MAAFA JOURNEY OF REMEMBRANCE FEBRUARY 14, 2021 Malcolm X Malcolm X 2 MAAFA | F E B R U A R Y 14, 2021 Maafa Week 2 | The Gospel According To Malcolm X Psalm 139:13-15 NRSV 3 TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST TABLE OF CONTENTS A Note From The Pastor 4 Mandela In Chicago Ad 5 Malcolm X: Observations From Alex Haley 6 Picture Page 12 Recipes 13 Africa - Did You Know? 17 Coloring Pages 18 Whether you use bullets or ballots, you’ve got to aim well; don’t strike at the puppet, strike at the puppeteer. - Malcolm 4 MAAFA | F E B R U A R Y 14, 2021 Trinity Family and Friends, As the African proverb says, “Until the story of the hunt is told by the lion, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” How much of the pain in our communities is due simply to the fact that so many are unaware of the greatness that flows within their blood? Like a roaring river that has been dammed, creating a lake of dislocation, despair, and dissolution, our true history has been both appropriated and erased by the “hunter.” Our true story has been diluted and obfuscated by an education system that was built to provide workers for the capitalist machinery, not to develop critical and creative thinking among the population. While Trinity United Church of Christ seeks to celebrate our history and culture all year round, during Black History Month we take special notice of our journey. This year, for the first time, we will be celebrating our powerful stories through entirely digital means. Covid-19, with all the suffering and pain it is causing on a global basis, is forcing us to draw upon new levels of creativity as we continue to serve God and God’s people. Our typical journey would take us throughout the African Diaspora, but this year we will be focusing on African seeds that sprouted on American soil, and the power and influence they have had on our spiritual, cultural and political path. For 2021, we celebrate playwright August Wilson, Black empowerment icon Malcolm X, civil rights pioneer Fannie Lou Hamer, and the legendary jazz innovator, Billie “Lady Day” Holiday. Each week worship will be supplemented with a digital booklet that provides additional context to the focus of that week’s sermon. You are reading from one of them now. It is our greatest wish that you will share this information with your family and friends, and that it may inspire further readings and research as we endeavor to spread the story of the lion throughout our community. Asking you to Imagine . . . Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III Senior Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ A NOTE FROM PASTOR MOSS Read up on what happened before you were born; dig into the past, understand your roots. Ask your parents what it was like before you were born; ask the old ones, they’ll tell you a thing or two. Deuteronomy 32:7 MSG 5 TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 6 MAAFA | F E B R U A R Y 14, 2021 MALCOLM X OBSERVATIONS FROM BIOGRAPHER ALEX HALEY Excerpts from the Epilogue of The Autobiography of Malcolm X | As Told to Alex Haley Over the more than a year that it took for Alex Haley to gather all the materials for his seminal work as co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X he learned much about Malcolm’s family and early life, but also a lot about how he perceived the world on an everyday basis. In the epilogue in this book he received permission from Malcolm to write what he wanted, and that importantly, Malcolm would not review it (as he had reviewed and approved all the other content of the book). Below are some interesting highlights from the epilogue that reveal a not often considered side of this ferocious supporter of Black independence and self-sufficiency - this absolute icon of the Black struggle in America. “I don’t completely trust anyone, . . . not even myself. I have seen too many men destroy themselves. Other people I trust from not at all too highly, like The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.” Malcolm X looked squarely at me. “You I trust about twenty-five percent.” There was something about this man when he was in a room with people. He commanded the room, whoever else was present. Even out of doors; once I remember in Harlem he sat on a speaker’s stand between Congressman Adam Clayton Powell and the former Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack, and when the street rally was over the crowd focus was chiefly on Malcolm X. I remember another time