-
(applause)
-
In the name of Allah,
the beneficent, the merciful
-
to whom all praise is due,
-
whom we forever thank for giving us
the honorable Elijah Mohammad
-
as our leader, teacher, and guide.
-
And I specifically, ladies and gentleman,
and brothers and sisters,
-
open up like that because I
am a representative
-
of the honorable Elijah Mohammad.
-
And were it not for him,
you and wouldn't be here today.
-
In order for you and me to devise
some kind of method or strategy
-
to offset some of the events
or the repetition of the events
-
that have taken place here
in Los Angeles recently,
-
we have to go to the root.
We have to go to the cause.
-
Dealing with the condition
itself is not enough.
-
- We have to get to the cause of it all.
- (crowd concurs)
-
Or the root of it all.
-
And it is because of our effort
toward getting straight to the root
-
that people oft times think
we're dealing in hate.
-
But first I would like to congratulate
and give praise to the Negro,
-
so-called negro leaders
and so-called negro organizations
-
and, excuse me if I say so-called, it's hard
for me to just outright say Negro
-
- when I know what that word Negro really means.
- (thunderous applause)
-
The person whom you have
come to know as Ronald Stokes,
-
we know him as Brother Ron –
-
one of the most religious persons
to display the highest form of morals
-
of any black person
anywhere on this Earth.
-
And as one of the previous speakers
pointed out, who knew him,
-
everyone who knew him had to give
him credit for being a good man.
-
A clean man, an intelligent man,
and an innocent man
-
when he was murdered.
-
The Negro, so-called Negro, organizations
and leaders should be given
-
great credit for their failure or refusal
to let the white man divide them
-
and use them, one against the other,
during this crisis.
-
(thunderous applause)
-
As Reverend [Walkard] Wilson pointed out,
I think it was eight years ago today
-
that the Supreme Court handed down
the desegregation decision.
-
And despite the fact that eight years
have gone past, that decision
-
- hasn't been implemented yet.
- (applause from audience)
-
I don't have that much faith.
-
I don't have that much confidence.
-
I don't have that much patience.
-
And I don't have that much ignorance to--
-
(thunderous applause)
-
If the Supreme Court, which is
the highest lawmaking body
-
in the country, can pass a decision that -
can't get even eight percent compliance
-
within eight years, because
it's for black people,
-
then my patience has run out.
-
(applause)
-
When Black people who are being
oppressed become impatient,
-
they say that's emotional.
-
(murmuring)
-
Please, when black people who are being
deprived of their citizenship...
-
not only of their civil rights,
but their human rights,
-
become impatient, become fed up,
don't wanna wait any longer,
-
then they say that's emotional.
-
(laughter and applause)
-
The Negro, so-called Negro, leaders
and organizations should be praised.
-
They should be congratulated.
-
They should be complimented
-
because out of all of them combined,
the white man has not yet found
-
one who will play the role of Uncle Tom.
-
(thunderous applause)
-
But yet he has found no Tom, no puppet,
no parrot, who is still dumb enough
-
in 1962 to represent the injustices
that he is inflicting against our people.
-
(applause)
-
We don't care what your religion is.
-
We don't care what
organization you belong to.
-
We don't care how far
in school you went or didn't go.
-
We don't care what kind of job you have.
-
We have to give you credit
for shocking the white man
-
by not letting him divide you
and use you one against the other.
-
(applause)
-
In the past, the greatest weapon
the White man has had
-
has been his ability
to divide and conquer.
-
As Jackie Robinson pointed out beautifully
on the television last night,
-
4/5 of the world isn't white.
-
- Isn't that what Jackie said?
- (applause)
-
And if 4/5 of the world is dark,
how is it possible for 1/5
-
to rule, oppress, exploit, dominate,
and brutalize the 4/5
-
who are in the majority?
How did they do it?
-
Divide and conquer.
-
If I take my hand and slap you,
you don't even feel it.
-
It might sting you,
because these digits are separated.
-
But all I have to do to put you
back in your place is bring
-
- those digits together.
- (applause)
-
This is what the white man
has done to you and me.
-
He has divided us, and
used us one against the other.
-
But today, thanks to Allah –
You can say thanks to God,
-
or thanks to Jesus, or thanks to
Jehovah – whatever you want.
-
(applause)
-
But as a follower of
the honorable Elijah Muhammad,
-
we have been taught
to say thanks to Allah.
