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(applause)

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In the name of Allah, [br]the beneficent, the merciful

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to whom all praise is due,

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whom we forever thank for giving us[br]the honorable Elijah Mohammad

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as our leader, teacher, and guide.

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And I specifically, ladies and gentleman,[br]and brothers and sisters,

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open up like that because I [br]am a representative

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of the honorable Elijah Mohammad.

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And were it not for him,[br]you and wouldn't be here today.

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In order for you and me to devise[br]some kind of method or strategy

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to offset some of the events[br]or the repetition of the events

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that have taken place here [br]in Los Angeles recently,[br]

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we have to go to the root.[br]We have to go to the cause.

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Dealing with the condition [br]itself is not enough.

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- We have to get to the cause of it all.[br]- (crowd concurs)

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Or the root of it all.

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And it is because of our effort[br]toward getting straight to the root

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that people oft times think [br]we're dealing in hate.

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But first I would like to congratulate[br]and give praise to the Negro,

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so-called negro leaders[br]and so-called negro organizations

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and, excuse me if I say so-called, it's hard [br]for me to just outright say Negro

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- when I know what that word Negro really means.[br]- (thunderous applause)

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The person whom you have[br]come to know as Ronald Stokes,

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we know him as Brother Ron –

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one of the most religious persons[br]to display the highest form of morals

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of any black person [br]anywhere on this Earth.

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And as one of the previous speakers [br]pointed out, who knew him,

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everyone who knew him had to give [br]him credit for being a good man.

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A clean man, an intelligent man, [br]and an innocent man

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when he was murdered.

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The Negro, so-called Negro, organizations[br]and leaders should be given

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great credit for their failure or refusal[br]to let the white man divide them

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and use them, one against the other,[br]during this crisis.

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(thunderous applause)

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As Reverend [Walkard] Wilson pointed out,[br]I think it was eight years ago today

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that the Supreme Court handed down[br]the desegregation decision.

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And despite the fact that eight years[br]have gone past, that decision

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- hasn't been implemented yet.[br]- (applause from audience)

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I don't have that much faith.

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I don't have that much confidence.

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I don't have that much patience.

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And I don't have that much ignorance to--

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(thunderous applause)

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If the Supreme Court, which is [br]the highest lawmaking body

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in the country, can pass a decision that -[br]can't get even eight percent compliance

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within eight years, because [br]it's for black people,

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then my patience has run out.[br]

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(applause)

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When Black people who are being[br]oppressed become impatient,

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they say that's emotional.

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(murmuring)

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Please, when black people who are being[br]deprived of their citizenship...

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not only of their civil rights, [br]but their human rights,

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become impatient, become fed up,[br]don't wanna wait any longer,

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then they say that's emotional.

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(laughter and applause)

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The Negro, so-called Negro, leaders [br]and organizations should be praised.

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They should be congratulated.

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They should be complimented

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because out of all of them combined,[br]the white man has not yet found

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one who will play the role of Uncle Tom.

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(thunderous applause)

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But yet he has found no Tom, no puppet,[br]no parrot, who is still dumb enough

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in 1962 to represent the injustices[br]that he is inflicting against our people.

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(applause)

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We don't care what your religion is.

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We don't care what [br]organization you belong to.

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We don't care how far [br]in school you went or didn't go.

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We don't care what kind of job you have.

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We have to give you credit [br]for shocking the white man

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by not letting him divide you [br]and use you one against the other.

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(applause)

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In the past, the greatest weapon [br]the White man has had

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has been his ability [br]to divide and conquer.

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As Jackie Robinson pointed out beautifully[br]on the television last night,

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4/5 of the world isn't white.

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- Isn't that what Jackie said?[br]- (applause)

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And if 4/5 of the world is dark,[br]how is it possible for 1/5

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to rule, oppress, exploit, dominate, [br]and brutalize the 4/5

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who are in the majority?[br]How did they do it?

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Divide and conquer.

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If I take my hand and slap you,[br]you don't even feel it.

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It might sting you,[br]because these digits are separated.

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But all I have to do to put you [br]back in your place is bring

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- those digits together.[br]- (applause)

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This is what the white man [br]has done to you and me.

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He has divided us, and [br]used us one against the other.

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But today, thanks to Allah –[br]You can say thanks to God,

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or thanks to Jesus, or thanks to [br]Jehovah – whatever you want.

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(applause)

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But as a follower of[br]the honorable Elijah Muhammad,

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we have been taught [br]to say thanks to Allah.

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And that's what Jesus said.[br]Jesus called on Allah.

