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_ _ 92 _ Q! , .0 t I I". or desire to subscribe to "Muhammad Speaks, " or perhaps want to purchase books and other products for sale by N01 shopkeepers. Regular features of the paper are columns by Tynnetta Deanar, _ Harriett Muhammad, and Abdul Basit Naeem. Who are these featured columnists ? Tynnetta Deanar, in late 1959, was a young, light-skinned, unmarried Negro girl who became a secretary to Elijah Muhammad and soon began writing a column entitled "Women in Islam. " In her column, Tynnetta forcefully echoes Elijah's teaching that the Negro woman shoul completely disassociate herseli from the customs and practices of the white woman, that the white race is "the real enemy of our people," i and that the black people must develop strong "racial pride and solidarity. What Tynnetta advocates, however, is not what Tynnetta practices Since serving as a secretary to Elijah, she has taken two vacations, once travelling to Cincinnati in 1960, where she gave birth to a baby girl, and again to Albuquerque in 1964, where she gave birth to a baby boy. This young Negro columnist, who so strongly advocates pride of race, listed on the girl's birth certi
cate that the baby was white, that she herself was white, and that the failiexs s.~"-iiite. -66- ,