-
And that's what Jesus said.
Jesus called on Allah.
-
He said, "Allah! [speaks Arabic]"
-
I believe what's good for Jesus
is good for you.
-
If Allah was good enough for Jesus
to call upon, I think he
-
- should be good enough for you to call upon.
- (man) That's right!
-
Since the so-called Negro community
has shocked the white man
-
by resisting all efforts to divide us,
-
I think that you and I
should continue to shock him
-
by singing and working together in unity.
-
Despite religious, political, economic,
or educational, or social differences,
-
let us remember that we are not brutalized
because we're Baptists.
-
We're not brutalized
because we're Methodists.
-
We're not brutalized
because we're Muslims.
-
We're not brutalized
because we're Catholics.
-
We're brutalized because
because we are black people in America.
-
(applause)
-
Here your mother is being raped,
and you're not supposed to be emotional.
-
Your women – please –
your woman can't walk the street
-
without some cracker
putting his hands on her--
-
- and you're not supposed to be emotional!
- (applause)
-
If you say that you're fed up,
if you teach the Negro – (film skips)
-
- they don't even know their own name--
- (woman) That's right!
-
Why? Because he took took it away from her.
-
Please, please. 20 million Black people
don't even know their own language.
-
Why? Because he took it away from us.
-
20 million Black people who
don't even know their history
-
of their ancestors.
Why? Because he took it away from us!
-
And if you try and tell them
how thoroughly and completely
-
they've been robbed, he says
you're teaching hate.
-
(applause)
-
That's something to think about.
-
(murmuring)
-
Today we're coming out of college, you're
coming out of the leading universities.
-
You're trying to go in a good direction.
-
But you don't know which direction to go in.
-
And if somebody tries to take you
right to the root of your problem
-
they say that that man's a hate teacher.
-
If I ask why should
the Senators in Washington--
-
and, then again, if we tell you that negro
are being hung on the tree,
-
or being shot down illegally, unjustly...
-
and those negroes should do
something to protect themselves
-
you say you're advocating violence.
-
The white man is tricking you!
He's trapping you.
-
He doesn't call it violence when he
lands troops in South Vietnam.
-
- (applause)
- Please, please, please!
-
He doesn't call it violence
when he lands troops in Berlin.
-
When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor,
he didn't say get non-violent.
-
He said, "Praise the Lord,
but pass the ammunition."
-
(applause)
-
But when someone attacks you,
when someone comes at you with a club,
-
when someone comes you with a rope,
when someone comes at you with a gun,
-
despite the fact that you've done nothing
he tells you, "Suffer peacefully."
-
- (murmuring)
- "Pray for those who use you to spite me."
-
Be long suffering.
-
And how long can you suffer
after suffering for 400 years?
-
(applause)
-
So I just wanna play up
that little point right there
-
because he said that we
play on your emotions.
-
And when you turn
on your television tonight,
-
or your radio, or read the newspaper,
they're gonna tell you in that paper
-
that I was playing on your emotions.
-
Imagine you, a second class citizen.
That's not getting emotional!
-
It's getting intelligent.
-
And as far as your mayor is concerned,
I see - should say their mayor.
-
A man named Yorty,
-
who has been slandering the Muslims,
-
a professional liar--
a professional liar.
-
(applause)
-
Who has mastered the art
of using half truths.
-
Put in the paper that they break
into our religious place of worship
-
and got records that they can use to prove
that most of us have criminal records.
-
You can't be a negro in America
and not have a criminal record.
-
(thunderous applause)
-
Martin Luther King has been to jail.
-
- (applause)
- Please.
-
James Farmer has been to jail.
-
Why, you can't name a black man
in this country who was sick and tired
-
of the hell that he's catching
who hasn't been to jail.
-
Charged him with being seditious.
-
- They put Moses in jail!
- (woman) Yeah!
-
- They put Daniel in jail.
- (woman) Yeah!
-
Why, you haven't got a man of God
in the Bible that wasn't put to jail
-
when they started speaking up against
exploitation and oppression.
-
(applause)
-
They charged Jesus with sedition.
-
- Didn't they do that?
- (crowd concurs)
-
They said he was against Caesar.
-
They said he was discriminating
because he told his disciples,
-
"Go not the way of the gentiles,
but rather go to the lost sheep."
-
He discriminated!
Don't go near the gentiles,
-
go to the lost sheep.
Go to the oppressed.