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He said, "Allah! [speaks Arabic]"

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I believe what's good for Jesus[br]is good for you.

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If Allah was good enough for Jesus[br]to call upon, I think he

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- should be good enough for you to call upon.[br]- (man) That's right!

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Since the so-called Negro community[br]has shocked the white man

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by resisting all efforts to divide us,

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I think that you and I [br]should continue to shock him

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by singing and working together in unity.

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Despite religious, political, economic, [br]or educational, or social differences,

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let us remember that we are not brutalized[br]because we're Baptists.

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We're not brutalized [br]because we're Methodists.

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We're not brutalized[br]because we're Muslims.

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We're not brutalized[br]because we're Catholics.

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We're brutalized because[br]because we are black people in America.

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(applause)

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Here your mother is being raped,[br]and you're not supposed to be emotional.

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Your women – please –[br]your woman can't walk the street

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without some cracker [br]putting his hands on her--

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- and you're not supposed to be emotional![br]- (applause)

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If you say that you're fed up,[br]if you teach the Negro – (film skips)

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- they don't even know their own name--[br]- (woman) That's right!

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Why? Because he took took it away from her.

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Please, please. 20 million Black people [br]don't even know their own language.

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Why? Because he took it away from us.

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20 million Black people who [br]don't even know their history

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of their ancestors.[br]Why? Because he took it away from us!

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And if you try and tell them [br]how thoroughly and completely

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they've been robbed, he says [br]you're teaching hate.[br]

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(applause)

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That's something to think about.

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(murmuring)

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Today we're coming out of college, you're [br]coming out of the leading universities.

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You're trying to go in a good direction.

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But you don't know which direction to go in.

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And if somebody tries to take you [br]right to the root of your problem

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they say that that man's a hate teacher.

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If I ask why should [br]the Senators in Washington--

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and, then again, if we tell you that negro[br]are being hung on the tree,

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or being shot down illegally, unjustly...

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and those negroes should do[br]something to protect themselves

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you say you're advocating violence.

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The white man is tricking you![br]He's trapping you.

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He doesn't call it violence when he [br]lands troops in South Vietnam.

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- (applause)[br]- Please, please, please!

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He doesn't call it violence [br]when he lands troops in Berlin.

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When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor,[br]he didn't say get non-violent.

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He said, "Praise the Lord, [br]but pass the ammunition."

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(applause)

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But when someone attacks you,[br]when someone comes at you with a club,

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when someone comes you with a rope,[br]when someone comes at you with a gun,

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despite the fact that you've done nothing[br]he tells you, "Suffer peacefully."

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- (murmuring)[br]- "Pray for those who use you to spite me."

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Be long suffering.

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And how long can you suffer [br]after suffering for 400 years?

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(applause)

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So I just wanna play up [br]that little point right there

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because he said that we [br]play on your emotions.

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And when you turn [br]on your television tonight,

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or your radio, or read the newspaper,[br]they're gonna tell you in that paper

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that I was playing on your emotions.

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Imagine you, a second class citizen.[br]That's not getting emotional!

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It's getting intelligent.

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And as far as your mayor is concerned,[br]I see - should say their mayor.

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A man named Yorty,

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who has been slandering the Muslims,

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a professional liar--[br]a professional liar.

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(applause)

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Who has mastered the art [br]of using half truths.

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Put in the paper that they break [br]into our religious place of worship

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and got records that they can use to prove[br]that most of us have criminal records.

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You can't be a negro in America [br]and not have a criminal record.

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(thunderous applause)

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Martin Luther King has been to jail.

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- (applause)[br]- Please.

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James Farmer has been to jail.

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Why, you can't name a black man [br]in this country who was sick and tired

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of the hell that he's catching[br]who hasn't been to jail.

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Charged him with being seditious.

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- They put Moses in jail![br]- (woman) Yeah!

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- They put Daniel in jail.[br]- (woman) Yeah!

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Why, you haven't got a man of God [br]in the Bible that wasn't put to jail

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when they started speaking up against [br]exploitation and oppression.

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(applause)

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They charged Jesus with sedition.

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- Didn't they do that?[br]- (crowd concurs)

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They said he was against Caesar.

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They said he was discriminating [br]because he told his disciples,

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"Go not the way of the gentiles,[br]but rather go to the lost sheep."

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He discriminated![br]Don't go near the gentiles,

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go to the lost sheep.[br]Go to the oppressed.

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Go the downtrodden.[br]Go to the exploited.

