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 - https://www.patreon.com/torscabinet/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 - https://www.reddit.com/user/MrSluds/
He's been possessing Thimble the Doll all along - https://www.instagram.com/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-fard-have-a-son-with-pearl-allen-a-century-old-mystery-solved/
More info about Naka Nakane: https://www.moosejawtoday.com/local-news/how-a-japanese-cafe-owner-from-moose-jaw-became-an-fbi-targeted-black-nationalist-9684045
Romani in Oregon (a tangent, but a fascinating one): https://www.ohs.org/oregon-historical-quarterly/award-winning-articles/upload/Silverman_Roma-in-Oregon_OHQ-Winter-2017_Final.pdf
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/Euthanasia_Coaster
Yuba City's Punjabi-Mexican community, whose food my dad grew up eating: https://www.eater.com/2019/4/23/18305011/punjabi-mexican-migration-roti-quesadilla-el-ranchero
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://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/06/zarif-khans-tamales-and-the-muslims-of-sheridan-wyoming
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.