-
Go the downtrodden.
Go to the exploited.
-
Go the people who don't
know who they are,
-
who are lost from the knowledge
of themselves and who are
-
strangers in a land that is not theirs.
-
Go to those people!
Go to the slaves.
-
Go the second class citizens.
Go to the ones who are suffering
-
the brunt of Caesar's brutality.
-
And if Jesus were here in America today,
he wouldn't be going to the white man.
-
The white man is the oppressor!
He would be going to the oppressed.
-
He would be going to the humble.
He would be going to the lowly.
-
He would be going to
the rejected and the despised.
-
He would be going to
the so-called American negro.
-
(applause)
-
To have once been a criminal
-
is no disgrace.
-
To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
-
I formally was a criminal.
-
I formally was in prison.
I'm not ashamed of that.
-
You never can use that over my head.
-
And he's using the wrong stick!
-
I don't feel that stick.
-
(laughter and applause)
-
I went to a prison because I
believed in men like Sam Yorty.
-
I went to prison because I
trusted men like Sam Yorty.
-
I went to prison following the philosophy
of men like Sam Yorty.
-
But since I've been following
the honorable Elijah Muhammad,
-
I have been reformed
and that's more--please--
-
that's more than Sam Yorty
and Chief Parker
-
and all these other white politicians
that have been able to do
-
with the inmates in
the prisons of this state.
-
They should give Mr. Muhammad credit.
They should give Mr. Muhammad credit
-
for reforming and rehabilitating
men whom they have failed
-
- to reform and rehabilitate.
- (thunderous applause)
-
Mayor Yorty went forward
to some press report
-
that Mr. Muhammad had once been found
guilty of contributing to the delinquency
-
of a minor.
-
He failed to explain,
purposely, that in 1934,
-
the honorable Elijah Muhammad
refused to send his children
-
to white schools in Detroit, Michigan,
that were teaching you
-
about little black Sambo.
-
That's the minor that he contributed
to the delinquency of.
-
You see this vicious, fork-tongue
white man has been able
-
to take lies and make you turn against
those who want to help you
-
and make others turn against you.
-
This is the contributing to
the delinquency of a minor
-
that this mayor, or a man who calls
himself mayor, is talking about.
-
In the same article he said that
the Muslims are the same people
-
who rioted in the United Nations.
-
Someone should pull his coat and let
him know that at the present moment
-
there's six million dollars worth of suits
[inaudible] level against two
-
of New York's leading newspapers
for making a mistake of charging
-
the Muslims as being involved
in those United Nations riots.
-
We were not involved!
-
And if this fork-tongued man
who calls himself your mayor
-
had taken the time to find that out,
he wouldn't be walking into the trap
-
that he's letting his
ignorance lead him into!
-
(applause)
-
And if you take the time to read
-
the Washington Post that came out
the Sunday after that incident took place,
-
the Washington Post pointed out
on the front page that the Muslims
-
had nothing to do with the UN riots
and they quoted, in saying so,
-
the person who was at that time
the Commissioner of Police in New York City.
-
See, it's lies that the white man
has spread about the Muslims
-
to try and make you afraid of the Muslims,
or to try and make you think
-
that the Muslims were a criminal element,
an uncouth element in things
-
that you have not liked
to be associated with.
-
Also, they say that--
I'm just clearing these things up
-
and then we're going
to get into what happened.
-
They also say that the honorable Elijah
Muhammad was draft dodger.
-
No, he wasn't.
-
He just refused to go to the army
because he was a man of peace.
-
He was a minister of a religion of peace.
He was teaching peace.
-
So he outright refused to go to the army.
-
That's not draft dodging.
That's intelligence.
-
(cheering)
-
Here, before the grand jury,
-
because the coroner's jury
is stacked against negros.
-
(cheers and applause)
-
The Grand Jury is stacked against negros.
-
The press, the radio, the television
and the newspapers
-
- are stacked against negros.
- (crowd concurs)
-
But, please, the Los Angeles
Police department is stacked
-
against all negroes, all except those he
has appointed to high positions.
-
The control press, the white press
inflames the white public against negroes.
-
The police are able to use it
to paint the negro community
-
as a criminal element.
-
The police are able to use the press
to make the white public think
-
that 90%, or 99%, of the negroes in the
negro community are criminals.