that we had gone by railway from New York City to Philadelphia where he appeared in the Philadelphia Convention Hall on the radio station WCAU program of Ed Harvey. “You are the man who has said ‘All Negroes are angry and I am the angriest of all’; is that correct?” asked Harvey, on the air, introducing Malcolm X, and as Malcolm X said crisply, “That quote is correct!” the gathering crowd of bystanders stared at him, riveted. After the Ed Harvey Show was concluded, we took the train to return to New York City. The parlor car, packed with businessmen behind their newspapers, commuting homeward after their workdays, was electric with Malcolm X’s presence. After the white-jacketed Negro porter had made several trips up and down the aisle, he was in the middle of another trip when Malcolm X softly voiced in my ear, “He used to work with me, I forget his name, we worked right on this very train together. He knows it’s me. He’s trying to make up his mind what to do.” The porter went on past us, poker-faced. But when he came through again, Malcolm X suddenly leaned forward from his seat, smiling at the porter. “Why, sure, I know who you are!” the porter suddenly said, loudly. “You washed dishes right on this train! I was just telling some of the fellows you were in my car here. We all follow you!” 7 TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST The tension on the car could have been cut with a knife. Then, soon, the porter returned to Malcolm X, his voice expansive. “One of our guests would like to meet you.” Now a young, cleancut white man rose and came up, his hand extended, and Malcolm X rose and shook the proffered hand firmly. Newspapers dropped just below eye-level the length of the car. The young white man explained distinctly, loudly, that he had been in the Orient for a while, and now was studying at Columbia. “I don’t agree with everything you say,” he told Malcolm X, “but I have to admire your presentation.” Malcolm’s voice in reply was cordiality itself. “I don’t think you could search America, sir, and find two men who agree on everything.” Subsequently, to another white man, an older businessman, who came up and shook hands, he said evenly, “Sir, I know how you feel. It’s a hard thing to speak out against me when you are agreeing with so much that I say.” When Malcolm X made long trips, such as to San Francisco or Los Angeles, I did not go along, but frequently, usually very late at night, he would telephone me, and ask how the book was coming along, and he might set up the time for our next interview upon his return. One call that I never will forget came at close to four a.m., waking me; he must have just gotten up in Los Angeles. His voice said, “Alex Haley?” I said, sleepily, “Yes? Oh, hey, Malcolm!” His voice said, “I trust you seventy percent”—and then he hung up. I lay a short time thinking about him and I went back to sleep feeling warmed by that call, as I still am warmed to remember it. Neither of us ever mentioned it. Malcolm X’s growing respect for individual whites seemed to be reserved for those who ignored on a personal basis the things he said about whites and who jousted with him as a man. He, moreover, was convinced that he could tell a lot about any person by listening. “There’s an art to listening well,” he told me. “I listen closely to the sound of a man’s voice when he’s speaking. I can hear sincerity.” The newspaper person whom he ultimately came to admire probably more than any other was the New York Times’ M. S. Handler. (I was very happy when I learned that Handler had agreed to write this book’s Introduction; I know that Malcolm X would have liked that.) The first time I ever heard Malcolm X speak of Handler, whom he had recently met, he began, “I was talking with this devil—” and abruptly he cut himself off in obvious embarrassment. “It’s a reporter named Handler, from the Times—” he resumed. Malcolm X’s respect for the man steadily increased, and Handler, for his part, was an influence upon the inner Malcolm X. “He’s the most genuinely unprejudiced white man I ever met,” Malcolm X said to me, speaking of Handler months later. “I have asked him things and tested him. I have listened to him talk, closely.” WHO DID MALCOLM ADMIRE? Particularly high in his esteem, I know, was the great photographer, usually associated with Life magazine, Gordon Parks. It was Malcolm X’s direct influence with Elijah Muhammad which got Parks permitted to enter and photograph for publication in Life the highly secret