WEBVTT 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose? And the shape of your lips? 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? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who taught you to hate your own kind? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who taught you to hate the race you belong to? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So much so that you don't want to be around each other. 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. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Most of us blacks, or negroes as they call us really thought we were free. 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. 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. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Malcolm meant to ??? that sense of inferiority. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He knew it would be painful. He knew that people would kill you because of it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But he dared to take that risk. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He was saying something over and above than of any other leader of that day, 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. 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." 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. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "But I will not speak it for the masses of people." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But he said it in a very strong fashion. ??? 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." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's why we loved him. He said it out loud. Not behind closed doors. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He took on America for us. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I, for one, as a muslim belief the white man is intelligent enough. 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. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ??? you the one that makes it hard for himself. 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 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ever since he brought you here. Stop sweet talking. 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 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. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 On these harlem street corners, for most of the century, black people had celebrated their culture 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and argued the question of race in america. 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. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I fought ???. And that means that I ?? this white man's country, because integration 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 will never happen. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You'll never as long as you live integrate into the white man's system. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 125th Str. and 7th Ave. was the center of activity among the black street artists ??. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When Malcolm arrived, technically he had no corner. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So he established his base you might say in front of ??? bookstore. 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. 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. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And then he would open his mouth. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They call Mr. Muhammed a hate teacher. Because he makes you hate dope and alcohol. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They call Mr. Muhammed a black surpremacist, because he teaches you and me not only that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 we are as good as the white man, but better than the white man. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You are better than the white man. 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? 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. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There was a time when we used to drool in the mouth over white people. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We thought that they ??? and that we were ??? We were dumb. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We couldn't see them as they are. 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 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. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Nothing but an old pale thing/face ?? 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 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. 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 ??? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He was speaking for a silent mass of black people.