WEBVTT 00:00:00.896 --> 00:00:13.432 (applause) 00:00:13.432 --> 00:00:15.455 In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful 00:00:15.455 --> 00:00:18.140 to whom all praise is due, 00:00:18.140 --> 00:00:22.597 whom we forever thank for giving us the honorable Elijah Mohammad 00:00:22.597 --> 00:00:24.684 as our leader, teacher, and guide. 00:00:24.684 --> 00:00:28.931 And I specifically, ladies and gentleman, and brothers and sisters, 00:00:28.931 --> 00:00:33.072 open up like that because I am a representative 00:00:33.072 --> 00:00:35.846 of the honorable Elijah Mohammad. 00:00:35.846 --> 00:00:40.589 And were it not for him, you and wouldn't be here today. 00:00:44.438 --> 00:00:50.192 In order for you and me to devise some kind of method or strategy 00:00:50.192 --> 00:00:55.859 to offset some of the events or the repetition of the events 00:00:55.859 --> 00:00:59.670 that have taken place here in Los Angeles recently, 00:00:59.670 --> 00:01:04.494 we have to go to the root. We have to go to the cause. 00:01:04.494 --> 00:01:07.968 Dealing with the condition itself is not enough. 00:01:07.968 --> 00:01:10.964 - We have to get to the cause of it all. - (crowd concurs) 00:01:10.964 --> 00:01:12.917 Or the root of it all. 00:01:12.917 --> 00:01:18.063 And it is because of our effort toward getting straight to the root 00:01:18.063 --> 00:01:23.048 that people oft times think we're dealing in hate. 00:01:23.048 --> 00:01:29.004 But first I would like to congratulate and give praise to the Negro, 00:01:29.004 --> 00:01:33.308 so-called negro leaders and so-called negro organizations 00:01:33.308 --> 00:01:37.861 and, excuse me if I say so-called, it's hard for me to just outright say Negro 00:01:37.861 --> 00:01:50.631 - when I know what that word Negro really means. - (thunderous applause) 00:01:50.631 --> 00:01:55.251 The person whom you have come to know as Ronald Stokes, 00:01:55.251 --> 00:01:57.959 we know him as Brother Ron – 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:04.850 one of the most religious persons to display the highest form of morals 00:02:04.850 --> 00:02:08.801 of any black person anywhere on this Earth. 00:02:08.801 --> 00:02:13.342 And as one of the previous speakers pointed out, who knew him, 00:02:13.342 --> 00:02:18.618 everyone who knew him had to give him credit for being a good man. 00:02:18.618 --> 00:02:25.817 A clean man, an intelligent man, and an innocent man 00:02:25.817 --> 00:02:28.488 when he was murdered. 00:02:28.488 --> 00:02:33.396 The Negro, so-called Negro, organizations and leaders should be given 00:02:33.396 --> 00:02:40.844 great credit for their failure or refusal to let the white man divide them 00:02:40.844 --> 00:02:44.390 and use them, one against the other, during this crisis. 00:02:44.390 --> 00:02:53.557 (thunderous applause) 00:02:53.557 --> 00:03:00.215 As Reverend [Walkard] Wilson pointed out, I think it was eight years ago today 00:03:00.215 --> 00:03:07.422 that the Supreme Court handed down the desegregation decision. 00:03:07.422 --> 00:03:12.111 And despite the fact that eight years have gone past, that decision 00:03:12.111 --> 00:03:19.489 - hasn't been implemented yet. - (applause from audience) 00:03:19.489 --> 00:03:22.829 I don't have that much faith. 00:03:22.829 --> 00:03:25.276 I don't have that much confidence. 00:03:25.276 --> 00:03:27.823 I don't have that much patience. 00:03:27.823 --> 00:03:30.367 And I don't have that much ignorance to-- 00:03:30.367 --> 00:03:43.435 (thunderous applause) 00:03:43.435 --> 00:03:48.748 If the Supreme Court, which is the highest lawmaking body 00:03:48.748 --> 00:03:56.074 in the country, can pass a decision that - can't get even eight percent compliance 00:03:56.074 --> 00:03:59.243 within eight years, because it's for black people, 00:03:59.243 --> 00:04:01.041 then my patience has run out. 00:04:01.041 --> 00:04:12.983 (applause) 00:04:12.983 --> 00:04:17.125 When Black people who are being oppressed become impatient, 00:04:17.125 --> 00:04:20.328 they say that's emotional. 00:04:20.328 --> 00:04:21.587 (murmuring) 00:04:21.587 --> 00:04:27.614 Please, when black people who are being deprived of their citizenship... 00:04:27.614 --> 00:04:31.516 not only of their civil rights, but their human rights, 00:04:31.516 --> 00:04:35.657 become impatient, become fed up, don't wanna wait any longer, 00:04:35.657 --> 00:04:37.493 then they say that's emotional. 00:04:37.493 --> 00:04:43.847 (laughter and applause) 00:04:43.847 --> 00:04:49.049 The Negro, so-called Negro, leaders and organizations should be praised. 00:04:49.049 --> 00:04:51.282 They should be congratulated. 00:04:51.282 --> 00:04:53.657 They should be complimented 00:04:53.657 --> 00:04:57.381 because out of all of them combined, the white man has not yet found 00:04:57.381 --> 00:05:01.319 one who will play the role of Uncle Tom. 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:09.794 (thunderous applause) 00:05:09.794 --> 00:05:17.182 But yet he has found no Tom, no puppet, no parrot, who is still dumb enough 00:05:17.182 --> 00:05:22.492 in 1962 to represent the injustices that he is inflicting against our people. 00:05:22.492 --> 00:05:25.326 (applause) 00:05:25.326 --> 00:05:28.770 We don't care what your religion is. 00:05:28.770 --> 00:05:32.689 We don't care what organization you belong to. 00:05:32.689 --> 00:05:36.589 We don't care how far in school you went or didn't go. 00:05:36.589 --> 00:05:39.489 We don't care what kind of job you have. 00:05:39.489 --> 00:05:43.652 We have to give you credit for shocking the white man 00:05:43.652 --> 00:05:47.407 by not letting him divide you and use you one against the other. 