self-defense 8 MAAFA | F E B R U A R Y 14, 2021 training program of the Black Muslim Fruit of Islam, making Parks, as far as I know, the only non-Muslim who ever has witnessed this, except for policemen and other agency representatives who had feigned “joining” the Black Muslims to infiltrate them. “His success among the white man never has made him lose touch with black reality,” Malcolm X said of Parks once. Once in the middle of one of our interviews, when we had been talking about something else, Malcolm X suddenly asked me, “Do you know Ossie Davis?” I said I didn’t. He said, “I ought to introduce you sometime, that’s one of the finest black men.” In Malcolm X’s long dealings with the staff of the Harlem weekly newspaper Amsterdam News, he had come to admire Executive Editor James Hicks and the star feature writer James Booker. He said that Hicks had “an open mind, and he never panics for the white man.” It was he who introduced me to two of my friends today, Dr. C. Eric Lincoln who was at the time writing the book, The Black Muslims in America , and Louis Lomax, who was then writing various articles about the Muslims. Malcolm X deeply respected the care and depth which Dr. Lincoln was putting into his research. Lomax, he admired for his ferreting ear and eye for hot news. “If I see that rascal Lomax running somewhere, I’ll grab my hat and get behind him,” Malcolm X said once, “because I know he’s onto something.” Author James Baldwin Malcolm X also admired. “He’s so brilliant he confuses the white man with words on paper.” And another time, “He’s upset the white man more than anybody except The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.” Malcolm X had very little good to say of Negro ministers, very possibly because most of them had attacked the Black Muslims. Excepting reluctant admiration of Dr. Martin Luther King, I heard him speak well of only one other, The Reverend Eugene L. Callender of Harlem’s large Presbyterian Church of the Master. “He’s a preacher, but he’s a fighter for the black man,” said Malcolm X. I later learned that somewhere the direct, forthright Reverend Callender had privately cornered Malcolm X and had read him the Gordon Parks Ossie Davis and Malcolm X Dr. C. Eric Lincoln and Malcolm X Rev. Adam Clayton Powell and Malcolm X riot act about his general attacks upon the Negro clergy. Malcolm X also admired The Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, in his Congressman political role: “I’d think about retiring if the black man had ten like him in Washington.” He had similar feelings about the N.A.A.C.P. lawyer, now a New York State Assemblyman, Percy Sutton, and later Sutton was retained as his personal attorney. Among Negro educators, of whom Malcolm X met many in his college and university lecturing, I never heard him speak well of any but one, Dr. Kenneth B. Clark. 9 TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST The night of the phenomenal upset, when Clay did beat Liston, Malcolm X telephoned me, and sounds of excitement were in the background. The victory party was in his motel suite, Malcolm X told me. He described what was happening, mentioned some of those who were present, and that the new heavyweight king was “in the next room, my bedroom here” taking a nap. After reminding me of the fight prediction he had made, Malcolm X said that I should look forward now to Clay’s “quick development into a major world figure. I don’t know if you really realize the world significance that this is the first Muslim champion.” And at another time there in the hotel room he came the nearest to tears that I ever saw him, and also the only time I ever heard him use, for his race, one word. He had been talking about how hard he had worked building up the Muslim organization in the early days when he was first moved to New York City, when abruptly he exclaimed hoarsely, “We had the best organization the black man’s ever had—niggers ruined it!” A few days later, however, he wrote in one of his memo books this, which he let me read, “Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so ‘safe,’ and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.” The room lit up with flickering and flooding lights as he came in the door squiring Sister Betty, holding her arm tenderly, and she was smiling broadly in her pride that this man was her man. I recognized the Times’ M. S. Handler and introduced myself; we warmly shook hands and commandeered a little two-chair table. The reporters in a