but now we have come to that very special moment that trinidad and tobago has been waiting for for sixteen years the book of jose chapter four this six says that my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge that means that their us sits in information that you do not know and as a result of your ignorance of that particular information you have entered into s consequences that are destroying us as a people but if we know that specific teaching that is required for us to resurrect ourselves from a dead level up to a living perpendicular if we can grasp that truth then it will know each and every single one of you by the grace of almighty god to appreciate the great value of the man that we have in our midst the leader of the international black struggle for liberation in the we give him praise and thanks for his mercy and his goodness to the members of the human family of our planet that whenever any member of the family strays from the straight path of god before he punish is he always raises from that people a messenger or a prophet to whom he gives what is called divine revelation by means of which he guides that people back to his straight path and once again into his divine favor as muslims we believe in all of the prophets of god and we make no distinction between them we believe in all of the scriptures brought by the prophets of god and in the holy land which is the book of scripture of muslims it says there are prophets and messengers that you know and there are prophets and messengers whom you do not know that were not necessarily mentioned in the quarter so in the name of all of those profits wise men and sa and his apostles gave us what is called the new testament we think a lot of a prophet mohammed it been up to love peace be upon all of these were the servants through prophet mohammed he gave the final revelation to the world the holy i am a student of the most honorable and i could not thank our lucky enough for he is merciful intervention in the affairs of black people in america and the western world who came in the person of master fought mohammad whom we believe is the great man he came among us and he raised from among us in america his messenger to us the honorable elijah mohammad and he gave him a message a way to the message that would lift the black man of america the black man of the caribbean the black man of africa the black man of the islands of the pacific but also in that message is a message for all of humanity i think  love for the honorable elijah mohammed and i greet all of you my dear brothers and sisters with the greeting words of peace we say it in the arabic language  and your work in trinidad on the radio and your star on standing for the suffering of our people i don't want any in the audience to think that we are not for other segments of the human family but the condition of the black man is the worst in the caribbean the worst in africa the worst in the world so it is necessary that we pay attention to the condition of the wor so when they are lifted up the whole will get lifted so i don't want you to be upset by my concentration on black i spoke with a gentleman a highly placed gentleman yesterday and he said in essence if you talk you know like your father a black man they will call you a racist is that true well let me disabuse you of such a stupid appellation for people who are concerned about a violinist so this suffix i guess he gives you the degree of commitment and proficiency of the person to the main word so if i if i as a black man want to see my people around us and i give my life to the rise of my own people when you kill one man out of injustice it is like you've killed the whole of humanity and if you save one man who is falling that is like saving the whole of humanity so you may think because you are an individual that you are not important wrong so let me stop with the bible because a lot of my people study the bible and some muslims don't want to hear a muslim quote the bible is silly you are living in a muslim as a muslim in a christian country or a christian western world or judeo christian world so why would you not study the scriptures that were given by moses and the israel li profits by jesus and the apostles but when i open my koran no matter who the translator is they are students of the bible they are students of the torah they are students are students of religions of the world otherwise we cannot argue with the people in the best manner and bring them to right understanding you understand good now racism in the common understanding is when i as a black man w deprive another human being of what god desires that human being to have that's not looking out for your grace that  call it for what it is jesus said do unto others as you would have them do unto you d he just looked at me he said brother the best religion is that you do unto others as you would have them do unto you and when you  what he wants for himself the problem is your brother if my brother is only the brother and my  men and women in another problem of the koran it says a lot made into tribes and families that we may know one another so when you want to disrespect another tribe another member of the human family then you are out of the all to of god because oh i have come from the ori life and the creator of the heavens and earth does that make sense so i am concerned about black people so today i don't talk about black people and if anybody is offended i do mean to offend you because i love you too and you find in my discourse the love that i have for you as well i did not come to port of spain trinidad to be a divisive person but how can i look at the deflation and the self hatred among black people and not address that with medicine if but i call them dumb dogs greedy dogs who never get enough talks about this chap put who's feeding himself and not the flower this well i am a son of the caribbean my mother was from the tiny island of st kitts my father from jimmy my grandmother from nevius but growing up in america west indian people fifty sixty seventy years ago when not fully accepted by  climb the tree but i know how i'm from the in other words in other words we have to find some way to defend ourselves so as time went on all the west indian people found a church that we all could go to and feel comfortable my mother was from the church of england appears comparison and most of those from the british west indies would find refuge so i remember rupert grant none of you young people may know him but the older ones know he's a trinidadian who wrote this song that the  sisters in america storm the andrew sisters roman coca cola so when rupert grant would come to boston where i was growing up my mother would have a nice meal and thing waiting for the calipso indians after the