they called it a complete pelvic exoneration because they radiation that i had received which is now in textbooks was so great that it began eating me up internally i don't know  it started in two thousand and they was so anxious for me to die they were ready to have m n new york times and it didn't happen then this last time many expected me to go on but our law desired for me to remain and so i started maybe from a hundred and fifty eight pounds at that time and i go back every few months you know and the doctor just looks at me saying well you can't have any cancer many people at that time began to think or what kind of world would it be if he's no longer with us  a smiley and cornel west they were in germany and when they heard that i was gravely ill they flew back harry belafonte came to see me and father michael pfleger in chicago and i think i finished the operation on january fourth two thousand and seven i got out of the hospital january twenty first but all the time that i was in the hospital i was thinking of my savior's day address to the muslim community but sure enough on february the twenty sixth i was in detroit on a day that was so cold and icy that they were advising the people not to come out but fifty five thousand people were in the ford stadium and we had saved his day and everybody came because they wanted to see if our car was all right and i spoke for two hours and five minutes or so and i felt very strong and i've been going ever since and no set backs so i'm grateful what is your assessment of where we are today i'll start with the known we have beautiful brother as a president of the united states is beautiful wife and children as a wonderful example of a family that is exemplary and caring and loving and brother parag has brought many very talented black men and women into government and when i turn on the television and i look at their representation the intelligent representation of our people no one can deny that we qualified to run a government that's the good side but the honorable elijah mohammed says no one man can rise above the condition of his people so the flipside of that is when we look at the masses of our people we're not going forward we're going back but when we look at the condition of our young people the dropout rate in school the lack of desire for learning when we look and see how the enemy has made some of us exceedingly rich through our songs and now raps and sport ten hour play but he has made us rich and we have gained fame and fortune through garrity and filth so sometimes we think that wealth and fame  mises what we do but this is part of a grand scheme to make some of us very rich as  their angry masses and the super rich classes and so the masses of people in spite of being overjoyed the high rate of disease lack of health care among people so the mass condition is not good and  globally people are suffering the same when you and i were much younger in jamaica the jamaican dollar was on par with the american dollar and maybe even a little more under the great michael mann we saw in the caribbean  progressive leadership was in trinidad in barbados and in other islands today the west companies have pushed the west indies banana product practically out so tourism now is the main business from miles away and it is already done to make it look good when it reaches the market place and our people are growing thin cancer in diabetes high blood pressure aids gang violence drugs so the caribbean is suffering africa too either the french the francophone countries great britain in the end of all countries the lack of development to feed our population but i still have great hope for the future because that which has oppressed us that which has sought to destroy us is now being destroyed in europe according to pat buchanan in his book the death of the west the white birthrate is under zero zero population growth is one death one birth but today in europe it's more then one death one birth it's more death less birth so the white population of europe is going down and the immigrant population is multiplying in america you have the same phenomena thirty five years ago brother gil the demographers was saying that by twenty fifty at the current black birth rate blacks would be equal to or greater then the whites in this nation by twenty fifty but somehow the racist element went to work calling us by birth control by aids by crack cocaine and drugs and literally promoting gang conflict drug war and the question my mind was searching all of the countries i have been blessed to visit and there is not one what i found in the caribbean black people who were in the position of political power while arabs chinese and indians and others were in control of the economics well if you control the economics you direct the politics and so the politics of africa is controlled by the economics and in i don't know whether you've seen this book the confessions of an economic hit man but in this book they talked about how they would go to african countries and offer them  in the world bank offered him tremendous amounts of money in these thank you but no thank you we have enough revenue from oil that we can take care of ourselves nigeria was moving toward becoming that independent black nation that would suffice its needs from within but in this book the economic hit man when ever you were deprived or you did not accept the loan and the conditions of that loan then they would send what they call the jackals to try to undermine your government even assassinate the leadership or they would send in the army so in the of this country when i visited south africa we had a chartered plane on a world tour when i got off the plane there was a man standing on the tarmac wrapped in chains and i looked at him and we went to the hotel and when we got to the hotel the same man was there what a great mind and a great man he assumed power on the strength of the vote of his people that power could have been turned into something very ugly to destroy the country but he patiently waited for a new generation to develop highly learned that they could take over sections of the economy that they may not have been prepared for at the time that he won the they promised him that they would put electricity that they would help him build one hundred thousand new homes and they would help him do this and that and when i visited there again to hannah's berg was gone like it was in gary indiana when gary was a great industrial city but when  and they