Editors Note: Each Saturday we will take a look back at one of our favorite postings from our early days that never made it in front of as many eyeballs as we would have liked. We hope you enjoy it!

The Northeast continues to dig out from an early March snowstorm that has dumped anywhere from 1-3 feet of snow in different areas. And these days when snow comes to mind so does the Reverend Louis Farrakhan. In his new book “Snow: The White Devil’s Tool of Oppression”, Reverend Farrakhan declared that snow is a “wicked creation used by the white man to oppress my people.”

Reverend Farrakhan was kind enough to take time out of his busy schedule of fomenting racial unrest to sit down for an interview with yours truly to discuss his new book.

TNOYF: Reverend Farrakhan thank you for taking the time to meet with me.

RLF: “Taking the time?” The only thing that has been ‘taken’ is the black man’s soul by the so-called white devil.

TNOYF: Alright. You were quoted in your book as saying …let me get this right…that “snow is a tool of the white devil.” Can you tell me more about that statement?

RLF: What more do you need? It is a fact.

TNOYF: A fact? I’m not a scientist but I believe that snow occurs naturally as a result of cold temperatures and high moisture content in the atmosphere.

RLF: That’s the white man’s science.

TNOYF: May I then assume that blacks have a different science?

RLF: No you may not. The black man has not been allowed to have any science because his former white master would not allow it.

TNOYF: I feel like we got off to a bad start here. Let me try to rephrase my question. What is it about snow that has you so upset and why do you think it was created by the white man?

RLF: First of all, I detest the color of it. Second, I don’t “think” it was created by the white man. I know it was. It’s cold. It’s white. It keeps brothers in all winter long. I mean have you ever driven through a black neighborhood in the winter-time? It’s as empty as the sign-up sheet for Ted Kennedy’s “Scotch & Swim With Teddy” class. Snow has locked up more black men then the entire penal system in this country.

TNOYF: Interesting take. In your opinion what should be done about snow then?

RLF: Are you mocking me?

TNOYF: No I…

RLF: Because if you are so help me Allah I will smite you where you stand!

TNOYF: …was just…

RLF: Don’t play the white-man-semantics game with me! I’m not some fresh-off-the-plantation servant negro!

TNOYF: Well, on behalf of The Nose On Your Face I’d like to thank…

RLF: “Nose on your face?” Is that a derogatory statement meant to ridicule the black man’s nasal capacity?

TNOYF:No it’s just the name of…

RLF: How about “The D!@# In Your Mouth?” Get it?

TNOYF: Umm, security? Help.