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MALCOLM X GIVING DETAILS ON THE
BLACK BACKGROUND
Black Man's History
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It follows the full text transcript of
Malcolm X's Black Man's History speech, delivered at the
Harlem's Nation of Islam's Mosque No. 7, New York, NY -
December 1962.
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I want to thank
Allah for coming and giving to us our leader and
teacher here in America, The Honorable Elijah
Muhammad. |
I want to thank
Brother Benjamin at the outset for doing a
wonderful job of opening up our eyes and giving
us a good preliminary basic understanding of the
means and the objectives of The Honorable Elijah
Muhammad, and also I am thankful to Allah for
bringing so many people out here tonight,
especially just before Christmas. You know, it's
next to a miracle when you get this many of our
people together so close to Christmas interested
in anything whatsoever that's serious. And
actually what this shows is the change that's
taking place among the so-called Negroes not
only here in New York but throughout the entire
world. Today dark mankind is waking up and is
undertaking a new type of thinking, and it is
this new type of thinking that is creating new
approaches and new reactions that make it almost
impossible to figure out what the black man is
going to do next, and by black man we mean, as
we are taught by The Honorable Elijah Muhammad,
we include all those who are non-white. He
teaches us that black is the basic color, that
black is the foundation or the basis of all
colors. And all of our people who have not yet
become white are still black, or at least part
of the Black Nation, and here at Muhammad's
Mosque when you hear us using the term "black"
we mean everybody who's here, regardless of your
complexion. If you're here at the Mosque you're
black, because the only ticket you need to get
into Muhammad's Mosque is to be black. So if you
got in you know you're black. You may not have
known that you were black before you came here.
In fact, very few of our people really look upon
themselves as being black. They think of
themselves as practically everything else on the
color spectrum except black. And no matter how
dark one of our people may be, you rarely hear
him call himself black. But now that The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad has been teaching
among the so-called Negroes, you find our people
of all complexions going around bragging that
"I'm a black man." This shows you that a new
teaching is taking place and there is new
thinking among the so-called Negroes. Yet just
yesterday you would have to admit that it was
very difficult to get our people to refer to
themselves as black. Now all of a sudden our
people of all complexions are not apologizing
for being black but bragging about being black.
So there's a new thinking all over America among
the so-called Negroes. And the one who is
actually the author of this new thinking is The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad. It is what he is
teaching that is making our people, for the
first time, proud to be black, and what's most
important of all, for the first time it makes
our people want to know more about black, want
to know why black is good, or what there is
about black that is good.
I might stop right here to point out that some
of you may say, "I came up here to listen to
some religion about Islam, but now all I hear
you talk about is black." We don't separate our
color from our religion. The white man doesn't.
The white man never has separated Christianity
from white, nor has he separated the white man
from Christianity. When you hear the white man
bragging, "I'm a Christian," he's bragging about
being a white man. Then you have the Negro. When
he is bragging about being a Christian, he's
bragging that he's a white man, or he wants to
be white, and usually those Negroes who brag
like that, I think you have to agree, in their
songs and the things they sing in church, they
show that they have a greater desire to be white
than anything else. My mother was a Christian
and my father was a Christian and I used to hear
them when I was a little child sing the song
"Wash Me White As Snow." My father was a black
man and my mother was a black woman, but yet the
songs that they sang in their church were
designed to fill their hearts with the desire to
be white. So many people, especially our people,
get resentful when they hear me say something
like this. But rather than get resentful all
they have to do is think back on many of the
songs and much of the teachings and the
doctrines that they were taught while they were
going to church and they'll have to agree that
it was all designed to make us look down on
black and up at white.
So the religion that we have, the religion of
Islam, the religion that makes us Muslims, the
religion that The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is
teaching us here in America today, is designed
to undo in our minds what the white man has done
to us. It's designed to undo the type of
brainwashing that we have had to undergo for
four hundred years at the hands of the white man
in order to bring us down to the level that
we're at today. So when you hear us often refer
to black in almost a boastful way, actually
we're not boasting, we're speaking of it in a
factual sense. All we're doing is telling the
truth about our people. Whenever you exalt
black, that's not propaganda; when you exalt
white, that's propaganda. Yet no one can give
biological evidence to show that black actually
is the stronger or superior of the two if you
want to make that kind of comparison. So never
think ill of the person whom you hear
representing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad if an
overemphasis seems to be placed on the word
black, but rather sit and analyze and try to get
an understanding.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that of
all the things that the black man, or any man
for that matter, can study history is the best
qualified to reward all research. You have to
have a knowledge of history no matter what you
are going to do; anything that you undertake you
have to have a knowledge of history in order to
be successful in it. The thing that has made the
so-called Negro in America fail, more than any
other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge
concerning history. We know less about history
than anything else. There are black people in
America who have mastered the mathematical
sciences, have become professors and experts in
physics, are able to toss sputniks out there in
the atmosphere, out in space. They are masters
in that field. We have black men who have
mastered the field of medicine, we have black
men who have mastered other fields, but very
seldom do we have black men in America who have
mastered the knowledge of the history of the
black man himself. we have among our people
those who are experts in every field, but seldom
can you find one among us who is an expert on
the history of the black man. And because of his
lack of knowledge concerning the history of the
black man, no matter how much he excels in the
other sciences, he's always confined, he's
always relegated to the same low rung of the
ladder that the dumbest of our people are
relegated to. And all of this stems form his
lack of knowledge concerning history. What made
Dr. George Washington Carver a Negro scientist
instead of a scientist? What made Paul Robeson a
Negro actor instead of an actor? What made, or
makes, Ralph Bunche a Negro statesman instead of
a statesman? The only difference between Bunche
and Carver and these others I just mentioned is
they don't know the history of the black man.
Bunche is an expert, an international
politician, but he doesn't know himself, he
doesn't know the history of the black people. He
can be sent all over the world by America to
solve problems for America, or to solve problems
for other nations, but he can't solve problems
for his own people in this country. Why? What is
it that ties our people up in this way? The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that it boils
down to just one word -- history.
When you study the history of Bunche, his
history is different from the history of the
black man who just came here from Africa. And if
you notice, when Bunche was in Atlanta, Georgia,
during the summer NAACP Convention, he was Jim
Crowed, he was segregated, he was not allowed to
go in a hotel down there. Yet there are Africans
who come here, black as night, who can go into
those cracker hotels. Well, what is the
difference between Bunche and one of them? The
difference is Bunche doesn't know his history,
and they, the Africans, do know their history.
