of your hard work for these many years and trinidad and thank you so much for the invitation to me to come back to trinidad to speak to the trinidadian community and of course we are speaking also live on the internet and we have hundreds of listeners currently locked down online all across the caribbean as well as in north america and also canada so we're speaking to the entire caribbean and caribbean diaspora through trinidad and tobago this evening and of course bearing in mind your caribbean roots this is an honor for all of us and we'll ask you to begin with your sentiments towards the caribbean and why you feel it's important to deliver a message to caribbean peoples at this time well being a son of the caribbean my father from the beautiful island of jamaica my mother from the beautiful island of st kitts my grandmother from the beautiful island of nevus but i was born in new york city and was reared in boston massachusetts and of course seventy five nearly eighty years ago in boston a growing west indian community was developing and our church was st cyprian's episcopal church and at that church west indian people would gather from the many islands of the caribbean and some of them never spoke to each other while they were living in the caribbean but under the negativity of being a west indian in north america our people came together and it was the church that brought us all together so i grew up listening  the accents of the caribbean and as a young man eleven and twelve years of age i wanted to be a  exposed to many of the great calypsonian zx from trinidad and some of them when they would come and perform in boston they would come to my mother's home after their performance and she would have dinner for them and i would be allowed to stay up late that night to sit with my idols and they would teach me and and so my roots are deep in the caribbean and i felt that as a student of the honorable elijah muhamm and a man seventy nine years of age with not as many years in front of me as i have behind me i wanted to spend time in the caribbean to leave a message in the caribbean that i pre will live long after physically i have returned to a la god so i went to jamaica and i was not permitted to speak at the university of the west indies in jamaica this time though i was up on the campus some of the students could come over to hear me i spoke years ago at the university of the west indies in jamaica the university of the west indies in barbados and the university of the west indies here in trinidad and so i have not been to barbados in a long time but i was always well received at the universities and it is not that the university of the west indies would not receive me i want to make that clear it's just that they asked us to pay  thirty five thousand t t dollars for the rental of the i don't know it's a gymnasium on the campus and i understand that when you're renting when you have a speaker and these in the gymnasium you have to put things down on the floor to protect the the court you have to have chairs you have to have security and all of that but i respectfully say that i thought that the message that i wanted to give the inspiration that i wanted to share with our future generation was much more important than the dollars and i didn't come prepared to pay that kind of money but nevertheless i  r james auditorium on saturday evening but i would hope that the students from the university of the west indies and young people would come to the lecture because there is much that we wish to impart to you you are the generation of promise and you are the generation of fulfillment and i'm speaking particularly to our young black students because our ancestors paid a tremendous price for us to be where we are today and you are the generation that sometimes the elders don't quite understand and there's a gap developing between our young and our elders however that gap can be bridged the elders must never ever allow the young not to know the stony road that we tried to get to where we are today that is a mistake that the elders have made not teaching our young people the history of our in slave mit the history of our suffering the history of our accomplishments and then go in beyond the transatlantic slave trade to the all region of civilization that our fathers gave to europe and the world and if children do not know the road that we've traveled if children do not know the past then they are crippled in the present and their weak in their ability to prepare an adequate future so today i look at it as a great honor to me at my age to sit down with our young people as a student of the honorable elijah mohammed and give you the wisdom that god peace be upon him and in the translations that i have read the opening of verses of sutra to the cow it starts like no so god is introducing himself to his prophet who could not read who could not write but he's telling him that he is being communicated with by one who is not the better know not one with any superior knowledge but he was being spoken to by one who is the sup know of all that there is so when you have someone like that that becomes your teacher then how could you not rise from ignore many to greatness so prophet muhammad peace be upon him though he could neither read nor write yet those words of a law from the sun allowed him to unite the tribes of arabia into a great nation and there arabs though they were steeped in ignorance and savagery rose to become world leaders in every field of human endeavor that is the benefit of having the best know as your teacher well if you just oppose that with what is written in the bible it goes like this mind people destroyed for the lack of knowledge black people yes you and i have been victims because of our blackness but that is not the real reason that we are behind other nations of the earth the real reason is that the ignorance that has been imposed upon us since the transit land to slave trade allowing us to be chattel slaves for three hundred years depriving us of the human right to know depriving us of education depriving us of that which would raise us from the sub human level to the human level and on to recognizing  connection to the divine supreme being so are the best no has intervened in our affairs not that i am here to give you common knowledge you can get that any day any time from your libraries from your school rooms from your professors not here to bring you that i'm here to bring you