00:05:47.407 --> 00:05:58.411 (applause) 00:05:58.411 --> 00:06:02.333 In the past, the greatest weapon the White man has had 00:06:02.333 --> 00:06:07.786 has been his ability to divide and conquer. 00:06:07.786 --> 00:06:13.547 As Jackie Robinson pointed out beautifully on the television last night, 00:06:13.547 --> 00:06:17.220 4/5 of the world isn't white. 00:06:17.220 --> 00:06:27.348 - Isn't that what Jackie said? - (applause) 00:06:27.348 --> 00:06:32.825 And if 4/5 of the world is dark, how is it possible for 1/5 00:06:32.825 --> 00:06:39.407 to rule, oppress, exploit, dominate, and brutalize the 4/5 00:06:39.407 --> 00:06:42.387 who are in the majority? How did they do it? 00:06:42.387 --> 00:06:44.384 Divide and conquer. 00:06:44.384 --> 00:06:48.770 If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. 00:06:48.770 --> 00:06:52.100 It might sting you, because these digits are separated. 00:06:52.100 --> 00:06:55.603 But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring 00:06:55.603 --> 00:07:04.632 - those digits together. - (applause) 00:07:04.632 --> 00:07:10.152 This is what the white man has done to you and me. 00:07:10.152 --> 00:07:15.573 He has divided us, and used us one against the other. 00:07:15.573 --> 00:07:18.519 But today, thanks to Allah – You can say thanks to God, 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:23.419 or thanks to Jesus, or thanks to Jehovah – whatever you want. 00:07:23.419 --> 00:07:30.807 (applause) 00:07:30.807 --> 00:07:33.128 But as a follower of the honorable Elijah Muhammad, 00:07:33.128 --> 00:07:36.549 we have been taught to say thanks to Allah. 00:07:36.549 --> 00:07:39.385 And that's what Jesus said. Jesus called on Allah. 00:07:39.385 --> 00:07:41.897 He said, "Allah! [speaks Arabic]" 00:07:41.897 --> 00:07:46.364 I believe what's good for Jesus is good for you. 00:07:46.364 --> 00:07:48.968 If Allah was good enough for Jesus to call upon, I think he 00:07:48.968 --> 00:07:53.195 - should be good enough for you to call upon. - (man) That's right! 00:07:53.195 --> 00:07:58.199 Since the so-called Negro community has shocked the white man 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:02.037 by resisting all efforts to divide us, 00:08:02.037 --> 00:08:05.862 I think that you and I should continue to shock him 00:08:05.862 --> 00:08:09.470 by singing and working together in unity. 00:08:09.470 --> 00:08:15.005 Despite religious, political, economic, or educational, or social differences, 00:08:15.005 --> 00:08:21.136 let us remember that we are not brutalized because we're Baptists. 00:08:21.136 --> 00:08:23.387 We're not brutalized because we're Methodists. 00:08:23.387 --> 00:08:26.582 We're not brutalized because we're Muslims. 00:08:26.582 --> 00:08:29.707 We're not brutalized because we're Catholics. 00:08:29.707 --> 00:08:33.128 We're brutalized because because we are black people in America. 00:08:33.128 --> 00:08:36.797 (applause) 00:08:36.797 --> 00:08:41.311 Here your mother is being raped, and you're not supposed to be emotional. 00:08:41.311 --> 00:08:44.472 Your women – please – your woman can't walk the street 00:08:44.472 --> 00:08:46.896 without some cracker putting his hands on her-- 00:08:46.896 --> 00:09:03.736 - and you're not supposed to be emotional! - (applause) 00:09:03.736 --> 00:09:07.721 If you say that you're fed up, if you teach the Negro – (film skips) 00:09:07.721 --> 00:09:09.816 - they don't even know their own name-- - (woman) That's right! 00:09:09.816 --> 00:09:12.470 Why? Because he took took it away from her. 00:09:12.470 --> 00:09:16.770 Please, please. 20 million Black people don't even know their own language. 00:09:16.770 --> 00:09:19.654 Why? Because he took it away from us. 00:09:19.654 --> 00:09:22.284 20 million Black people who don't even know their history 00:09:22.284 --> 00:09:26.486 of their ancestors. Why? Because he took it away from us! 00:09:26.486 --> 00:09:29.152 And if you try and tell them how thoroughly and completely 00:09:29.152 --> 00:09:32.140 they've been robbed, he says you're teaching hate. 00:09:32.140 --> 00:09:37.769 (applause) 00:09:37.769 --> 00:09:39.255 That's something to think about. 00:09:39.255 --> 00:09:42.798 (murmuring) 00:09:42.798 --> 00:09:48.461 Today we're coming out of college, you're coming out of the leading universities. 00:09:48.461 --> 00:09:52.106 You're trying to go in a good direction. 00:09:52.106 --> 00:09:54.961 But you don't know which direction to go in. 00:09:54.961 --> 00:09:58.749 And if somebody tries to take you right to the root of your problem 00:09:58.749 --> 00:10:01.476 they say that that man's a hate teacher. 00:10:01.476 --> 00:10:04.485 If I ask why should the Senators in Washington-- 00:10:04.485 --> 00:10:09.234 and, then again, if we tell you that negro are being hung on the tree, 00:10:09.234 --> 00:10:13.275 or being shot down illegally, unjustly... 00:10:13.275 --> 00:10:16.206 and those negroes should do something to protect themselves 00:10:16.206 --> 00:10:18.959 you say you're advocating violence. 00:10:18.959 --> 00:10:22.547 The white man is tricking you! He's trapping you. 00:10:22.547 --> 00:10:26.426 He doesn't call it violence when he lands troops in South Vietnam. 00:10:26.426 --> 00:10:31.824 - (applause) - Please, please, please! 