thick semicircle before Malcolm X seated on the podium fired questions at him, and he gave the impression that all of his twelve years’ oratorical practice had prepared him for this new image. “Do we correctly understand that you now do not think that all whites are evil?” “True, sir! My trip to Mecca has opened my eyes. I no longer subscribe to racism. I have adjusted my thinking to the point where I believe that whites are human beings—a significant pause—as long as this is borne out by their humane attitude toward Negroes.” They picked at his “racist” image. “I’m not a racist. I’m not condemning whites for being whites, but for their needs. I condemn what whites collectively have done to our people collectively.” 10 MAAFA | F E B R U A R Y 14, 2021 [Malcolm] answered his critics with such statements as that he would send “armed guerrillas” into Mississippi. “I am dead serious. We will send them not only to Mississippi, but to any place where black people’s lives are threatened by white bigots. As far as I am concerned, Mississippi is anywhere south of the Canadian border.” On January 19, Malcolm X appeared on the Pierre Berton television show in Canada and said, in response to a question about integration and intermarriage: “I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being—neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there’s no question of integration or intermarriage. It’s just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being. I may say, though, that I don’t think it should ever be put upon a black man, I don’t think the burden to defend any position should ever be put upon the black man, because it is the white man collectively who has shown that he is hostile toward integration and toward intermarriage and toward these other strides toward oneness. So as a black man and especially as a black American, any stand that I formerly took, I don’t think that I would have to defend it because it’s still a reaction to the society, and it’s a reaction that was produced by the society; and I think that it is the society that produced this that should be attacked, not the reaction that develops among the people who are the victims of that negative society.” On Sunday, February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated in the Audubon Ballroom. The Black community was shocked, and most were saddened. As you might expect, American press and official Washington had little positive to say about this giant of the African American, and indeed the African community. Carl Rowan, a Black man, and Director of the United States Information Agency said, “All this about an ex-convict, ex-dope peddler who became a racial fanatic . . .” This because the non-white world knew Malcolm X for what he truly stood for: Daily Times of Lagos, Nigeria said, “Like all mortals, Malcolm X was not without his faults . . . but that he was a dedicated and consistent disciple of the movement for the emancipation of his brethren, no one can doubt . . . Malcolm X has fought and died for what he believed to be right. He will have a place in the palace of martyrs. The Ghanaian Times, Accra , called Malcolm X “the militant and most popular of Afro-American anti-segregationist leaders” and it added his name to “a host of Africans and Americans” ranging from John Brown to Patrice Lumumba “who were martyred in freedom’s cause.” Also in Accra, the Daily Graphic : “The assassination of Malcolm X will go down in history as the greatest blow the American integrationist movement has suffered since the shocking assassinations of Medgar Evers and John F. Kennedy.” The Pakistan Hurriyet of Karachi said: “A great Negro leader.” Pakistan Times said, “His death is a definite setback to the Negro movement for emancipation.” The Peking, China People’s Daily said the killing happened “because Malcolm X . . . fought for the emancipation of the 23,000,000 American Negroes.” The first Algerian headline said “the Ku Klux Klan” assassinated Malcolm X. 11 TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST The Alger Republican’s editorial on the slaying accused “American Fascism,” and the Times’ Algerian correspondent said Algerians showed “signs” of raising Malcolm X to martyrdom. The U.S. Consulate in Georgetown, British Guiana , was marched on by pickets accusing “American imperialists.” Another Peking, China paper, Jenmin Jihpao , said that the death showed that “in dealing with imperialist oppressors, violence must be met with violence.” Other than the London Times , no major European thought the story of Malcolm X’s death was much more than a one-day sensation. At Brother Malcolm’s funeral the actor Ossie Davis stood. His deep voice delivered the eulogy to Malcolm X: “Here—at this final hour, in this quiet place, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes—extinguished now, and gone from us forever. . . . Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this stormy, controversial and bold young captain—and we will smile. . . . They will say that he is of hate—a fanatic, a racist—who can only bring evil to the cause for which you struggle! And we will answer and say unto them: Did you ever talk to Brother Malcolm? Did you ever touch him, or have him smile at you? Did you ever really listen to him? Did he ever do a mean thing? Was he ever himself associated with violence or any public disturbance? For if you did you would know him. And if you knew him you would know why we must honor him: Malcolm was our manhood, our living, black manhood! This was his meaning to his people. And, in honoring him, we honor the best in ourselves. . . . And we will know him then for what he was and is—a Prince—our own black shining Prince!—who didn’t hesitate to die, because he loved us so.” 12 MAAFA | F E B R U A R Y 14, 2021 13 TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST THE CHAMP’S FAVORITE : LANA’S BEAN PIE A Slice of Life, Feb 6, 2017 – sonia winesett Bean pie is not so easy to find these days but when Muhammad Ali was still boxing it was on his training camp table. Not only was it one of his favorites, but bean pie was also an iconic food of black Muslims. This classic pie is packed full of protein as its main ingredient is navy beans. Sound weird? Maybe not. The texture of the filling is up to you, mash the beans for a chunky consistency, or puree them in a food processor for a smoother taste. The late Lana Shabazz, operator of a renowned New York City bakery was probably the Nation of Islam’s most famous bean pie maker. The following bean pie recipe is via The Washington Post and adapted from her cookbook, “Cooking for the Champ: Muhammad Ali’s Favorite Recipes,” (Jones-McMillon, 1979.) You’ll need two 9-inch deep-dish pie plates. LANA’S BEAN PIE CRUST Ingredients About 2 1/4 c (9 1/2 ounces) whole-wheat flour, plus more for work surface 1/2 tsp salt 2 Tbsp corn or vegetable oil, plus more for greasing 3 Tbsp ice-cold water, more as needed 1 large egg, beaten FILING Ingredients 3 c sugar 16 Tbsp (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature 2 Tbsp ground cinnamon 2 Tbsp cornstarch 5 large eggs, beaten 3 c cooked, no-salt added navy beans (drained & rinsed if canned) 2 c evaporated milk 5 drops yellow food coloring (optional) 1 tsp lemon extract (can substitute 1 Tbsp lemon juice) DIRECTIONS 1) For the crusts: Combine the flour and salt in a food processor; add the oil and pulse until it is evenly distributed (the flour will darken a bit). With the motor running, gradually add the water and egg; pulse just until a ball of dough forms, adding water by the tablespoon as needed. 2) Use a little oil to grease the inside of each pie plate. Lightly flour a work surface. Turn the dough out onto it; divide it into two equal portions. Working with one portion at a time, roll out to a round that’s about 11 inches across, then transfer to a pie plate, letting the excess dough hang over the edges. Refrigerate while you make the filling. 3) Preheat oven to 400º F. 4 ) For the filling: Combine the sugar and butter in the bowl of a stand mixer or handheld electric mixer. Beat on medium speed for 5 minutes, stopping to scrape down the bowl as needed. Stop to add the cinnamon and cornstarch; beat on low speed just until incorporated. On low speed, gradually add the eggs; once they are all incorporated, stop to scrape down the bowl. 5) Mash or puree the beans (in a food processor) with 1 cup of the milk in a separate bowl, then add to the mixing bowl; beat on low speed until well incorporated, then add the remaining cup of milk, the food coloring, if using, and the lemon extract, beating until well blended. The filling mixture might look slightly curdled; that is okay. 6) Divide the fi lling evenly between the dough-lined pie plates, smoothing each filling surface. Tuck under and crimp the dough around the edges. Bake (middle rack) for 10 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 325 degrees; bake for about 1 hour or until the fill - ing is just set and the top and edges of the crust are nicely browned. Transfer the pies to wire racks to cool for at least 30 minutes before serving; cool completely before storing. 