term "Tutaonana" (We pronounced this word "too tah oo- NAH nah" and were told it meant "See you later").
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The first time that I can recall hearing the word "hotep" used as a greeting was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania around 1987. The twenty something year old African American man who regularly used that word also gave himself (or was given) the name "Imhotep", after the ancient Egyptian physician, architect, high priest, etc. with that name. Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imhotephttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imhotep for information about Imhotep.

I think that the use of "hotep" by afrocentric African Americans was relatively new in the late 1980s, and I believe that it was confined to a relatively small subset of afrocentric African Americans. That is probably still the case today. However, nowadays in the United States the word "hotep" has taken on additional meanings, and is now considered by some to be a pejorative term.

Before looking at the added uses of the word "hotep", here's an example of that word being used at the end of a sentence to mean "Peace"- and the comment that that used evoked:

From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdpFKMbUv30
molefi mutombo, 2015
"africans were put in scientific incarceration of islamic and christian religions to physical slavery; to get out of these troubles is to rehabilitate african ancestors values, spirituality to inspire us. MAAT is still there, VOODOO is still there. hotep"

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Italian Soldier from WW2, 2017
"Hotep? Isn't that Egyptian? Egyptian people are not black"

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CONTEMPORARY USES OF THE WORD "HOTEP" IN THE UNITED STATES
While the Egyptian word "hotep" continues to be used by some African Americans to mean "peace", some other people are using that word as a diss (insult term/description) on a sub-set of afrocentric African Americans who they consider to be hypocritical, limited in their acceptance of others, and obnoxious in their attitudes and treatment of other people-including other afrocentric people.

Here are some article excerpts about these added meanings/uses for the word "hotep". These articles are given in no particular order and are numbered for referencing purposes only.

Article Excerpt #1:
From http://www.theroot.com/hotep-explained-1790854506 "Hotep, Explained" by Damon Young, 3/05/16
"What does “Hotep” mean?

“Hotep” is an Egyptian word that means “at peace.” It’s basically the Egyptian “What’s good?”

Over the past several decades, the word has also been utilized quite frequently by black Americans who happen to be more Afrocentric. Let me put it this way: If you happen to attend a Juneteenth festival this year and collect business cards from vendors there, at least 17 percent of them will have “Hotep” written somewhere on them....

Over the past decade or so, the working definition of “Hotep” has morphed into an all-encompassing term describing a person who’s either a clueless parody of Afrocentricity... or someone who’s loudly, conspicuously and obnoxiously pro-black but anti-progress....

“Hotep” can be a noun and an adjective. Sometimes in the same sentence! Example: “I didn’t realize he was a Hotep until I friended him on Facebook and he kept sharing Hotep memes on my timeline.” My favorite said, “Why be eye candy when you can be soul food.”

It can also be a verb (“You need to Hotep up your language a bit. More ‘kings’ and ‘queens’ would help”) and an adverb (“She spoke Hotepidly during the community meeting”). OK, maybe the adverb doesn’t quite work, but you get my point.”.....
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“The why be eye candy..." is a caption in a poster of a young Black woman with no makeup wearing a gele [an African headwrap].

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Article Excerpt #2
From http://neguswhoread.com/five-kinds-hotep/
By Michael Harriot, 2016 [?]
"Lately “Hotep” has become the de rigueur term to describe anyone wearing a dashiki or sporting an ankh as a necklace or tattoo. It is slowly morphing from adjective to pejorative, and because it has crossed the invisible bounds of Black jargon into the awareness of White America, there is a need for negrologists* such as myself to lend clarity and nuance to the term, lest we soon see the phrase used in McDonalds commercials and Macklemore songs. The Urban dictionary** (or–as I call it–the “White People’s Guide To Code-Switching”)*** lists three definitions for “Hotep:”

1. “Peace” or “I come in Peace” it is a common greeting with people well versed in true world history.

Hotep brothers & sisters, today we will discuss...

2. Black men who are only concerned about matters of social justice when it comes to black men and have little or no regard for the health and well-being of other members of the black race unless those people can serve to uphold their misogynistic societal ideas.