00:10:31.824 --> 00:10:35.540 He doesn't call it violence when he lands troops in Berlin. 00:10:35.540 --> 00:10:39.221 When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, he didn't say get non-violent. 00:10:39.221 --> 00:10:41.703 He said, "Praise the Lord, but pass the ammunition." 00:10:41.703 --> 00:10:53.978 (applause) 00:10:53.978 --> 00:10:59.003 But when someone attacks you, when someone comes at you with a club, 00:10:59.003 --> 00:11:03.791 when someone comes you with a rope, when someone comes at you with a gun, 00:11:03.791 --> 00:11:09.627 despite the fact that you've done nothing he tells you, "Suffer peacefully." 00:11:09.627 --> 00:11:13.394 - (murmuring) - "Pray for those who use you to spite me." 00:11:13.394 --> 00:11:15.333 Be long suffering. 00:11:15.333 --> 00:11:18.597 And how long can you suffer after suffering for 400 years? 00:11:18.597 --> 00:11:23.515 (applause) 00:11:23.515 --> 00:11:26.495 So I just wanna play up that little point right there 00:11:26.495 --> 00:11:29.433 because he said that we play on your emotions. 00:11:29.433 --> 00:11:31.928 And when you turn on your television tonight, 00:11:31.928 --> 00:11:37.273 or your radio, or read the newspaper, they're gonna tell you in that paper 00:11:37.273 --> 00:11:39.904 that I was playing on your emotions. 00:11:39.904 --> 00:11:43.466 Imagine you, a second class citizen. That's not getting emotional! 00:11:43.466 --> 00:11:51.295 It's getting intelligent. 00:11:51.295 --> 00:11:57.742 And as far as your mayor is concerned, I see - should say their mayor. 00:11:57.742 --> 00:12:01.036 A man named Yorty, 00:12:01.036 --> 00:12:04.611 who has been slandering the Muslims, 00:12:04.611 --> 00:12:08.272 a professional liar-- a professional liar. 00:12:08.272 --> 00:12:15.530 (applause) 00:12:15.530 --> 00:12:20.316 Who has mastered the art of using half truths. 00:12:20.316 --> 00:12:25.945 Put in the paper that they break into our religious place of worship 00:12:25.945 --> 00:12:33.063 and got records that they can use to prove that most of us have criminal records. 00:12:33.063 --> 00:12:37.096 You can't be a negro in America and not have a criminal record. 00:12:37.096 --> 00:12:45.811 (thunderous applause) 00:12:45.811 --> 00:12:48.150 Martin Luther King has been to jail. 00:12:48.150 --> 00:12:50.986 - (applause) - Please. 00:12:50.986 --> 00:12:53.484 James Farmer has been to jail. 00:12:53.484 --> 00:12:57.265 Why, you can't name a black man in this country who was sick and tired 00:12:57.265 --> 00:13:01.232 of the hell that he's catching who hasn't been to jail. 00:13:01.232 --> 00:13:04.440 Charged him with being seditious. 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:06.623 - They put Moses in jail! - (woman) Yeah! 00:13:06.623 --> 00:13:08.667 - They put Daniel in jail. - (woman) Yeah! 00:13:08.667 --> 00:13:12.817 Why, you haven't got a man of God in the Bible that wasn't put to jail 00:13:12.817 --> 00:13:16.491 when they started speaking up against exploitation and oppression. 00:13:16.491 --> 00:13:25.990 (applause) 00:13:25.990 --> 00:13:29.767 They charged Jesus with sedition. 00:13:29.767 --> 00:13:32.299 - Didn't they do that? - (crowd concurs) 00:13:32.299 --> 00:13:35.971 They said he was against Caesar. 00:13:35.971 --> 00:13:40.465 They said he was discriminating because he told his disciples, 00:13:40.465 --> 00:13:46.163 "Go not the way of the gentiles, but rather go to the lost sheep." 00:13:46.163 --> 00:13:49.657 He discriminated! Don't go near the gentiles, 00:13:49.657 --> 00:13:53.528 go to the lost sheep. Go to the oppressed. 00:13:53.528 --> 00:13:56.805 Go the downtrodden. Go to the exploited. 00:13:56.805 --> 00:13:59.630 Go the people who don't know who they are, 00:13:59.630 --> 00:14:02.265 who are lost from the knowledge of themselves and who are 00:14:02.265 --> 00:14:05.124 strangers in a land that is not theirs. 00:14:05.124 --> 00:14:08.277 Go to those people! Go to the slaves. 00:14:08.277 --> 00:14:12.132 Go the second class citizens. Go to the ones who are suffering 00:14:12.132 --> 00:14:15.224 the brunt of Caesar's brutality. 00:14:15.224 --> 00:14:19.999 And if Jesus were here in America today, he wouldn't be going to the white man. 00:14:19.999 --> 00:14:24.229 The white man is the oppressor! He would be going to the oppressed. 00:14:24.229 --> 00:14:27.856 He would be going to the humble. He would be going to the lowly. 00:14:27.856 --> 00:14:30.729 He would be going to the rejected and the despised. 00:14:30.729 --> 00:14:33.192 He would be going to the so-called American negro. 00:14:33.192 --> 00:14:47.434 (applause) 00:14:47.434 --> 00:14:50.522 To have once been a criminal 00:14:50.522 --> 00:14:53.725 is no disgrace. 00:14:53.725 --> 00:14:57.726 To remain a criminal is the disgrace. 00:14:57.726 --> 00:15:00.857 I formally was a criminal. 00:15:00.857 --> 00:15:04.637 I formally was in prison. I'm not ashamed of that. 00:15:04.637 --> 00:15:07.365 You never can use that over my head. 00:15:07.365 --> 00:15:10.158 And he's using the wrong stick! 00:15:10.158 --> 00:15:11.587 I don't feel that stick. 00:15:11.587 --> 00:15:18.947 (laughter and applause) 00:15:18.947 --> 00:15:23.115 I went to a prison because I believed in men like Sam Yorty. 00:15:23.115 --> 00:15:27.263 I went to prison because I trusted men like Sam Yorty. 00:15:27.263 --> 00:15:31.928 I went to prison following the philosophy of men like Sam Yorty. 