dance of the party was over and i would be at his knee and he's teaching me songs and this song he came with you know he had the music  this is my bad days i all of them chock does you know you know the whys and you have a young man that just won the championship there and kind of out i would like to meet the young man because i still love calypso i recorded an album not calypso but it's with my violin but on the album is spiral and i wanted you to know that trinidad has been my second mother even though i didn't live coming back to trinidad and seeing what i am seeing i was here sixteen years ago after the million man march this is not the same trinidad that i met sixteen years ago and i want us to talk about it i want us to see what we can do to make it better i wan brought a lot to us in north america so us in our struggle in america so it is nothing but right and reciprocal and justice that i heard a word from mohammad and malcolm x that stirred me i was a christian and i love my church and even today i go back to my church and the pastor will let me preach i do not believe in the division between people who believe in god and there is very is no muslim on this planet and there are one billion six hundred million of us and every one of us believe in jesus we may not see him the messiah so if we believe he's messiah you believe he's messiah you who love jesus we love jesus why can't we sit down and dialogue together and come together to solve the problems of a people who are suffering now let me tell you what i see on my return to trinidad i see the caribbean in today's global society and how the caribbean as a productive element is being marginalized so that it becomes a playground for the middle class the rich and the super rich and the super rich are buying a lot of land in the caribbean i'm sure you notice and the blacks who remain are stuck in service oriented and to  and servants in the hotel industry on the golf courses and young girls being turned into pleasurable tarts to serve the degenerate desires of europe and america is that the future that your grandfather and grandmother suffered to give you and  are going to accept that reality and pass that on to your children look at what is happening there are great institutions of learning in the caribbean namely the university of the west indies in jamaica in barbados and in trinidad but no matter what courses are taught beyond service oriented courses if engineering all forms of be engineering science chemistry physics bio chemistry all of these disciplines if they are taught here and there is no appropriate industry so that when big graduate from these institutions they can work here and develop those industries and develop the caribbean if there are no competent cover larry industries then they leave and they go to america and europe and offer their brainpower to someone else that really doesn't care for them the whole objective of education the motivation is sick why do i want education well i want education because i want to get a degree so i can make money that's not the motive for education in the muslim prayer when we have what is called the call to come to prayer come to cultivation the whole idea of spiritual knowledge and the gaining of knowledge period is very human being we are not animals the dog don't need cultivation it is in its own nature cultivating itself looking out for yourself the birds don't need somebody come to birds and learn how to be a good come to alligator school and learn how to be allocated everything in nature knows how to be will of god that's a very high calling for the human being then the koran says a lot has made the sun moon and st subservient to man the sun serves us the moon serves us the sun serves us everything that god created he created it to serve the human being and not only s so what is education it's to cultivate you and the gift that god has given to each and every human being so when we go to mass jihad or mosque and we pre and we have said we fast during the month of ramadan we observe  the fifth we observe all of these holidays we have steep now in rituals there's nothing wrong with the ritual but if you don't dig at the ritual to find the truth that is in the ritual then when you discover the truth of the ritual you don't really need the ritual anymore or you didn't hear me so some of us go to church on the first sunday in the month you know what that is that's come you know in some churches they serve why well some people go for the win but what is the name of the ritual it is not for you to eat a little piece of bread and drink a little wine and walk away saying you had communion communion with who and with what for what you with me now what's this is it proper for us to drink blood talk to me in the blood of every creature is its strength its weakness its health and its disease we are commanded in the old testament we do not drink blood so is this something with jesus blood that we should drink well here you nobody transfusing him no wait now we want to look at meaning of things not ritual what does it mean see the bridge man cannot live by bread alone but by every word that proceeded from the mouth of god so when  he's giving you the life of himself which is no one heard eat the word make it a part of your life and when you feed on the way of god then the next step is the blood what is the blood the blood is the life fluid of the living creature what what kind of lines did he live he lived a life of righteousness so if you eat the word and live the life you are in communion so i mean i want to stop here and ask some questions of the students there many students here from ask what kind of courses i used any how many of you think how many of you are studying engineering courses affiliated to labor relations industrial relations that's nice how many of you looking for a job i'm just asking questions see if i'm here studying labor relations industrial relations and the no industry i'm wasting my time and my  oh don't worry you know it's been sitting here a while just keep turning it in there come on and then you're drive off the lot by the time you drive off the lot the car has depreciated by hundreds of dollars and after a while you can drive it at all and that's what education is is rob in the people of their money to give them something they can  now according to the international monetary fund you you know them right your damn lot of money here a majority of caribbean countries have lost more than fifty percent of the labor force in that tertiary education segment and more than thirty percent in the secondary education sector a segment now t means that you are coming out of college secondary means from the ninth to the twelfth grade fifty percent of those who graduate leave they're not in the labor force