They may come here out of the jungles, but they
know their history. They may come here wearing
sheets with their heads all wrapped up, but they
know their history. You and I can come out of
Harvard but we don't know our history. There's a
basic difference in why we are treated as we
are: one knows his history and one doesn't know
his history! The American so-called Negro is a
soldier who doesn't know his history; he's a
servant who doesn't know his history; he's a
graduate of Columbia, or Yale, or Harvard, or
Tuskeegee, who doesn't know his history. He's
confined, he's limited, he's held under the
control and the jurisdiction of the white man
who knows more about the history of the Negro
than the Negro knows about himself. But when you
and I wake up, as we're taught by The Honorable
Elijah Muhammad, and learn our history, learn
the history of our kind, and the history of the
white kind, then the white man will be at a
disadvantage and we'll be at an advantage.
The only thing that puts you and me at a
disadvantage is our lack of knowledge concerning
history. So one of the reasons, one of the
missions, one of the objectives of The Honorable
Elijah Muhammad here in America is not only to
teach you and me the right religion but to teach
you and me history. In fact, do you know that if
you and I know history we know the right
religion? The only way that you can become
confused, that you can become mixed up and not
know which religion belongs to God, is if you
don't know history. In fact, you have to know
history to know something about God. You have to
know history to know something about God's
religion. You have to know history to know
something about God's people. You have to know
history to know something about God's plans and
God's purposes, and, as I say, the only people
who don't know history are the American
so-called Negroes. If you know history, for
example, for example, you know when you look at
this religion right here [writes "Christianity"
on the black board] the only way you can explain
it is to have a knowledge of history.
Why is it called Christianity? It is called
Christianity, they say, because it was named
after a man called Christ who was born two
thousand years ago. Now you know, brothers and
sisters, God is an old God, and the world is an
old world. The universe has been here a long
time. I think all of you would agree that the
universe has been here longer than two thousand
years. Then you'll also agree that the universe
was made by God Himself, that God created the
universe. God created the people who are on this
earth, God wouldn't create a universe, God
wouldn't set a thing up in the sky that makes
nine planets rotate around it, all of them
inhabited, you and I inhabiting the planet earth
upon which we live -- God wouldn't have done all
this and not given people a religion. God put
His religion here at the creation of the
universe. Now then, since you agree to this and
you'll agree also that Christ was born two
thousand years ago, this couldn't have been
God's religion. Your knowledge of history tells
you that God couldn't call His religion
Christianity because Christianity is only two
thousand years old. So if this is the case, then
what was God's religion called before the birth
of Christ? Can you see the importance of
history? Why, if you didn't know history you'd
think that Christianity was God's religion, and
you'd be running around here wondering why
everybody doesn't practice it. Because some
people have a better knowledge of history than
others do, it is only the people whose knowledge
of history is limited who jump up and say that
Christianity is the name of God's religion. If
Christianity hasn't always been the name of
God's religion it isn't now the name of God's
religion. God doesn't change His religion; God
doesn't change His mind; God's mind is made up
from the beginning. He doesn't have to change
His mind because He knows all there is to know
all the way down the wheel of time. He never has
to change His mind, His mind is made up, His
knowledge is complete, all encompassing. Do you
understand? So once you can see, and I think you
can, then it's almost impossible for God to call
Christianity His religion.
What should God call His religion? Christians
are the ones who call God's religion
Christianity, but God was here before Christians
came on the scene. They tell you that Christians
began back there with the Romans, with one of
the Roman Emperors who accepted the teachings of
some of Jesus' disciples and then named what the
disciples taught "Christianity." But Jesus
didn't call it Christianity, it wasn't named
until two or three hundred years after Jesus was
dead. Right or wrong? Any history book will tell
this, any theologian knows this, and the only
Negroes who will contend this are those who
don't know history, and most Negroes don't know
history. Most Negroes will contend this, but
when you tell it to the white man he shuts his
mouth because he knows that this is true.
Then those who have studied a little deeper will
say, "Before God called it Christianity it was
called Judaism" -- isn't this what they say?
Named after a man called Judah. This doesn't
follow logically. If Christianity was named
after Christ was born, and before Christ was
born the religion was called Judaism, then that
means that it got its name from a son of Jacob
whose name was Judah. But history tells us that
Jacob was bending down before Judah was born,
which shows us that Jacob's religion couldn't
have been Judaism, and Isaac was Jacob's father
and he was bending down also before Jacob, his
son, was born. Isaac was Judah's grandfather and
Abraham was Judah's great-grandfather, meaning
that Abraham was on the scene long before Judah,
and you couldn't call Abraham's religion Judaism
because there was no such thing as Judaism in
Abraham's day. There wa no such thing as Judaism
in Isaac's day, or in Jacob's day. Do you
understand? So what was God's religion before
they called it Judaism? This is something that
the white man has never taught you and me. The
white man is afraid to let you and me know what
God's religion was called in Abraham's day
because Abraham is supposed to have been the
father of all of them. He is supposed to have
been one of God's first servants. One of the
first to submit to God is supposed to have been
Abraham. Now if you can see this, then find out
what Abraham's religion was.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that
Abraham's religion was the religion of Islam.
Islam only means complete submission to God,
complete obedience to God. Abraham obeyed God.
Abraham obeyed God so much so that when God told
Abraham to take his son and sacrifice him --
stick a dagger in his heart, isn't that what he
said? -- Abraham took his only son up on the
mountain. He was going to sacrifice him to God,
showing that he believed in Islam. What does
Islam mean? Obey God. Submit to God. So that
this name [writes "Islam"], if you'll notice,
has no connection, no association, with the
death of a man. This is not a man's name, this
doesn't come from a man. Buddhism is named after
a man called Buddha; Confucianism is named after
a man called Confucius -- right or wrong?
Likewise with Judaism and Christianity. But
Islam is not connected with any name. Islam is
independent of any name. Islam is an act which
means submit completely to God, or obey God. And
when you say your religion is Islam that means
you're a Muslim. So to clarify this what must
you do? You must have a knowledge of history. If
you don't have a knowledge of history you'll run
around calling yourself a Christian when you're
serving God, or you'll run around saying your
religion is Judaism and you'll swear you're
serving God. If your religion is Christianity
you're following Christ, if your religion is
Judaism you're following Judah, if your religion
is Buddhism you're religion is Buddhism you're
following Buddha, do you understand? And they
are all dead, and if you follow them you'll die
too. This is where it all leads you. Wherever
your leaders go, that's what happens to you. Now
we who follow The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, we
believe in Islam, we don't believe in Muhammad.
He teaches us the religion of Islam. Do you
understand the difference? These people who
follow Christ [pointing to the cross painted on
the blackboard], they believe in Christ; they
believe Christ is God -- Oh yes, they do -- that
he was born of the Blessed Virgin, didn't have a
father, was just a spirit, and then came into
the world and was crucified, rose from the dead,
and went up into space. They believe that, but
they believe it because they don't know history.