14 MAAFA | F E B R U A R Y 14, 2021 EAT BREAD “The Staff of Life” From Shabazz Bakery & Coffee Shop INGREDIENTS 5-6 cups whole-wheat flour 4 oz. honey 1/2 cup freshly-made homemade butter + about 2 tablespoons 2 1/2 cups very hot water (almost boiling) 2 packages (2 1/4 teaspoons) active dry yeast 1/4 cup water 100-115 degrees F 2 1/2 cups very hot water DIRECTIONS 1. In a small bowl, add 1/4 cup 100-115 degree water to yeast. Mix well and set aside. 2. Mix honey and butter with 2 1/2 cups very hot water. Stir until honey and butter are dissolved and let cool (about ten minutes). (*Now is a good time to clean your dirty dishes, while you wait for the honey/butter/hot water mixture to cool. It is better to clean up as you go, otherwise your kitchen will be a mess when you’re finished*) 3. Mix or stir in 3 cups of whole-wheat flour, one- half cup at a time. Mix well. 4 . Add yeast. (*It should have foamed up a little). Mix well. 5 . Add more flour until dough begins to pull away from the sides of the bowl. (*This part is where your instinct comes in. As the dough thickens, it will become more and more difficult to mix. Eventually, you will get to the point where you’re just sprinkling flour onto the parts that still look “wet” and sticky, until the outside of the ball of dough is completely “dry”. I like to roll it around the bowl a bit, just to make sure no parts are sticking.) 6. Sprinkle flour onto your clean kneading surface. (Someone told me she kneads her dough in a big bowl, so if you don’t have space to knead on a surface, you can try doing that also.) 7. Empty dough from bowl onto the kneading surface. Generously cover your hands with flour and knead the dough 150 times. 8. Transfer kneaded dough into a lightly buttered bowl and cover with a towel. Set aside until dough rises to twice its size. (*It can take anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour and a half for your dough to rise. So, you have plenty of time to clean up and do other household tasks. Also, a warm kitchen helps the dough to rise so you might want to turn on your oven.) 9. When the dough has risen, punch it down in the middle (*Yes, like it said something about your Mama) This will deflate it. Then knead it again 150 times and set aside to rise again. 10. When the dough has risen again, punch it down, knead it and divide it in half. 11. Using a rolling pin, roll one half until it is 18 inches long. 12. Fold it up about one inch from the bottom of the dough, pressing down to remove any bubbles, and continue to “roll up” the dough, tucking in the sides. 13. Repeat with other half. 14. Place each half in a lightly buttered bread pan, cover and set aside to rise again. 15. After dough has doubled in size, bake at 375 degrees F for 30 minutes. 16. Reduce temperature to 350 degrees F and bake an additional 15 minutes. 17. Remove bread from bread pans and let cool one hour. That’s it! You’ve just made 100 per cent All Natural Honey Whole-Wheat Bread! 15 TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST NATION OF ISLAM NAVY BEAN SOUP Dr. Frederick Douglas Opie, Author of Hog & Hominy INGREDIENTS 1 pound of small navy beans 1 large onion 3-4 bay leaves (All of the above to taste) DIRECTIONS Soak beans overnight or quick soak by bringing beans to a boil for 2-3 minutes and soak for I hour. Soaking cuts cooking time by approximately 1/2. Rinse the beans thoroughly, discarding all of the water used for soaking and clean the remnants of the water from the pot used. Replace beans in a full pot of clean, cool water and place on top of the stove at a medium to medium high setting. Dice or thinly slice the onion and the cloves. Add the whole bay leaves. Cook until beans are tender, then add spices, reduce heat and slow cook until the desired consistency of beans and bean stock is achieved. SUPREME BEAN SOUP Otabenga Jones & Associates INGREDIENTS 1 pound bag of small white navy beans 1/3 cup of olive oil 1 large onion chopped ½ green pepper chopped 2 medium tomatoes diced fine 2 sticks of celery chopped 2 sticks of carrots chopped fine 3-4 garlic cloves minced ½ teaspoon Italian seasoning ½ teaspoon curry powder ¼ teaspoon black cumin seed powder 2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon pepper DIRECTIONS 1) Sort and wash beans, removing any dirt, rocks, and fragmented beans. 