Hoteps are bitter black men who are somewhat progressive though undereducated on issues of racial prejudice and use pro-black rhetoric to support ideas that are clearly not in the best interest of all black people. These men are typically misogynists who display a particularly high level of disrespect for the thoughts, bodies and experiences of black women, black homosexuals and black children. These men regularly espouse anti-intellectual and anti-scientific beliefs about nutrition, women’s menstrual cycles and child development on social media.

Jay is always so outraged over the oppression of black men, but often posts derogatory memes about black women and gays on social media. I finally had to just stop talking to him because he is such a hotep.

3. One who thinks and talks enlightenment and has no idea what he or she is actually talking about. Found predominately in the African American culture. Hotep thinkers believe almost everything is a conspiracy against the black race while having no actual proof to back up said conspiracy.

“The real George Washington was actually black, but the white man doesn’t want you to know that” -Hotep talk.”....
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Explanations added 2/11/2017
*"negrologists- a tongue and cheek referent for someone who studies African American culture (Note that the referent "Negro" has been retired since the late 1960)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=negrologist
"1.One who studies African-Americans and their culture.

2.Negrology- The study of African-Americans

(not an actual field of study)
See that guy over there? He's a negrologist.

I hear he studies negrology.
#negro #negrology #negrologist #african #africa #african-american #black
by moose_20 February 28, 2007"
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Also note the use of the lower case "n" in the word "negrologist". Contemporary Black writers who purposely spell "Negro" with a lower case "n" are doing so as an insult (i.e. "Lots of people think that Clarence Thomas is a negro". (meaning he acts like an uncle tom.) Given this point, "negrologist" may be a referent to refer to a person who focuses on the less than respectable aspects of Black (i.e. Negro) culture. For the record, I don't consider myself a "negrologist".

** http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hotep now [as of 2/10/2017 at 2:46 PM EST] has four definitions of the word "hotep".

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When Michael Harriot wrote that he calls urban dictionary the "White People’s Guide To Code-Switching”, he means that he (and others) believe that White people search that site for explanations of African American Vernacular English (i.e. Black slang) that we use when we "code-switch" from standard American English to African American Vernacular English. Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching for a Wikipedia article about code switching.

Also, click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/03/puttin-on-black-online-black-talk-code.html and http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/08/down-home-black-talk-in-youtube.html for two posts in the ongoing pancocojams series on African American code-switching.

That description of urban dictionary.com may also be tongue in cheek. But it's important to note that all of the terms and definitions in visitor submitted dictionary site aren't about African American Vernacular English, and some of the definitions for African American Vernacular English terms aren't correct. (Not to mention, that many of the definitions on urban dictionary.com are x rated).

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Article Excerpt #3
From https://bossip.com/1162375/stay-woke-what-is-hotep-twitter-and-why-is-it-so-awful/
Stay Woke: What Is Hotep Twitter And Why Is It So Awful? Posted on July 2, 2015 - By Bossip Staff
"Hotep Twitter is the home of the #StayWoke crowd of men who claim to represent the roots of Africa or whatever…but deep down they display misogynist and homophobic traits. Their statuses make little sense and usually offend more than help. If you’ve never come in contact with one of these Hotep men, consider yourself lucky. Just make sure that you stay aware so you can run for help when they appear. Keep your eye on the Hoteps and #StayWoke*.
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Bossip= Black Gossip

*"woke"= in afrocentric context, a Black person who is woke (awake) is conscious of the realities of oppression, institutional racism, and injustice, particularly as these refer to Black people

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Article Excerpt #4
From https://bossip.com/1162375/stay-woke-what-is-hotep-twitter-and-why-is-it-so-awful/2/
"How to identify Hoteps
“This specimen can usually be found championing for rights of Black men while simultaneously throwing Black women, Black trans persons, Black members of the LGBTQ community or anyone else who is not a Black man under the bus.- The Visibility Project"
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Another pejorative term that is used for "hotep people" (particularly "hotep men") is "Hotep Ni&&a" (with that form of the n word fully spelled out)

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ADDED 2/10/2017
Here's an example of the use of "Peace" at the end of a sentence. This comment is from a YouTube discussion thread for Spike Lee's 1988 movie School Daze and is included in the companion post about the afrocentric use of the word "Woke" whose link is found above:

jojoko64, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg8Oq_Sd3Bw
"Be awoke enough not to allow yourself to repeat history. Division is the fall before destruction, pull folks on all sides together. You are your hope, do not continuously allow yourself to be deceived. Peace!"