But if you notice, the Jews have a better
knowledge of history than the Christians do, do
they not? the Christians' history only goes back
two thousand years; the history of the Jews goes
back beyond four thousand years. Can you see
this? And the Muslim history goes back...there
is no limit to the Muslim history. If you
notice, the Christians can only go back to what
they call the Greek Empire. That's what they
call the Occidental, the beginning of the
Occident, the Greek Empire, the Roman Empire,
and so forth. The Jews have a knowledge of
history that goes back to Egypt and Babylon. You
notice how one goes back, it has no limit. There
are no chains on how far you can go back when
you are a Muslim. The Christians and the Jews
combined go back to whom? To Adam, and they stop
right there. And they say beyond him there was
nothing happening. The greater their knowledge
of history is, this has an influence on the type
of religion that they accept. Do you understand?
All praise is due to Allah. Another example:
What makes the royal family of Europe, or any
country, differ from the peasant? Royalty knows
its ancestry, royalty knows its history, this is
what makes them royal. You can't have a king who
can't trace his history back to his forefathers.
The only way you can be king is to be born a
king. If you take away his history, and he
doesn't know who his forefathers were, what does
he become? A peasant -- a common ordinary man.
Same with the Jews and Christians. It's because
the Jews have the longest record of history that
they can call themselves the Chosen People. The
Christians can't call themselves the Chosen
People because their history is not long enough.
They can't go back to the time when the choice
was being made. The Hebrews, the so-called Jews,
can go back so far they can lay claim to that
which is actually not theirs. But the reason
they can claim it is that nobody else they are
dealing with can go back far enough to disprove
them. Except the Muslims -- do you understand?
So The Honorable Elijah Muhammad's mission is to
teach the so-called Negroes a knowledge of
history, the history of ourselves, our own kind,
showing us how we fit into prophecy, Biblical
prophecy. When you go to one of the churches you
will notice that it is named after some word in
their Bible: Big Rock Baptist Church, or
Drinking at the Well Baptist Church, Friendship
Baptist Church, Union Baptist, Israel Baptist,
Jacob's Ladder Baptist. They find some kind of
old funny word in their Bible to name their
whole religion after. Their whole doctrine is
based on a verse in the Bible: "He rose."
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad bases what he
teaches not on verse but on the entire book. And
from beginning to end, he says, he can open up
the Book and prove that the Bible agrees with
him, and then use the Bible to prove that what
they are teaching in the church is wrong. You
know that's saying something.
For instance, he says that in Genesis, the
fifteenth chapter and the thirteenth verse, just
to give you an example: "And he said unto Abram,
Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a
stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall
serve them; and they shall afflict them four
hundred years; and also that nation, whom they
shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall
they come out with great substance." Now The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that explains his
teachings right there, because he teaches that
the so-called Negro is the one that the Bible is
talking about. Who have spent four hundred years
and are strangers in a land that is not theirs?
And you can't deny that we are strangers here. I
don't think any of you will deny that we are
strangers here. We are not in a country where we
are made to feel at home. We'll put it that way.
There is hardly any Negro in his right mind who
can say he feels at home in America. He has to
admit that he is made to feel like a stranger.
Right or wrong? Well, this is what God said to
Abraham would happen in this day and time.
Remember, Abraham's religion was Islam. Abraham
wasn't a Jew, Abraham wasn't a Christian,
Abraham wasn't a Buddhist, Abraham was a Muslim,
which means he obeyed God. God told him, yes. He
said, your people are gong into bondage, they're
going to become slaves, they're going to be
afflicted, they'll be strangers in a land far
from home for four hundred years. The Honorable
Elijah Muhammad says you and I are the seed of
Abraham, we're the descendants of Abraham. Now
the preacher in the church, he tells you that
the Jews are the seed of Abraham. One of them is
right and one of them is wrong: either Mr.
Muhammad is right and the preacher is wrong, or
the preacher is right and Mr. Muhammad is wrong.
This is what we are putting on the line today.
Who is the seed of Abraham? Is it this
blue-eyed, blond-haired, pale-skinned Jew? Or is
it the so-called Negro -- you? Who is it? And
what makes it so pitiful, many of our people
would rather believe that the Jews are God's
Chosen People than to believe that they are
God's Chosen People. They would rather believe
that the Jew is better than anybody else. This
is a Negro. Nobody else would put everybody else
above him but the Negro. I mean the American
Negro. Remember, God said that the people would
be strangers. The Jews aren't strangers. The
Jews know their history, the Jews know their
culture, the Jews know their language; they know
everything there is to know about themselves.
They know how to rob you, they know how to be
your landlord, they know how to be your grocer,
they know how to be your lawyer, they know how
to join the NAACP and become the president --
right or wrong? They know how to control
everything you've got. You can't say they're
lost. But the poor so-called Negro, he doesn't
control the NAACP, he can't control the Urban
League, he can't control his own schools, he
can't control his own businesses in his own
community. He can't even control his own mind.
He's lost and lost control of himself and gone
astray.
But he fits the picture here that the Bible says
concerning our people in the last day: "Know of
a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a
land that is not theirs, and shall serve them."
And you have served the white man; he hasn't
served you and me. Why, the Jew hasn't served
anybody here. You are the one that's serving:
"And they shall afflict them four hundred years;
and also that nation, whom they shall serve,
will I judge: and afterwards shall they come out
with great substance." Often times when you say
this to the so-called Negroes they'll come up
and tell you that this is the Jew. But if you'll
notice, when Jesus was talking to the Jews, way
back here in John, he told them that they shall
know the truth and it will make them free. The
Jews popped up and said: "How are you going to
say that we shall be made free? We have never
been in bondage to anyone." Isn't that what the
Jews told Jesus? Now look at it. If the Jews
said to Jesus, two thousand years after Moses
supposedly led the Hebrews out of bondage, that
they had never been in bondage -- now you know
the Jews had Moses' history, they knew who Moses
was -- how could they stand up and tell Jesus
they had never been in bondage? Not these things
that you call Jews. They weren't in Egypt, they
weren't the people that Moses led out of Egypt,
and the Jews know this. But the Bible is written
in such a tricky way, when you read it you think
that Moss led the Jews out of bondage. But if
you get a Jew in a good solid conversation today
and you know how to talk to him, he'll have to
admit this, that it wasn't out of bondage that
Moses brought them -- it was out of somewhere
else -- and where Moses really brought them is
their secret, but, thanks to Almighty God, The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad knows their secret,
and he told it to us and we're going to tell it
to you.
If the Bible said that God is going to judge
that nation, the nation that enslaved His
people, how would He keep from destroying His
own people? The same Bible is a book of history
and in the eighteenth chapter of the book of
Deuteronomy, in the eighteenth verse, God told
Moses: "I will raise them up a Prophet" --
talking about you and me -- I'll raise them up a
prophet just like thee -- a prophet like Moses
whose mission it would be to do for you and me
the same thing that Moses did back them. It
would be a prophet like Moses. In fact, when you
get down to Malachi, He lets it be known that
just before He comes to judge that nation, the
name of the prophet or messenger whom He would
send among the people would be Elijah. If says:
"Before the coming of that great and dreadful
day I shall send you Elijah and Elijah's job
will be to turn the hearts of the children to
the fathers and the hearts of the fathers to the
children." What does this mean, turn the hearts
of the children to the fathers? The so-called
Negro are childlike people -- you're like
children. No matter how old you get, or how bold
you get, or how wise you get, or how rich you
get, or how educated you get, the white man
still calls you what? "Boy!" Why, you are a
child in his eyesight! And you are a child.