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Go the people who don't [br]know who they are,

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who are lost from the knowledge [br]of themselves and who are

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strangers in a land that is not theirs.

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Go to those people![br]Go to the slaves.

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Go the second class citizens.[br]Go to the ones who are suffering

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the brunt of Caesar's brutality.

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And if Jesus were here in America today, [br]he wouldn't be going to the white man.

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The white man is the oppressor! [br]He would be going to the oppressed.

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He would be going to the humble.[br]He would be going to the lowly.

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He would be going to[br]the rejected and the despised.

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He would be going to [br]the so-called American negro.

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(applause)

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To have once been a criminal

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is no disgrace.

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To remain a criminal is the disgrace.

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I formally was a criminal.

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I formally was in prison.[br]I'm not ashamed of that.

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You never can use that over my head.

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And he's using the wrong stick!

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I don't feel that stick.

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(laughter and applause)

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I went to a prison because I [br]believed in men like Sam Yorty.

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I went to prison because I [br]trusted men like Sam Yorty.

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I went to prison following the philosophy[br]of men like Sam Yorty.

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But since I've been following [br]the honorable Elijah Muhammad,

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I have been reformed [br]and that's more--please--

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that's more than Sam Yorty[br]and Chief Parker

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and all these other white politicians[br]that have been able to do

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with the inmates in [br]the prisons of this state.

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They should give Mr. Muhammad credit.[br]They should give Mr. Muhammad credit

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for reforming and rehabilitating [br]men whom they have failed

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- to reform and rehabilitate.[br]- (thunderous applause)

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Mayor Yorty went forward [br]to some press report

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that Mr. Muhammad had once been found [br]guilty of contributing to the delinquency

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of a minor.

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He failed to explain, [br]purposely, that in 1934,

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the honorable Elijah Muhammad [br]refused to send his children

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to white schools in Detroit, Michigan, [br]that were teaching you

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about little black Sambo.

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That's the minor that he contributed [br]to the delinquency of.

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You see this vicious, fork-tongue [br]white man has been able

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to take lies and make you turn against [br]those who want to help you

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and make others turn against you.

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This is the contributing to [br]the delinquency of a minor

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that this mayor, or a man who calls [br]himself mayor, is talking about.

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In the same article he said that [br]the Muslims are the same people

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who rioted in the United Nations.

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Someone should pull his coat and let [br]him know that at the present moment

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there's six million dollars worth of suits[br][inaudible] level against two

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of New York's leading newspapers [br]for making a mistake of charging

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the Muslims as being involved [br]in those United Nations riots.

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We were not involved!

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And if this fork-tongued man [br]who calls himself your mayor

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had taken the time to find that out,[br]he wouldn't be walking into the trap

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that he's letting his [br]ignorance lead him into!

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(applause)

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And if you take the time to read

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the Washington Post that came out [br]the Sunday after that incident took place,

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the Washington Post pointed out [br]on the front page that the Muslims

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had nothing to do with the UN riots[br]and they quoted, in saying so,

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the person who was at that time[br]the Commissioner of Police in New York City.

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See, it's lies that the white man [br]has spread about the Muslims

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to try and make you afraid of the Muslims,[br]or to try and make you think

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that the Muslims were a criminal element,[br]an uncouth element in things[br]

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that you have not liked [br]to be associated with.

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Also, they say that--[br]I'm just clearing these things up

0:18:32.122,0:18:35.084
and then we're going [br]to get into what happened.

0:18:35.084,0:18:40.763
They also say that the honorable Elijah [br]Muhammad was draft dodger.

0:18:40.763,0:18:42.250
No, he wasn't.

0:18:42.250,0:18:47.303
He just refused to go to the army[br]because he was a man of peace.

0:18:47.303,0:18:51.474
He was a minister of a religion of peace.[br]He was teaching peace.

0:18:51.474,0:18:54.500
So he outright refused to go to the army.

0:18:54.500,0:18:56.667
That's not draft dodging.[br]That's intelligence.

0:18:56.667,0:18:59.794
(cheering)

0:18:59.794,0:19:05.837
Here, before the grand jury,

0:19:05.837,0:19:11.442
because the coroner's jury [br]is stacked against negros.

0:19:11.442,0:19:15.371
(cheers and applause)

0:19:15.371,0:19:19.583
The Grand Jury is stacked against negros.

0:19:19.583,0:19:23.066
The press, the radio, the television[br]and the newspapers

0:19:23.066,0:19:26.580
- are stacked against negros.[br]- (crowd concurs)

0:19:26.580,0:19:30.603
But, please, the Los Angeles [br]Police department is stacked

0:19:30.603,0:19:43.577
against all negroes, all except those he[br]has appointed to high positions.