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ADDED 2/18/2017
Here's another example of "Hotep" used as a greeting word:
From https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/showthread.php/35439-ALAAFIA-IS-NOT-AN-AFRIKAN-WORD-Nor-Does-It-Mean-Peace
04-13-2007, Kentake
Re: ALAAFIA IS NOT AN AFRIKAN WORD Nor Does It Mean "Peace"
"Hotep!,
Bro.Awotunde asante sana 4 starting this thread. i recently went out 2 dinner w/my cousin 2 this new nigerian restaurant here and i overheard some bros greeting each other w/"Alafia". i must admit i was confused, i heard u and others say b4 dat it is an arab word but then i hear nigerians use it sooooo much i was asking myself ?? it is AMAZING how the Arab culture/language etc. has been SOOOO INTERTWINED AND BASICALLY INTER-MARRIED w/INDIGENOUS AFREEKAN CULTURE/LANGUAGE. it is at the point that WE cannot tell the difference btwn the 2"...
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From reading this and other comments in that discussion, my sense is that the participants are African American and "here" in that discussion means "in the United States.

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Videos And Article Excerpts About Bean Pies (An Iconic Pastry From The United States' Nation Of Islam)

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post features two article excerpts and comments about the Nation Of Islam tradition of baking and selling "bean pies".

This post also showcases two videos about Nation Of Islam's bean pies. A 1970s sound file by Kool & The Gang of their song " is also showcased in this post.

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INFORMATION ABOUT NATION OF ISLAM'S BEAN PIES
From http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/bean-pie-noi-sweet-potato-imani-muhammad/Content?oid=11544239
Bean pie, my brother?

The Nation of Islam's iconic dessert is still around, if you know where to look.
By Mike Sula, Novemeber 18, 2013
..."Made from cooked, mashed, small navy beans, the bean pie is the iconic food of black Muslims everywhere, but locating one in Chicago in recent years has been a hit-or-miss proposition. That's surprising given the zeal Elijah Muhammad, the Nation's leader for 41 years, had for navy beans. "Eat food that Allah (God) has prescribed for us," he wrote in How to Eat to Live, a two-volume dietary guide for followers of the Nation, whose main points are repeated with the circularity of an industrial-sized mixer: "Even take little things such as beans. Allah (God) says that the little navy bean will make you live, just eat them. He said to me that even milk and bread would make us live. Just eat bread and milk—it is the best food. He said that a diet of navy beans would give us a life span of one hundred and forty years. Yet we cannot live ½ that length of time eating everything that the Christian table has set for us.

In some ways Muhammad's Nation of Islam diet was ahead of its time. He advocated eating unprocessed foods and mostly vegetables (definitely not pork) in moderation. On the other hand, it's an extreme form of moderation. He advised eating just one meal per day, or every other day if you were strong, or—for those who could work up to it—once every 72 hours...

Though in How to Eat to Live he never precisely says why, Muhammad lists most legumes—lima beans, field peas, black-eyed peas, speckled peas, red peas, and brown peas—as among the divinely prohibited. The navy bean was the sole exception....

These rules, he wrote, came directly from the mouth of Wallace Fard Muhammad, who the protege asserted came to Detroit from Mecca to found the Nation of Islam (and then mysteriously disappeared en route to Chicago in 1934). And with him came the recipe for bean pie, according to Lance Shabazz, an archivist and historian of the Nation who says that the theory of the bean pie emerging as a substitute for sweet potato pie might have some validity. Elijah Muhammad doesn't mention bean pie, but he's pretty clear about sweet potatoes: "Sweet potatoes were never good for any human to eat. They are good for hogs, but not for you." (That might have been a tough sell for African-Americans new to the Nation. Sweet potato pie, which originated in the south, was likely the mingling of the cooking of African slaves, who knew yams, and their European masters, who knew pie crust. It is enshrined in the soul food canon.)