Anytime you have to let another man set up a
factory for you and you can't set up a factory
for yourself, you're a child; anytime another
man has to open up businesses for you and you
don't know how to open up businesses for
yourself and your people, you're a child;
anytime another man sets up schools and you
don't know how to set up your own schools,
you're a child. Because a child is someone who
sits around and waits for his father to do for
him what he should be doing for himself, or what
he's too young to do for himself, or what he is
too dumb to do for himself. So the white man,
knowing that here in America all the Negro has
done -- I hate to say it, but it's the truth --
all you and I have done is build churches and
let the white man build factories.
You and I build churches and let the white man
build schools. You and I build churches and let
the white man build up everything for himself.
Then after you build the church you have to go
and beg the white man for a job, and beg the
white man for some education. Am I right or
wrong? Do you see what I mean? It's too bad but
it's true. And it's history. So it shows that
these childlike people, people who would be
children, following after the white man. It says
in the last day that God will raise up Elijah,
and Elijah's job will be to turn the hearts of
these children back toward their fathers. Elijah
will come and change our minds; he'll teach us
something that will turn us completely around.
When Elijah finds us we'll be easy to lead in
the wrong direction but hard to lead in the
right direction. But when Elijah gets through
teaching the Lost Sheep, or the Lost People of
God, he'll turn them around, he'll change their
minds, he'll put a board in their back, he'll
make them throw their shoulders back and stand
upright like men for the first time. It says
he'll turn the hearts of these children toward
their fathers and the hearts of the fathers
toward the children. This is something that The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad is doing here in
America today. You and I haven't thought in
terms of our forefathers. We haven't thought of
our fathers. Our fathers, brothers, are back
home. Our fathers are in the East. We're running
around here begging the Great White Father. You
never hear of black people in this country
talking or speaking or thinking in terms of
connecting themselves with their own kind back
home. They are trying to make contact with the
white man, trying to make a connection with the
white man, trying to connect, trying to make a
connection with a kidnapper who brought them
here, trying to make a connection with,
actually, the man who enslaved them. You know
that's a shame -- it's pitiful -- but it's true.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that when
Elijah comes, the Book says when Elijah comes,
what Elijah will do is to teach these people the
truth. And the truth that Elijah will teach the
people would be so strong it will make all that
other stuff that the preachers are talking about
sound like a fairy story. Elijah will open the
people's eyes up so wide that from then on a
preacher won't be able to talk to them -- and
this is really true. Do you know, people have
come to Muhammad's Mosque and no matter whether
they believed in what Mr. Muhammad was saying or
not they never could go back and sit in church.
This is true. What The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
does is to turn on the light, and when he turns
on the light it enables us to see and think for
ourselves. He shows us that what the white man
has taught us concerning history has actually
been a distortion. He's never given you and me
true facts about history, neither about himself
nor about our people.
You know I read a
book one day called The Four Cities of Troy. You
can go to the library, some libraries, and check
it out. What was this based on? To show you what
a liar the white man is. When Isay liar: you
have white people who are scientists and keep
truth in their own circles, and they never let
you -- they never let the masses -- know
anything about this truth that they keep in the
circle. They got something else that they invent
and put out for the masses to believe, but they
themselves keep knowledge in a circle. So in
this particular book it pointed out that some
archaeologists were delving in the ruins of the
ancient city of Troy, and it's the practice of
archaeologists to dig, so in digging down into
the ruins of Troy they dug deeper than they
intended to, and they ran into the ruins of
another city that had been there so much longer
than this city of Troy that it had gone down
beneath the sands of time, and they had built
this city of Troy on top of it. When these
archaeologists were delving into the ruins of
the ancient city they learned that there were
ruins of a city more ancient than that. So they
started frantically digging onto that one and
dug some more until they found another one and
before they got through digging they had dug
down and they had discovered that civilizations
in that area had been there so far back into
history that at different times in history some
of the cities had been destroyed, had become
completely covered up with sand and dirt, until
another people came along and didn't even know
it was there and built another civilization on
top of it. This happened four different times
-to give you some idea of what the white man
knows concerning the length of time man has been
on this earth -- and still that white man would
jump up in your face and try to make you believe
that the first man was made six thousand years
ago named Adam. And a lot of Negroes will want
to know what you are talking about -- Adam --
that's what God called him -- God took some dirt
and breathed on it and told Adam, "Come forth,"
and there he was. Now you know that's a shame.
It's all right to believe when you were a little
baby that God made a little doll out of the sand
and mud and breathed on it and that was the
first man. But here it is 1962 with all this
information floating around in everybody's ears
-- you can get it free. Why, you should open up
your minds and your heads and your hearts and
realize that you have been led by a lie. Today
it's time to listen to nothing but naked,
undiluted truth. And when you know the truth, as
Jesus said: "The truth will make you free."
Abraham Lincoln won't make you free. Truth will
make you free. when you know the truth, you're
free. Also you have your archaeologists,
anthropologists, other forms of historians who
agree that they don't know how long man has been
on earth, but they do know that man has been on
earth longer than six thousand years. They know
that man was not made just six thousand years
ago. They know this now but a long time ago they
didn't know it. There was a time when they
believed that a man had fewer ribs than a woman.
You can believe that because they said that God
made Eve from one of Adam's ribs -so Adam had a
rib missing. And they actually ran around here
believing for many years that man had one less
rib, and they were shook up when they got into
the science of anatomy and discovered that man
-- all his ribs were there! They began to wonder
then what happened in the Bible?
How long has man been here? In the Bible in the
first chapter of Genesis and the twenty-sixth
verse, after God had made everything else it
says: "And God said, Let us make man." Let me
write what God said here on the board ... Look
what God said, brothers. I don't think you ever
looked at this. It says: "And God said, Let us
make man." The key word here is what? Yes, what
does "us" mean? More than one. Who was God
talking to? If God was all by Himself, no one
was there but Him, who was He talking to when He
said, "Let us make man"? Who was there with God
who was about to help Him make this man? When
God was getting ready to make the sun He didn't
say, "Let us make some sun!" He said, "Let there
be light." And here is the sun, a ball of fire
2,679,785 miles in circumference, 853,000 miles
in diameter, 17,072 degrees hot, and God said,
"Let there be," and that big ball of fire popped
up there in the universe, with no help. Now you
know something is wrong. It should be harder to
make that than man: a huge ball of fire
2,679,785 miles in circumference, 17,072 degrees
hot -- that's a whole lot of heat. And God said,
"Let there be," and that just jumped up in the
universe. He didn't ask for no help: "Let there
be this and let there be that." He had so much
power that everything He wanted came into
existence; as soon as He said "be," there it
was. But when He got to man something happened,
someone else was there, wasn't there? That's
something to think about. We let you think about
it for a minute...
