in the name of a lot of the never sent the merciful i thank him for all of his prophets and their scriptures and i thank him from my teacher the honorable elijah mohammed i greet all of you my dear brothers and sisters with the greeting words of peace we say it in the arabic language why have we chosen at this time to come into the streets and for me to lead the men and soon the women of the nation of islam into the streets to serve our people as best we can brothers and sisters you really may not be aware of the tremendous danger and peril that we as a people in when we were brought here as slaves they had a job for us to do now and that we are so called free there is nothing for us to do so we present to the dominant society a problem what is that problem what do we do with the black man and woman of america and some have decided that the problem of us is so great and they've tried everything they know except the divine solution which god has given to the honorable elijah muhammad then the solution is let's erase the problem so we won't have to deal with it any more and the erasing of the problem is in many many ways the number one way is through our health condition we have dying of so many diseases another is through aids another is through gang warfare drugs in our community so here now we come to ask us to stop the violence i know that you don't have jobs we know that we have beefs with one another but these are promoted from outside of and start sitting down in your living rooms or in the park the sun with and discuss what is in the message that god has guided me to deliver to you because we are in grave danger it is written in the scriptures that god speaking i'm going to vex you with a foolish people it is so foolish of us after having endured the worst form of slavery in the history of man and mankind that these things that we're doing to each other today  things that we never did to each other in the darkest days of our in slave men but here we are from one block to another from one side of town to another we cannot move because i'm in a different gang with a different color with a different handshake with a different sign with a different name but all of us are from the same o originator of the heavens and the earth all of us have the same shared experience of three hundred ten years of chattel slavery and a hundred and fifty years of jim cr injustice lynching and now we are becoming our worst enemies so we're in the community to warn you dear brothers and sisters this is like  last chance if we don't stop the killing of one another let me tell you what is about to happen have you noticed the police have you noticed that they look exactly like the soldiers in iraq afghanistan and in other parts of the world have you noticed the heavy armor that is coming now to civilian police have you noticed that they're talking about putting drones in the sky the same drones that are used to assassinate people that our government does not like these machines that can videotape you or see you when you don't see them not hear you and then destroy you now today on soon there will be civil unrest in all the cities so we're coming to you not to impose anything on you of religion w coming to you to help you to see the danger that we all are in and if you don't hear this message of warning from your brothers who love you and soon that that the scripture talks about of blood being up to the horse's bridle we will live to see the slaughter of our people by force is that you know  forces that you don't know so we're appealing to you let us do the thing that would change our condition lastly in corner on which is the book of scriptures of the muslims it says god will never change the condition of our people till they change within themselves so we have the help of god if we are willing to make the change ourselves where you say i don't believe in the well let me quote something to you from the bible the bible teaches if my people which are caused by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then will i hear from heaven forgive their sins and he knew their land but the burden is not on those of us coming to you to talk to you to encourage you to instill hope in you and to try to break down the tribalism between us so that we can become a unified people we cannot do this by ourselves we need your help but you have to make the decision i am going to change god has set the condition we got to change ourselves within us then you help us if my people that are called by my name you gotta be humble enough to hear the word you are brothers not in the me blood crip be the g d's stone latin kings we are family that are divided into tribes and clans and blood is between us vengeance is in our hearts for our home is that will kill you by the other side but that has to stop will you allow us to help you to make that change and if you will go within your own heart and say can i humble myself to a word that is right that is exact that is calling me to do what i know i should do can you home will yourself and when you turn to almighty god you are created by what ever name we call him call on him and prayed to him to give you the heart and the mind to change and to help you in that change since you need a job and you need money let god help us in our unity to create the very thing that we're begging others to do for us humble yourself and pray and see the face of god see the pleasure of your creative because he's angry with us right now with what we're doing to ourselves and to one another we must seek his face seek his pleasure and then we have to turn from the wicked thing that we are doing and then he sa look at the wonderful promise then will i hear from heaven meaning your prayer won't even get to heaven if you're not going to change he said then will i hear from heaven forgive your sins the things that we are doing to self and to each other he's willing to forgive it all and then heal the land we need a healing brothers and sisters please pay attention for this like the minister who loves you giving you a chance to  or reject this warning and i pray to almighty god a law that he will open your heart and open your mind to hear what is right for you and then go in your room and go with your buddies go with your gang members and say look man we have got to change and then ask the help of god in your desire to change and he will help us and then we're going to come with a comprehensive plan by the grace of god to really hear you condition it's all written in the scriptures that we would rebuild the wasted cities that's a job all the cities where we live wasted and we are being called upon to qualify self for the big task that is in front of us listen to the words on this d v d and let me know what you think may god bless you and your family grant you his peace his security and we give him praise and thanks for his sending his prophets and messengers and the scriptures that they brought a muslim makes no distinction between any of god's prophets messenger we believe in all of them and we believe in all of the scriptures that they brought we peace be upon these were the servants of the law i am a student of the most honorable elijah muhammad and i could never think enough for his of one to lead teach and guide us in to our one true religion the nature of god in the nature in which we all created thank you student laborers and believers and visitors and friends who are here and those who are watching throughout the united states of america the united  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 