WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:09.008 (applause) 00:00:13.337 --> 00:00:16.040 In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful 00:00:16.040 --> 00:00:18.377 to whom all praise is due, 00:00:18.377 --> 00:00:22.572 whom we forever thank for giving us the honorable Elijah Mohammad 00:00:22.572 --> 00:00:24.624 as our leader, teacher, and guide. 00:00:24.624 --> 00:00:30.319 And I specifically, ladies and gentleman, and brothers and sisters, 00:00:30.319 --> 00:00:33.156 open up like that because I am a representative 00:00:33.156 --> 00:00:35.867 of the honorable Elijah Mohammad. 00:00:35.867 --> 00:00:39.306 And were it not for him, you and wouldn't be here today. 00:00:44.424 --> 00:00:50.210 In order for you and me to devise some kind of method or strategy 00:00:50.210 --> 00:00:55.590 to offset some of the events or the repetition of the events 00:00:55.590 --> 00:01:00.132 that have taken place here in Los Angelas recently, 00:01:00.132 --> 00:01:04.635 we have to go to the root. We have to go to the cause. 00:01:04.635 --> 00:01:07.970 Dealing with the condition itself is not enough. 00:01:07.970 --> 00:01:11.134 - We have to get to the cause of it all. - (crowd concurs) 00:01:11.134 --> 00:01:12.968 Or the root of it all. 00:01:12.968 --> 00:01:18.168 And it is because of our effort toward getting straight to the root 00:01:18.168 --> 00:01:21.803 that people oft times think we're dealing in hate. 00:01:23.099 --> 00:01:28.957 But first I would like to congratulate and give praise to the Negro, 00:01:28.957 --> 00:01:33.244 so-called Negro leaders and so-called Negro organizations 00:01:33.244 --> 00:01:37.844 and, excuse me if I say so-called, it's hard for me to just outright say Negro 00:01:37.844 --> 00:01:49.825 - when I know what that word Negro really means. - (thunderous applause) 00:01:50.604 --> 00:01:55.188 The person whom you have come to know as Ronald Stokes, 00:01:55.188 --> 00:01:57.940 we know him as Brother Ron – 00:01:57.940 --> 00:02:04.758 one of the most religious persons to display the highest form of morals 00:02:04.758 --> 00:02:08.677 of any Black person anywhere on this Earth. 00:02:08.677 --> 00:02:13.392 And as one of the previous speakers pointed out, who knew him, 00:02:13.392 --> 00:02:18.541 everyone who knew him had to give him credit for being a good man. 00:02:18.541 --> 00:02:25.763 A clean man, an intelligent man, and an innocent man 00:02:25.763 --> 00:02:28.142 when he was murdered. 00:02:28.142 --> 00:02:33.263 The Negro, so-called Negro, organizations and leaders should be given 00:02:33.263 --> 00:02:40.904 great credit for their failure or refusal to let the White man divide them 00:02:40.904 --> 00:02:44.400 and use them, one against the other, during this crisis. 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:53.410 (thunderous applause) 00:02:53.773 --> 00:03:00.311 As Reverend [Walkard] Wilson pointed out, I think it was eight years ago today 00:03:00.311 --> 00:03:05.252 that the Supreme Court handed down the desegregation decision. 00:03:07.263 --> 00:03:12.139 And despite the fact that eight years have gone past, that decision 00:03:12.139 --> 00:03:17.207 - hasn't been implemented yet. - (applause from audience) 00:03:19.065 --> 00:03:22.694 I don't have that much faith. 00:03:22.694 --> 00:03:25.283 I don't have that much confidence. 00:03:25.283 --> 00:03:27.757 I don't have that much patience. 00:03:27.757 --> 00:03:30.860 And I don't have that much ignorance to-- 00:03:30.860 --> 00:03:43.328 (thunderous applause) 00:03:43.328 --> 00:03:48.703 If the Supreme Court, which is the highest lawmaking body 00:03:48.703 --> 00:03:54.223 in the country, can pass a decision that can't get even eight percent compliance 00:03:54.223 --> 00:03:59.481 within eight years, because it's for Black people, 00:03:59.481 --> 00:04:01.831 then my patience has run out. 00:04:01.831 --> 00:04:12.115 (applause) 00:04:13.194 --> 00:04:17.168 When Black people who are being oppressed become impatient, 00:04:17.168 --> 00:04:19.266 they say that's emotional. 00:04:19.266 --> 00:04:21.254 (murmuring) 00:04:21.254 --> 00:04:27.734 Please, when black people who are being deprived of their citizenship... 00:04:27.734 --> 00:04:31.570 not only of their civil rights, but their human rights, 00:04:31.570 --> 00:04:35.859 become impatient, become fed up, don't wanna wait any longer, 00:04:35.859 --> 00:04:38.229 then they say that's emotional. 00:04:38.229 --> 00:04:43.812 (laughter and applause) 00:04:43.812 --> 00:04:49.057 The Negro, so-called Negro, leaders and organizations should be praised. 00:04:49.057 --> 00:04:51.385 They should be congratulated. 00:04:51.385 --> 00:04:53.679 They should be complimented 00:04:53.679 --> 00:04:57.642 because out of all of them combined, the White man has not yet found 00:04:57.642 --> 00:05:01.522 one who will play the role of Uncle Tom. 00:05:01.522 --> 00:05:09.801 (thunderous applause) 00:05:09.801 --> 00:05:17.215 But yet he has found no Tom, no puppet, no parrot, who is still dumb enough 00:05:17.215 --> 00:05:24.000 in 1962 to represent the injustices that he is inflicting against our people. 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:25.378 (applause) 00:05:25.378 --> 00:05:28.797 We don't care what your religion is. 00:05:28.797 --> 00:05:32.669 We don't care what organization you belong to. 00:05:32.669 --> 00:05:36.714 We don't care how far in school you went or didn't go. 00:05:36.714 --> 00:05:39.525 We don't care what kind of job you have. 00:05:39.525 --> 00:05:43.636 We have to give you credit for shocking the White man 00:05:43.636 --> 00:05:47.258 by not letting him divide you and use you one against the other. 00:05:47.258 --> 00:05:58.472 (applause) 00:05:58.472 --> 00:06:02.089 In the past, the greatest weapon the White man has had 00:06:02.089 --> 00:06:07.948 has been his ability to divide and conquer. 00:06:07.948 --> 00:06:13.555 As Jackie Robinson pointed out beautifully on the television last night, 00:06:13.555 --> 00:06:17.551 4/5 of the world isn't White. 00:06:17.551 --> 00:06:27.142 - Isn't that what Jackie said? - (applause) 00:06:27.142 --> 00:06:33.016 And if 4/5 of the world is dark, how is it possible for 1/5 00:06:33.016 --> 00:06:39.323 to rule, oppress, exploit, dominate, and brutalize the 4/5 00:06:39.323 --> 00:06:42.456 who are in the majority? How did they do it? 00:06:42.456 --> 00:06:44.365 Divide and conquer. 00:06:44.365 --> 00:06:48.297 If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it – 00:06:48.297 --> 00:06:52.143 (It might sting you.) – because these digits are separated. 00:06:52.143 --> 00:06:55.696 But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring 00:06:55.696 --> 00:07:05.526 - those digits together. - (applause) 00:07:05.526 --> 00:07:10.152 This is what the White man has done to you and me. 00:07:10.152 --> 00:07:15.523 He has divided us, and used us one against the other. 00:07:15.523 --> 00:07:19.898 But today, thanks to Allah – (You can say thanks to God, 00:07:19.898 --> 00:07:23.648 or thanks to Jesus, or thanks to Jehovah – whatever you want.) 00:07:23.648 --> 00:07:30.151 (applause) 00:07:30.151 --> 00:07:33.092 But as a follower of the honorable Elijah Mohammad, 00:07:33.092 --> 00:07:36.426 we have been taught to say thanks to Allah. 