The white man's world is newer world than the
black man's world. If this man said that they
were about to make man, and he said we would
make him how -- in your image -- this shows you
that there's somebody there with him. "Let us
make man on our image, in our likeness. Let us
make him look like us. He won't be the same as
we are, he'll be in our image." That's God
talking, right? He's talking to somebody. You
know, I'm thankful to Allah for raising up The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad and making us see
these things that we could never see before. The
birth of the white race has always been a
secret. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that
the birth of the white race is shrouded in the
story of Adam. The story of Adam hides the birth
of the white race, and because you and I have
never been taught to look into a thing and
analyze a thing we took the story of Adam
exactly as it was. We thought that God made a
man named Adam six thousand years ago. But today
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that
man, Adam, was a white man; that before Adam was
made the black man was already here. The white
man will even tell you that, because he refers
to Adam as the first one. He refers to the
Adamites as those who came from that first one.
He refers to the pre-Adamites as those who were
here before Adam. Right or wrong? Those people
who were here before Adam. And he always refers
to these people as "aborigines," which means
what? BLACK FOLK! You never find a white
aborigine. Aborigines are called natives, and
they're always dark-skinned people. You and I
are aborigines. But you don't like to be called
an aborigine; you want to be called an American.
Aborigine actually means, "from the beginning."
It's two Latin words, "ab" meaning "from"; "origine"
meaning "the beginning"; and aborigine is only
the term applied to those dark-skinned people
who have been on this earth since the beginning
of the universe. You know that's going way back.
What do you mean, since the beginning of the
universe?
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that,
just as we pointed out a moment ago, the black
man has been here a long time. He never has had
a beginning. But the white man has never had a
knowledge of the history of the black man. It's
like a father and a son. If the father is fifty
years old and the son is only ten, the father
knows everything there is to know about his son
because he was here before his son was born; the
son only knows what has happened during his own
ten years. He only knows what went on before his
arrival from what his father tells him. It's the
same way with the black man and the white man:
the black man's been here a long time, but the
white man has been here a short time. Now the
white man only knows about himself, what he's
been told, and he hasn't been told anything. He
came to himself up in the caves of Europe, and
he can't get any information that goes beyond
the cave. And since you and I fell into his trap
and were made deaf, dumb, and blind by him, we
don't have access to any information that the
white man doesn't know about. So we think that
the beginning of the white man meant the
beginning of everything, us too. We're not aware
that we were here before he was made. Can you
understand that? The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
teaches us that sixty-six trillion years ago --
trillion, how much is trillion? Not hundreds,
not thousands, nor millions, nor billions, but
sixty-six trillions years ago -- the black man
was here. We have the sun which is the center of
the universe; 36,000,000 miles form the sun is
the planet we call Mercury, and 67,200,000 miles
from the sun is the planet called Venus, and
93,000,000 miles from the sun is the planet here
that you and I live on called Earth, 141,500,000
miles out here is a planet called Mars, and
483,000,000 miles from the sun is a planet
called Jupiter, 886,000,000 miles from the sun
is a planet called Saturn, and on down the road
a piece are a couple more planets. So right here
this planet that you and I live on called Earth,
that rotates around the sun, The Honorable
Elijah Muhammad teaches us that sixty-six
trillion years ago our people were living on
this planet: the black man was living on this
planet. But in those days it was larger than it
is now, and the planet Mars, that was off here
beyond it, had an effect upon our planet then in
the same manner that the moon affects us today.
At that time there was no moon up there. Where
was the moon? The moon was down here, the moon
was part of this planet, the moon and this
planet were one planet, and the black man was
living here then. He was a scientist, he was a
wise black man. Black men have always been wise,
black men have always been the wisest beings in
the universe, and among these beings, black
beings, there is one who is supreme; he is
referred to as the Supreme Being, do you
understand?
So The Honorable Elijah Muhammad tells us that a
wise black scientist, sixty-six trillion years
ago, began to argue with the other scientists
because he wanted the people of Earth to speak a
certain language, and since they wouldn't agree
he wanted to destroy civilization. So this
scientist drove a shaft into the center of the
Earth and filled it with high explosives and set
it off. He was trying to destroy civilization;
he was trying to destroy the black man. But you
can't destroy the black man; the black man can't
destroy himself. The black man has the most
powerful brain in the universe. So there is no
intelligence more powerful than the intelligence
of the black man. And because of this the black
man can't even create thought that would destroy
him. He is indestructible. You can blow up
everything and the black man will still be here.
You just can't get away from him, brother. So
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said he filled the
Earth, the planet, with high explosives and set
it off, and w hen it was exploded the piece that
you and I today call the moon was tossed out
here into space and it rotated around the Earth.
It still rotates around the Earth; it came from
the Earth; it was blasted right off the Earth.
And as it was blasted right o ff the Earth, it
turned over and over and over and all of the
water that was on it stayed with the earth. So
that the piece that was blasted out there has no
water on it today, and because it has no water
on it it has no civilization on it, has no life
on it. You can't have life where there's no
water there's no life; where there's no life
there's no civilization. Can you understand
that? So this dead piece, called the moon by us
today, turning over and over and over, lost all
of its water, all of the water coming with this
piece. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad told us
that this piece, that the earth, that we
remained on, shifted, dropped thirty-six
thousand miles in the pocket that we remained
in. And as it dropped and all of water came with
it, that left a situation in which today the
Earth that we now live on weighs six sextillion
tons. The weight of it is six sextillion tons.
And as it makes its way around the sun, the
strong power of the sun's rays striking the
equator causes the planet to turn on its own
axis at the speed 10371/3 miles per hour. And he
teaches us that the square mileage of the Earth
is 196,940,000 square miles which means only
57,255,000 square miles of land stuck up out of
139,685,000 square miles of water. Three-fourths
of the Earth's surface is covered with water.
Part of the water that left the moon is here
with the Earth. So you say since it's the
natural law for water to seek its own level, why
doesn't it overrun the land? The Honorable
Elijah Muhammad says that as the Earth speeds
around the sun turning on its axis 10371/3 miles
per hour it creates gravity and the strong
attracting power of the sun pulls on the waters
of the Earth, drawing them up into the Earth's
atmosphere in fine mist that the naked eye can
hardly detect. As this water gathers into the
Earth's atmosphere it then distills and comes
back to Earth. When it gets heavier than the
atmosphere in which it is, it distills and comes
back to the Earth in the form of water, rain,
hail, or snow. All of the water that you see
coming out of the sky went up into the sky.
