may commit it to helping preserve and foster black economic empowerment ladies and gentlemen i present to you our own yes we must embrace them and say here's our own the honorable minister l of the human family that whenever any member of this family strays from the straight path and earns his displeas before he punishes he always raises up from among the people a prophet a messenger or a warning to whom he gives what is called divine revelation in the form of scripture we thank him for abraham we thank him for most uses and the torah and the israel light prophet who gave us what is called the old testament we thank him for jesus and the gospel and the apostles that gave us what is called the new testament and we thank him f it been and his companions and from that we have the holy peace be upon these words servants of the most  i am a student of the most honorable elijah muhammad and i could never thank a lot for his merciful intervention left him to teach and guide a nation toward not only freedom justice and equality but to make fulfillment of divine prophecy that the people of abraham would go into bondage in a strange land among a strange people and would be a d in that land for four hundred years but after that time god wouldn't send somebody he would come  to see after this people and raves from among us one like unto moses we thank him for his coming we thank him for the consciousness and the wisdom that he gave to the honorable elijah moment that i have spent my life sharing with people mr dudley i thank him for he is love fulla i heard of the work that he did in the people that sold his products throughout the nation who became independent and he made them entrepreneurs so for our great brother on his seventy ninth birthday anniversary to be celebrated  of nearly a thousand entrepreneurs that really the backbone of the economic development and salvation the enemy has never wanted to see us economically powerful and every effort that we have made to become economically strong the architect of that economic strength was always labeled as an jamaica to meet mr washington he's so admire a it booker t washington that from booker t washington this book which he read it started mr gumby in his consciousness to raise the consciousness of black people in america and throughout the world all of us  on the shoulders of somebody else and none of us will live long enough to completely is so the problem but each of us in our time has a function to perform and they mention big ben just being an entrepreneur that's the sad thing about meeting today is we don't realize that we are still coloni may i speak very frankly please really is taken over by somebody else they work in the company to feed the colonize and at some point in this great nation the thirteen colonies decided enough is enough and they rose up against the king of england and today we have the united states of america but we didn't come on the nina the pinta the santa maria we weren't looking for a better place we came in the holes of the ships and the enemy knew that he had a product not a human being but a product then he could you use to build a country that we were never supposed to have equal justice equal opportunity and real freedom in yeah whatever city you live in to do business look at how many young business the chinese would walk back in fact you wouldn't even have a store they wouldn't play mad it but here we are  teaches preachers control from the outside and all the colony agents have to go down town seeking some support from the benevolent master if you don't see yourself as being colonized then you will never make the move to really become free have you been to korea town and we love our feet looking pretty nails being done the koreans have set up nine thousand stores in the black and they will not bank with any black bank in the black community they take the money out and bring it back to their rishta i'm talking about the mass of the people now if there are members of the end of a legacy here that's where i started my consciousness that did not want that organization to deal with economics th no on economic liberalism whatever that means but the first part is really clear you know on economics so you could fight to change a law you could fight to clean up black and white fountains and where blacks are buried we could bury along with white people we could may make that kind of f but the fight for economic would lead to war with them and when we get to a certain point in our economic development it appears that they give us an hundred fifty people he employed but who got the building now who who's running it now all of the black hair care people somebody else is fixing and i hear now even when we were frying i johnson what todd with ebony and jet and other magazines to put a building on michigan avenue in chicago did we as black people who didn't live in chicago could come to chicago  even now they come in after the funeral director we used to be the ones that did but now since we killin each other so great the white man said that's a lot of money so he comes in town and now we have a white person burying us with a smile this is serious brothers and sisters there's a new spirit among the people they really want to buy from their own when we when we decided by studying the words of dr martin luther king jr when the garbage man in memphis went on strike and dr king went to see about  the night before he was assassinated he started talking about redistributing pain he thought and rightly so that when we are in pain we have to inflict pain on those who inflict pain on us oh wait just a minute this this sounds like revenge and no it's called retaliation for injustice so dr king said we should go buy these big white companies and tell them that don't look sent us by here to talk to you about your mistreatment of people now if justice for us is not on your agenda we have something on our agenda we're go withdraw our dollars from your companies then he told them take your money out of the white man's bank and put it in your  yes he did he said don't buy one do bridge don't buy some of the products that were sold by whites to blacks in memphis but nobody cared about the little man so this year we said let's boycott christmas in fact christmas has become nothing more than a mockery of jesus using our love for jesus to make it into a commercial enterprise where you go and spend money that you don't even have with a big white business pass my black  and spend your money with those who don't care for you so we decided that here we were not going to participate we're going to have christmas but in on a teases instead of getting drunk in his name i don't know how many of you own liquor stores not too many but all in our community the liquor stores the arabs  how are you going to tell me that you deserve to be in our community and feeding us less than good food mistreating our women and girls and selling drugs on the side colony that's what it is white only and not protecting your business they protect the white business in our community we never have to like wal mart like your mama didn't have too much good to say about wal mart because when wal mart comes in the community they put out a business little small entrepreneur was like you and lower the price and we run spending our money with them and watch black business close down in the economic battle for justice and freedom then we're going to lose i don't want to spend too much time but i love it brothers and sisters we boycotted from thanksgiving all the way to the first of the year i didn't realize how but down with san fellow back to the north pole let him take his ring be close why would you celebrate jesus with a lie tellin your children that a big fat cook asian is going to drop something down a chimney that you don't even have so we shut it down and guess what several wal mart closed you know macy's forty stores closed down oh yeah all the big ones tog bad shape the money that comes through then one point one trillion dollars this year last year pardon me is enough to make us the ninth richest country on earth and other nations that don't have that kind of economic strength you less inspire us to want to get up and really do business so the theme of this was capitalism is the real  i don't say i totally agree with that but i