0:19:43.577,0:19:53.583
The control press, the white press[br]inflames the white public against negroes.

0:19:53.583,0:19:57.023
The police are able to use it[br]to paint the negro community[br]

0:19:57.023,0:20:00.479
as a criminal element.

0:20:00.479,0:20:05.145
The police are able to use the press [br]to make the white public think[br]

0:20:05.145,0:20:12.707
that 90%, or 99%, of the negroes in the [br]negro community are criminals.

0:20:12.707,0:20:18.607
And once the white public is convinced[br]that most of the negro community [br]

0:20:18.607,0:20:23.632
is a criminal element, then this[br]automatically paves the way for the

0:20:23.632,0:20:29.436
police to move into the negro [br]community, exercising Gestapo tactics[br]

0:20:29.436,0:20:34.537
stopping any black man who[br]is in this - on the sidewalk, whether he

0:20:34.537,0:20:38.634
is guilty or whether he is innocent.[br]Whether he is well dressed or whether

0:20:38.634,0:20:42.962
he is poorly dressed. [br]Whether he is educated or whether he is dumb.

0:20:42.962,0:20:45.823
Whether he's a Christian or whether[br]he's a Muslim.

0:20:45.823,0:20:48.962
As long as he is black and a member[br]of the negro community[br]

0:20:48.962,0:20:53.265
the white public thinks that the white[br]policeman is justified

0:20:53.265,0:20:57.899
in going in there and trampling on that[br]mans civil rights and on that mans

0:20:57.899,0:21:01.567
human rights.[br](applause)

0:21:01.567,0:21:06.655
Once the police have convinced the[br]white public that the so-called

0:21:06.655,0:21:14.260
negro community is a criminal element,[br]they can go in and question, [br]

0:21:14.260,0:21:21.967
brutalize, murder, unarmed innocent[br]negroes and the white public

0:21:21.967,0:21:26.099
is gullible enough to back them up.

0:21:26.099,0:21:29.931
This makes the negro community[br]a police state.

0:21:29.931,0:21:33.505
This makes the negro neighborhood[br]a police state.

0:21:33.505,0:21:37.820
It's the most heavily patrolled.[br]It has more police in it than any

0:21:37.820,0:21:43.263
other neighborhood, yet it has more[br]crime in it than any other neighborhood.

0:21:43.263,0:21:45.307
How can you have more cops[br]and more crime?

0:21:45.307,0:21:46.719
(laughter)

0:21:46.719,0:21:50.885
It shows you that the cops must be[br]in cahoots with the criminals.

0:21:50.885,0:22:02.008
(laughter, applause)

0:22:02.008,0:22:06.640
The texture of the hair that God - please - ,[br]that God gave them

0:22:06.640,0:22:10.146
so much that they put lye on it. [br](laughter)

0:22:10.146,0:22:14.682
Do you realise - now, you know brother;[br]lye will eat a hole in steel and you

0:22:14.682,0:22:17.185
know your head is not that hard.

0:22:17.185,0:22:29.680
(applause)

0:22:29.680,0:22:35.312
Who taught you - please. Who taught[br]you to hate the texture of your hair?

0:22:35.312,0:22:38.923
Who taught you to hate the color of [br]your skin to such extent that [br]

0:22:38.923,0:22:43.185
you bleach to get like the white man?

0:22:43.185,0:22:45.733
Who taught you to hate [br]the shape of your nose

0:22:45.733,0:22:49.982
and the shape of your lips?[br]Who taught you to hate yourself

0:22:49.982,0:22:53.783
from the top of your head[br]to the soles of your feet?

0:22:53.783,0:22:56.068
Who taught you to hate [br]your own kind?

0:22:56.068,0:22:59.233
Who taught you to hate[br]the race that you belong to?

0:22:59.233,0:23:02.714
So much so that you don't want[br]to be around each other.

0:23:02.714,0:23:05.313
You know, before you come asking[br]Mr. Muhammed

0:23:05.313,0:23:06.585
does he teach hate?

0:23:06.585,0:23:10.938
You should ask who- yourself, [br]who taught you to hate [br]

0:23:10.938,0:23:25.403
being what God gave you. [br](applause)

0:23:25.403,0:23:30.308
We teach you to love the hair [br]that God gave you.

0:23:30.308,0:23:33.491
Here you, way out in the middle[br]of the ocean, can't swim

0:23:33.491,0:23:38.025
and you worried about someone[br]that's in the bathtub and can't swim.