In any case, Lance Shabazz says Fard Muhammad bestowed the first recipe for bean pie upon Elijah Muhammad and his wife, Clara, in the 30s in Detroit, though none of this is precisely stated in How to Eat to Live either.

But bean pie is in fact a convincing substitute for sweet potato pie...If nobody tipped you off to the fact that you were eating pie made from mashed navy beans, you could be forgiven for thinking it was sweet potato or pumpkin pie.

Bean pie wasn't the only Nation of Islam dish made with the miraculous navy bean—there was bean soup and bean bread—but it was certainly the most iconic, not just in Chicago but in any other city with a Nation of Islam presence.

In Chicago it used to be that you could reliably pick up a bean pie on the street—along with the latest issue of the Final Call—from a fastidiously dressed male member of the Nation of Islam, who might proffer, "Bean pie, my brother?"...

The late Lana Shabazz, operator of a renowned bakery in New York City, was probably the Nation's most famous bean pie maker. She cooked for Elijah Muhammad and Muhammad Ali—and in 1979 she authored the cookbook Cooking for the Champ. In Chicago there were at least three Nation of Islam bakeries on the south side at one time, most notably the Shabazz Bakery on 71st near Saint Lawrence...

The bakeries where she worked are gone now, but independent bean pie makers still come and go. "Things change really fast in the bean pie world, it seems," says Peter Engler, who has made a study of bean pies over the years. When he first came across one in the early 70s it was at the Hyde Park Co-op. "I saw these stacks of pies. I'm pretty sure these were the Shabazz pies. I bought one and I think I was surprised that it was sweet. It was just like a pumpkin pie. I'd buy one every now and then." Later, in the 90s, Engler bought pies from the now defunct Original Bean Pie Bakery for his coworkers in the molecular immunology lab at the University of Chicago.

In 2008, as Engler was preparing to give a talk about the bean pie at a Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance symposium, he realized how hard it had become to find one. A number of independent bakeries had gone out of business, and Muhammad University's Supreme Bean Pie had just gone back into production after a mysterious absence. With some difficulty he managed to get a half-dozen pies delivered to the conference through a semiofficial bean pie courier.

It still isn't easy to find them....

So where does one get a bean pie these days? Of course, you can always make your own; recipes and YouTube tutorials abound on the Internet."...
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The video given as Example #1 below includes an interview from a son of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad which provides more information about how Lana Shabazz originated the Nation of Islam's bean pie.

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From https://marielacampbellphotography.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/sweet-bean-pie-from-the-nation-of-islam/ "SWEET BEAN PIE !! FROM THE NATION OF ISLAM Posted by Mariela Campbell Photography on August 8, 2012
...."The Bean Pie was ….Born in the Nation of Islam.. a religious black nationalist and social reform movement formed in the 1930’s, and led by Elijah Muhammad. Elijah Muhammad wrote a book called “How to Eat to Live” , where he detailed healthy eating guidelines, to improve and prolong life. The Bean Pie is made of Navy Beans, with basic core ingredients, such as sugar, butter, milk, vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg. Bakers will add their own touch of flavors such as cloves, ginger and more.

The thought of Bean and Pie put together is hard to digest in ones train of thought, let alone to taste 🙂 Well I am a brave one! I took my first bite nine years ago , with the thought in mind on how quickly I will be spitting this out ….. & of course to my surprise I was overwhelmed by the sweet smooth taste. I learnt that it can be eaten warm, cold or hot… I prefer nice and chilled 🙂

Now the downside to the bean Pie is that it is NOT mass produced, and you really need to find a reliable producer/baker.Because its not cool when we are needing that bean Pie Fix and not being able to find it anywhere …. our supplier is a good 35 mins away, so we make that trip worthwhile, to find that sometimes they are closed grrrrr frustrating it is!!..lol …the other option is to look out for community followers who sell bean pies for fundraising….they are normally dressed in suits 🙂 . I have made my own and definitely need practice 🙂."
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All of these ellipses (...) except for the first one and the last one were given in that article.

That article continues with that writer's recipe for bean pies. I haven't tried that recipe (or any other recipe for bean pies), but a number of commenters to this article tried that recipe and wrote that their pies were quite good.