or god so there's a labor relation industry but fifty percent gone and then your high school students thirty percent o them gone where they go and now they're in england but england now tired you know and they get a little job and they make a little money and they get a little white girl and lot day in heaven  and now you have all of these light skin children running around in england and the birth rate of white people in europe is one births for one death so that means demographically white people are dying a natural death and black people pakistani indian agent killed in them w well there's a scripture that reads in that day every man shall find refuge under his own fine and fig tree whether you know it or a is trying to expel the african expel the children from the west indies and even from pakistan and bangladesh and other places they want you out because the know that the the master white people who son never could set on the british empire now  and so they're not the powerful people that they once were and your presence is now an irritant and agitation and now the bobbies who used to just carry you remember those days and in trinidad the police they used to just carry a little today they look like they're the warriors from afghanistan and iraq true true true well what has happened to the society now that the polies have to come with their communication system here and they've got a glock nine here they've got where all you now animals so everybody must dress with a bulletproof vest and come with a high powered machine gun when they come in your neighborhood is it true that last year they called a state of emergency and they saw just come out and picked up seven to eight thousand indians sorry they didn't pick up chinese lebanese white people just seven thousand from east port of you mean somebody could just come and take up our children not accuse them of a crime put them in a jail for several months you don't know what they're doing to them in the in eastern port of spain all of a sudden now you young boys they don't have no job so i don't know what labor going to do for them because they don't have a job and if that job is available in another part of east port of spain they can travel from this side to that side for fear of their lives do you know this is not an accident you are being sold surely engineered  in bermuda i was there last year the premier invited me to come because for the first time in a long time a young man had a goal and somebody and when he went to get his chain back the other fella stabbed him and killed him a young sixteen year old graduating from high school getting ready to go to college so the premier said this thing is getting bad would you so i went to bermuda and when i went to bermuda this is truth and now i saw the same thing from the eastern end of the island to the western end of the island the women could travel but not the men from one section there's a gang you move in another section there's another guy you move in another section there's another gang so by the time you get from the eastern to the western or from the western to the eastern you have to pass through six or seven games at first they fight then with their fists but now the guns are there the drugs are there so when we went we called for the gang leaders and we met practically all of them do you think they really want to kill each other they never stop to think but when my game is set upon by a big gang next door and one of the members of my clan are shot down then the next thing is what retaliation so it keeps escalating the violence getting worse and worse and worse control of these young people this is happening in bermuda this is happening oh throughout north america it's happening throughout the caribbean it's not and then  know that's rather harsh isn't it but let's look at the reality here funeral parlors in east port of spain doing good business and in fact if you're a funeral director when you go in and if you know pollard today look at the dead you would think the dead is grandma suzy or grandpa david no it's young johnny from next door from eighteen to forty five gunshot wound is a disease now i have some record i don't want to give it all today because i have to be at napa tomorrow but while i have you here i don't want to leave without talking solution you see when i say we are marked for extinction i want you to notice something i sat with members of the city council by the grace of god and i listened to them and they were telling me that in ease port of spain  killing of course was in check because there were police there that were patrolling keeping law and order all of a sudden the police how many of you heard that is it true now ask yourself if we are killing each other and police presence is stopping u out to you so you may be aware of what's going on evidently i asked a few questions in the city council and i said well somebody has a design you know when white folks see you've got a good area and they have plans for it you hear me at first some time to raise the taxes you say well i can't afford to pay that all right then we start the gang warfare now to gangs weren't there many many years ago they're there now and the guns are there into the community somebody is bringing in the guns and fuel linking the fight between gangs and as we start killing each other the parents  say i can't get no more you know as soon as i get me a little money i move in to this area so you find an abandoned ho one house garbage build up and no services see that's the way to move you now you get rats and you've got vermin all over the place and you're trying to live a decent life for you and you can see the move is to get you out after a while and they let you do in that kind of soup and as you're killing each other stop that who benefits from you killing each other it ain't you when i came here sixteen years ago and twenty five thirty years ago i know as i spoke in the university of the west indies here in barbados in trinidad and then i spoke in guyana i notice that blacks had the political power because the blacks were the majority but i noticed the economic power was not in the hands of blacks well you know indian family they came in what year was that eight hundred forty five we were here fifteen fifty five sixty nine hundred two hundred years before they get here this lives were built in the economy of great britain which sugarcane and tobacco and all of that when the indians came culturally they far superior to you listen to me good culturally i said because they have a unity among them that you do indian could come and live together in a small or little house pool their resources buy the house next door buy the house next door put the children in the house down the street now what the indians are very businesslike