0:23:38.025,0:23:48.304
(laughter and applause)

0:23:48.304,0:23:54.672
We don't steal. We don't gamble.[br]We don't lie, and we don't cheat.

0:23:54.672,0:23:58.035
And that also deprives the government[br]of revenue[br]

0:23:58.035,0:24:00.579
(laughter)

0:24:00.579,0:24:02.868
because you can't get into a whiskey[br]bottle without getting[br]

0:24:02.868,0:24:06.088
past the government seal.

0:24:06.088,0:24:09.960
You can't open a deck of cards without[br]getting past the government seal.

0:24:09.960,0:24:13.337
Hell, the white man makes the whiskey[br]then puts you in jail for getting drunk.

0:24:13.337,0:24:19.535
(cheering)

0:24:19.535,0:24:22.793
He sells you the cards and the dice[br]and puts you in jail when he

0:24:22.793,0:24:25.917
catches you using 'em.

0:24:25.917,0:24:30.531
So, he's against us because we fix it[br]where he can't catch you anymore.

0:24:30.531,0:24:33.371
We take the dice outta your hands[br]and the cards out of your hands[br]

0:24:33.371,0:24:35.536
and the whiskey out of your head.

0:24:35.536,0:24:40.740
The most disrespected person in[br]America is the black woman.

0:24:40.740,0:24:45.136
The most unprotected person in [br]America is the black woman.

0:24:45.136,0:24:48.630
The most neglected person in[br]America is the black woman.

0:24:48.630,0:24:51.310
And as Muslims, the honorable[br]Elijah Mohammad teaches us

0:24:51.310,0:24:56.472
to respect our women[br]and to protect our women.

0:24:56.472,0:24:59.858
And the only time a Muslim really [br]gets real violent is when

0:24:59.858,0:25:03.346
someone goes to molest his woman.[br]- (man) right!

0:25:03.346,0:25:05.256
(applause)

0:25:05.256,0:25:08.921
We will kill you for our woman.

0:25:08.921,0:25:13.295
I'm making it plain. Yes. [br]We will kill you for our woman.

0:25:13.295,0:25:15.507
(applause)

0:25:15.507,0:25:19.972
We believe that if the white man [br]will do whatever is necessary

0:25:19.972,0:25:23.204
to see that his woman gets respect[br]and protection

0:25:23.204,0:25:27.002
then you and I will never be [br]recognised as men

0:25:27.002,0:25:32.226
until we stand up like men[br]and place the same penalty[br]

0:25:32.226,0:25:37.539
over the head of anyone who puts [br]his filthy hands in the direction[br]

0:25:37.539,0:25:38.894
of our women. [br]

0:25:38.894,0:25:52.704
(thunderous applause)

0:25:52.704,0:25:57.862
We respect them, but we want them[br]to respect us.

0:25:57.862,0:26:01.579
We think that the law should respect[br]the negro community.

0:26:01.579,0:26:04.693
The law should protect[br]the negro community.

0:26:04.693,0:26:09.293
The law should approach the negro[br]community with intelligence if it

0:26:09.293,0:26:13.701
expects the negro community to[br]react intelligently.

0:26:13.701,0:26:16.391
So, the honorable Elijah Mohammed[br]teaches us

0:26:16.391,0:26:21.725
to always avoid anything that smacks[br]of disrespect for the law.

0:26:21.725,0:26:26.432
And if the police department tells the[br]truth, the will have to admit

0:26:26.432,0:26:30.889
that they have never had any, uh, [br]experiences with Muslims that

0:26:30.889,0:26:33.965
have ever been anything other[br]than honorable

0:26:33.965,0:26:40.035
unless they themselves come at us[br]in a dishonorable way.

0:26:40.035,0:26:42.993
There's no case against the Muslims.

0:26:42.993,0:26:47.052
It has no case against these brothers[br]whom they shot down.

0:26:47.052,0:26:51.057
And because it has no case,[br]it's trying to create a case.

0:26:51.057,0:26:53.724
It's trying to manufacture a case.

0:26:53.724,0:26:58.219
And therefore they set up a grand jury [br]hearing of the case so that they

0:26:58.219,0:27:02.750
could hear it behind closed doors,[br]and after hearing what we have to say[br]

0:27:02.750,0:27:06.705
then they'll- their particular strategy[br]or defense against the actions

0:27:06.705,0:27:11.100
that they committed on that April[br]the 27th.