I have tasted bean pies (in Newark, New Jersey and in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And agree with the author and the commenters that bean pies are Delicious. They have a taste all their own, but remind me of sweet potato pies (and sweet potato pies taste are almost like pumpkin pies). Perhaps because I'm African American, I'm much more familiar with sweet potato pies than pumpkin pies. I didn't taste pumpkin pies until I attended a predominately White college in East Orange, New Jersey (near Newark). Of these types of pies, my preference is sweet potato pies, closely followed by bean pies, with pumpkin pies coming a far distance third.
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Here are two comments from this featured article:
Anonymous says:
October 19, 2014 at 10:03 am
"This is not the “Original Bean Pie Recipe “ of the Nation of Islam. The sugar and flour are wrong, plus there are four “key” flavors that goes into the pie."...
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This comment includes an email to use if readers want the "original" Nation Of Islam recipe.

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jazzjune10 says:
August 15, 2015 at 4:32 pm
"I use this recipe, but I mix my ingredients in a food processor. I feel that this method better blends the ingredients and gives the filling a really smooth consistency. So far, every pie has been a winner. Also, make sure to use evaporated milk. Half of the water is removed from evaporated milk, which may contribute to the pie’s creamy/custard quality."

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SHOWCASE VIDEOS
Example #1: "Bean Pie My Brotha?"



Hassanah Thomas, Uploaded on Oct 27, 2009

Bean Pie is an authentic American Muslim experience! Hailing from the Blackamerican Muslim community, Bean Pie has taken on iconic proportions. It has been the butt of many jokes, and dare we say, may even have been a catalyst for the proliferation of the Islamic faith, as we have come to learn while filming this documentary that many connoisseurs of this delectable confection have been introduced to Islam and have developed deep affections toward the Muslim community.

So please, watch and learn and see if you don't get a hankering for some Bean Pie!
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"Bean pie my brother" (or "my sister") is the usual way that on the street Nation Of Islam vendors try to interest people walking or in cars to buy a bean pie. These same suit wearing, bow tied men would also be hawking the Nation Of Islam's newspaper "The Final Call".

The street vendor call beginning at .05 of this video:
"Bean pies. Costumed beans... The best in the city. Make you say "Ooh wah diddie. Come on get it. Let's be wit it."
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At 3:16 in this video that vendor is identified as Bro. Michael Williams from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania> That sub-topic for that segment is whether the beans in bean pies cause those eating them to fart. Bro Williams enjoys his play on words when he says that some people eat bean pie all of the time and they have a "funky good time".

Interview from 1:17 to 2:06 with Mr. Jabir Muhammad [on screen caption: "Son of Elijah Muhammad, Made the bean pie a household name."]
This segment begins with Mr. Muhammad correcting the information that a man shared on camera that bean pies came from the Middle East.

Jabir Muhammad: "No that's not true. This pie was originated up in New York City by a sister named Lana Shabazz as far as I know that's the history goes back. She was also the cook for Muhammad Ali, the fighter and the trainer. She was his main cook. Next I heard it got to my sister Ethel Sharif Muhammad.

I started making the bean pie and was putting it on the shelves of different grocery stores that would accept it. But first I had to introduce the bean pie to the public where they would accept the taste. So I didn't tell them it was bean pie. I named it after the bakery in which I was managing. It was "South Park Bakery" so I called it "South Park Special".

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Example #2: The Bean Pie: An American Muslim Icon



3TU, Uploaded on Dec 10, 2011

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ADDENDUM: BOW TIES BEAN PIES WHITING H&G



Ronald Bell, Published on Mar 16, 2015

KOOL BABY BROTHA BAND
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"Whiting H&G" refers to a type of fish. I'm not sure what the H&G stand for.

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Nation Of Islam Drill Team Videos

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases nine videos of Fruit Of Islam (FOI) and Muslim Girl Training (MGT) drill teams.

Most of these videos were taken at Nation Of Islam's Saviors' Day events. Information about the Nation Of Islam & Saviors' Day is found below.

The content of this post is presented for historical and aesthetic purposes.

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Thanks to the founder & religious leaders of the Nation Of Islam. Thanks also to the drill team instructors, drill team members, video uploaders, and all those whose comments I have included in this post. 