supreme wisdom that came from the supreme being who has intervened in our affairs that the black man who is on the bottom may rise to the top and in no bible do re you look he says the last will become the first and the bottom rail would come to the top and the tail shall be the head this is the lord's doing and it is marvelous in our sight so i thank you read the david for the many years of your struggle here almost single handed unassisted but yet you persevered on these radio airwaves you did your best to bring knowledge to our people and it is not that we are against other groups that is not true but the black man is in a condition of what we would say tria if you go to the hospital and you're in the emergency room but you didn't have a heart attack you just had a bruise or a cut and then here's somebody that has a pain in the chest where you will have to wait until they see after the person who is most in need the black man not only in america but all over the world is most in need of the wisdom that will raise us from the mud of civilization and return to that original position that we once held as the mothers and fathers of civilization thank you minister now in looking at the caribbean region we have very carefully studied your messages in the all this talk your message to the caribbean in particular has always emphasized unity and we noticed at the press conference yesterday you used the term a federated caribbean hundred one the organization of eastern caribbean states in one thousand nine hundred five the association of caribbean states which brought together the french spanish english and dutch speaking caribbean nations and then in two thousand and six they launched the caribbean single market economy so basically they had an idea which took seventeen years to be launched and it is still indefinite as far as its completion is concerned so clearly there is some either unwillingness or inability on the political level to finalize these integration movement how important do you see caribbean integration on the political level but also on the grassroots level outside of the government thank you very much for the question i was recently in jamaica and whenever i go into any country in the caribbean or elsewhere i try to meet with the government that is in power but i also tried to meet with the opposition when i was in jamaica in december the government that was present prime minister portia simpson miller but i went and met with the former prime minister edwin and the former prime minister p j patterson and i raise the question to both of these men who are like the patriarchs of the two parties now the federation and with edward c and i asked him did he think that the caribbean would come together on the level of a political unity or union he doubted that very seriously he said economically yes we are moving in that direction but politically i doubt if that will ever happen i never responded i listened p j patterson was a little more optimistic but if the politicians of the caribbean are not mature enough to see the value of caribbean unity not only economically but politically then our political days are numbered because then we will be out of touch with the movement of the people of the caribbean the honorable elijah muhammad said way back in the late fifty's he was talking about the british who wanted to federate all of their colonies and he said one day the british west indies would become one mighty nation now eliza mohammad was not a man that spoke idle words i was with him one day and he pointed to his lips and he said my mouth is not made to speak to the words my mouth is made to speak the will of god so of the caribbean then nothing has the power to frustrate the ultimate will of god there may be setbacks on the journey but the caribbean is being marginalized as we speak and each island is being picked off to promote things or to be the victim of things that is ultimately for their economic destruction their political destruction and the takeover of these islands as a future paradise for the north and the rich and the usefulness of us is as servants we will be right back to the old tattling monday robin ical teaching that black people are the children of ham doomed to be hugh was of wood and draws of water and servants of other races wrong this is the end of colonialism this is the end of imperialism this is the end of fa democracy that claims to be the room of the people when it is the rule of an oligarchy that is subjugating the people and gradually stripping the people of the fundamental rights that a democratic country should and is offering to the people in theory and america that is promoting democracy all over the world the american people are gradually being stripped of their liberties that a guaranteed in the bill of rights and the preamble of the constitution the united states of america it will happen the caribbean will be a nation a nation that overrides the barrier of spanish french english dutch and all of you should remember that these languages of the languages of our oppressors and former sleeve masters and so they made sure that the language would create division and their own european hatreds built up over years of struggle that manifested itself in the caribbean the french against the spanish the spanish against the french both against the dutch the against the english so when you come up in the english caribbean you look at the french speaking caribbean and you mistreat them because your former master mistreated the french or the french did not like them and so we have the spaniards who have conquered and some of us are now speaking the spanish language wearing spanish names but we are not spend his we are wearing english names but we are not englishman we are wearing french names but we are not frenchmen and the one thing that is in common throughout the caribbean they imposed upon us their religion and that religion splitting now into all of these different denominations  right now to the teachings of jesus christ and prophet mohammed it been the law peace be upon these servants prophet mohammed wanted one humanity no borders barring us from communication with others no language barriers that islam would raise above our racial identity ethnicity our tribal affiliations into the oneness of god and the oneness of humanity and when you come to the teachings of jesus christ paul said in that day there'd be no jew no greek the end of nationalism there would be no