00:07:36.426 --> 00:07:39.157 And that's what Jesus said. Jesus called on Allah. 00:07:39.157 --> 00:07:42.155 He said, "Allah! [inaudible]" 00:07:42.155 --> 00:07:46.364 I believe what's good for Jesus is good for you. 00:07:46.364 --> 00:07:49.155 If Allah was good enough for Jesus to call upon, I think he 00:07:49.155 --> 00:07:54.016 - should be good enough for you to call upon. - (man) That's right! 00:07:54.016 --> 00:07:58.425 Since the so-called Negro community has shocked the White man 00:07:58.425 --> 00:08:02.209 by resisting all efforts to divide us, 00:08:02.209 --> 00:08:06.291 I think that you and I should continue to shock him 00:08:06.291 --> 00:08:09.296 by singing and working together in unity. 00:08:09.296 --> 00:08:14.958 Despite religious, political, economic, or educational, or social differences, 00:08:14.958 --> 00:08:19.525 let us remember that we are not brutalized because we're Baptists. 00:08:19.525 --> 00:08:23.257 We're not brutalized because we're Methodists. 00:08:23.257 --> 00:08:26.542 We're not brutalized because we're Muslims. 00:08:26.542 --> 00:08:29.591 We're not brutalized because we're Catholics. 00:08:29.591 --> 00:08:33.256 We're brutalized because because we are Black people in America. 00:08:33.256 --> 00:08:36.924 (applause) 00:08:36.924 --> 00:08:41.146 Here your mother is being raped, and you're not supposed to be emotional. 00:08:41.146 --> 00:08:44.300 Your women – please – your woman can't walk the street 00:08:44.300 --> 00:08:47.036 without some Cracker putting his hands on her-- 00:08:47.036 --> 00:09:02.356 - and you're not supposed to be emotional! - (applause) 00:09:03.659 --> 00:09:07.263 If you say that you're fed up, if you teach the Negro – (film skips) 00:09:07.263 --> 00:09:09.832 - they don't even know their own name-- - (woman) That's right! 00:09:09.832 --> 00:09:12.226 Why? Because he took took it away from her. 00:09:12.226 --> 00:09:16.970 Please, please. 20 million Black people don't even know their own language. 00:09:16.970 --> 00:09:19.731 Why? Because he took it away from us. 00:09:19.731 --> 00:09:22.309 20 million Black people who don't even know their history 00:09:22.309 --> 00:09:26.496 of their ancestors. Why? Because he took it away from us! 00:09:26.496 --> 00:09:29.182 And if you try and tell them how thoroughly and completely 00:09:29.182 --> 00:09:32.510 they've been robbed, he says you're teaching hate. 00:09:32.510 --> 00:09:37.709 (applause) 00:09:37.709 --> 00:09:40.423 [That's something to think about. 00:09:40.423 --> 00:09:42.945 (murmuring) 00:09:42.945 --> 00:09:48.045 Today we're coming out college, you're coming out of the leading universities. 00:09:48.045 --> 00:09:52.013 You're trying to go in a good direction. 00:09:52.013 --> 00:09:54.879 But you don't which direction to go in. 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:58.910 And if somebody tries to take you right to the root of your problem 00:09:58.910 --> 00:10:01.157 they say that that man's a hate teacher. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If I ask why should the Senators in Washington-- 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and, then again, if we tell you that negro are being hung on the tree, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 or being shot down illegally, unjustly... 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and those negros should do something to protect themselves 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you say you're advocating violence. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The white man is tricking you! He's trapping you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He doesn't call it violence when he lands troops in South Vietnam. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 - (applause) - Please, please, please! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He doesn't call it violence when he lands troops in Berlin. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, he didn't say get non-violent. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He said, "Praise the Lord, but pass the ammunition." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But when someone attacks you, when someone comes at you with a club, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 when someone comes you with a rope, when someone comes at you with a gun, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 despite the fact that you've done nothing he tells you, "Suffer peacefully." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 - (murmuring) - "Pray for those who use you to spite me." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [inaudible]. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And how long can you suffer after suffering for 400 years? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So I just wanna play up that little point right there 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because he said that we play on your emotions. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And when you turn on your television tonight, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 or your radio, or read the newspaper, they're gonna tell you in that paper 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that I was playing on your emotions. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Imagine you, a second class citizen. That's not getting emotional! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's getting intelligent. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And as far as your mayor is concerned, I see [audible]. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A man named Jordy, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 who has been slandering the Muslims, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 a professional liar-- a professional liar. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who has mastered the art of using half truths. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Put in the paper that they break into our religious place of worship 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and got records that they can use to prove that most of us have criminal records. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You can't be a negro in America and not have a criminal record. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (thunderous applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Martin Luther King has been to jail. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 - (applause) - Please. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 James Farmer has been to jail. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Why, you can't name a black man in this country who was sick and tired 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 of the hell that he's [catching] who hasn't been to jail. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Charged him with being seditious. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 - They put Moses in jail! - (woman) Yeah! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 - They put Daniel in jail. - (woman) Yeah! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Why, you haven't got a man of God in the Bible that wasn't put to jail 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 when they started speaking up against exploitation and oppression. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They charged Jesus with sedition. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 - Didn't they do that? - (crowd concurs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They said he was against Caesar. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They said he was discriminating because he told his disciples, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Go not the way of the gentiles, but rather go to the lost sheep." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He discriminated! Don't go near the gentiles, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 go to the lost sheep. Go to the oppressed. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Go the downtrodden. Go to the exploited. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Go the people who don't know who they are, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 who are lost from the knowledge of themselves and who are 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 strangers in a land that is not theirs. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Go to those people! Go to the slaves. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Go the second class citizens. Go to the ones who are suffering 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the brunt of Cesar's brutality. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And if Jesus were here in America today, he wouldn't be going to the white man. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The white man is the oppressor! He would be going to the oppressed. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He would be going to the humble. He would be going to the lowly. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He would be going to the rejected and the despised. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He would be going to the so-called American negro. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 To have once been a criminal 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is no disgrace. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 To remain a criminal is the disgrace. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I formally was a criminal. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I formally was in prison. I'm not ashamed of that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You never can use that over my head. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And he's using the wrong stick! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I don't feel that stick. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (laughter and applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I went to a prison because I believed in men like Sam [Jordy]. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I went to prison because I trusted men like Sam [Jordy] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I went to prison following the philosophy of men like Sam [Jordy]. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But since I've been following the honorable Elijah Mohammad, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I have been reformed and that's more--please-- 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that's more than Sam [Jordy] and [Chief Parker] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and all these other white politicians that have been able to do 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with the inmates in the prisons of this state. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They should give Mr. Mohammad credit. They should give Mr. Mohammad credit 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 for reforming and rehabilitating men whom they have failed 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 - to reform and rehabilitate. - (thunderous applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Mayor [Jordy] went forward to some press report 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that Mr. Mohammad had once been found guilty of contributing to the delinquency 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 of a minor. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He failed to explain, purposely, that in 1934, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the honorable Elijah Mohammad refused to send his children 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to white schools in Detroit, Michigan, that were teaching you 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 about little black Sambo. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's the minor that he contributed to the delinquency of. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You see this vicious, fork-tongue white man has been able 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to take lies and make you turn against those who want to help you 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and make others turn against you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is the contributing to the delinquency of a minor 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that this mayor, or a man who calls himself mayor, is talking about. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In the same article he said that the Muslims are the same people 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 who rioted in the United Nations. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Someone should pull his coat and let him know that at the present moment 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 there's six million dollars worth of suits [inaudible] level against two 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 of New York's leading newspapers for making a mistake of charging 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the Muslims as being involved in those United Nations riots. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We were not involved! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And if this fork-tongued man who calls himself your mayor 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 had taken the time to find that out, he wouldn't be walking into the trap 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that he's letting his ignorance lead him into! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And if you take the time to read 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the Washington Post that came out the Sunday after that incident took place, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the Washington Post pointed out on the front page that the Muslims 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 had nothing to do with the UN riots and they quoted the [inaudible], 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the person who was at that time the Commissioner of Police in New York City. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 See, it's lies that the white man has spread about the Muslims 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to try and make you afraid of the Muslims, or to try and make you think 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that the Muslims were a criminal element, an uncouth element in things 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that you have not liked to be associated with. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Also, they say that-- I'm clearing these things up 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and then we're going to get into what happened. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They also say that the honorable Elijah Mohammad was draft dodger. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 No, he wasn't. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He just refused to go to the army because he was a man of peace. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He was a minister of a religion of peace. He was teaching peace. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So he outright refused to go to the army. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's not draft dodging. That's intelligence. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (cheering) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Here, before the grand jury, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because the coroner's jury is stacked against negros. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (cheers and applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The Grand Jury is stacked against negros. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The press, the radio, the television and the newspapers 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 - are stacked against negros. - (crowd concurs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But, please, the Los Angeles Police department is stacked 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 against all negros, all except those he has appointed to high positions. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The control press, the white press inflames the white public against negroes. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The police are able to use it to paint the negro community 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 as a criminal element. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The police are able to use the press to make the white public think 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that 90%, or 99%, of the Negroes in the negro community are criminals. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And once the white public is convinced that most of the negro community 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is a criminal element, then this automatically paves the way for the 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 police to move into the negro community, exercising Gestapo 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 tactics, stopping any black man who is in this - on he sidewalk, whether he 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is guilty or whether he is innocent. Whether he is well dressed or whether 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he is poorly dressed. Whether he is educated or whether he is dumb. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Whether he's a Christian or whether he's a Muslim. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 As long as he is black and a member of the negro community 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the white public thinks that the white policeman is justified 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in going in there and trampling on that mans civil rights and on that mans 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 human rights. (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Once the police have convinced the white public that the so-called 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 negro community is a criminal element, they can go in and question, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 brutalize, murder, unarmed innocent negroes and the white public 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is gullible enough to back them up. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This makes the negro community a police state. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This makes the negro neighborhood a police state. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's the most heavily patrolled. It has more police in it than any 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 other neighborhood, yet it has more crime than any other neighborhood. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 How can you have more cops and more crime? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It shows you that the cops must be in cahoots with the criminals. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (laughter, applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The texture of the hair that God [inaudible], that God gave them 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so much that they put lye on it. (laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Do you realise - now, you know brother; lye will eat a hole in steel and you 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 know your head is not that hard. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who taught you - please. Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who taught you to hate the color of your skin to such extent that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you bleach to get like the white man? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 from the top of your head to the soles of your feet? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who taught you to hate your own kind? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who taught you to hate the race that you belong to? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So much so that you don't want to be around each other. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You know, before you come asking Mr. Mohammed 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 does he teach hate? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You should ask who- yourself, who taught you to hate 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 being what God gave you. (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We teach you to love the hair that God gave you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Here you, way out in the middle of the ocean, can't swim 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and you worried about someone that's in the bathtub and can't swim. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (laughter, applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We don't steal. We don't gamble. We don't lie, and we don't cheat. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And that also deprives the government of revenue 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because you can't get into a whiskey bottle without getting 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 past the government seal. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You can't open a deck of cards without getting past the government seal. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Hell, the white man makes the whiskey then puts you in jail for getting drunk. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (cheering) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He sells you the cards and the dice and puts you in jail when he 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 catches you using 'em. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, he's against us because we fix it where he can't catch you anymore. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We take the dice outta your hands and the cards out of your hands 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and the whiskey out of your head. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The most neglected person in America is the black woman. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And as Muslims, the honorable Elijah Mohammad teaches us 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to respect our women and to protect our women. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And the only time a Muslim really gets real violent is when 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 someone goes to molest his woman. - (man) right! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We will kill you for our woman. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm making it plain. Yes. We will kill you for our woman. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We believe that if the white man will do whatever is necessary 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to see that his woman gets respect and protection 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 then you and I will never be recognised as men 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 until we stand up like men and place the same penalty 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 over the head of anyone who puts his filthy hands in the direction 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 of our women. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (thunderous applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We respect them, but we want them to respect us. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We think that the law should respect the negro community. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The law should protect the negro community. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The law should approach the community with intelligence if it 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 expects the negro community to react intelligently. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, the honorable Elijah Mohammed teaches us 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to always avoid anything that smacks of disrespect for the law. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And if the police department tells the truth, the will have to admit 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that they have never had any, uh, experiences with Muslims that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 have ever been anything other than honorable 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 unless they themselves come at us in a dishonorable way. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There's no case against the Muslims. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It has no case against these brothers whom they shot down. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And because it has no case, it's trying to create a case. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's trying to manufacture a case. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And therefore they set up a grand jury hearing of the case so that they 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 could hear it behind closed doors, and after hearing what we have to say 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 then they'll- their particular strategy or defense against the actions 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that they committed on that April the 27th. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, at the advice of our attorneys, we purposefully, the victims, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 those who have been indicted, or rather those who have been arrested 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and are out on bond, have purposefully refrained and refused from making 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 any statement whatsoever until after the case appears in court. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And when you hear their story it will be in a public trial. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We have already been - had experience with these private hearings 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 behind closed doors. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Anything that the white man has to do to the Muslim, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he has to do it in the open. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He has to do it in public, or he has to put every single one of us 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 behind bars for the rest our our lives. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When Mayor Yorty called for a government investigation 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 of a religious group that have the highest moral standards 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 of any group in the negro community, Mayor Yorty was giving you an 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 example of what Hitler did in Nazi Germany when he began to go 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 on the rampage. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We feel, we have confidence that the white public and the black public, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 if they hear our case, if they hear and have access to the investigation, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 will never be fooled by this phony set up that's stacked from the top 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 all the way down. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And if you doubt it, when you leave home tonight, when you go home tonight 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 look for the press. I'd like at this time to call forth 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 these brothers who are under, uh, who were arrested. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The brothers who were arrested. Come up here behind these chairs, please. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They were suspects. (laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This wouldn't happen in a white neighborhood. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 White man can walk down the street with packages on his head 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 packages under his arm and packages anywhere else 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and won't anybody question his right to carry those packages. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But a negro is suspect because the press makes you suspect. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Yes, the white press makes negroes suspect. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (murmuring) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 All the information you need, Officer. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And the Officer made one stay at the rear of the car and the 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 other go to the front of the car, and while he was taking the one 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to the one to the front of the car, the polite attitude, the humble if, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the submissive, intelligent peaceful spirit that he uexpectedly found 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in this negro infuriated him. And he began to - he told 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the brother; 'put down your hands.' Brother was talking, he's not a criminal. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A man has a right on the sidewalk to talk with his hands. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 'Put down your hands, don't talk with your hands.' 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And when the brother continued to gesture with his hands 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the Officer grabbed his hand, twisted it around, 'round behind his back 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 flung him up against the car and then that's when hell broke loose. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That was when hell broke loose. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A struggle ensured, shots were fired by the police 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and by a negro door shaker. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 An alarm went out. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When the alarm went out, instead of the police going to the place 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 where the incident occurred, the police went one block away 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to the temple. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When they arrived there, they got out of their cars with their guns smokin'. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You woulda thought it was Wyatt - what his name? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Wyatt Earp. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm telling you, they came out of those cars, and we have enough 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 witnesses to hang 'em. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 With their guns smokin'. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Cheif Packer knows this, Mayor Yorty knows this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and every police official in the city knows that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They didn't fire no warning shots in the air 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 they fired warning shots point blank at innocent, unarmed, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 defenseless negros. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 As I say, two of the brothers were shot in the back. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Another was shot in the shoulder. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Another was shot, two of them were shot, excuse the expression, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 through the penis. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (murmuring) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Another was shot in the hip and the bullet came out the other side. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But Arthur here was shot 1/4 of an inch from his heart. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Let me tell you something, and I'll tell you why you say 'we hate white people'. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We don't hate anybody. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We love our own people so much, they think we hate the ones who 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 are inflicting injustice against them. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who has been shot, the bullet having passed a 1/4 of an 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 inch through his heart. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm not gonna let him talk, which I think you can understand why. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You should listen to the conversation of the police officers 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 while it was going on. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Two of the brothers who had been shot, who were lying hand in hand, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the officer said they were chanting a death chant. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You read that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They were saying 'Allahu Akbar'. What does that mean? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It means that God is the greatest. It means that God is the greatest. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Understand what the white officer called a death chant was a prayer. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They were praying when they were shot down. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They were saying Allhu Akbar. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And it shook the officer up that they haven't heard black people talk 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 any kinda talk but what they taught 'em. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And two of the brothers who were shot in the back were telling me that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 as they lay on the sidewalk, they were holding hands. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They held hands with each other saying Allahu Akbar. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And the blood was seeping out of them where the police bullets 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 had torn into their insides. Still, they said Allahu Akbar 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and the police came and kicked them in the head. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Police kicked them in the head telling them to shut up that noise 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 while they were laying on the sidewalk in front of our temple. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Kicked them in the head. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Shut up that noise. And one of them, when he was on his way to the 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 police station in the ambulance, one of the ambulance attendants 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 told the white cop, 'why don't you kill the nigger?' 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He said, 'I'll tell them that he tried to get away. Why don't you 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 kill the nigger? While you got a chance. I'll swear that he tried to get away.' 