0:27:11.100,0:27:15.599
So, at the advice of our attorneys,[br]we purposefully, the victims,[br]

0:27:15.599,0:27:18.894
those who have been indicted, or[br]rather those who have been arrested

0:27:18.894,0:27:24.387
and are out on bond, have purposefully[br]refrained and refused from making

0:27:24.387,0:27:30.557
any statement whatsoever until after[br]the case appears in court.

0:27:30.557,0:27:34.069
And when you hear their story[br]it will be in a public trial.

0:27:34.069,0:27:39.058
We have already been - had [br]experience with these private hearings

0:27:39.058,0:27:40.896
behind closed doors.

0:27:40.896,0:27:45.560
Anything that the white man has to[br]do to the Muslim,

0:27:45.560,0:27:48.197
he has to do it in the open.

0:27:48.197,0:27:52.100
He has to do it in public, or he has to[br]put every single one of us[br]

0:27:52.100,0:27:54.887
behind bars for the rest our our lives.

0:27:54.887,0:28:06.392
(applause)

0:28:06.392,0:28:12.172
When Mayor Yorty called for a[br]government investigation[br]

0:28:12.172,0:28:17.387
of a religious group that have the[br]highest moral standards

0:28:17.387,0:28:22.594
of any group in the negro community,[br]Mayor Yorty was giving you an[br]

0:28:22.594,0:28:27.552
example of what Hitler did in Nazi[br]Germany when he began to go[br]

0:28:27.552,0:28:29.099
on the rampage.

0:28:29.099,0:28:35.222
(applause)

0:28:35.222,0:28:40.600
We feel, we have confidence that [br]the white public and the black public,

0:28:40.600,0:28:47.386
if they hear our case, if they hear and[br]have access to the investigation,

0:28:47.386,0:28:52.607
will never be fooled by this phony[br]set up that's stacked from the top[br]

0:28:52.607,0:28:57.184
all the way down.

0:28:57.184,0:28:59.809
And if you doubt it, when you leave home[br]tonight, when you go home tonight

0:28:59.809,0:29:02.986
look for the press.[br]I'd like at this time to call forth

0:29:02.986,0:29:06.494
these brothers who are under, uh,[br]who were arrested.

0:29:06.494,0:29:10.915
The brothers who were arrested. Come [br]up here behind these chairs, please.

0:29:10.915,0:29:24.345
(applause)

0:29:24.345,0:29:27.181
They were suspects. [br](laughter)

0:29:27.181,0:29:29.000
This wouldn't happen in a[br]white neighborhood.

0:29:29.000,0:29:31.661
White man can walk down the street[br]with packages on his head

0:29:31.661,0:29:35.589
packages under his arm[br]and packages anywhere else

0:29:35.589,0:29:39.507
and won't anybody question his[br]right to carry those packages.

0:29:39.507,0:29:45.749
But a negro is suspect because[br]the press makes you suspect.

0:29:45.749,0:29:48.528
Yes, the white press makes negroes [br]suspect.

0:29:48.528,0:29:54.353
- (murmuring)[br]- (video skips)

0:29:54.353,0:29:56.752
All the information you need, Officer.[br]

0:29:56.752,0:30:01.126
And the Officer made one stay at the[br]rear of the car and the [br]

0:30:01.126,0:30:05.071
other go to the front of the car,[br]and while he was taking the one[br]

0:30:05.071,0:30:10.189
to the one to the front of the car,[br]the polite attitude, the humble if,

0:30:10.189,0:30:16.426
the submissive, intelligent peaceful[br]spirit that he uexpectedly found

0:30:16.426,0:30:22.310
in this negro infuriated him.[br]And he began to - he told

0:30:22.310,0:30:26.710
the brother; 'put down your hands.'[br]Brother was talking, he's not a criminal.

0:30:26.710,0:30:30.063
A man has a right on the[br]sidewalk to talk with his hands.

0:30:30.063,0:30:32.424
'Put down your hands, don't talk with [br]your hands.'

0:30:32.424,0:30:36.222
And when the brother continued to[br]gesture with his hands

0:30:36.222,0:30:41.143
the Officer grabbed his hand, twisted[br]it around, 'round behind his back

0:30:41.143,0:30:48.632
flung him up against the car[br]and then that's when hell broke loose.

0:30:48.632,0:30:52.974
That was when hell broke loose.

0:30:52.974,0:31:00.454
A struggle ensued, shots were fired[br]by the police

0:31:00.454,0:31:03.701
and by a negro door shaker.

0:31:03.701,0:31:13.050
(laughter)

0:31:13.050,0:31:19.063
An alarm went out.