00:15:31.928 --> 00:15:34.957 But since I've been following the honorable Elijah Muhammad, 00:15:34.957 --> 00:15:38.022 I have been reformed and that's more--please-- 00:15:38.022 --> 00:15:40.475 that's more than Sam Yorty and Chief Parker 00:15:40.475 --> 00:15:43.647 and all these other white politicians that have been able to do 00:15:43.647 --> 00:15:46.580 with the inmates in the prisons of this state. 00:15:46.580 --> 00:15:50.924 They should give Mr. Muhammad credit. They should give Mr. Muhammad credit 00:15:50.924 --> 00:15:54.481 for reforming and rehabilitating men whom they have failed 00:15:54.481 --> 00:16:05.023 - to reform and rehabilitate. - (thunderous applause) 00:16:05.023 --> 00:16:09.686 Mayor Yorty went forward to some press report 00:16:09.686 --> 00:16:14.185 that Mr. Muhammad had once been found guilty of contributing to the delinquency 00:16:14.185 --> 00:16:16.594 of a minor. 00:16:16.594 --> 00:16:21.886 He failed to explain, purposely, that in 1934, 00:16:21.886 --> 00:16:24.980 the honorable Elijah Muhammad refused to send his children 00:16:24.980 --> 00:16:28.663 to white schools in Detroit, Michigan, that were teaching you 00:16:28.663 --> 00:16:31.682 about little black Sambo. 00:16:31.682 --> 00:16:35.848 That's the minor that he contributed to the delinquency of. 00:16:35.848 --> 00:16:41.218 You see this vicious, fork-tongue white man has been able 00:16:41.218 --> 00:16:46.258 to take lies and make you turn against those who want to help you 00:16:46.258 --> 00:16:48.724 and make others turn against you. 00:16:48.724 --> 00:16:51.592 This is the contributing to the delinquency of a minor 00:16:51.592 --> 00:16:56.789 that this mayor, or a man who calls himself mayor, is talking about. 00:16:56.789 --> 00:17:00.760 In the same article he said that the Muslims are the same people 00:17:00.760 --> 00:17:04.010 who rioted in the United Nations. 00:17:04.010 --> 00:17:09.341 Someone should pull his coat and let him know that at the present moment 00:17:09.341 --> 00:17:15.252 there's six million dollars worth of suits [inaudible] level against two 00:17:15.252 --> 00:17:20.395 of New York's leading newspapers for making a mistake of charging 00:17:20.395 --> 00:17:24.789 the Muslims as being involved in those United Nations riots. 00:17:24.789 --> 00:17:27.771 We were not involved! 00:17:27.771 --> 00:17:30.771 And if this fork-tongued man who calls himself your mayor 00:17:30.771 --> 00:17:34.979 had taken the time to find that out, he wouldn't be walking into the trap 00:17:34.979 --> 00:17:37.900 that he's letting his ignorance lead him into! 00:17:37.900 --> 00:17:44.135 (applause) 00:17:44.135 --> 00:17:48.139 And if you take the time to read 00:17:48.139 --> 00:17:55.356 the Washington Post that came out the Sunday after that incident took place, 00:17:55.356 --> 00:17:58.969 the Washington Post pointed out on the front page that the Muslims 00:17:58.969 --> 00:18:03.467 had nothing to do with the UN riots and they quoted, in saying so, 00:18:03.467 --> 00:18:08.596 the person who was at that time the Commissioner of Police in New York City. 00:18:08.596 --> 00:18:13.706 See, it's lies that the white man has spread about the Muslims 00:18:13.706 --> 00:18:17.465 to try and make you afraid of the Muslims, or to try and make you think 00:18:17.465 --> 00:18:23.176 that the Muslims were a criminal element, an uncouth element in things 00:18:23.176 --> 00:18:27.441 that you have not liked to be associated with. 00:18:27.441 --> 00:18:32.122 Also, they say that-- I'm just clearing these things up 00:18:32.122 --> 00:18:35.084 and then we're going to get into what happened. 00:18:35.084 --> 00:18:40.763 They also say that the honorable Elijah Muhammad was draft dodger. 00:18:40.763 --> 00:18:42.250 No, he wasn't. 00:18:42.250 --> 00:18:47.303 He just refused to go to the army because he was a man of peace. 00:18:47.303 --> 00:18:51.474 He was a minister of a religion of peace. He was teaching peace. 00:18:51.474 --> 00:18:54.500 So he outright refused to go to the army. 00:18:54.500 --> 00:18:56.667 That's not draft dodging. That's intelligence. 00:18:56.667 --> 00:18:59.794 (cheering) 00:18:59.794 --> 00:19:05.837 Here, before the grand jury, 00:19:05.837 --> 00:19:11.442 because the coroner's jury is stacked against negros. 00:19:11.442 --> 00:19:15.371 (cheers and applause) 00:19:15.371 --> 00:19:19.583 The Grand Jury is stacked against negros. 00:19:19.583 --> 00:19:23.066 The press, the radio, the television and the newspapers 00:19:23.066 --> 00:19:26.580 - are stacked against negros. - (crowd concurs) 00:19:26.580 --> 00:19:30.603 But, please, the Los Angeles Police department is stacked 00:19:30.603 --> 00:19:43.577 against all negroes, all except those he has appointed to high positions. 00:19:43.577 --> 00:19:53.583 The control press, the white press inflames the white public against negroes. 00:19:53.583 --> 00:19:57.023 The police are able to use it to paint the negro community 00:19:57.023 --> 00:20:00.479 as a criminal element. 00:20:00.479 --> 00:20:05.145 The police are able to use the press to make the white public think 00:20:05.145 --> 00:20:12.707 that 90%, or 99%, of the negroes in the negro community are criminals. 00:20:12.707 --> 00:20:18.607 And once the white public is convinced that most of the negro community 00:20:18.607 --> 00:20:23.632 is a criminal element, then this automatically paves the way for the 00:20:23.632 --> 00:20:29.436 police to move into the negro community, exercising Gestapo tactics 00:20:29.436 --> 00:20:34.537 stopping any black man who is in this - on the sidewalk, whether he 00:20:34.537 --> 00:20:38.634 is guilty or whether he is innocent. Whether he is well dressed or whether 00:20:38.634 --> 00:20:42.962 he is poorly dressed. Whether he is educated or whether he is dumb. 00:20:42.962 --> 00:20:45.823 Whether he's a Christian or whether he's a Muslim. 