built a community economically fine but gary died and when i last went to south africa johannesburg was dead they promised my husband so much and they gave him very little so when a man of his stature stands and promises the people because behind him was a promise that they never intended to keep his image then becomes damaged and even though history will record him as one of the great giants south africa today is still suffering the black people in south africa are still in great pain the economy is in the hands of the whites asians that and a few blacks with a message to the black man because this something evidently missing in us we are not inferior we are the fathers and mothers of civilization but colonization and slavery has done something to that african mind that we need as alijah mohammed said to be resurrected from mental death just think about that statement for the gil mental death because life is activity and the tiffany of life is seen in business the business of providing food clothing shelter education well being and health to you people if we in america being blessed to have graduated from some of the finest universities in this country yet we are not providing f jobs or health to our people but are instead beginning our former slave masters and their children to do this for us then this something in us that's missing that needs to be given but there was a fire in the sixty's especially among young people and the students were very angry vocal we were filled with the inspiration of elijah muhammad malcolm x and we were just a few days away from marcus  and w e b two boys and we were in reached with something that this present generation is missing once we when we were segregated you know in the south we governed our own schools we had our own motels hotels restaurants bars we had gas station bus companies insurance companies we were doing something and keeping some of our dollars revolving in our own community allowing us then to build an economic base for us selves  when the enemy saw that the money was staying in that circle and that money he wanted in his circle then integration was offered to black people not for us to really become the friends of white people but this hypocritical friendship was to lead us away from self into their arms because now we could sleep in the finest hotels eat in the best restaurants etc etc so our money left home and now it's still doing the same thing we get nearly eight hundred billion dollars a year out of the american economy but that money comes in goes out very little stays among us so when we got public accommodations bill the right to vote and it looked like we were going to reach the promised land our people of that generation didn't teach the young the history of us struggle when i as a spoke with  who is one of our noble heroes brother harry told me that he spoke of how would you know versity and he said the thing that saddened him is that the students at how it did not know their recent history much less they hain't history of us struggle so if we don't know the struggle then the struggle can't continue and that's the difference for the guild with the jewish community and our community because there is not one jewish child that is unfamiliar with the jewish struggle and the jewish holocaust and that is why the vague can say never again and mean it because they are so conscious and so sensitive to mt semitism that they will never let it happen again and so you indicting the educated system in this country as being deficient in teaching our young men and women about their own history there is no question that there is a deliberate effort not only to dumb down our children but to dumb down the american people there was a program on television during the presidential election kerry and the white children didn't know who he was in they showed them a picture of russell simmons and all the white children  russell simmons because the young whites today are involved in the hip hop culture and generation so they know all the artists but they don't know their own politicians and when in europe estonia latvia and lithuania were getting free of the soviet that from the sixth grade when i was a young student in boston massachusetts i had an education and i went to an all black grammar school and white house school that was integrated but when i left high school i had four years of two years of german two years of french one year of spanish i had algebra trigonometry calculus i had plane geometry solid geometry i had ancient history medieval history modern history and i was sixteen years of age and i went south to school and i never bought a book because i didn't need one my high school education got me through college not today we're suffering not only us but the american people as a whole having looked at the historical perspective as you've laid out what has the questions about today in addition to the in a city and the trauma there w disturb you i know there's a situation that is going on not only nationally but globally greed corporate greed and it is forcing a lot of things that are exacerbating many a say the trauma in the inner city and now we have this thing called massive unemployment so young brothers are really floundering in the in a city have nowhere to make a living and it's destroying the household what do you have to say about observations that are being made like that there is a verse in the course that reads corruption has appeared on the land and the sea on account of millions hands have wrought that he god may make them taste a part of what they have done perhaps they may return better conduct in words greed is the corruption of the united states government first we have to start at the top because the corruption the criminal behavior at the top is manifested in the streets of america the violence at the top is manifested in the streets of america you have men in business suits but they're criminals in the way they think to rob other nations of their wealth and power and leaders that do not lead according to the interests of corporate multinational corporations so this kind of policy that has been a part of the government of the united states of america now has endangered the government itself because greed and special interests and powerful lobbies control the u s congress so the us congress is not the congress of the american people it is the congress of special interests and when special interests can spend billions of dollars to influence legislation that benefits the