bond no free no male no female so the whole idea of biological separation nationalism the idea of materialism all of that would be done away with and this the scriptures of paul writes that we would all become one in christ but you are not in christ you are about christ you talk about mohammed but if you were in christ then christ would be in you and his ideas would rule the governance of all of these so called christian nations and it is the same with muslims if we were in m way would be in us and that would give us power to overcome tribalism racialism materialism all of these isms that have divided the human family for independence one of the conditions that they gave us was that we must establish a two party system in other words regardless of how many different political parties contest the election there will only be one leader of government who is the prime minister and only one leader of the opposition regardless of how many parties win seats so the british placed upon us this mandatory prerequisite that there must be a two party system i'm sure many have noted with interest that in just about all of the caribbean nations that you visit and as you just mentioned you meet with members of the ruling government as well as members of the opposition and this clearly of course shows that there can be no partisanship on your part when you were in trinidad in september of one thousand nine hundred six you made a statement to the g impact complex saying that when you have an affiliation to a party that is political that you have an affiliation to only a part of the people so in your meetings with both government and opposition and of course today you met with members of parliament from both the government peoples partnership u n c as well as the p and i'm sure our listeners are very interested to know exactly who those were but of course in trinidad you met with both government and opposition are the same is planned for your visit to antigua next week you have appointments with the prime minister as well as the leader of the opposition i would like you to share with us what you have observed on terms of the pros and cons of this two party system the positives and negatives in your interaction with members of government members of parliament government ministers senators councillors etc what are your observations on the good things about the two party system and also the harmful things about the two party system the political system throughout the caribbean it took a long time for the europeans to evolve to the point where they could have a two party system it was a process of evolution trying this and failing but the failure caused them to keep evolving to perfect a system of governance that was good for them so finally they came to the two party system the problem with that is when you impose it on those who have been robbed of time you know when you're a slave time has not begun for you until you are set free time does not begin for the baby that is developing in the womb until the baby is freed from the womb the umbilical cord is cut then time begins well here if in the caribbean we have been enslaved and then we have been colonized not free then time did not begin for us until fifty years ago and time yet had not begun because when the baby is freed from the womb  umbilical cord is cut when you are a member of the commonwealth and the queen still has power in your house and you are still wearing wigs and you  still under the economic and the educational ombre of your former masters time has not yet begun for you so when they impose upon you a system that it took them hundreds of years to evolve to in your emlyn already emotionally spiritually economically and intellectually now you begin to assume the position of your former master or i am now the new president or i am now the new prime minister and i'm living in government house and i am riding in the big car i mean this is part of children like you know how babies are when they know their mothers dressing room when mother is out of the house they put on their high heeled shoes they have put on the dress they'll get the lipstick and their makeup and put a little powder on their face and grab a weave and look like mama but they are far from mama well this is gam playing with us we are playing the game of western civilization but we have not much toured enough to take it and make it ours when you can take a system that once dominated you and then make it yours you can bring out of a negative a positive now let me look at it from the mentor angle you know the yin and yang in life that's what creates motion the negative and the positive when you open the atom that is what you see and everything in nature is composed of atoms when you bring the atoms down to the electron the neutron the proton the negative the positive the sub particles etc etc you have all of these things that are pulling against each other but in that unit they are powerful well opposition is going on in your body as we're speaking the cells are dying and coming to life we're sloughing off the dead and holding on to the living and so that yin and yang is a part of nature so when you have a tour position all right the party in power we respect that we honor that we cannot destroy the order of the society by at tacking with  malevolence the party that is in power but the party that is in power suppose a good idea for the future of the country comes from the opposition well we're not going to accept it because it's from the opposition that is stupidity because you have the position in the position of power does not mean that god will not inspire somebody from the opposition with a better idea to advance the country when you are immature you think pati when you are month tour you think for the whole because the party will die but the whole will live god is not interested in the preservation of individuals he's interested in the preservation of a species so when we as individuals take our own vanities and im pose them on our party and our country then we become antithetical to the real progress of the nation now let's look north to america see america has now unraveling herself because the two party system now is in revolt against itself but iraq obama a black man is now president of the united states he's not the president of a black agenda he's the president of a white agenda in which there are black people that he's trying to do some good for we must not be blinded by the fact that