the honorable minister louis  that they brought a muslim makes no distinction between any of god's prophets messengers we believe in all of them and we believe in all of the scriptures that they brought we thank allah for moses and the old testament and the israel like prophets we think a lot for jesus and the gospel and his wise choice of one to lead teach and guide us into one natural religion the nature of god in the nature in which we all created the nature of submission to the will of god which in arabic is called is slander we thank our love for the honorable elijah throughout the united states of america the united kingdom even as far away as south africa i am honored to have this privilege of being in your company there has been lately a great display of anti black hatred in the united states of america there been many nooses placed in different cities and in different institutions to let black people know that there still is a great deal of hatred for us in this society we think a lot that genaro a little brother in georgia has been set free but he should never have been jailed in the first place are again saddened that mychal bell has been rearrested on something flimsy just for the judge to say to the black people that and bloodshed and polies murder of black people is beginning to mount again i thought that i should take a subject that i hope you'll be patient with me on it's it's  justifiable homicide black youth in danger some flimsy set up and feel if you will but the fact that it takes three million dollars to bail the young man now and the murder no one but these are messages that i want us to reflect on and many of our young brothers and sisters who are here today i am honored by your presence thank you our young people who pose a threat to the society and i'm not sure that our young people understand why black youth are in fact a threat and the same thing about our young people is that we as their parents have not shared with them of what we their parents and grandparents i have come through to give birth to this present generation in that sense as parents we have failed children because they are not aware not only of an ancient struggle but then not aware of the price that so many paid that they could go to find university that they could go to a restaurant of their choice or stay in a hotel of their choice they don't understand the price and as i recently had a conversation with the legendary whom many young people probably don't even know but brother harry was lecturing at how would university and he said the thing that hurt him was that  young people did not even know the recent struggle in the civil rights movement and that is why a movie could come out called bob a show one and rosa parks could be made light of and martin luther king could be may they have not been informed and the sad thing is we expect the enemy to inform them when it is not a duty and not responsibility and we are so busy chasing a dollar we wait we are so busy fascinated by the material strength of america we have failed to sit down with our children and teach them the h ottoman empire they don't they know this there are no people who have suffered in dignity that are not aware of th road that they have trod to get with our there is no jewish child as young as this beautiful young man that sits in front of me that does not know about the holocaust it is then come upon a jewish parent t children what makes the jew the strong person that he or she is today and what they came through and they not only tell their children but because of their control of media and their power we have to learn about their suffering so we can have sympathy for them but when we know nothing about suffering this is the reason why we have no sympathy for ourselves and for one another i don't want you to think that i'm trying to teach a tre so let's start with a definition of terms just the fireball homicide according to the dictionary whatever it is justifiable is excusable it's excusable because it's justified by the principle o since we have been in america we have been under the domination of a power that during slavery did not have to justify the murder  death they had the power of life and death on every and any black person outside of the principle of justice with no regard for the life of the black male or female that was being put to dea in the time of reconstruction now reconstruction is that period of time right after abraham lincoln issue the emancipation proclamation during that period black people made tremendous progress the whole idea in that period from those who benefitted from our enslavement was to put up people back into slavery and to drive deeper into our hearts the fear that was den during our three hundred years of chattel slavery so in that twelve years from eight hundred sixty five to eight hundred seventy seven the enemy could see that if the so called negro was set free and given the material to build an independent existence he could become a serious challenge t superiority so under this so called emancipation the freed slaves then had to be made to be afraid step those who would want to make a free step those that would challenge their form a slave master by wanting to vote by purchasing land or pursuing education or striving to do anything but plantation labor these kind of black brothers and sisters would be dealt with harshly by the former slave masters and there was no deliberative body that would judge our affairs with justice and therefore every killing of a black man or woman every lynching of a black man or woman was excusable anything that white folk did to set the black man we must keep the black man in subjection to a power that was ruthless in its administration and stewardship over lives and therefore every black human being that was killed during the three hundred years of chattel slavery and even now hundred and fifty years up from slavery that is  white people generally is considered excuse one white historian wrote quote that it was almost impossible to conflict a white man of a crime against a black person louisiana town two white men were convicted of murdering a black man after they were convicted they rose and walk out of court after the verdict was announced and no effort was made to stop them i just think about in eighteen nineteen a white