0:31:19.063,0:31:24.435
When the alarm went out, instead[br]of the police going to the place

0:31:24.435,0:31:30.844
where the incident occurred,[br]the police went one block away

0:31:30.844,0:31:33.893
to the temple.

0:31:33.893,0:31:43.031
When they arrived there, they got out [br]of their cars with their guns smokin'.

0:31:43.031,0:31:45.612
You woulda thought it was Wyatt -[br]what his name?

0:31:45.612,0:31:49.168
Wyatt Earp.

0:31:49.168,0:31:51.832
I'm telling you, they came out of those [br]cars, and we have enough

0:31:51.832,0:31:54.827
witnesses to hang 'em.

0:31:54.827,0:31:57.242
With their guns smokin'.

0:31:57.242,0:32:00.321
Cheif Parker knows this,[br]Mayor Yorty knows this[br]

0:32:00.321,0:32:04.034
and every police official in the city[br]knows that.

0:32:04.034,0:32:06.862
They didn't fire no warning shots in [br]the air

0:32:06.862,0:32:10.632
they fired warning shots point blank at[br]innocent, unarmed,

0:32:10.632,0:32:13.956
defenseless negroes.

0:32:13.956,0:32:20.518
As I say, two of the brothers were [br]shot in the back.

0:32:20.518,0:32:25.146
Another was shot in the shoulder.

0:32:25.146,0:32:30.737
Another was shot, two of them were[br]shot, excuse the expression,

0:32:30.737,0:32:32.526
through the penis.

0:32:32.526,0:32:38.838
(murmuring)

0:32:38.838,0:32:45.433
Another was shot in the hip and the[br]bullet came out the other side.

0:32:45.433,0:32:51.201
But Arthur here was shot 1/4 of an[br]inch from his heart.

0:32:51.201,0:32:55.136
Let me tell you something, and I'll tell[br]you why you say 'we hate white people'.

0:32:55.136,0:32:57.425
We don't hate anybody.

0:32:57.425,0:33:00.593
We love our own people so much,[br]they think we hate the ones who[br]

0:33:00.593,0:33:03.646
are inflicting injustice against them.

0:33:03.646,0:33:09.063
- (applause)[br]- (video skips)

0:33:09.063,0:33:12.916
Who has been shot, the bullet[br]having passed a 1/4 of an [br]

0:33:12.916,0:33:15.923
inch through his heart.

0:33:15.923,0:33:20.889
I'm not gonna let him talk, which[br]I think you can understand why.

0:33:20.889,0:33:24.290
You should listen to the conversation[br]of the police officers

0:33:24.290,0:33:26.755
while it was going on.

0:33:26.755,0:33:31.274
Two of the brothers who had been shot,[br]who were lying hand in hand,

0:33:31.274,0:33:35.034
the officer said they were chanting a [br]death chant.

0:33:35.034,0:33:36.743
You read that.

0:33:36.743,0:33:41.063
They were saying 'Allahu Akbar'.[br]What does that mean?

0:33:41.063,0:33:45.458
It means that God is the greatest.[br]It means that God is the greatest.

0:33:45.458,0:33:50.970
(applause)

0:33:50.970,0:33:56.399
Understand what the white officer called[br]a death chant was a prayer.[br]

0:33:56.399,0:33:58.766
They were praying when they [br]were shot down.

0:33:58.766,0:34:02.280
They were saying Allhu Akbar.

0:34:02.280,0:34:05.361
And it shook the officer up that they[br]haven't heard black people talk[br]

0:34:05.361,0:34:11.500
any kinda talk but what they taught 'em.

0:34:11.500,0:34:14.964
And two of the brothers who were shot[br]in the back were telling me that[br]

0:34:14.964,0:34:19.663
as they lay on the sidewalk, they[br]were holding hands.

0:34:19.663,0:34:23.312
They held hands with each other[br]saying Allahu Akbar.

0:34:23.312,0:34:26.524
And the blood was seeping out of[br]them where the police bullets [br]

0:34:26.524,0:34:30.763
had torn into their insides.[br]Still, they said Allahu Akbar

0:34:30.763,0:34:34.256
and the police came and kicked them[br]in the head.

0:34:34.256,0:34:38.810
Police kicked them in the head[br]telling them to shut up that noise

0:34:38.810,0:34:42.863
while they were laying on the sidewalk[br]in front of our temple.

0:34:42.863,0:34:44.481
Kicked them in the head.