Everything that's coming down on the Earth got
up there by leaving the Earth. Do you
understand? And he teaches us that it comes back
down in the form of hail or rain or snow or
whatever else you have, depending upon the
temperature of the current atmosphere that it
was in. He says that at night the gravitational
pull of the moon takes over, and, because the
power of the moon is not as great as that of the
sun, once the attracting power o f the sun is
absent at night the moon takes over, but since
it can't pull the waters up like the sun does,
it still has that magnetic pull and it causes
the waves that you see out there on the ocean to
churn. It is the moon that does that; the moon
makes the waves go up and down. It never lets
them level out. If they leveled out the water
would overrun the land. It also causes the
shifting of the tide. This is the pull of the
moon upon the waters of the Earth. If it weren't
for the attracting powers of the sun and the
moon upon the Earth, the waters would overrun
the land and drown out civilization. All of this
was done by man himself, not some Mystery God. A
black man set this up. And you and I have been
running around in the trap that the white man
put us in, thinking that the only one who can do
anything is a Mystery God and what the Mystery
God doesn't do the white man does.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that all the
time that this was going on there was no white
man. The white man was nowhere on the scene. He
says that when the moon was blasted away and we
came along with the Earth, one tribe was in fact
destroyed. Prior to the time that the explosion
took place there were thirteen tribes. In the
explosion set off sixty-six trillion years ago
the thirteenth tribe was destroyed and then all
of the time down through the wheel of time since
then there were twelve tribes until six thousand
years ago. And six thousand years ago, a
scientist named Yacub created another tribe on
this Earth.
Understand, prior to the time the explosion took
place, there were thirteen tribes, but the
thirteenth tribe was destroyed in that explosion
and then six thousand years ago another tribe
came on the scene. It was made different from
all of the twelve tribes that were here when it
arrived. A new tribe, a weak tribe, a wicked
tribe, a devilish tribe, a diabolical tribe, a
tribe that is devilish by nature. So that before
they got on the scene, The Honorable Elijah
Muhammad says that when we came with the Earth,
the oldest city on the Earth is the Holy City,
Mecca, in Arabia. Mecca is the oldest city on
Earth. Mecca is the city that is forbidden. No
one can go there but the black man. No one can
go there but the Muslims. No one can go there
but the believer. No one can go there but the
righteous. And at Mecca are kept the records of
history that go on back to the beginning of
time. He says that fifty thousand years ago
another scientist named Shabazz became angry
with the scientists of his day. He wanted to
bring about a tougher people. He wanted the
people to undergo a form of life that would make
them tough and hard, and the other scientists
wouldn't agree with him. So this scientist named
Shabazz took his family and wandered down into
the jungles of Africa. Prior to that time no one
lived in the jungles of Africa. Our people were
soft; they were black but they were soft and
delicate, fine. They had straight hair. Right
here on this Earth you find some of them look
like that today. They are black as night, but
their hair is like silk, and originally all our
people had that kind of hair. But this scientist
took his family down into the jungles of Africa,
and living in the open, living a jungle life,
eating all kinds of food had an effect on the
appearance of our people. Actually living in the
rough climate, our hair became stiff, like it is
now. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the
only hair that the black man has today that
looks now like it looked prior to fifty thousand
years ago is your and my eyebrows. Right here,
you notice, all Negroes has straight -- I don't
care how nappy their hair is -- they have
straight eyebrows. When you see a nappy-hair-eye
browed Negro [chuckle] you got somebody. But all
of this took place back in history, and
everything The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches
is based on history. Now then, where does this
white man come in?
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the wise
black man who was a master of science never
wrote his history like it is written today, of
the past. The wise black man in that day wrote
his history in the future. The Honorable Elijah
Muhammad says that the circumference of the
Earth is 24,896 miles, approximately 25,000
miles. So when he says the wise black man of the
East writes history a year of every mile, he
writes history to last for 25,000 years -- not
in the past, but in the future. He says that on
this Earth there are wise black men who can tune
in and tell what's going to happen in the future
just as clear -- they can see ahead just as
clear -- as they can see in the past. And every
25,000 years he says that civilization reaches
its peak, or reaches its perfection. At this
time the wise black man can hear a pin drop
anywhere on the planet Earth. And they sit down
and write history to last for 25,000 years.
After this history expires they put it in a
vault at the Holy City, Mecca, and write a new
history. This has been going on and on and on.
So, in the year one of the cycle in which we now
live, he says that in the East there are
twenty-four wise men. They're spoken of in the
Bible as twenty-four elders or twenty-four
prophets or twenty-four scientists or
twenty-four imams. Twelve of them are major and
twelve of them are minor. So The Honorable
Elijah Muhammad says that these twenty-three men
are called together by this one, which makes
twenty-four. And these twenty-four, these
twenty-three presided over by the twenty-fourth,
are spoken of in the Book of Revelation where
John said he had a vision in heaven where there
was a throne, and around the throne were
twenty-four seats and on the seats sat
twenty-four elders. These twenty -four elders
are called angels. They are actually twenty-four
wise black men who live right here on this
Earth, but no one knows who they are. At the end
of every 25,000 years this one calls all of them
into conference, and they sit down at the Holy
City, Mecca, and he informs them that the
history of the past 25,000 years has expired and
it's time to write a new history. So these
twenty-four, these scientists, begin to tune in
on the population of the planet Earth and he
says that back in his day -- at that time there
were five billion people on this Earth -- all of
them black, not a white man in sight -- so he
says that when these twenty-four scientists
begin to tune in, they look down through the
wheel of time. they can tell not only what the
people on this Earth are thinking, but they can
tell what their children are thinking, what the
unborn children's children are thinking. They
can look right down through the wheel of time
and tell minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour,
day-by-day, week-by-week, monthly-by-month,
year-by-year, for 25,000 years exactly what is
going to take place. And they discovered that in
the year 8400 to come it would register that
among five billion black people, seventy percent
would be satisfied and thirty percent would be
dissatisfied. And out of that thirty percent
would be born a wise black scientist name Yacub,
and Yacub would teach among these thirty percent
dissatisfied form whom he would come, and create
a new race, start a new world, and a new
civilization that would rule this Earth for six
thousand years to come. So they brought these
findings back to the king and they were put in a
book. And by the way, that which is written to
last 25,000 years is called the Holy Koran.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that this was
put into the history and then when the year
8,400 came, Yacub was born. When Yacub reached
the age of six years he was playing in the sand
one day with two pieces of metal, two pieces of
steel, at which time he discovered what is known
as the law of magnetism: that unlike attracts
and like repels. Two objects that are alike
repel each other like two women repel each
other, but man and woman attract each other.