2)2) 2) Soak beans with about a tablespoon of baking soda overnight or about 8 hours. After soaking the beans, bring them to a boil, and skim off white foam formed above water. 3) Cook the bean s, covered on medium, for approximately 90 minutes. When ready, beans will start splitting and can be mashed with a spoon. 4) Add onion, green pe pper, tomatoes, celery, carrots, and garlic. Add oil. Add Italian seasoning, curry powder, and black cumin seed powder. Add salt. Add pepper. 4) Stir contents well, and cook on medium for approximately 60 minutes. When complete beans can be easily mashed with a spoon. This dish can either be presented in its original form, or pureed in a blender and then served. ground parsley ground pepper pinch of whole cloves salt 16 MAAFA | F E B R U A R Y 14, 2021 BATTERED FISH BURGERS From, ThisMuslimGirlBakes.com INGREDIENTS Plain Flour Salt Baking Powder Dried Oregano American Mustard Mayonnaise Water Black Pepper Whiting Fish Fillets Burger Buns (Whole Wheat preferred) Tartare Sauce Cheese Slices DIRECTIONS Oregeno Batter Into our bowl, goes 250 grams Plain Flour. 1/2 teaspoon Salt And, to make our batter light and crispy, 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder. Next, 1 tablespoon Dried Oregano, because this is an oregano batter. I love putting dried herbs into batters like this - so much good flavour! I use dried oregano but feel free to throw in others too. Next, add 1 tablespoon of American Mustard. I used the spicy kind but the normal is fine too. Add 1 tablespoon of Mayonnaise: Ir is unusual in a batter like this, but a little gives plenty of creaminess. Add in 160 ml Water – whisk that in and add more as needed. Whisk the batter until it becomes thick. It should cling onto the whisk. If it’s too thin, add more flour/If it’s too thick, add more water. You cannot go wrong! Prep the Fish Each fillet was should be cut to about bun size to fit into the burger buns. Heat 2 inches Oil of choice in a deep saucepan over a medium heat. Before dipping the fish into the batter, we’re going to give it a flour coating. Take 3 tablespoons Plain Flour, 1/2 teaspoon Salt, 1/2 teaspoon Black Pepper and 1 teaspoon Dried Oregano and stir them together. When the oil is hot, dip each piece of fish in the flour mixture, shake of excess flour and then dip each piece into the oregano batter. Let an excess batter drip off and add the fish to the hot oil. Cook 5 to 7 minutes, until golden brown on both sides and cook through Remove from pan and allow to drain (on paper towels) NOTE: Extra batter can be used to make onion rings! The fish is excellent on its own, but today we are making burgers. The buns should be toasted, then Add Tartare Sauce to the top and bottom bun – of course you can choose your favorite dressing/ condiment – Miracle Whip, Mayo, Ketchup, whatever you like Add the fish to the buns, top with cheese of choice and . . . ENJOY! 17 TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST Africa – Did You Know? As an introduction to the historical deception of African history, at the most basic level, let’s begin with the lack of accuracy in the depiction of the African continent. The map we are all familiar with, the Mercator projection, was created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator, in 1569, and has been in wide use since. While that may have been fine for the 1500’s, the fact that it has continued to be the standard well after the world knew better says that it is one more tool for incorrectly teaching history. This is the map we are all familiar with. 1974, Dr. Arno Peters held a press conference in Germany and introduced the Peters Projection World Map. This map was developed to accurately portray the relative sizes of the continents. The Peters map reveals the truth that Africa is huge in relationship to the rest of the world, particularly the northern hemisphere where North America, Europe, and Asia have been exaggerated since the 1500’s. 18 MAAFA | F E B R U A R Y 14, 2021 COLORING PAGE In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. - Malcolm X 19 TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST COLORING PAGE I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don’t believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn’t want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street. - Malcolm X Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., Pastor Emeritus 400 W. 95th Street | Chicago, IL 60628 773-962-5650 | www.trinitychicago.org 2021 Maafa Week 2