special interests but not necessarily the mass american people been the government is caving in from the top and now recent polls show that only twenty one percent of the american people or the popularity of the congress has sunk to twenty one percent will now you of your fueling anneke in the country and this is why these militia groups that are angry with president obama angry with big government angry with the administration angry with bailing out the criminal the international bankers were criminal in that toxic paper that they gave to unsuspecting american people and an awful lot of black and p people could get into a home that is their natural desire to improve their condition but when the interest rates went up and the mortgage rates almost doubled then foreclosure so the masses of the people that are losing their homes losing their cars losing their four or one k s losing any health benefits because they're losing their jobs because greedy international corporations that got that benefit from america started shipping jobs overseas to cheap labor markets then sending the product back to america selling it at high prices to increase the bottom line they call that outsourcing of business yes or jobs but now on it is producing the destruction of the united states of america there is no country that cedes manufacturing to some other place every country has a responsibility to i came to you in a suit the suit would have a saying made in america this shirt would be made in america my underwear would be made in america the shoes that i we're would be made in america today you can find that anymore and manufacturing is in china manufacturing is in india manufacturing is in brazil but america has lost its manufacturing base so now what do we do we are a service oriented economy so where do black children who drop out of school who are not and because we don't fit then drugs and gangs and crime starting from the kindergarten our children are being maneuvered into the justice system there's a growing here and cry about the amount of money that being spent in the wars overseas it started in the sixty's with the naam and korea and it grew with the incursions into iraq and now there's afghanistan that is percolating what is your analysis of the sequence we should never have been in iraq or in afghanistan in the first place i read from french authors of a book i can't recall its name that in july of two thousand and one members of the taliban came to the united states to meet with members of the u s government the discussion was not the women in afghanistan and the burkas that they w discussion wasn't oriel pipeline by unocal dick cheney of which owns some shares in it this oil pipeline was to come to these writers the taliban were offered a carpet of gold or a copy of bombs when the taliban refused to allow the pipeline to come through afghanistan this is july now by september the eleventh we have the death and destruction of the world tree center then within a few days just a few days it's these arabs and it's mr osama bin ladin who was in him up to us mullah omar being a muslim asked president bush show us the evidence of his guilt of this and we will turn him over to you president bush said we're not negotiating with you and the bombs fell on afghanistan well now we find that in the f b i file the f b i does not have any evidence that osama bin laden was actually the mastermind behind the destruction of nine eleven and if it did from afghanistan what was the predicate for that action against iraq it was all oil it was it was taking control of another nation and threw them setting up bases that would allow them to be able to attack iran and control the middle east now all of that is falling apart and my brother our brother president b inherited the madness of an imperial american foreign policy i e saying that the president of these united states is swamp and is really part in another thirty four perspective that would help him deal with this problem there's just too much going on for him to keep up with some a beginning to say that well is too much going on i don't say that is too much for him to deal with but if he were left to do what his heart his mind and true intelligence would tell him to do he would get us out of afghanistan as quickly as possible i said in my savior's the speech in february to our brother find a way to get out of afghanistan and help america to save its face because there is no win for you in afghanistan and i said this in february now the the generals are saying that we are literally losing the war in afghanistan and biden is saying let's get out and others are saying we cannot win so now that talking about using money to pay the taliban as they paid the insurgents in iraq these people don't like america they'll take your money and still join our force against you now you are bombing pakistan now what are you going to do us and you are at the doorstep now of trying to find a way to attack iran this is always side of america is losing all over the world if she continues on this path many are asking though why don't we have the student look and kill in the sixty's you know sex has always been with us you know we we have always loved the female those of us who were natural me and women truly love them men in the sixty's you know the flower groups or the sexually active but they were conscious look at the ti in the movies in them in the magazines in the recording in industry of sex so when a man's head is between his legs how can you think progressively when you see in the drug now the imports into this country the appetite in the american people for drugs where it is an insatiable appetite that is growing growing growing so the poppy is in afghanistan the drugs in central and south america they have a big market in the united states and it's because the people i've dumbed down the people are lethargic the people's head is between their legs the people are not conscious the people need a stimulus package to awaken them not money but the fall of the economy of the country will wake up a drug addict because if you don't have the money you can't get the drugs if the money dries up and the dollar falls into nothingness and if the inflation goes up which they're thinking that they're going to raise the interest rates and if inflation goes up that dollar is going down they're printing money that they have no backing for they're just printing and printing more and more money and that's why the american people are so angry with