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If he didn't say this, then I need to be put in jail, and I'll gladly go. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 One of them who was being taken to jail in a police car 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 as the ambulance sirens were coming to the place, one of the policeman 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 said to the other: 'what are the ambulances rushing for? Nothing 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but some niggers.' So, he looked then and saw the Muslim 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 brothers sitting beside him and he shut up. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But after he got to the jail, the same officer that said this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 turned to the brother and said; 'I hope that you didn't get offended by 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 what I said back there under the heat of emotion, because some of my 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 best friends are colored.' 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (roaring) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's what he said. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's his password: 'Some of my best friends are colored.' 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I for one, as a Muslim, believe that the white man is intelligent 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 enough, if he were made to realise how black people really feel 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and how fed up we are without that whole compromising sweet talk. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Why you're the one that make it hard for yourself. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The white man believes you when you go to him with that old sweet talk 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 'cause you been sweet talkin' him ever since he brought you here. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Stop sweet talking him. Tell him how you feel. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Tell him how or what kinda hell you been catching 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and let him know that if he's not ready to clean his house up 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 if hes not ready to clean his house up, he shouldn't have a house. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It should catch on fire. And burn down. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 As Muslims, we identify ourselves with the dark world. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So we're not any minority. We're apart of the majority 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and the white man is the minority. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You have to know this to understand us: we don't think any odds are 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 against us. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We don't fight a battle like the odds are against us. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Why, the whole dark world today is in unity. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's one. If you don't think so, look at the United Nations. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When the dark world votes, they vote as one. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They gettin' the colonialists out of Africa, and out of Asia. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Tellin' them to get out. They don't have any nuclear weapons 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but they got a solid, united voice and they're unity alone is sufficient 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to drive the oppressor and exploiter of their people out of their own country. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You and I need to learn a lesson from that right there. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In the UN, the dark world consists of Buddhist's, Hindu's, Shinto's, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Taoist's, Christian's, Muslims, everything. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But they're together. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They forget their religious and political differences. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They think as one. They move as one 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 against a common enemy. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And [inaudible] of Algeria, he's going, don't think he's not going, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he's going. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They're getting him out of Angola, out of Tanganyika, out of Angola, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Out of Uganda, out of Kenya. He's going from South Africa, too. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He hasn't got long to be there. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 All over this earth, dark people who have been oppressed and exploited 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 by those who are not their own kind, strangers, are coming together to 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 get the oppressor off their back. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You and I learn a lesson from that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We are oppressed. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We are exploited. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We are downtrodden. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We are denied, not only civil rights, but even human rights. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, the only way we're going to get some of this oppression 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and exploitation away from us, or aside from us 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is come together against the common enemy. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (applause) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When they sat down at the Bandung conference, everyone there 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 has this in common: a dark skin. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Some of those who were sitting there were socialists, some were communists, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 some where capitalists, some were Christian, some were Buddhist. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They were everything! But all of 'em was dark skinned. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And they looked at that dark skin and agreed that this is 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 one thing they had in common. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Forget that you're a Methodist, forget that you're a Catholic, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 forget that you're a Protestant, forget that you're a Muslim. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Remember that all of us are black, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and we're catching h -