00:20:45.823 --> 00:20:48.962 As long as he is black and a member of the negro community 00:20:48.962 --> 00:20:53.265 the white public thinks that the white policeman is justified 00:20:53.265 --> 00:20:57.899 in going in there and trampling on that mans civil rights and on that mans 00:20:57.899 --> 00:21:01.567 human rights. (applause) 00:21:01.567 --> 00:21:06.655 Once the police have convinced the white public that the so-called 00:21:06.655 --> 00:21:14.260 negro community is a criminal element, they can go in and question, 00:21:14.260 --> 00:21:21.967 brutalize, murder, unarmed innocent negroes and the white public 00:21:21.967 --> 00:21:26.099 is gullible enough to back them up. 00:21:26.099 --> 00:21:29.931 This makes the negro community a police state. 00:21:29.931 --> 00:21:33.505 This makes the negro neighborhood a police state. 00:21:33.505 --> 00:21:37.820 It's the most heavily patrolled. It has more police in it than any 00:21:37.820 --> 00:21:43.263 other neighborhood, yet it has more crime in it than any other neighborhood. 00:21:43.263 --> 00:21:45.307 How can you have more cops and more crime? 00:21:45.307 --> 00:21:46.719 (laughter) 00:21:46.719 --> 00:21:50.885 It shows you that the cops must be in cahoots with the criminals. 00:21:50.885 --> 00:22:02.008 (laughter, applause) 00:22:02.008 --> 00:22:06.640 The texture of the hair that God - please - , that God gave them 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:10.146 so much that they put lye on it. (laughter) 00:22:10.146 --> 00:22:14.682 Do you realise - now, you know brother; lye will eat a hole in steel and you 00:22:14.682 --> 00:22:17.185 know your head is not that hard. 00:22:17.185 --> 00:22:29.680 (applause) 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:35.312 Who taught you - please. Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? 00:22:35.312 --> 00:22:38.923 Who taught you to hate the color of your skin to such extent that 00:22:38.923 --> 00:22:43.185 you bleach to get like the white man? 00:22:43.185 --> 00:22:45.733 Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose 00:22:45.733 --> 00:22:49.982 and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself 00:22:49.982 --> 00:22:53.783 from the top of your head to the soles of your feet? 00:22:53.783 --> 00:22:56.068 Who taught you to hate your own kind? 00:22:56.068 --> 00:22:59.233 Who taught you to hate the race that you belong to? 00:22:59.233 --> 00:23:02.714 So much so that you don't want to be around each other. 00:23:02.714 --> 00:23:05.313 You know, before you come asking Mr. Muhammed 00:23:05.313 --> 00:23:06.585 does he teach hate? 00:23:06.585 --> 00:23:10.938 You should ask who- yourself, who taught you to hate 00:23:10.938 --> 00:23:25.403 being what God gave you. (applause) 00:23:25.403 --> 00:23:30.308 We teach you to love the hair that God gave you. 00:23:30.308 --> 00:23:33.491 Here you, way out in the middle of the ocean, can't swim 00:23:33.491 --> 00:23:38.025 and you worried about someone that's in the bathtub and can't swim. 00:23:38.025 --> 00:23:48.304 (laughter and applause) 00:23:48.304 --> 00:23:54.672 We don't steal. We don't gamble. We don't lie, and we don't cheat. 00:23:54.672 --> 00:23:58.035 And that also deprives the government of revenue 00:23:58.035 --> 00:24:00.579 (laughter) 00:24:00.579 --> 00:24:02.868 because you can't get into a whiskey bottle without getting 00:24:02.868 --> 00:24:06.088 past the government seal. 00:24:06.088 --> 00:24:09.960 You can't open a deck of cards without getting past the government seal. 00:24:09.960 --> 00:24:13.337 Hell, the white man makes the whiskey then puts you in jail for getting drunk. 00:24:13.337 --> 00:24:19.535 (cheering) 00:24:19.535 --> 00:24:22.793 He sells you the cards and the dice and puts you in jail when he 00:24:22.793 --> 00:24:25.917 catches you using 'em. 00:24:25.917 --> 00:24:30.531 So, he's against us because we fix it where he can't catch you anymore. 00:24:30.531 --> 00:24:33.371 We take the dice outta your hands and the cards out of your hands 00:24:33.371 --> 00:24:35.536 and the whiskey out of your head. 00:24:35.536 --> 00:24:40.740 The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. 00:24:40.740 --> 00:24:45.136 The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. 00:24:45.136 --> 00:24:48.630 The most neglected person in America is the black woman. 00:24:48.630 --> 00:24:51.310 And as Muslims, the honorable Elijah Mohammad teaches us 00:24:51.310 --> 00:24:56.472 to respect our women and to protect our women. 00:24:56.472 --> 00:24:59.858 And the only time a Muslim really gets real violent is when 00:24:59.858 --> 00:25:03.346 someone goes to molest his woman. - (man) right! 00:25:03.346 --> 00:25:05.256 (applause) 00:25:05.256 --> 00:25:08.921 We will kill you for our woman. 00:25:08.921 --> 00:25:13.295 I'm making it plain. Yes. We will kill you for our woman. 00:25:13.295 --> 00:25:15.507 (applause) 00:25:15.507 --> 00:25:19.972 We believe that if the white man will do whatever is necessary 00:25:19.972 --> 00:25:23.204 to see that his woman gets respect and protection 00:25:23.204 --> 00:25:27.002 then you and I will never be recognised as men 00:25:27.002 --> 00:25:32.226 until we stand up like men and place the same penalty 00:25:32.226 --> 00:25:37.539 over the head of anyone who puts his filthy hands in the direction 00:25:37.539 --> 00:25:38.894 of our women. 