do agree with i like exercising the will to set up our own businesses that is a way to get to freedom you could call it capitalism you can call it what you want but doing something for yourself that's the way to respect and recognition as a people now i know i got to say something tomorrow night so i don't want to be too long today but you know god help us he he so we were trying to close them down give them a little pain you know and god said well i'm going to make the all the money that they had invested in all the winter gear that helped them to close their business is down and as they closed down i said to myself maybe we need to go behind the lord sent us by did you have enough yet that you are ready to do just  you know dear brothers and sisters s b fuller showed us a way at a time when maybe we didn't know that there was a way mr followed was a creative genius he's products gay black people without jobs jobs now how many of you produces of a product that you would like to get sold in your store or in the community how many of you have a product that you made would you raise your hands please see now that you need an outlet for your product mr johnson les is hot libya loaned us five million dollars to create personal care products we were going to follow we went to mr johnson and we went to the black bank and had the money sent from libya to a black  five million dollars it never touched our hands it went from libya to a black bank i sat down with mr johnson we were going to make products and when members of the jewish community heard that he was going to make products for me and the nation of islam they told mr johnson mr johnson if you do anything for him we will not distribute your product and we will close you down i stopped making any advancement in the products that were being designed by his company for us and then as the chairman of the board of independence bank he and the president of the bank came to my office and asked us to take the money out of their bank him i was so hurt because we look up to economic giants but in reality most are midget now i'm not putting us down we are midgets in the eyes of the business world that takes our money and they don't look favorably at us now of course you're doing business you go to a bank you get loans and you try to make your business successful some of us have spores one on this corner and one in the next corner but we don't have unity the greeks there in the community but when they buy they go to the market as a human it by cheap said cheap captioned them  it can work for us but we're not working it as we could if we learned how to as george frazier if you listen to him he's telling you you don't we don't think black that brothers and sisters so we do you we're so individualistic in our capitalistic mentality we're always come p d with each other instead of uniting pooling resources and expanding good for each other that's capitalism but it's in  how can we make it better ernst every product that use every product that you create eight has a base and if you don't control the base of the ingredients that make you a product if somebody that you go to denies you that base they put you out of business it was sat with him and he was telling me how we have to control the route of what we produce he said no we've got to buy timber land up in the northwest and turn it into paper because if the white man say i don't like what you say into black people got them all spurred up so we're not going to say oh you paper we out of business but the chinese it is a cop mr mohammed we'll print we'll give you  china that's very good brother that's wise but we wanted to manufacture shirts five community the chinese jonas all of you you is always land you don't have land you don't have the basis for a real economic development yes capitalism but that's intelligent capitalism not dumb capitalists any person that this resembles it's not a coincidence i'm not trying to be funny but in truth a dumb capitalist is always looking at something for himself he can't see the value of a collective multi million is some of us now billionaires and sc twenty years after slavery we own sixteen to eighteen million is the basis of economic development we had sixteen to eighteen million acres twenty years from slavery this is twenty sixteen  but if all you can get out of being an entrepreneur is the latest cock and a home with a note attached and your children see you working in a business talk to you honey i really don't have time i have an appointment i've got to open the shop and after you work to build your business you can't turn it over to your son or your daughter very few black people have so what you work for you put them through school with your sweat and your blood and you send them to college and they come out like foolish people not willing to take what mommy and daddy we have among us giants of economic knowledge we really need to sit down together as brothers and sisters and plan an effective economic strategy to pull people up out of this poverty and want that is rooted in i watch how the jewish people do they are wonderful to study black and became a giant we shouldn't be too proud to study them but don't study them with our work chipping mine i had a talk with a great jewish billionaire it was arranged by mike wallace and rock newman there goes the economy friend's house and when he walked in the room i'm sitting there with my family and his wife is there and he comes in how are you  would you like a drink i said oh mr brown man no thank you i'm i don't drink he said you're drink arens jews don't you see when you know god now you are able to do real this because this is not our business man greater then the god who created  another hey buddy months at the table the food was really nice i mean yeah yeah he was really going because his i had the it was to make me back to his then power and influence he didn't know who he was do you know see when you know who you are and when you know hooves you you don't let no human make you feel less than what god made you god didn't make niggas niggas is a product made in america i said there is a verse in the holy koran which is the book of scripture of the most and it goes like this if a fee or anything smaller came and took a month or so out of your plate you don't have the power to call the friendly back and make the free drop that maslow back in your place so the qur'an says we is the invoker and weak is the in vo i didn't want his money i wanted to make better relationships between blacks and jews i was not successful and the reason i was not successful is because i'm a man you understand what i'm saying  and if you refuse to be blunt that's when he goes to use for economics is warfare you start building a successful empire sooner or later they'll come you remember def jam with russell simmons and baby phat at a certain point they came to brother russell now he's got a little stock in his form a company that he owned out right they took b e t they took everything all of the black banks in chicago not all but most of them now closing them and when you look at why people i want you to think about how we could duplicate this behavior thirty of the owners are members of the jewish community they own basketball football baseball hockey run up and down you see the combine see that's slavery again you know like when they used to put us on the auction block look at this  today it's called the draft but it's the same principle and look how much money they g if you get signed you don't come in under five hundred thousand and if you're in the pay you come in a million two million five million and most when they quit they broke how could you know that's a hundred and fifty million dollars and end up s young man you need an agent here comes  you need an accountant it comes m you need a good lawyer it comes mr shuman and then they'll tell you you know did you see li not what i'm sayin i'm saying are smart people take a foolish people and make you are big on food and they are rich independent send their children to college and do you out you got all these diamonds  and he owns the diamond mines in kimberley in south africa you never stop to think do i really need this so as fast as we get money we spend it in closing this is not a formula right now but if we recognize the need for unit