THE PHIL DONAHUE SHOW

The late Dr Khalid Muhammad's May 1994 appearance on an American television talk show hosted by Phil Donahue on the Phil Donahue Show. He is an American black activist who was born Harold Moore Jr., a prominent Afrocentrist and speaker on African history, came to fame as the National Assistant to Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, until he finally got condemned and removed from his position and censured by the US Congress for his forthrightness and resilience to stand for black people’s rights and strong condemnations of white supremacy.

Some of his eloquent vocalizations, “Have you forgotten that once we were brought here, we were robbed of our name, robbed of our language. We lost our religion, our culture, our god...and many of us, by the way we act, we even lost our minds”, have been used in rap music and the like.

This is an hour show posted in four part series and you need to see (all 4 parts) the full show, the robust discussions with no animosity but at times emotionally fiery with fury questions from the audiences as well as the host and the final honest and unequivocal answers by Dr Muhammed, where the host failed to acknowledge that and recurrently calling him “Mr Muhammed”, responding to questions dynamically in a calm and credible manner. He participated in heated arguments with Jewish audience members and the host amid responding by exalting explanations of his unrestricted statements.

PART 4

It’s about time that public discussions like this should be established in the Australian mainstream media, Day Time Show, preferably, hosted by the non-status quo presenters, either by Australian indigenous journalists like Stan Grant or other black professionals who have the competencies but often denied the opportunity, for the same reasons articulated by brother Muhammed, to be in the public broadcasting domain for far too long.

We want day time discussion forums, like that of Phil Donahue Show, about social, racial or any issues deemed necessary for the benefits of society, be presented by black people in the media by attacking issues without confronting invited guest speakers or partaking audiences unlike Donahue who frequently takes sides vehemently.