00:25:38.894 --> 00:25:52.704 (thunderous applause) 00:25:52.704 --> 00:25:57.862 We respect them, but we want them to respect us. 00:25:57.862 --> 00:26:01.579 We think that the law should respect the negro community. 00:26:01.579 --> 00:26:04.693 The law should protect the negro community. 00:26:04.693 --> 00:26:09.293 The law should approach the negro community with intelligence if it 00:26:09.293 --> 00:26:13.701 expects the negro community to react intelligently. 00:26:13.701 --> 00:26:16.391 So, the honorable Elijah Mohammed teaches us 00:26:16.391 --> 00:26:21.725 to always avoid anything that smacks of disrespect for the law. 00:26:21.725 --> 00:26:26.432 And if the police department tells the truth, the will have to admit 00:26:26.432 --> 00:26:30.889 that they have never had any, uh, experiences with Muslims that 00:26:30.889 --> 00:26:33.965 have ever been anything other than honorable 00:26:33.965 --> 00:26:40.035 unless they themselves come at us in a dishonorable way. 00:26:40.035 --> 00:26:42.993 There's no case against the Muslims. 00:26:42.993 --> 00:26:47.052 It has no case against these brothers whom they shot down. 00:26:47.052 --> 00:26:51.057 And because it has no case, it's trying to create a case. 00:26:51.057 --> 00:26:53.724 It's trying to manufacture a case. 00:26:53.724 --> 00:26:58.219 And therefore they set up a grand jury hearing of the case so that they 00:26:58.219 --> 00:27:02.750 could hear it behind closed doors, and after hearing what we have to say 00:27:02.750 --> 00:27:06.705 then they'll- their particular strategy or defense against the actions 00:27:06.705 --> 00:27:11.100 that they committed on that April the 27th. 00:27:11.100 --> 00:27:15.599 So, at the advice of our attorneys, we purposefully, the victims, 00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:18.894 those who have been indicted, or rather those who have been arrested 00:27:18.894 --> 00:27:24.387 and are out on bond, have purposefully refrained and refused from making 00:27:24.387 --> 00:27:30.557 any statement whatsoever until after the case appears in court. 00:27:30.557 --> 00:27:34.069 And when you hear their story it will be in a public trial. 00:27:34.069 --> 00:27:39.058 We have already been - had experience with these private hearings 00:27:39.058 --> 00:27:40.896 behind closed doors. 00:27:40.896 --> 00:27:45.560 Anything that the white man has to do to the Muslim, 00:27:45.560 --> 00:27:48.197 he has to do it in the open. 00:27:48.197 --> 00:27:52.100 He has to do it in public, or he has to put every single one of us 00:27:52.100 --> 00:27:54.887 behind bars for the rest our our lives. 00:27:54.887 --> 00:28:06.392 (applause) 00:28:06.392 --> 00:28:12.172 When Mayor Yorty called for a government investigation 00:28:12.172 --> 00:28:17.387 of a religious group that have the highest moral standards 00:28:17.387 --> 00:28:22.594 of any group in the negro community, Mayor Yorty was giving you an 00:28:22.594 --> 00:28:27.552 example of what Hitler did in Nazi Germany when he began to go 00:28:27.552 --> 00:28:29.099 on the rampage. 00:28:29.099 --> 00:28:35.222 (applause) 00:28:35.222 --> 00:28:40.600 We feel, we have confidence that the white public and the black public, 00:28:40.600 --> 00:28:47.386 if they hear our case, if they hear and have access to the investigation, 00:28:47.386 --> 00:28:52.607 will never be fooled by this phony set up that's stacked from the top 00:28:52.607 --> 00:28:57.184 all the way down. 00:28:57.184 --> 00:28:59.809 And if you doubt it, when you leave home tonight, when you go home tonight 00:28:59.809 --> 00:29:02.986 look for the press. I'd like at this time to call forth 00:29:02.986 --> 00:29:06.494 these brothers who are under, uh, who were arrested. 00:29:06.494 --> 00:29:10.915 The brothers who were arrested. Come up here behind these chairs, please. 00:29:10.915 --> 00:29:24.345 (applause) 00:29:24.345 --> 00:29:27.181 They were suspects. (laughter) 00:29:27.181 --> 00:29:29.000 This wouldn't happen in a white neighborhood. 00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:31.661 White man can walk down the street with packages on his head 00:29:31.661 --> 00:29:35.589 packages under his arm and packages anywhere else 00:29:35.589 --> 00:29:39.507 and won't anybody question his right to carry those packages. 00:29:39.507 --> 00:29:45.749 But a negro is suspect because the press makes you suspect. 00:29:45.749 --> 00:29:48.528 Yes, the white press makes negroes suspect. 00:29:48.528 --> 00:29:54.353 - (murmuring) - (video skips) 00:29:54.353 --> 00:29:56.752 All the information you need, Officer. 00:29:56.752 --> 00:30:01.126 And the Officer made one stay at the rear of the car and the 00:30:01.126 --> 00:30:05.071 other go to the front of the car, and while he was taking the one 00:30:05.071 --> 00:30:10.189 to the one to the front of the car, the polite attitude, the humble if, 00:30:10.189 --> 00:30:16.426 the submissive, intelligent peaceful spirit that he uexpectedly found 00:30:16.426 --> 00:30:22.310 in this negro infuriated him. And he began to - he told 00:30:22.310 --> 00:30:26.710 the brother; 'put down your hands.' Brother was talking, he's not a criminal. 00:30:26.710 --> 00:30:30.063 A man has a right on the sidewalk to talk with his hands. 