being written by the press and spoken in the public by men and women of renow sheep of god and he would be the st one among us whom god would make into himself you might ask yourself why choose us i'm not so good he already understood that why god have you chosen us because we came through the furnace oak affliction we were already  strong but the transatlantic slave trade or when it was over and we had they said we arrived at it like we had booked passage on some ship to come to america but when we finally arrived we were the strongest of the strong and what they put on us for sixty four years to break us from an african people of hi then they said we are raw then they could say to their fellow demons now we have them where we want them some scholars of the white race and some in politics sa we have close every avenue by which light came into the mind of the slave they were intending to make us permanent silly we used to go down to the show in virginia to look for that ship jesus this ship that we st came move on was a ship named jesus but the honorable elijah muhammad said little did we know it would be for centuries before the in my mother's womb getting ready to come out of the darkness into the light not knowing that the hand of our savior master father mohammed was on my mother's i was being fashion for him so when i was nineteen years of age in boston massachusetts a young entertainer i heard that god had made a messenger for us and as i was walking up massachusetts avenue  came in my eyes and i said in my mind god why didn't you choose me you know i love so i said in my mind i must go and find him and offer him my life i want you to think about those words because i have loved you all my life they and i have desired to see you set free from the tyranny of white supremacy i hated with a passion everything of evil that was done to us and as a young christian in my church i w here will send us a deliverer and they could not answer my question so i began searching for him on the mantel piece in my mother's house was king was a white picture of jesus i didn't have a problem with that at that time but i was looking for a deliverer and i went to new york city my mom sent me there to have a week or two with my uncle who was the only man in my life as a youngster and on my own calls war there was a black man something very strange so i said who is that man and he said that the man that came to unite u i was a little shorty eleven years old so it got a chair because i wanted to stand on that share and look in that man's face and drink in his  and while i was standing on that cheer i said uncle where is he i would like to meet him my uncle said or nephew he has passed away and the tears fell from my eyes because i had come so close to finding the deliverer and he was gone  so i look at mr garvey as my grandfather and then as a young entertainer very popular i visit in chicago because i was at the blue angel nightclub on rush street and i was knocking them out with my and other nasty song and my wife and i were in the city and driving down the street in there was a friend of mine from boston and i jumped out of the care and said rodney so there i was my daughter betsy jean where is she and she she was one year and one week old at that time sitting in the lap of her mother but usually when you visit the temple or the mosque if you are the st time they put you right down front so you see everything but malcolm so i had a refund the brothers took my hat but they didn't search in the ba but they separated me from my wife i didn't know what that was all about go she was already in sag with my baby i'm upstairs in the balcony and then i heard and in my mind i said oh he can't even  is now don't you pay no attention to how i'm seeing it you paid attention to what i'm saying  and put it in that fan language that you know only track to understand what i'm saying here is something that yes for acceptance it's i was still sit but i didn't disobeying my uncle i went down and they gave me a letter the i didn't know what the letter was but i had to write it in a certain  so my wife and i went back to our little hotel it's called the drexel arms in th and drexel wilmington arms or something like that still there show business so i was traveling in my wife was up in boston and she was visiting the temple with their sisters his sister wait a while let me check it out on going to be the man you know and then we moved to new york and i went to the temple or rather james analogy i think he's in the audience somewhere where he  and when i came back malcolm x was teach and i never heard a black man talk like i heard brother malcolm i joined up right away she was with me she joined up with me now i'm in a process that i'm not understanding you know i got to write this letter and the interesting thing about the process was and in my box if you if you have a few dollars to spare and you would like to get my music you can get it on the way out but in that you see a facsimile of the letter that i wrote now i am writing a letter to master mohammad in care of the honorable elijah but i had to give up my sleeve name so i said ok my slave name is please give me my original name i didn't realize what that process was designed to do because it was not my or original handwriting i had  like the letter in front of me and a people being made by that man i had to study the nd thing was concentration and  the rd thing was submission if you're going to be made in this classroom you're going to have to observe you would have to observe  meaning he's going to discipline us into something we had never experienced after  many of us lee masters had the freedom to take women and abuse but they not only abused women they abuse men because most of the sleeve masters were free but they love the flesh of our women going and they love to do writings in the script just says he can listen to his words to save u brothers and sisters you haven't met nobody like me if i give you my word whatever i promise you i found given you what i have some of the finest women in the world in the classroom in the nation  anybody that's in music you get on a musical you get out of the temple some of the great musicians that were in the mosque they left i was working downtown in new york at the village bon in greenwich village i came up to the restaurant to get near bordeaux dead wonderful bean soup and a little without music but i can't live without the truth so i turn right around when and brother captain yousif came in he was trying to get beers so he could come for me but when he got to be i had already made up my mind i didn't know within the messenger what do you love this sunday after brother james spoke i went and her brother malcolm and malcolm became my teacher i can tell you in the name of god i could not have had a better teacher i could not have had a better brother i could not have had a better example than malcolm  spoke before i used to stammer i used to study and i walked up in front of the temple and i was to tell them what islam had done for me and i said a few words in the temple erected in brother malcolm saw that you mediately enlisted me to make me a minister i became a lieutenant under a fine captain i'm trying to give you a picture of how you make a man into god i mean see when you read your bible and you read about peter paul and james and thomas and you reading about people who gave their lives to jesus you can follow him half hearted you can walk with jesus with one hand in his hand one  he's stepping but the wrist of you is in the world how do you do that all of you sitting in front of me you're my fam you may not even recognize me as your family and if you saw jesus you wouldn't recognize the jesus that i read of in the scripture i was in love with that man even though he painted him as a white man and i still loved him because i never met no man in history that did the wonderful things to jesus did i just wanted to know him more know him better in fact i was the st one to custom preach don't tell nobody don't but you know i had a wonderful christian upbringing my church was my nd home and i met people who looked at me and loved me and thought i was going to end up being somebody of note it was the west indian church in boston because coming from the west indies you know we were in except by the real american black  people used to call us monkey chases in all kind of stuff you know so in that church our own joy and peace and harmony and rex in and the people that nurse college and my wife became pregnant i mean my girlfriend  those kind of things happen she said a liar will steal and a thief will murder so i'm going to stop you with the law she didn't know this she was driving in me a love of tru tough young boy in this way my teachers were white in the th grade my white teacher asked me louis what would you like to be when you grow up i said i want to be a doctor she said or new if you became a doctor my people would not use your services and your own people would not trust your ability but who is you play the violin beautiful day i was in boston malcolm was in make a wonderful cop and you see why people watch when children and when you put your children under the lives all times there is spawning the ones in your family among your children that if big grow up like me up here they would make trouble for white supremacy