-
And once the white public is convinced
that most of the negro community
-
is a criminal element, then this
automatically paves the way for the
-
police to move into the negro
community, exercising Gestapo tactics
-
stopping any black man who
is in this - on the sidewalk, whether he
-
is guilty or whether he is innocent.
Whether he is well dressed or whether
-
he is poorly dressed.
Whether he is educated or whether he is dumb.
-
Whether he's a Christian or whether
he's a Muslim.
-
As long as he is black and a member
of the negro community
-
the white public thinks that the white
policeman is justified
-
in going in there and trampling on that
mans civil rights and on that mans
-
human rights.
(applause)
-
Once the police have convinced the
white public that the so-called
-
negro community is a criminal element,
they can go in and question,
-
brutalize, murder, unarmed innocent
negroes and the white public
-
is gullible enough to back them up.
-
This makes the negro community
a police state.
-
This makes the negro neighborhood
a police state.
-
It's the most heavily patrolled.
It has more police in it than any
-
other neighborhood, yet it has more
crime in it than any other neighborhood.
-
How can you have more cops
and more crime?
-
(laughter)
-
It shows you that the cops must be
in cahoots with the criminals.
-
(laughter, applause)
-
The texture of the hair that God - please - ,
that God gave them
-
so much that they put lye on it.
(laughter)
-
Do you realise - now, you know brother;
lye will eat a hole in steel and you
-
know your head is not that hard.
-
(applause)
-
Who taught you - please. Who taught
you to hate the texture of your hair?
-
Who taught you to hate the color of
your skin to such extent that
-
you bleach to get like the white man?
-
Who taught you to hate
the shape of your nose
-
and the shape of your lips?
Who taught you to hate yourself
-
from the top of your head
to the soles of your feet?
-
Who taught you to hate
your own kind?
-
Who taught you to hate
the race that you belong to?
-
So much so that you don't want
to be around each other.
-
You know, before you come asking
Mr. Muhammed
-
does he teach hate?
-
You should ask who- yourself,
who taught you to hate
-
being what God gave you.
(applause)
-
We teach you to love the hair
that God gave you.
-
Here you, way out in the middle
of the ocean, can't swim
-
and you worried about someone
that's in the bathtub and can't swim.
-
(laughter and applause)
-
We don't steal. We don't gamble.
We don't lie, and we don't cheat.
-
And that also deprives the government
of revenue
-
(laughter)
-
because you can't get into a whiskey
bottle without getting
-
past the government seal.
-
You can't open a deck of cards without
getting past the government seal.
-
Hell, the white man makes the whiskey
then puts you in jail for getting drunk.
-
(cheering)
-
He sells you the cards and the dice
and puts you in jail when he
-
catches you using 'em.
-
So, he's against us because we fix it
where he can't catch you anymore.
-
We take the dice outta your hands
and the cards out of your hands
-
and the whiskey out of your head.
-
The most disrespected person in
America is the black woman.
-
The most unprotected person in
America is the black woman.
-
The most neglected person in
America is the black woman.
-
And as Muslims, the honorable
Elijah Mohammad teaches us
-
to respect our women
and to protect our women.
-
And the only time a Muslim really
gets real violent is when
-
someone goes to molest his woman.
- (man) right!
-
(applause)
-
We will kill you for our woman.
-
I'm making it plain. Yes.
We will kill you for our woman.
-
(applause)
-
We believe that if the white man
will do whatever is necessary
-
to see that his woman gets respect
and protection
-
then you and I will never be
recognised as men
-
until we stand up like men
and place the same penalty
-
over the head of anyone who puts
his filthy hands in the direction
-
of our women.
-
(thunderous applause)
-
We respect them, but we want them
to respect us.
-
We think that the law should respect
the negro community.
-
The law should protect
the negro community.
-
The law should approach the negro
community with intelligence if it
-
expects the negro community to
react intelligently.
-
So, the honorable Elijah Mohammed
teaches us
-
to always avoid anything that smacks
of disrespect for the law.
-
And if the police department tells the
truth, the will have to admit
-
that they have never had any, uh,
experiences with Muslims that
-
have ever been anything other
than honorable
-
unless they themselves come at us
in a dishonorable way.
-
There's no case against the Muslims.
-
It has no case against these brothers
whom they shot down.
-
And because it has no case,
it's trying to create a case.
-
It's trying to manufacture a case.