a black man is in power so we think now he's going to make things go away that will affect us he may try but they didn't elect him for that purpose now the republicans bent on getting him out of the white house that there is nothing that the man can say or do of good where the republicans will not oppose him there's twenty four million americans out of work or under employed he comes up with a jobs bill that may create three million jobs which will make a dent but won't solve the problem but because if that bill is passed and three million americans can find jobs that might mean that barack may get a second term which they don't want him to have so we will not even help him get a jobs bill passed so potus and politics is destroying the country so i think i coined the phrase if america must live politics must die if trinidad and tobago is to live we must see beyond the parties that are at odds with each other and see what is in the best interests of the nation and these children that are in these universities and in these schools what future we preparing for the very when we fight each of the in such an immature way as is being done right here in trinidad as we speak so much torah to the growth of us intellectually and emotionally where we see the whole is what we should be looking for the whole is what we should be speaking for not for up out of the constituency but for the whole of the people of trinidad and tobago and that is why i am here i am not here to get involved in divison of this but i am here to bring supreme wisdom to apply wisdom to the bomb as a bomb for the ignorance that is manifested in the lives of the people and so i hope that you w give me a chance by coming out of college on a saturday and napa on sunday that i might serve you from the teachings of the honorable muhammad that was given to him by the great man who was present in the world to bring about the one man and the oneness of mankind you're listening to w a c k radio nine zero one f m dot com we are speaking live with the honorable minister louis farrakhan leader of the nation of islam filipina of the million man march the preeminent leader of the black liberation struggle internationally and for all oppressed peoples and of course as we mentioned minister louis farrakhan shall be speaking at the see a large aims auditorium on saturday at five pm and not in port of spain on sunday also at five pm and admission to these both events are free minister farrakhan in our current structure of government once again there's an executive the legislature and th the basic three branches of government the executive is the prime minister and his cabinet the legislature has the upper house and the lower house but the judiciary that basically preserves and so even though when persons commit crimes or when persons seek justice and they first go to the magistrate's court which is here if it has to be referred it goes to the high court if it has to be referred again it goes to the court of appeal but the highest co being in england we have to go overseas for justice so recently the caribbean court of justice was established of which they had courts are in trinidad where now the caribbean court of justice was established to replace the privy council so that we would no longer have to refer our judicial concerns to england but we now have a highest court here but all caribbean countries have still not yet embraced the caribbean court of justice there are those who are still of the view that we should leave our highest court in europe but what are your views on the establishment of an institution such as the caribbean court of justice and us having that as our highest court within our region i had a recent conversation with the most honorable  the prime minister jamaica who cut the umbilical cord and would no longer recognise the queen of england as the head of state of free jamaica this was done without vitriol toward the queen of vitriol toward angle and you know we're thankful for whatever good we have gained from our association both as slaves and colonial servants but now as a free people we deserve the right to be free we talked about this court that is in trinidad and this court that is in wants to be a replacement of the privy council now if we are free if we wish to exercise that freedom enough we not mature enough in law and in the spirit of justice to settle our own affairs of course we are and if we are not we still should be trying to settle our own affairs and if there is wisdom outside of us that can be advisers to us when we run into something that is very difficult for us then you call them in but it is your time now to be free and you should exercise that freedom and so i hope that the privy council and its removal and the court that is a stablished in trinidad for the whole of the caribbean and the settling of disputes between parties in the caribbean will be allowed to practice the justice that we have been denied from the pr council if they were really that good why are we fighting each other we need to establish conflict resolution among ourselves and i think when you bring in the former slave masters a colonial masters so as to settle disputes much of the disputes which they themselves created then they end up ruling both parties it's time to get them out of our business and run our nations to the best of our ability for the good of the whole of the people just looking at the wider caribbean  i recently read a statistic that said there are more nationals of grenada outside of grenada than actually in grenada and even though we don't have formal statistics on other caribbean nations it's estimated that many caribbean nations actually have more nationals all more citizens of those countries outside of the country than actually inside of the country and it is also estimated that the nationals outside of the countries have higher educational qualifications than those on the inside of the countries so basically one caribbean nation has more citizens outside of its borders with more qualifications higher occupations or professions than within what do you see is the duty of persons within the diaspora who live outside of caribbean nations but are still caribbean nationals who may not return to live what you see is their duty towards their home countries i read a statistic that the labor force in the caribbean is reduced almost by fifty percent of people leaving the caribbean after getting a tertiary education to go outside