Unlike attracts and like repels. Yacub
discovered this. So Yacub knew that all he had
to do was make a man unlike any other man on
this Earth and because he would be different he
would attract all other people. Then he could
teach this man a science call tricknology, which
is a science of tricks and lies, and this weak
man would be able to use that science to trick
and rob and rule the world. So Yacub turned to
his uncle and said, "When I grow up I'm going to
make a man who will rule you." And Yacub's uncle
said," What can you make other than that which
will cause bloodshed and wickedness in the
land?" And Yacub pointed to his head and said,"
I know that which you know not." Yacub was born
with a determined idea to make this man because
it had been predicted 8400 years prior to his
birth that he would be born to do this work. So
he was born with this idea in him, and when his
uncle realized that this was he about whom it
had been prophesied his uncle submitted. The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that Yacub went
to school in the East; he studied the
astronomical sciences, mathematical sciences,
and the germination of man. He discovered that
in the black man there are two germs. In the
black man there's a brown man. In the black man,
or the black germ, which is a strong germ,
there's a weak germ, a brown germ. Yacub was the
first one to discover this and Yacub knew that
by separating that brown one from the black one,
and then by grafting the brown one from the
black one so that it became lighter and lighter,
it would eventually reach it s lightest stage
which is known as white. And when it got to that
stage it would be weak, and because it was weak
it would be susceptible to wickedness. And then
Yacub could take that weak man that he made and
teach him how to lie and rob and cheat and
thereby become the ruler of all the rest of the
world.
So The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that
Yacub began to preach at the age of sixteen. He
began to preach all over Arabia in the East. He
preached among the thirty percent who were
dissatisfied and got many of them to follow him.
As they began to listen to Yacub's teachings and
believe them, his teachings spread, his
followers grew, and it created confusion in the
land. So The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that
so much confusion came into existence over there
that they threw Yacub's followers in jail, and
as fast as they would throw them in jail they
taught more people. So the teachings spread in
jail. Finally Yacub was put in jail, under an
alias. And one day, The Honorable Elijah
Muhammad says, the thing began to get out of
hand and the authorities went to the king and
told him that they couldn't control these
people, but that they had the leader of the
people in jail right now, and the king said,
"Take me to him."
And when the king went to the jail where Yacub
was, he greeted Yacub with "As-Salaam-Alaikum,
Mr. Yacub" -- I know you're Mr. Yacub -- and
Yacub said, "Wa-Alaikum-Salaam" -- I am Yacub!
And the king said, "Look, I came to make an
agreement with you. I know that you are the one
that it is written or predicted would be on the
scene in this day and would create a new race,
and there is nothing we can do to stop you. But
in order for us to have peace we want to make an
agreement with you. In order to stop the
confusion and for there to be some peace in the
land, we want you to agree to take all who will
follow you and exile yourselves out on an island
in the Aegean Sea."
Yacub told them, "I'll go. But you've got to
give me everything that I will need to bring
into existence a new civilization. You've got to
give me everything I'll need. You've got to
supply me with everything I need for the next
twenty years." And The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
says that the king agreed with Yacub, the
government of that day agreed to supply Yacub
and his followers with everything they needed
for twenty years. And he says that he gets this
from the Bible where it says Jacob wrestled with
the angel. Jacob was Yacub, and the angel that
Jacob wrestled with wasn't God, it was the
government of that day. "Angel only means "a
power," or somebody with power. When a man has
his wings clipped, you say that he has lost his
power, lost his position. So wings only mean a
position of power entrapped him. So when it says
Jacob wrestled with an angel, "angel" is only
used as a symbol to hide the one he was really
wrestling with. Jacob was wrestling with the
government of that day. He made the government
of that day give him everything he needed to
last him and his followers for twenty years,
just like The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is
telling the government of this day that they've
got to give us everything that we need in our
own separate territory to last us for twenty to
twenty-five years. You say, well, The Honorable
Elijah Muhammad teaches us that Yacub agreed,
the government agreed, Yacub took all of his
followers down to the sea. The Honorable Elijah
Muhammad says that Yacub took 59,999 of his
followers down to the seaside, with himself
making 60,000. He piled them in boats and took
them out to an island in the Aegean Sea called
Pelan. In the Bible it's called Patmos. When you
read in the Book of Revelation where John, on
the island of Patmos, heard the word of the
Lord, that is Yacub. What was John doing on the
island of Patmos? John was Yacub. John was out
there getting ready to make a new race, he said,
for the word of the Lord. What was the word of
the Lord? The word was that in the year 8,400 a
new man would be made, a new race world be made.
And when Yacub and his followers got out there
his followers realized that Yacub was wiser than
any man of his day, and they recognized him as a
god; he was a god to them. So when you get to
the place in the Bible where it says, "And God
said, 'Let us make man,'" that was Yacub too,
not the Supreme Being. It wasn't the Supreme
Being who made the sun who said, "Let us make
man." When the Supreme Being made the sun he
said, "Let t here be light." He said He was
supreme, He was independent, He needed no help,
no associates. But when it came to making a man,
that god said, "Let us make man." He didn't
speak with independence, because there were two
different gods. God the Supreme Being made the
light. His word is "be"; that's how He makes
things. But Yacub, who was lesser god, said to
59,999 of his followers, "Let us make man, let
us make a man in our image, in our likeness.
We're going to make a white man." It was Yacub
talking: "Make him in our image and in our
likeness, and give him dominion over the fowl of
the air and the fish of the sea and the
creatures of the land. And we'll call him Adam."
It's only a name for the white man. The white
man has taken mastery over the air, his
airplanes rule the sky, his submarines and ships
rule the sea, his armies rule the land. This was
the man that was made six thousand years ago and
the purpose for making him was so he could rule
the world for six thousand years. That's the
white man.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that first
thing Yacub did was to get his ministers,
doctors, nurses, and cremators together. He gave
them the laws because he had to set up a birth
control law. He told the doctors whenever two
black ones come to him to get married to stick a
needle in their veins, take some blood, and go
back and tell them that their blood doesn't
match so that they can't marry. He also said
when a black one and a brown one come, let them
get married, or if two brown ones come let them
get married. Then he told the nurse nine months
after they're married, when you're ready to
deliver their child, if it's a black child, put
a needle in its brain and feed it to a wild
animal or give it to the cremator. Let it be
destroyed. But if it's a brown child, take that
child to the mother and tell her that this is
going to be a great man when he grows up because
he's lighter than the others. Tell her that the
child you destroyed was an angel baby and it
went up to heaven to prepare a place for her
when she dies. Same old lie they tell you today
-- when a little baby dies he goes to the same
place a man goes when he dies -- right down into
the ground. Is that right or wrong? So The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad has taught us that
Yacub right there set up his birth control law.
