1 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? 2 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? 3 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose? And the shape of your lips? 4 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet? 5 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Who taught you to hate your own kind? 6 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Who taught you to hate the race you belong to? 7 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So much so that you don't want to be around each other. 8 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Befor you come asking Mr. Muhammed, does he teach hate you should ask yourself who taught you to hate being what god made you. 9 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Most of us blacks, or negroes as they call us really thought we were free. 10 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Without being aware that in our subconscious all those change we thought we had ??? was still there. 11 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And there were many ways where what really motivated us was our desire to be loved by the white man. 12 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Malcolm meant to ??? that sense of inferiority. 13 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He knew it would be painful. He knew that people would kill you because of it. 14 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But he dared to take that risk. 15 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He was saying something over and above than of any other leader of that day, 16 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 While the other leaders were begging for entry into the house of their oppressor he was telling you to build your own house. 17 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He expelled fear for african americans. He said: "I'll speak out loud what you've been thinking." 18 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And he said: "You'll see. People will hear and they won't do anything to us necessarily. Okay. 19 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 "But I will not speak it for the masses of people." 20 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But he said it in a very strong fashion. ??? 21 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 in a fashion that said: "I am not afraid to say what you've been thinking all these years." 22 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That's why we loved him. He said it out loud. Not behind closed doors. 23 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He took on America for us. 24 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And I, for one, as a muslim belief the white man is intelligent enough. 25 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If he were made to realize how black people really feel and how fed up we are without all that compromising sweet-talk. 26 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 ??? you the one that makes it hard for himself. 27 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The white man beliefs you when you go to him with all that sweet talk, because you've been sweet talking 28 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 ever since he brought you here. Stop sweet talking. 29 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Tell him how you feel. Tell him how what kind of hell you been catching ??? and let him know that if he's not ready 30 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to clean his house up. He shouldn't have a house. It should catch ??? on fire and burn down. 31 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 On these harlem street corners, for most of the century, black people had celebrated their culture 32 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and argued the question of race in america. 33 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It was here that Malcolm first joined the street orders who gave voice to harlems hope and its anger. 34 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I fought ???. And that means that I ?? this white man's country, because integration 35 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 will never happen. 36 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You'll never as long as you live integrate into the white man's system. 37 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 125th Str. and 7th Ave. was the center of activity among the black street artists ??. 38 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 When Malcolm arrived, technically he had no corner. 39 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So he established his base you might say in front of ??? bookstore. 40 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 When Malcolm would ascend the little platform he couldn't talk for the first four or five minutes. 41 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The people would be making such a ??? shout to him. And he was standing, taking his due. 42 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And then he would open his mouth. 43 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They call Mr. Muhammed a hate teacher. Because he makes you hate dope and alcohol. 44 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They call Mr. Muhammed a black surpremacist, because he teaches you and me not only that 45 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 we are as good as the white man, but better than the white man. 46 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You are better than the white man. 47 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And that's not saying anything. You don't ?? to be equal to him. Who is he to be equal with? 48 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Look as his skin. You can't compare your skin with his skin, while your skin looks like gold beside his skin. 49 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There was a time when we used to drool in the mouth over white people. 50 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We thought that they ??? and that we were ??? We were dumb. 51 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We couldn't see them as they are. 52 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Since the honorable Elijah Muhammed has come and taught us the religion of islam ?? clean us up 53 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and ?? so we can see for ourselves. Now we can see ?? pale things to look exactly as we look. 54 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Nothing but an old pale thing/face ?? 55 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I came away from that rally feeling that with him, once you heard him speak you never went back 56 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to where you were before. Even if you kept your position you had to re-think it. 57 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We weren't accustomed of being told that we were devils and that we were oppressors up here in our northern ??? 58 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He was speaking for a silent mass of black people.