president bush rock and top and the bush administration that gave a bailout a bailout to whom the very people that are robbing the world and robbing the poor have been bailed out by the poor and the country is so far in debt today that it doesn't look like america will ever get out of the you have a prescription for the deterioration in the black home because so many homes in the hood are broken and then can provide and the women are angry in many instances there's a lot of bloodshed the young people are on each other's back you have any prescription any hope of course there's lots of hope for the good but we have to lose hope in that that has destroyed us and begin to hope again in ourselves you know the paper that we would get a loan from the bank and the banks would bundle that loan and sell it to foreign countries it's called toxic paper toxic paper destroy the economy of the world what you see in us is extreme toxicity we've been poisoned against ourselves and the black community now is considered toxic waste and when you have a community that is considered toxic waste you can't build on toxic waste if you don't those that build on it will be poisoned by the poisoning of the water it's cetera well now there is a desire in some to get rid of the problem totally meaning finding scientific ways to kill off an entire people is a much of an outcry from black elected officials the you know the the sad crying is there are black elected officials and black leaders are clueless as to how to solve this problem so many who have invested time and money to try to help black people are losing faith and are now saying we need to call the national god into the black communities to bring about some order the national guard and not police they're not there to serve and protect and the police  aren't either today they're becoming soldiers so you see them dressed in the swat team just like you see it in afghanistan and iraq you see if the national guard comes in and if you look at the  come up that the people will rise and i say this will be paying gil the media and many whites that even voted for br bear rock turning on him now they must have thought that he was god because he's only been in nine months and they expect him to fulfill every promise that he made in nine months and now the eating away at him calling him a nazi you know i mean these are serious things and they're creating an atmosphere in the country that could lead hopefully not to our brothers assassination now look at the armed forces in this country in every city they have changed the  the roadways around major cities made them more concrete more strong because their tanks their anti personnel carriers in these amr reese the people are being trained for house to house combat not just for iraq but for the inner cities of america i have learned that blackwater that group of mercenaries is now training police in new york in chicago in atlanta in san francisco and los angeles in houston yes the police are no longer being given don't know who they are financed by but whenever you have a toxic waste and you have a country drifting toward an icky and you have a rising entity black sentiment in the country that is seen in every major city police action against black youth and black people in a negative sense has increased so because baracoa is in the white house many white people are so upset over up black men being in the white house they may not be able to get to him but it's been taken out on people in communities all across this country so instead of it being a post racial america which it seemed to be with the whites that voted for our brother but as this is turning now and that anger is kendall in white america this thing is going to get very very ugly if the dollar falls in the economy collapses only god knows what will happen but at the end of the dark night there will be a brighter day for those who survive america from this fall and when he went overseas in an apologetic kind of way for some of the errant policies of the government the republicans took up the cry we don't need a president to apologize we need a president that stands up for america he's standing up for the best of you but not for the mohammed snatches that black brother pulls him up out of drugs and and alcohol and adultery and makes him want to go home and be a father to have successful home life we're not perfect but we have an antidote for the toxicity of black people in larger mohammed showed us a way to do something for self we're not perfect but if our people would unite on a program like that we could lift up people in the same kind of climate but it's going to take the unity of all of us thinking about the best method to raise our people up and stop being envious if we can clean up people up and bill cosby goes around the country saying look at the muslims well don't be jealous because it's a different faith ilagan mohammed had something and i come back to my mentor malcolm x malcolm x graduated from the eighth grade he never went to high school he never went to college he was from prison and became one of the greatest minds on home planet that tells you that the people that are locked down in prison then dummies they are the people that if help comes to them they can be made useful members of society but the malcolm is the example nobody defeated him in a you and i with their guilt when he went to harvard and debate it last school graduates they couldn't handle malcolm nobody could handle him because he was thinking outside the box prepared for us by an educational system rooted in white supremacy we have a chance to make ourselves better and we need to look at successful examples and say what are we doing i close on this with this you know let me interrupt you with all due respect what he said of those who say that there were no white people in the autobahn or when malcolm was struck down us that we have to be cleansed from and if we do not allow ourselves to be purified from south hatred and from the envy and the jealousy that makes war with each other if we are not purified from that there will never be a wholesome black community that we can take pride in and that is what happened in the art of bond ballroom it was people that hey did not love it was people that hated brother malcolm it was people that maybe were envious of brother malcolm and even though he went against his teacher nobody had a right to take that man's life every man has a right to live to see either the error of his ways all the wisdom of the