Minister Louis Farrakhan has led the Nation of Islam for 47 years, since he assumed leadership in 1977. In light of the organization’s black nationalist rhetoric, some social media users were recently surprised to discover what appeared to be Farrakhan’s mixed race. Others argued that this was the history of most blacks within the Americas and the West Indies.

Founded in 1931 by Master Wallace Fard Muhammad, the Nation of Islam advocates black exceptionalism, teaching that God is Black and that the primary man was created within the image of God, who is Black. Central to its doctrine is the Legend of Jacob, which holds that the white race emerged from genetic manipulation by one in every of the unique blacks some 6,000 years ago, giving it dominion over the world.

This latest “created man”, According to he is called “the devil” by some believers.

So, when user X posted a photograph and accompanying narrative about Minister Farrakhan’s father, Percival Clark, some were shocked to see that he was not Black.

“This is Percival Clark, father of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Yes, I know it’s shocking, but the Minister has a white father. Minister Louis Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Walcott to “Anglo-Caribbean immigrants”. His father, Percival Clark, is a WHITE JAMAICAN and his mother, Sarah Mae Manning, is of Caribbean descent from Saint Kitts,” user X wrote.

🚨#BREAKING: This is Percival Clark, father of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Yes, I comprehend it’s shocking, however the Minister has a white father.

Minister Louis Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Walcott of “ANGLO-CARIBBEAN IMMIGRANTS”.

His father Percival Clark is… pic.twitter.com/NutmUWHwpi

— Sir Maejor – FBA 🇺🇸 (@Maejor4Congress) March 13, 2024

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Although the photo featured by the user is often portrayed as being of Farrakhan’s father, it is actually of Sir Percival Clarke, a Briton who was the Speaker of the London County Session. Clark, the leader of the religion, was of Jamaican descent and had light skin.

Farrakhan described his parents this way during one in every of his speeches: “My mother was a black woman. My father was a tall, yellow black man with curly hair.

Clark gave birth in 1933 to Sarah Mae Manning of St. Kitts, who later modified her name to Mother Sumayyah Farrakhan.

“My mother carried me in pain and sadness as she tried to abort me 3 times. Because she lived with my brother’s father – but my father, whom she married and never divorced, got here back into her life for some time and he or she got pregnant with me. That’s why the entire time she was carrying me she was in sadness because she tried to kill me after which she decided to have me.” – Minister Farrakhan he saidaccording to the Brother Qiyam blog.

He continued: “Don’t do it if you happen to do not feel pain. And the pain and fear of what this child will likely be like, that the one she lives with, my brother’s father, will discover that her husband slipped back in and had an affair together with his wife who left him but was living with my brother’s father.” .

The minister spoke on this topic again in 2015, in the course of the twentieth anniversary of the Million Man March. “He alleged at the time that his mother was pregnant under ‘uncomfortable’ circumstances and was unable to look her baby in the eye because she was fair-skinned, while the man she was with was dark-skinned, like her.”

In 1996, he stated that his father, said to be of Portuguese descent, could have been Jewish.

While talking to Henry Louis Gates, renowned Harvard scholar and genealogist, about his father Farrakhan’s parents he said in an interview with The New Yorker: “I’ll tell you something. Do you really want to know what I think? I think they were members of the Jewish community.”

I consider in it in my blood, and never in a foul way. Because after I was a bit boy, I loved listening to the Jewish cantors in Boston,” he continued. “They had a program and I listened to it every week. The cantor impressed me and I always liked the way they sang or recited the Torah.”

Gates found Farrakhan’s claim credible. He said, noting that Iberians in Jamaica often have Sephardic Jewish ancestry, which is ironic since a Chicago native speaks so critically of the Jewish community.

Many have wondered why Farrakhan’s last name is Walcott and never Clark. He explained that it was because a person named Louis Walcott supported his mother while his father was away and always cheated on her.

His mother intended to start a brand new life with Walcott, but she made the error of reconnecting together with her husband and becoming pregnant.

When the newborn was born with fair skin and curly auburn hair, Walcott realized that the newborn was not his and left him. Despite Walcott’s departure, he treated Manning well, which is why she continued to name the leader after him, According to to ThinkCo.

Do you realize more about his father than he does? Crazy. pic.twitter.com/dVyTzzc4sS

— hecava MECCA (@hecava_mecca) March 13, 2024

The discourse about Farrakhan’s father and his image often resurfaces on social media for unknown reasons. The latest reveal of this debunked claim was met with a whole lot of engagement from X users who fell for it.

Some found the claim that the 90-year-old black Muslim leader was biracial unremarkable, suggesting that This “We all have white in our family trees. It’s AA and the Caribbean has white ancestors!”

“Wow, this is coming out!! When this man clearly told us this decades ago!!” other commented sarcastically.

“Master Fard was born to a white woman/black father. This is NOI knowledge. So there is no question of any conversation. Select “Message to a Black Man”, that explains it. Min. Farrakhan stated that his father was a light-skinned black American with whom his mother had an affair” – one other user X sent.

I’m actually not surprised. Knowing that he is half white lets me know that he has been in some rooms and has first hand knowledge of the hatred that some white people have towards black people.

— Wednesday (@MainySexyCool) March 13, 2024

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One person did it quickly explain“I’m in no way a supporter of Farrakhan, but I’m also not a supporter of disinformation. Percival Clark and Percival Clarke are two different individuals with different spellings of their surnames. This is a photograph of Sir Percival Clarke from London, a white male.

Although Farrakhan knew who his father was, Clark never played an lively role in his son’s life.