-
And therefore they set up a grand jury
hearing of the case so that they
-
could hear it behind closed doors,
and after hearing what we have to say
-
then they'll- their particular strategy
or defense against the actions
-
that they committed on that April
the 27th.
-
So, at the advice of our attorneys,
we purposefully, the victims,
-
those who have been indicted, or
rather those who have been arrested
-
and are out on bond, have purposefully
refrained and refused from making
-
any statement whatsoever until after
the case appears in court.
-
And when you hear their story
it will be in a public trial.
-
We have already been - had
experience with these private hearings
-
behind closed doors.
-
Anything that the white man has to
do to the Muslim,
-
he has to do it in the open.
-
He has to do it in public, or he has to
put every single one of us
-
behind bars for the rest our our lives.
-
(applause)
-
When Mayor Yorty called for a
government investigation
-
of a religious group that have the
highest moral standards
-
of any group in the negro community,
Mayor Yorty was giving you an
-
example of what Hitler did in Nazi
Germany when he began to go
-
on the rampage.
-
(applause)
-
We feel, we have confidence that
the white public and the black public,
-
if they hear our case, if they hear and
have access to the investigation,
-
will never be fooled by this phony
set up that's stacked from the top
-
all the way down.
-
And if you doubt it, when you leave home
tonight, when you go home tonight
-
look for the press.
I'd like at this time to call forth
-
these brothers who are under, uh,
who were arrested.
-
The brothers who were arrested. Come
up here behind these chairs, please.
-
(applause)
-
They were suspects.
(laughter)
-
This wouldn't happen in a
white neighborhood.
-
White man can walk down the street
with packages on his head
-
packages under his arm
and packages anywhere else
-
and won't anybody question his
right to carry those packages.
-
But a negro is suspect because
the press makes you suspect.
-
Yes, the white press makes negroes
suspect.
-
- (murmuring)
- (video skips)
-
All the information you need, Officer.
-
And the Officer made one stay at the
rear of the car and the
-
other go to the front of the car,
and while he was taking the one
-
to the one to the front of the car,
the polite attitude, the humble if,
-
the submissive, intelligent peaceful
spirit that he uexpectedly found
-
in this negro infuriated him.
And he began to - he told
-
the brother; 'put down your hands.'
Brother was talking, he's not a criminal.
-
A man has a right on the
sidewalk to talk with his hands.
-
'Put down your hands, don't talk with
your hands.'
-
And when the brother continued to
gesture with his hands
-
the Officer grabbed his hand, twisted
it around, 'round behind his back
-
flung him up against the car
and then that's when hell broke loose.
-
That was when hell broke loose.
-
A struggle ensued, shots were fired
by the police
-
and by a negro door shaker.
-
(laughter)
-
An alarm went out.
-
When the alarm went out, instead
of the police going to the place
-
where the incident occurred,
the police went one block away
-
to the temple.
-
When they arrived there, they got out
of their cars with their guns smokin'.
-
You woulda thought it was Wyatt -
what his name?
-
Wyatt Earp.
-
I'm telling you, they came out of those
cars, and we have enough
-
witnesses to hang 'em.
-
With their guns smokin'.
-
Cheif Parker knows this,
Mayor Yorty knows this
-
and every police official in the city
knows that.
-
They didn't fire no warning shots in
the air
-
they fired warning shots point blank at
innocent, unarmed,
-
defenseless negroes.
-
As I say, two of the brothers were
shot in the back.
-
Another was shot in the shoulder.
-
Another was shot, two of them were
shot, excuse the expression,
-
through the penis.
-
(murmuring)
-
Another was shot in the hip and the
bullet came out the other side.
-
But Arthur here was shot 1/4 of an
inch from his heart.
-
Let me tell you something, and I'll tell
you why you say 'we hate white people'.
-
We don't hate anybody.
-
We love our own people so much,
they think we hate the ones who
-
are inflicting injustice against them.
-
- (applause)
- (video skips)
-
Who has been shot, the bullet
having passed a 1/4 of an
-
inch through his heart.
-
I'm not gonna let him talk, which
I think you can understand why.
-
You should listen to the conversation
of the police officers
-
while it was going on.
-
Two of the brothers who had been shot,
who were lying hand in hand,
-
the officer said they were chanting a
death chant.
-
You read that.
-
They were saying 'Allahu Akbar'.
What does that mean?
-
It means that God is the greatest.
It means that God is the greatest.
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(applause)
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Understand what the white officer called
a death chant was a prayer.