0:34:44.481,0:34:47.393
Shut up that noise. And one of them,[br]when he was on his way to the

0:34:47.393,0:34:54.508
police station in the ambulance,[br]one of the ambulance attendants

0:34:54.508,0:34:57.909
told the white cop, 'why don't you[br]kill the nigger?'

0:34:57.909,0:35:01.164
He said, 'I'll tell them that he tried[br]to get away. Why don't you[br]

0:35:01.164,0:35:06.666
kill the nigger? While you got a chance.[br]I'll swear that he tried to get away.'

0:35:06.666,0:35:10.733
If he didn't say this, then I need to[br]be put in jail, and I'll gladly go.

0:35:10.733,0:35:13.537
(applause)

0:35:13.537,0:35:19.097
One of them who was being taken to[br]jail in a police car

0:35:19.097,0:35:24.410
as the ambulance sirens were coming[br]to the place, one of the policeman

0:35:24.410,0:35:27.951
said to the other: 'what are the [br]ambulances rushing for? Nothing

0:35:27.951,0:35:31.273
but some niggers.' [br]So, he looked then and saw the Muslim

0:35:31.273,0:35:34.764
brothers sitting beside him [br]and he shut up.

0:35:34.764,0:35:37.726
But after he got to the jail, the same [br]officer that said this

0:35:37.726,0:35:44.068
turned to the brother and said; 'I hope[br]that you didn't get offended by

0:35:44.068,0:35:47.866
what I said back there under the heat[br]of emotion, because some of my

0:35:47.866,0:35:49.367
best friends are colored.'

0:35:49.367,0:35:51.796
(roaring)

0:35:51.796,0:35:54.466
That's what he said.

0:35:54.466,0:36:04.023
That's his password: 'Some of my best[br]friends are colored.'

0:36:04.023,0:36:07.937
And I for one, as a Muslim, believe[br]that the white man is intelligent

0:36:07.937,0:36:14.270
enough, if he were made to realise [br]how black people really feel

0:36:14.270,0:36:18.510
and how fed up we are without that[br]whole compromising sweet talk.

0:36:18.510,0:36:21.513
Why you're the one that make it [br]hard for yourself.

0:36:21.513,0:36:24.468
The white man believes you when you[br]go to him with that old sweet talk

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'cause you been sweet talkin' him[br]ever since he brought you here.

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Stop sweet talking him.[br]Tell him how you feel.

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Tell him how or what kinda hell you[br]been catching

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and let him know that if he's not ready[br]to clean his house up

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if hes not ready to clean his house up,[br]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[br]the dark world.

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So we're not any minority.[br]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:[br]we don't think any odds are[br]

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against us.[br]

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We don't fight a battle like the odds[br]are against us.

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Why, the whole dark world today[br]is in unity.

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It's one. If you don't [br]think so, look at the United Nations.

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When the dark world votes,[br]they vote as one.

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They gettin' the colonialists out of Africa,[br]and out of Asia.

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Tellin' them to get out. [br]They don't have any nuclear weapons

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but they got a solid, united voice[br]and their unity alone is sufficient

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to drive the oppressor and exploiter[br]of their people out of their own country.[br]

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You and I need to learn a lesson from[br]that right there.

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In the UN, the dark world consists of[br]Buddhist's, Hindu's, Shinto's,

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Taoist's, Christian's, Muslims,[br]everything.

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But they're together.

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They forget their religious and[br]political differences.

0:38:12.902,0:38:16.637
They think as one. [br]They move as one

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against a common enemy.

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And [inaudible] of Algeria, he's[br]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,[br]out of Tanganyika, out of Angola,

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Out of Uganda, out of Kenya. [br]He's going from South Africa, too.

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He hasn't got long to be there.[br]

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All over this earth, dark people who[br]have been oppressed and exploited

0:38:42.700,0:38:47.055
by those who are not their own kind, [br]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.

0:38:51.453,0:38:53.391
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, [br]but even human rights.

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So, the only way we're going to get[br]some of this oppression

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and exploitation away from us,[br]or aside from us

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is come together against the[br]common enemy.

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(applause)

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When they sat down at the Bandung[br]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[br]were socialists, some were communists,

0:39:31.251,0:39:36.085
some where capitalists, some were[br]Christian, some were Buddhist.

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They were everything![br]But all of 'em was dark skinned.

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And they looked at that dark skin[br]and agreed that this is[br]

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one thing they had in common.

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Forget that you're a Methodist,[br]forget that you're a Catholic,

0:39:50.398,0:39:52.975
forget that you're a Protestant,[br]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 -