00:30:30.063 --> 00:30:32.424 'Put down your hands, don't talk with your hands.' 00:30:32.424 --> 00:30:36.222 And when the brother continued to gesture with his hands 00:30:36.222 --> 00:30:41.143 the Officer grabbed his hand, twisted it around, 'round behind his back 00:30:41.143 --> 00:30:48.632 flung him up against the car and then that's when hell broke loose. 00:30:48.632 --> 00:30:52.974 That was when hell broke loose. 00:30:52.974 --> 00:31:00.454 A struggle ensued, shots were fired by the police 00:31:00.454 --> 00:31:03.701 and by a negro door shaker. 00:31:03.701 --> 00:31:13.050 (laughter) 00:31:13.050 --> 00:31:19.063 An alarm went out. 00:31:19.063 --> 00:31:24.435 When the alarm went out, instead of the police going to the place 00:31:24.435 --> 00:31:30.844 where the incident occurred, the police went one block away 00:31:30.844 --> 00:31:33.893 to the temple. 00:31:33.893 --> 00:31:43.031 When they arrived there, they got out of their cars with their guns smokin'. 00:31:43.031 --> 00:31:45.612 You woulda thought it was Wyatt - what his name? 00:31:45.612 --> 00:31:49.168 Wyatt Earp. 00:31:49.168 --> 00:31:51.832 I'm telling you, they came out of those cars, and we have enough 00:31:51.832 --> 00:31:54.827 witnesses to hang 'em. 00:31:54.827 --> 00:31:57.242 With their guns smokin'. 00:31:57.242 --> 00:32:00.321 Cheif Parker knows this, Mayor Yorty knows this 00:32:00.321 --> 00:32:04.034 and every police official in the city knows that. 00:32:04.034 --> 00:32:06.862 They didn't fire no warning shots in the air 00:32:06.862 --> 00:32:10.632 they fired warning shots point blank at innocent, unarmed, 00:32:10.632 --> 00:32:13.956 defenseless negroes. 00:32:13.956 --> 00:32:20.518 As I say, two of the brothers were shot in the back. 00:32:20.518 --> 00:32:25.146 Another was shot in the shoulder. 00:32:25.146 --> 00:32:30.737 Another was shot, two of them were shot, excuse the expression, 00:32:30.737 --> 00:32:32.526 through the penis. 00:32:32.526 --> 00:32:38.838 (murmuring) 00:32:38.838 --> 00:32:45.433 Another was shot in the hip and the bullet came out the other side. 00:32:45.433 --> 00:32:51.201 But Arthur here was shot 1/4 of an inch from his heart. 00:32:51.201 --> 00:32:55.136 Let me tell you something, and I'll tell you why you say 'we hate white people'. 00:32:55.136 --> 00:32:57.425 We don't hate anybody. 00:32:57.425 --> 00:33:00.593 We love our own people so much, they think we hate the ones who 00:33:00.593 --> 00:33:03.646 are inflicting injustice against them. 00:33:03.646 --> 00:33:09.063 - (applause) - (video skips) 00:33:09.063 --> 00:33:12.916 Who has been shot, the bullet having passed a 1/4 of an 00:33:12.916 --> 00:33:15.923 inch through his heart. 00:33:15.923 --> 00:33:20.889 I'm not gonna let him talk, which I think you can understand why. 00:33:20.889 --> 00:33:24.290 You should listen to the conversation of the police officers 00:33:24.290 --> 00:33:26.755 while it was going on. 00:33:26.755 --> 00:33:31.274 Two of the brothers who had been shot, who were lying hand in hand, 00:33:31.274 --> 00:33:35.034 the officer said they were chanting a death chant. 00:33:35.034 --> 00:33:36.743 You read that. 00:33:36.743 --> 00:33:41.063 They were saying 'Allahu Akbar'. What does that mean? 00:33:41.063 --> 00:33:45.458 It means that God is the greatest. It means that God is the greatest. 00:33:45.458 --> 00:33:50.970 (applause) 00:33:50.970 --> 00:33:56.399 Understand what the white officer called a death chant was a prayer. 00:33:56.399 --> 00:33:58.766 They were praying when they were shot down. 00:33:58.766 --> 00:34:02.280 They were saying Allhu Akbar. 00:34:02.280 --> 00:34:05.361 And it shook the officer up that they haven't heard black people talk 00:34:05.361 --> 00:34:11.500 any kinda talk but what they taught 'em. 00:34:11.500 --> 00:34:14.964 And two of the brothers who were shot in the back were telling me that 00:34:14.964 --> 00:34:19.663 as they lay on the sidewalk, they were holding hands. 00:34:19.663 --> 00:34:23.312 They held hands with each other saying Allahu Akbar. 00:34:23.312 --> 00:34:26.524 And the blood was seeping out of them where the police bullets 00:34:26.524 --> 00:34:30.763 had torn into their insides. Still, they said Allahu Akbar 00:34:30.763 --> 00:34:34.256 and the police came and kicked them in the head. 00:34:34.256 --> 00:34:38.810 Police kicked them in the head telling them to shut up that noise 00:34:38.810 --> 00:34:42.863 while they were laying on the sidewalk in front of our temple. 00:34:42.863 --> 00:34:44.481 Kicked them in the head. 00:34:44.481 --> 00:34:47.393 Shut up that noise. And one of them, when he was on his way to the 00:34:47.393 --> 00:34:54.508 police station in the ambulance, one of the ambulance attendants 00:34:54.508 --> 00:34:57.909 told the white cop, 'why don't you kill the nigger?' 00:34:57.909 --> 00:35:01.164 He said, 'I'll tell them that he tried to get away. Why don't you 00:35:01.164 --> 00:35:06.666 kill the nigger? While you got a chance. I'll swear that he tried to get away.' 00:35:06.666 --> 00:35:10.733 If he didn't say this, then I need to be put in jail, and I'll gladly go. 00:35:10.733 --> 00:35:13.537 (applause) 00:35:13.537 --> 00:35:19.097 One of them who was being taken to jail in a police car 00:35:19.097 --> 00:35:24.410 as the ambulance sirens were coming to the place, one of the policeman 00:35:24.410 --> 00:35:27.951 said to the other: 'what are the ambulances rushing for? Nothing 00:35:27.951 --> 00:35:31.273 but some niggers.' So, he looked then and saw the Muslim 00:35:31.273 --> 00:35:34.764 brothers sitting beside him and he shut up. 00:35:34.764 --> 00:35:37.726 But after he got to the jail, the same officer that said this 00:35:37.726 --> 00:35:44.068 turned to the brother and said; 'I hope that you didn't get offended by 00:35:44.068 --> 00:35:47.866 what I said back there under the heat of emotion, because some of my 00:35:47.866 --> 00:35:49.367 best friends are colored.' 