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They were praying when they
were shot down.
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They were saying Allhu Akbar.
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And it shook the officer up that they
haven't heard black people talk
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any kinda talk but what they taught 'em.
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And two of the brothers who were shot
in the back were telling me that
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as they lay on the sidewalk, they
were holding hands.
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They held hands with each other
saying Allahu Akbar.
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And the blood was seeping out of
them where the police bullets
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had torn into their insides.
Still, they said Allahu Akbar
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and the police came and kicked them
in the head.
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Police kicked them in the head
telling them to shut up that noise
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while they were laying on the sidewalk
in front of our temple.
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Kicked them in the head.
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Shut up that noise. And one of them,
when he was on his way to the
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police station in the ambulance,
one of the ambulance attendants
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told the white cop, 'why don't you
kill the nigger?'
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He said, 'I'll tell them that he tried
to get away. Why don't you
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kill the nigger? While you got a chance.
I'll swear that he tried to get away.'
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If he didn't say this, then I need to
be put in jail, and I'll gladly go.
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(applause)
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One of them who was being taken to
jail in a police car
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as the ambulance sirens were coming
to the place, one of the policeman
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said to the other: 'what are the
ambulances rushing for? Nothing
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but some niggers.'
So, he looked then and saw the Muslim
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brothers sitting beside him
and he shut up.
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But after he got to the jail, the same
officer that said this
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turned to the brother and said; 'I hope
that you didn't get offended by
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what I said back there under the heat
of emotion, because some of my
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best friends are colored.'
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(roaring)
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That's what he said.
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That's his password: 'Some of my best
friends are colored.'
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And I for one, as a Muslim, believe
that the white man is intelligent
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enough, if he were made to realise
how black people really feel
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and how fed up we are without that
whole compromising sweet talk.
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Why you're the one that make it
hard for yourself.
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The white man believes you when you
go to him with that old sweet talk
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'cause you been sweet talkin' him
ever since he brought you here.
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Stop sweet talking him.
Tell him how you feel.
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Tell him how or what kinda hell you
been catching
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and let him know that if he's not ready
to clean his house up
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if hes not ready to clean his house up,
he shouldn't have a house.
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It should catch on fire. And burn down.
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(applause)
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As Muslims, we identify ourselves with
the dark world.
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So we're not any minority.
We're apart of the majority
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and the white man is the minority.
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(applause)
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You have to know this to understand us:
we don't think any odds are
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against us.
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We don't fight a battle like the odds
are against us.
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Why, the whole dark world today
is in unity.
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It's one. If you don't
think so, look at the United Nations.
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When the dark world votes,
they vote as one.
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They gettin' the colonialists out of Africa,
and out of Asia.
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Tellin' them to get out.
They don't have any nuclear weapons
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but they got a solid, united voice
and their unity alone is sufficient
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to drive the oppressor and exploiter
of their people out of their own country.
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You and I need to learn a lesson from
that right there.
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In the UN, the dark world consists of
Buddhist's, Hindu's, Shinto's,
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Taoist's, Christian's, Muslims,
everything.
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But they're together.
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They forget their religious and
political differences.
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They think as one.
They move as one
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against a common enemy.
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And [inaudible] of Algeria, he's
going, don't think he's not going,
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he's going.
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(applause)
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They're getting him out of Angola,
out of Tanganyika, out of Angola,
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Out of Uganda, out of Kenya.
He's going from South Africa, too.
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He hasn't got long to be there.
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All over this earth, dark people who
have been oppressed and exploited
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by those who are not their own kind,
strangers, are coming together to
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get the oppressor off their back.
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You and I learn a lesson from that.
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We are oppressed.
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We are exploited.
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We are downtrodden.
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We are denied, not only civil rights,
but even human rights.
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So, the only way we're going to get
some of this oppression
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and exploitation away from us,
or aside from us
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is come together against the
common enemy.
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(applause)
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When they sat down at the Bandung
conference, everyone there
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had this in common: a dark skin.
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Some of those who were sitting there
were socialists, some were communists,
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some where capitalists, some were
Christian, some were Buddhist.
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They were everything!
But all of 'em was dark skinned.
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And they looked at that dark skin
and agreed that this is
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one thing they had in common.
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Forget that you're a Methodist,
forget that you're a Catholic,
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forget that you're a Protestant,
forget that you're a Muslim.
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Remember that all of us are black,
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and we're catching h -