According to the Nation of Islam, Yakub was a black scientist who lived 6,600 years ago and created the white race through selective breeding called 'grafting'.

The Nation of Islam teaches that Yakub, a scientist from Mecca, discovered laws of attraction and repulsion and used this knowledge to engineer the white race by selectively breeding over generations on the island of Patmos. This myth frames the white race as a product of deliberate genetic manipulation with supposed negative intentions, contrasting with the original black people.