man was convicted for the murder of a black man and was fined five dollars for the crime and the judge let it be known that he would not press for that's how little our lives have men in this society why folks will pick a dog up on the highway and have the dog sit down at the dinner table a black human being will be sent to prison for mistreating dogs and white folks mistreat blacks every day and there is no penalty during this reconstruction period white america began to engage more frequently in a monstrous form of public homicide called lynching this ri alize community murder masqueraded as crime fighting but it was actually a strategy to instill terror in the hearts and minds of the black population it was done to eliminate economically successful politically active black people and generally to reinforce black people's roles as plantation labor knowledge and the fissions so after slavery black people could be destroyed without harming a white man's personal we became increasingly popular and widespread now in this ad most fear is beginning to spread again in america i want to really make it clear to you today what we are going to face what we are facing but it will increase in the days here now the typical lynching became no less then a caucasian celebration a public bonding across class and ethnic lines with egging on the younger ones and women white women in signing their men to horrific cruelty one scholar points out these are not the faces of people who have seen justice fulfilled but rather these are the faces of those who have experienced a of black bodies mounted to such an extent that in one texas county one newspaper reported quote vultures became a nuisance how many of you have heard of malcolm x would you raise your hand please i was a student and a brother malcolm when i became a muslim one of the things that set brother malcolm apart was malcolm made everyone of us that were connected to islam under his leadership he made us study and one of the books that malcolm carried in his briefcase that he inspired me to carry in my briefcase along with my bible my koran and a book called at that time seventeen million new gross seventeen billion dollars that's the kind of money that black folk were spending in the late forty's early fifty's where this book was titled a hundred years of lynching by ralph ginsberg and this book is a collection of newspaper accounts of the lynching of blacks which reveal the nature of the lynch's and demonstrates the sheer crazed delight that white folk experienced at the top church and murder of innocent black vicksburg mississippi evening post for instance describes the nineteen zero four lynching of luther the whole byrd and his wife in mississippi and this is nineteen zero four that's just a hundred and three years ago but check this out mr holbrook had killed a white man in self defense in his wife's so all crime was her marriage to him prepared funeral pyres meaning that they were mounting wooden stuff because they were going to burn them while the funeral pyres were being prepared this male and female were forced to suffer the most fiendish tortures the blacks were forced to hold out their hands while one finger at a time was chopped off the fingers were distributed as souvenirs the ears were cut o form of punishment consisted in the use of a large cock screw in the hands of some of the mob the instrument was born into the flesh of the man and woman in  the legs and body and then pulled out the spirals tearing out big pieces of rock quivering flesh every time it was withdrawn the mob then burned the couple to death forcing the whole births son to watch this is painful to listen to imagine how painful it was to see it and imagine how painful it flames consuming his tortured parents and heard their frightful screams and prayers for mercy he threw himself face downward on the ground closing his eyes consumed by the fire the mob left them and the boy took the blackened corpses of his parents and laid them side by side in the brush covering them over as best  in some white people's minds there was also a civic necessity for these bloody public murders and that was outlined by the university of alabama professor clarence case on this into his words this conviction that the black man must now and then be  mississippi in alabama in louisiana in texas in georgia back in these rural area of intimidation that at times lynchings and and carried out not under the fierce compulsion of mob hysteria but by men who have calmly resigned themselves to the performance of a painful but delightful duty which is necessary for the good of society our sheriff said that innocent blacks were quote hung sort of on general principles he said we kill five or six of them every year and that makes the others behave tolerably well nine america allow those our sons to be lynched and then salt to the wound by concealing the identity of the lynchers more the government seeks out the lynches then turns them over to their fellow man their brothers who share the lynches caus justifiable homicide to this very moment two thousand and seven there is no law on the books that white supremacist feel they need to respect particularly if that law would lead to acquisition of strength or power to remove an impediment from  pathway of success every attempt that was made to legally give some relief to black people other white people came and for want it that effort right hundred fifty four which struck down separate but equal and said that blacks were entitled to equal education but not segregated fifty years later is no such thing is integrated education anymore they tried to force us into their schools with busing and busing brought white folks out stoning a hundred children who were just on a bus trying to go get it to cation they had to bring out the national guard in little rock arkansas integrate a school fifty years later it's as though nothing happened we can go to public places now eat in restaurants sleep in hotels and motels that law has been passed we have the right to vote but check out how they handled us if you got the right to vote brothers and sisters that's a potential power in your hand well what is your inclination your inclination is to vote for one of your own to serve you the minute you vote one of your own in the federal government