of the caribbean because there is not accompanying industry that would allow those who are graduating in fields of science and biology and all of these engineering fields to practice what they have gotten their degree in in an appropriate industry in the caribbean so they leave and they all have a love for where they were born so many of the countries survive from the remittances that those outside the country who have gotten good jobs send money back home to their less fortunate brothers and sisters they have a sense of duty and a sense of commitment to the caribbean now there's a scripture in the bible that says in that day every man shall go to his own and find refuge under his own vine and  figtree the honorable elijah muhammad told us that at a certain point europe is going to turn their former subjects out of europe they're sick of us now and their white birth rate has declined to the point that there is one birth for one death so zero population growth and the blacks and the pakistanis and the indians and the asians and the people from africa and the caribbean that are in europe now  becoming i would say and irritant to the white population there and so there is more riots there's more rebellion there's more mistreatment of the former subjects that are in the commonwealth nations and so now there's a move to send them back home i turned on the television this afternoon and there was a young man on television who is forty three years of age he went to the united states when he was six years old he's grown up in america and he got into some illegality not a major major crime but they grabbed him and sent him back to trinidad with no money in his pocket no family connection here so now throwing him out like that like a dog that you've kicked out of your house when he's displeasing you so now in all of the islands they're nationals that have lived in america for practically all their lives they got involved in some difficulty and now being sent back to all of these islands the islands are not odd viewing wait a minute why are you sending them back to us is it because now you want to disturb the peace of the caribbean you bring somebody back that has not any education or  thrown out and so the country has to try to absorb them and so they get back into a criminal past so you have more gangs coming up more drugs coming in more guns coming in the caribbean that used to be peaceful is now being torn apart this is not an accident this is by design and i hope that if god puts it in your heart to come to napa on sunday and come to cypriani college at the c l r james auditorium on saturday i want to go into the plot that is against the caribbean and it's development and the plot to take the caribbean from the masses of blacks who are the majority population in all of these islands to reduce you and then make you extinct i need to talk with you and i want you to open your heart and your mind and look at what we are saying to you from god through the honorable elijah muhammad and then go back and study your course and study your bible and see if we are not fulfilling prophecies and we'll get into all of that by the help of god saturday and sunday i just want to ask you about haiti and this is something that we're going to be talking about on the black agenda in weeks to come but as it stands now there are fifteen members of caricom fifteen official confirmed members of congress come and they're also observing nations and affiliate nations that are outside but he is one of those fifteen confirmed official members of caricom and trinidad and tobago is also one of those official members of congress come and caricom actually means caribbean community but yet still in trinidad for example the ministry of foreign affairs recently made an adjustment or an amendment a travel law whereby persons from india can come and spend ninety days in trinidad without any documentation other than a passport but we still have brothers and sisters from haiti who are being asked for visas to come to trinidad and even when invitation letters a given and they have proper documentation they are being denied visas they're being asked for all different types of really peculiar maybe even unnecessary and documentation and are even being denied so what do you see as being at the root of the persistence of this attitude against haiti where we can't even have our own brothers and sisters from haiti visit us in trinidad but yet still persons from europe and even parts of asia and outside of the western hemisphere can come in and out unimpeded into the caribbean region but in this instance in trinidad in particular my cook is from haiti she has a haitian passport because of the nature of my work i always bring my cooks wherever i go so that i can feel relatively safe by eating food that their hands produce my cook was denied entrance into trinidad from what i understand all kinds of stipulations were given to  help her access a visa unfulfilling practically all of them she still was denied a visa now the government is not anti black why would you mistreat africans why would you mistreat haitians who are black definitely black is it because there is an on written kind of law to get rid of your black population i would like to add van something to the people to government to blacks in both parties because some of us are willing coconspirators and some of us want a job and some of us want to go along to get along but this is not that time period it's a time period when we must stand up for justice for truth for equity for freedom and so i had to send for my other cook who has an american passport what are you telling me as a visit to the country that i cannot bring a cook that is a part of my own security and safety while i'm in your country well i don't want to see your country like it's not mine because i am a citizen here as well you may not think so but i am telling you so i am not a stranger to the  the bible say the earth is the lord's and the fullness there of we know when all of you came and we would be proud that produced most of the races if not all of them so please don't tell me that i am a stranger on this planet on this island or anywhere else on this planet you know if you die in jamaica and you were born in egypt the earth is not going to go back you can't bury here the earth will swallow you the eat you new life will come as long as you are from their earth every part of the earth is our was and we need to think like that and