Stay Dangerous Tee "Khalid Muhammad '25"

"STAY DANGEROUS" TEE

(COMMUNITY RELEASE )

FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH, COMEGETGOOD™ PRESENTS A GRAPHIC TEE HONORING BROTHER KHALID MUHAMMAD (1948–2001).

"AN ORATOR. A REVOLUTIONARY. A CONTROVERSY. A SYMBOL."

BORN HAROLD VANN IN HOUSTON, TEXAS.

STARTING QUARTERBACK. TEAM CAPTAIN. DEBATE CHAMPION.

1966: GRADUATES PHYLLIS WHEATLEY HIGH SCHOOL.

1967: ENROLLS AT DILLARD UNIVERSITY (NEW ORLEANS, LA).

MAJORS IN PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION.

PLEDGES OMEGA PSI PHI FRATERNITY, INC. (THETA SIGMA, "FUNKY 15").

MEETS A YOUNG MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN.

INTRODUCED TO THE NATION OF ISLAM (NOI).

"HAROLD X → MALIK RUSHADDIN → KHALID ABDUL MUHAMMAD"

(NAME GIVEN BY MINISTER FARRAKHAN, INSPIRED BY ISLAMIC GENERAL KHALID IBN AL-WALID.)

LEAVES DILLARD AFTER 3 YEARS TO FULLY ENGAGE IN THE NOI.

LATER EARNS HIS B.A. FROM PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY (CALIFORNIA).

BECOMES A TOP RECRUITER & PROTÉGÉ OF MINISTER FARRAKHAN.

APPOINTED WESTERN REGIONAL MINISTER OF NOI (LATE ’70s).

LEADS MOSQUE #27 (LOS ANGELES, CA).

COMMANDS THE FRUIT OF ISLAM—A DISCIPLINED NOI SECURITY FORCE.

1991: APPOINTED N.O.I. MINISTER OF DEFENSE, SUPREME CAPTAIN & NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE.

(A POSITION HELD BY MALCOLM X. THEN MINISTER FARRAKHAN. THEN BROTHER KHALID.)

"THE STREETS WERE LISTENING."

HIS SPEECHES LANDED ON ALBUMS BY ICE CUBE, X-CLAN & PUBLIC ENEMY.

MAY 1994: AN ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE.

HE SURVIVED. AND SPOKE LOUDER. MOVED FASTER. HIT HARDER.

EXPELLED FROM NOI AMID CONTROVERSY.

BUT NEVER STOPPED.

LED THE NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY UNTIL HIS PASSING IN 2001.

CAUSE OF DEATH: BRAIN ANEURYSM. AGE 53.

CAUSE OF LIFE: THE STRUGGLE FOR BLACK LIBERATION.

"KNOW YOUR ICONS."

BEFORE YOU BUY THIS TEE,

WATCH.

LISTEN.

UNDERSTAND.

KHALID MUHAMMAD WAS A RADICAL.

HIS WORDS WERE UNAPOLOGETIC.

BUT HIS MESSAGE? UNDENIABLE.

A MARTYR FOR OUR PEOPLE.

LONG LIVE BROTHER KHALID ABDUL MUHAMMAD.

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