starts plotting sending people to these weekly paid city councilman manners offering them this for that and then at the appropriate moment when you think they're about to run has the f b i comes with a charge and many of them have gone to prison for very little or no nothing except that they were black and they left black and they were in a position of power but the government it moved to destroy that person marion barry in washington d c without mayor barry the million man march that was so successful would have been impossible but that man put the whole administration of washington d c but hein the million man mom that man that man in the position of authority that he had gave government contracts to black construction black corporations he did this and whites were angry because former black ma so man barry was in a hotel room which most politicians have hotel room and he was in the hotel room but he didn't know that they had cameras they had set him up and they use a system that he was linked with so out of romantically and while they were smoking crack the feared busted in on him and national television they tore down that man's reputation for what purpose to make black people who had no right to vote now feel that voting for black person is  whatever it is white supremacy makes excusable whatever it is done to keep the black man and woman from attaining the joy of justice that makes freedom a happy experience is no joy in being free if there is no justice a company that freedom now let's look at the i'm talking to black youth today today as they were during slavery in fact that's how police got phone they were formed to catch runaway slaves bring them back to their to kill as well as to protect but where black people are concerned i'm vain legitimize their mob attacks under the name of backup polies backed up is often no different than the lynch mobs one hundred years ago the killing of our people shooting them with many many many bullets when one would have done the job in that deliberative body which used to discuss the brutal murder of our people by looking into the facts comes away calling it justifiable homicide a young black brother was shot down on somewhere in seventy nine street in  recently by the police and the parents agree they say he was running he had something in his hands but the witnesses will tell you he didn't have nothing in his hands but he was just shot down and the body that's supposed to address this well we're looking into it they say  when they look into it in come back with the verdict another dead negro justifiable homicide in justice as i said last tuesday in the day of atonement speech from atlanta injustice brings its natural response no matter how long he must eventually read jesus put it well did he say those who live by the sword will die by  what did he say by the sword will no value on the life of a human being such that people can go to jail for mistreating a dog and the same person that kills a black you can go home to dinner with his children with no feeling of having done something wrong because it is all hard in mind he did society a favor killing another black person i want to ask you as the audience what do you think god has to say about this since he says in the holy koran and the bible that he a law is the author of life and the author of all who have shown no respect for life other than their own life and you will find that they even disrespectful of their own lives ultimately god has great respect for the life that he gives to every human being it grieves god to see human that such a life like that has no meaning in a racist society that is disturbing to the god of justice so now i what is justice what is we can't live without it we need it what is it the honorable elijah muhammad said that just justice is the only weapon that gone will you in the day of judgment i just want to stop for one minute that those last words  mohammed so pregnant that justice is the weapon that god will use in the day of judgment so justice now becomes a weapon supremacy as a weapon against governments that have misused their power and authority in destroying the lives of innocent human being we look at the suicide bombers of the palestinian people the suicide bombers in iraq and afghanistan think about these are people that love life like you love them like i love them and these are not old people ninety years old to say i strap a bomb on me and kill somebody these are men and women and children that have decided that death is better then live the way it is because that man was an abusive husband who used to religion to sort of try to beat the woman into line according to the court the palestinians desiring to use the only thing they have which is their life as a weapon against occupying armies and forces of oppression and injustice who do evil in the name of god and in the name of democracy and i want you to follow this line of reasoning how many of you in here own your own home would you raise your hand isn't it wonderful to have a home that you own that you can say is yours i that house that you live in see is written in the bible let me show that your house is really min now you would first say to him and to break down and you would say that under a mental breakdown like that such a person like that should be confined to a house or some place that he won't be a problem because my house is my house well here's some dude reading scripture now we don't know whether they read it right because there are many other interpretations but because they read it the way they read it they said that whole middle eastern area belongs to them  we didn't do nothing to you why not let you rick give you some land and you go to you need to have a state have your state where you had your suffering you didn't have it it's a reasonable argument that some deliberative body will have to look at it and that's why there's a problem over there now because no deliberative body is willing to give  suicide who don't have the weaponry of israel let me show you something in workplaces today people come into work killing their fellow workers killing their bosses you read about it children going to school them going on in my school today and children are showing up in school and killing fellow students and teachers and then maybe killing themselves the little boy