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE NATION OF ISLAM (NOI), SAVIOURS' DAY, AND NOI DRILL TEAMS

The Nation Of Islam is an Islamic religious organization that was founded in the United States by an African American.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam

"The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a syncretic new religious movement founded in Detroit, Michigan by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad in July 1930. Its stated goals are to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of African Americans in the United States and all of humanity...

After Fard's departure in June 1934, the Nation of Islam was led by Elijah Muhammad, who established mosques called Temples, Schools named Muhammad University of Islam, businesses, farms and real estate holdings in the United States and abroad..."
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From http://www.noi.org/sd2012/about.shtml

"The 2012 Saviours' Day convention marks the 82nd year of the Nation of Islam's existence in North America. Each year, to commemorate the birth of its founder Master W. Fard Muhammad (February 26, 1877), thousands of members and supporters of the Nation of Islam from around the world make the journey to attend the annual convention during the last week of February for a weekend of fellowship, networking, information dissemination and spiritual renewal.

Also during Saviours' Day, some of the best academic minds, entertainers and activists come together for strategizing, organizing and mobilization..."
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_Islam

"The Fruit of Islam (FOI), or "Fruit" for short, is the male-only paramilitary wing of the Nation of Islam (NOI). The Fruit of Islam wear distinctive blue or white uniforms and caps and have units at all NOI temples. Louis Farrakhan, as head of the Nation of Islam, is commander-in-chief of the Fruit of Islam, and his son, Mustapha Farrakhan Sr, is second in command. The women's counterpart to the Fruit of Islam is Muslim Girls Training (MGT)..."
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A comment about the purposes of Nation of Islam drill teams is found after Video #4.

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FEATURED VIDEOS

Video #1: FOI Drill Team, MM#1B, West London, UK, 1997



Uploaded by quintillion2black on Jan 4, 2012

FOI Drill Team, Nation of Islam, Muhammad Mosque 1B, West London, UK, 1997.
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Click http://cocojams.com/content/black-drill-teams for my transcription of this chant. That link also includes additional videos of Black drill teams.

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Video #3: F.O.I. DRILL TEAM



Uploaded by shabazzmedia on Aug 18, 2007

Newark N.J. crack Drill squad

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Video #4: M.G.T. Drill Team 1 (Nation of Islam, Minister Farrakhan)



Uploaded by MosqueNo7 on Apr 29, 2008

www.Mosque7.org

Drilling is The Exercise of The Gods...
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Here's a question & response from this video's viewer comment thread about the role of drill teams in the Nation Of Islam:
"besides being uniform and precise in movement and somewhat exciting to look at what is the purpose of "drilling"? how does it serve in the overall scheme of the mission of the nation of islam?
-bashe82; 2009

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Thank you for your comment. Drilling helps us to maintain discipline within our ranks, and it allows men and women to work together in harmony with one sound or command. This makes for effective movement, and helps us to achieve what many would deem impossible. Peace!
-MosqueNo7; 2009

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Video #5: MGT Drill Competition at Saviour's Day 2011



Uploaded by a1partyvideo on Mar 6, 2011

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Video #6:
Fruit of Islam Drilling in Brooklyn @ St. Pauls Community Baptist Church



Uploaded by MosqueNo7 on Jun 28, 2011

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Video #7: Saviours' Day 2012 Drill Competition Atlanta F.O.I



Uploaded by rashadkilla on Feb 28, 2012

Atlanta F.O.I drill team SD 2012 ,,, wegotnow.net

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Video #8: Saviors Day 2012 Chicago Drill team



Published on Mar 1, 2012 by mdoublec37

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Video #9: NOI Drill & Martial Arts Exhibition. Edited w/h Music



Published on Aug 2, 2012 by SilasShah

Saviour's Day 2012

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COMMENT & RELATED LINK
It seems obvious to me that drill teams are one of the sources for the performance art called "steppin". That synchronized, choreographed percussive performance art is most closely associated with university based Black Greek lettered fraternities & sororities. Not only are the movements in drill teams and steppin similar, but also both of these performance arts may also include call & response chanting. That said, I believe that the performance of African American military cadences is an earlier source for drill teams & steppin.

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