00:35:49.367 --> 00:35:51.796 (roaring) 00:35:51.796 --> 00:35:54.466 That's what he said. 00:35:54.466 --> 00:36:04.023 That's his password: 'Some of my best friends are colored.' 00:36:04.023 --> 00:36:07.937 And I for one, as a Muslim, believe that the white man is intelligent 00:36:07.937 --> 00:36:14.270 enough, if he were made to realise how black people really feel 00:36:14.270 --> 00:36:18.510 and how fed up we are without that whole compromising sweet talk. 00:36:18.510 --> 00:36:21.513 Why you're the one that make it hard for yourself. 00:36:21.513 --> 00:36:24.468 The white man believes you when you go to him with that old sweet talk 00:36:24.468 --> 00:36:27.491 'cause you been sweet talkin' him ever since he brought you here. 00:36:27.491 --> 00:36:30.961 Stop sweet talking him. Tell him how you feel. 00:36:30.961 --> 00:36:33.850 Tell him how or what kinda hell you been catching 00:36:33.850 --> 00:36:41.070 and let him know that if he's not ready to clean his house up 00:36:41.070 --> 00:36:47.178 if hes not ready to clean his house up, he shouldn't have a house. 00:36:47.178 --> 00:36:50.511 It should catch on fire. And burn down. 00:36:50.511 --> 00:37:01.375 (applause) 00:37:01.375 --> 00:37:04.798 As Muslims, we identify ourselves with the dark world. 00:37:04.798 --> 00:37:08.801 So we're not any minority. We're apart of the majority 00:37:08.801 --> 00:37:10.881 and the white man is the minority. 00:37:10.881 --> 00:37:17.294 (applause) 00:37:17.294 --> 00:37:20.636 You have to know this to understand us: we don't think any odds are 00:37:20.636 --> 00:37:22.394 against us. 00:37:22.394 --> 00:37:25.260 We don't fight a battle like the odds are against us. 00:37:25.260 --> 00:37:28.394 Why, the whole dark world today is in unity. 00:37:28.394 --> 00:37:33.007 It's one. If you don't think so, look at the United Nations. 00:37:33.007 --> 00:37:36.866 When the dark world votes, they vote as one. 00:37:36.866 --> 00:37:41.960 They gettin' the colonialists out of Africa, and out of Asia. 00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:45.510 Tellin' them to get out. They don't have any nuclear weapons 00:37:45.510 --> 00:37:51.457 but they got a solid, united voice and their unity alone is sufficient 00:37:51.457 --> 00:37:56.232 to drive the oppressor and exploiter of their people out of their own country. 00:37:56.232 --> 00:37:58.868 You and I need to learn a lesson from that right there. 00:37:58.868 --> 00:38:05.282 In the UN, the dark world consists of Buddhist's, Hindu's, Shinto's, 00:38:05.282 --> 00:38:08.619 Taoist's, Christian's, Muslims, everything. 00:38:08.619 --> 00:38:10.432 But they're together. 00:38:10.432 --> 00:38:12.902 They forget their religious and political differences. 00:38:12.902 --> 00:38:16.637 They think as one. They move as one 00:38:16.637 --> 00:38:18.789 against a common enemy. 00:38:18.789 --> 00:38:22.039 And [inaudible] of Algeria, he's going, don't think he's not going, 00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:23.285 he's going. 00:38:23.285 --> 00:38:26.870 (applause) 00:38:26.870 --> 00:38:31.824 They're getting him out of Angola, out of Tanganyika, out of Angola, 00:38:31.824 --> 00:38:35.627 Out of Uganda, out of Kenya. He's going from South Africa, too. 00:38:35.627 --> 00:38:37.694 He hasn't got long to be there. 00:38:37.694 --> 00:38:42.700 All over this earth, dark people who have been oppressed and exploited 00:38:42.700 --> 00:38:47.055 by those who are not their own kind, strangers, are coming together to 00:38:47.055 --> 00:38:49.622 get the oppressor off their back. 00:38:49.622 --> 00:38:51.453 You and I learn a lesson from that. 00:38:51.453 --> 00:38:53.391 We are oppressed. 00:38:53.391 --> 00:38:55.174 We are exploited. 00:38:55.174 --> 00:38:57.010 We are downtrodden. 00:38:57.010 --> 00:39:00.476 We are denied, not only civil rights, but even human rights. 00:39:00.476 --> 00:39:04.771 So, the only way we're going to get some of this oppression 00:39:04.771 --> 00:39:08.791 and exploitation away from us, or aside from us 00:39:08.791 --> 00:39:11.056 is come together against the common enemy. 00:39:11.056 --> 00:39:18.237 (applause) 00:39:18.237 --> 00:39:21.367 When they sat down at the Bandung conference, everyone there 00:39:21.367 --> 00:39:25.367 had this in common: a dark skin. 00:39:25.367 --> 00:39:31.251 Some of those who were sitting there were socialists, some were communists, 00:39:31.251 --> 00:39:36.085 some where capitalists, some were Christian, some were Buddhist. 00:39:36.085 --> 00:39:41.012 They were everything! But all of 'em was dark skinned. 00:39:41.012 --> 00:39:44.698 And they looked at that dark skin and agreed that this is 00:39:44.698 --> 00:39:46.872 one thing they had in common. 00:39:46.872 --> 00:39:50.398 Forget that you're a Methodist, forget that you're a Catholic, 00:39:50.398 --> 00:39:52.975 forget that you're a Protestant, forget that you're a Muslim. 00:39:52.975 --> 00:39:54.421 Remember that all of us are black, 00:39:54.421 --> 00:39:57.000 and we're catching h -