and time black hatred in the united states of america they have been many nooses place 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 we 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 the reason the rest of the rap artist t 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 samp thing about our young people is that we as their parents have not shared with them the howrah of what we need their parents and grandparents 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 pay 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 know versity and he said the thing that occurred to him was that our young people did not even know the reason struggle in the civil rights shocked and the younger people laugh and it's not their phone they have not been informed and the sad thing is we expect the enemy to inform them when it is on duty and not have responsibility and we are so busy chasing a dollar we when we are so busy fascinated by the material strength of america we have failed to sit down with our children and teach the harra of what black people have suffered in america and throughout the world there is no jewish child and as young as this beautiful young man that sits in front of me that does not know about the holocaust have to learn about their suffering so we can have sympathy for them but when we know nothing about us suffering th why we have no sympathy for ourselves and for one another they i don't want you to think that i am trying to teach a tre so let's start with a definition of terms just file you a bull homicide according to the dictionary or whatever it is justifiable is excusable because it's justified by the principle of just homicide is the mother of one human being by another whenever you put these two words together justifiable homicide there has to be some blah de b o d y not body here but a body of persons in the deliberative process that determines on the basis of since we have been in america we have been on the domination of a power that during slavery did not have to justify the murder o 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 death 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 benefited from our enslavement was to put up people back into slavery and to draw deeper into our hearts the fear that was  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 free slaves then had to be made to be afraid to make a free step those who would want to make a free stare 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  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  was excusable because anything that was done to us to maintain white supremacy was in fact and on written law 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  white people generally is considered excuse one white historian wrote that it was almost impossible to conflict a white man of a crime against a black person out of court after the verdict was announced and no effort was made to stop them and just think about that 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 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 but 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 call 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 wealth so became increasingly popular and widespread now this ad must 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 siding their men to horrific cruelty if you could see the pictures of the lynching of our ancestors the smiling faces in the photographs of the spectator one scholar points out 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  inspired me to carry in my briefcase along with my bible my koran and a book called at that time seventeen million new grows 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  vicksburg mississippi evening post for instance described the nineteen zero four lynching of luther the whole byrd and his wife in mississippi this is nineteen or four that's just a hundred and three years ago but check this out mr holbert had killed a white man in self defense in his wife's so all crime was her marriage to him now this is the account of what happened the grose this is in ralph ginzburg book were tied and while the funeral pyres were being 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 thing torture the blacks were forced to hold out their hands while one finger at a time was chopped off the fingers would distribute it as souvenirs ting 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 then woman in the legs in 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 bert's son to watch this is painful to listen to imagine how painful it was to see it and imagine how painful  was for that black man and woman to experience the sun the sun was just watching he was crazed with fear and w 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 all 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 in in order to keep him from forgetting the bounds which southern tradition sam set for him even not in mississippi in alabama in louisiana in texas in georgia back in these rule area 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 said we kill five or six of them every year and that makes the of those behave tolerabl nine america allow those our sons to be lynched and then salt to the wound by concealing the identity of the 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 an acquisition of strength or power to remove an impediment from a 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 on little children who were just on a bus trying to go get it to cation they had to bring out the national got in little rock a we can go to public places now eat in restaurants sleep in hotels and motels at 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 sending people to these weekly paid city councilman offering them this for that and then at the appropriate and they love black and they were in a position of power but the government itself moved to destroy that person marion barry in washington d c with 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 behind 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 and barry was in a hotel room which most politicians have hotel  and he was in the hotel room but he did know that they had cameras they had set him up and they use the system that he was linked with so all of romantically and while they were smoking crack they fared busted in on him and on 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 a 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 let's look at the i'm talking to black you today today as they were during slavery in fact that's how police got form they were formed to catch root always slaves bring them back to their masters as well as to protect but where black people are concerned they legitimize their mob attacks under the name of backup polies backed up is often no different then the lynch mobs one hundred years ago the killing of people shooting them with many many many bullets when one would and then that deliberative body which is 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 ninth street in hands but the witnesses will tell you he didn't have nothing in his hands but it was just shot down and the body that's supposed to address this well we're looking into it they say in justice as i said last tuesday and the day of atonement speech from atlanta in justice 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 march is there sacredness and value to human life listen to me carefully young brothers and sisters is there only say quickness and value