He made the statement during an exclusive interview with Rudolf Okonkwo on 90MinutesAfrica on Sunday.
A former Nation of Islam member and contemporary of Malcolm X, Brother Nassar Rahmaan, has described the Barrack Obama presidency in the US as a tool to open up African societies to same-sex acts.
He made the statement during an exclusive interview with Rudolf Okonkwo on 90MinutesAfrica on Sunday.
"Obama was a tool to open up Africa," he said. "He was a tool used to establish bases in Africa and to introduce things that will make Africa weaker like the LGBTQ foolishness."
The civil rights activist, who was known as Rodney 11X during his active days in the Nation of Islam, accused the former US president of encouraging same-sex relationships among black men.
"Things that would destroy the society, like telling black men to have anal sex with one another, are what Obama did." He went further to assert that the Obama presidency only worsened the conditions of black people.
Responding to comments on whether things would have been different if a man like Jesse Jackson were the first black president of America instead of Obama, the civil rights activist insists that there would have been no difference because American presidents are selected by the "people in charge" to maintain the status quo.
"This thing about the democratic process has been gone for a long time, and everything is about the private sector multi-national corporations now," he explained. "There is no such thing as the democratic process anymore. The people in charge select our president, and we just do what we do every day."
Defending his embrace of the Nation of Islam as a kid in New York City, he said that Elijah Muhammed used poison to cure African Americans of the poison white people initially gave to black people. He said that Elijah Muhammed infused a superiority complex among blacks to neutralize the low self-esteem of black people that came from years of white slavery and subjugation.
Before Elijah Muhammed, he said, "Everything white is good, everything black is bad." But as a mainstream Muslim now and an advocate of "Attitude of Gratitude," he has discarded those baseless ideologies for a universal embrace of humanity.
The New York-born elder took issue with Nollywood and Afrobeat's directions. He said they are essentially glorifying the foolishness of our people. He urged them to discard the negative aspects of our culture and promote the positive.