Within two hundred years they had killed off all
of the black babies on the island. Everything
black on the island had been destroyed. And then
Yacub only lived 150 years. But he left laws and
rules and regulations behind, for his followers
to go by. And after they had destroyed all of
the black on the island of Pelan, they began to
work on the brown germ. They saved the yellow
and destroyed the brown, because you see in the
black there's brown and in the brown there's
yellow. Can you see how it goes? The darkest one
always has a lighter one in it. So in the black
man there's a brown man, in the brown man
there's a yellow man, in the yellow man there's
what? A white man. Oh yes. Getting weaker all
the time. So it took two hundred years to
destroy the black. And then they worked on the
brown for two hundred years. And in two hundred
years all the brown was destroyed and all they
had on the island of Pelan was a yellow or
mulatto-looking civilization. And then they went
to work on it and began to destroy it. So that
after six hundred years of destruction on the
island of Pelan, they had grafted away the
black, grafted away the brown, grafted away the
yellow, so that all they had left was a
pale-skinned, blue-eyed, blonde-haired thing
that you call a man. But actually the Bible
calls him the devil. That's the devil that the
Bible is talking about: old Lucifer, Satan, or
the serpent. Because the lighter they got, the
weaker they got. As they began to get lighter
and lighter they grow weaker and weaker. Their
blood became weaker, their bones became weaker,
their minds became weaker, their morals became
weaker. They became a wicked race; by nature
wicked. Why by nature?
The Book says concerning the devil : "He was
conceived in inequity and born in sin." What
does this mean? At the outset the nurses had to
kill the little black babies, but after a while
it got so that the mother, having been
brainwashed, hated that black one so much she
killed it herself. Killed it herself, and saved
the light one. And right on down for six hundred
years. In order for the white one to come into
existence, the darker one was always murdered,
murdered, MURDERED! this went right in to the
nature of the child that was being born. The
mother wanted a light baby when the child was
being conceived. This went right into the baby.
The mother hated black when the child was being
conceived. this went right into the baby. So
that at the end of the six hundred years, after
planting the seed of inequity right into the
brain, right into the mind, right into the
heart, right into the nature of these people, by
the time they got the white man, they had
someone who by nature hated everything that was
darker than he was. Why, they had to murder off
the black to get to the brown. They had to
murder off the brown to get to the yellow. They
had to murder off the black, brown, and yellow
in order to get to the white. And right to this
very day the white man by nature wants to murder
off the black, brown, and yellow. You don't have
to teach him to kill the black man. He does it
for sport. He does it for kicks. he does it
because it's his nature to do it. Do you
understand that?
So in six hundred years now they got a devil in
the scene, a blue-eyed devil, bond-haired. Oh
yes, they were out here on the island of Pelan.
Yacub was dead. Yacub was their father but he
never saw them. They never saw him. Yacub was
their god. When the Bible says no man has seen
God, that's what it means. No white man has seen
their god. None of them saw Yacub because Yacub
only lived to be 150 years old. This doesn't
mean that no man can see God the Supreme Being.
Why, the Book of Revelation says when He comes
every eye will see Him. So The Honorable Elijah
Muhammad says after these devils got grafted --
now we're not going to call them white any more.
We call them what they are. White, that's their
color, but devil, that's what they are. These
aren't white people. You're not using the right
language when you say the white man. You call it
the devil. When you call him the devil you're
calling him by his name -- serpent; another name
-- snake; another name -- beast. All these names
are in the Bible for the white man. Another name
-- Pharaoh; another name -- Caesar; another name
-- France; French; Frenchman; Englishman;
American; all those are just names for the
devil.
So after they were out there six hundred years,
after they were made and grafted and Yacub was
dead, then they packed up their bags and made it
back to civilization. Yacub had left them some
laws to go by. He left them a science called "tricknology"
: how to divide and conquer. Yacub told these
people in his book : "All you got to do to take
over the world is lie. Go back among the black
people. Take your woman and send her to the
black man's woman and let her lie about the
neighbor across the street. And then send
another woman to that woman to lie on this woman
to that woman. And when they get through
spreading those lies and they all started
fighting and killing one another, you tell them
to let you be the mediator." This is the trick
the white man used. It all comes from Yacub. You
see, he's an underdog. He's a minority, and the
only way a minority can rule a majority is to
divide the majority. This is the trick that the
white man was born to execute among dark mankind
here on this Earth. Yacub said, "When you go
back among them, lie about them to each other,
and when they start fighting, ask them to let
you be the mediator. And as soon as you become
the mediator then you're the boss." The white
man has done this trick everywhere. Here in
America to the Indians. He sent one priest to
the Indians in New York and another priest to
the Indians in Pennsylvania and both of them
would tell lies to both Indians, and the Indians
who had never been at war with each other would
start beating the tom-toms, the war drums, and
then as they got ready to fight the priest would
rum in and say, "Let me be the mediator."
So he told the New York Indians, you just move
out to Minnesota; and the Pennsylvania Indians,
you move out to Oklahoma. That would leave the
whole states of New York and Pennsylvania for
the white man. You see how he does it? He's all
over the world. He's a mediator. He's an
instigator and a mediator. he instigates
division and dissension and as soon as they
start fighting one another he says, "OK, I'll
settle it." if you don't think so look all over
the world right now. Every place on this earth
you have a division: South Korea-North Korea,
South Vietnam-North Vietnam. Right or wrong? He
is the one that makes this decision. he doesn't
let anybody get together, but when it comes to
his kind he's united. United States means all
white people are united. United States of
Europe, or European Common Market -- they want
to get together. But when you start talking
about a United States of Asia, or a United
States of Africa, why he says, "Oh no, too many
different languages [chuckle]. You all don't
have anything in common." You see how he does
it? He always discourages unity among others but
he encourages unity among his own kind. "United
We Stand," that doesn't mean you. That means the
white man. The white man it the one who stands
united.
So The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that these
devils went back into Arabia. When they got
there they started telling lies, started
confusion, and in six months' time they had
turned heaven into hell. Oh yeah, they had so
much fighting going on among our people,
brother, it became hell. We never did fight each
other; we loved each other, we were in harmony
with each other. And when these devils came back
into our midst they turned our paradise into a
hell. So it was taken to the king and the king
looked into the book and said, "Why, these are
Yacub's people." He said, "They were made to do
what they're doing and the only way to have
peace is to get rid of all of them. Put them all
to death." So the king gave the order for all of
the devils to be rounded up. And by devils I
mean all those blue-eyed, blond-haired, white
things. He gave orders for them to be rounded up
there in the East, and they were rounded up.
They were rounded up and taken down to the edge
of the Arabian Desert. They were stripped naked,
stripped of everything except their language.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we put
lambskin aprons around their waists to hide
their nakedness. We put them in chains and
marched them across the hot sands of the Arabian
Desert . This is what the black man did to the
white man, brothers. This is what the gods did
to the devils. Actually, if you think I don't
know what I'm talking about, those of you who
are Masons, you go through this and don't
understand it. When you go in , they put a
lambskin apron around your waist. They put you
in what's called the "cable tow." Right or
wrong? And then they make you jump up and down
on an electric mat. Make you take off your shoes
and put the juice in the mat and make you jump
up and down. Why? What are they getting at?
That's all a sign of what happened to the white
man six thousand years ago. It just doesn't have
anything to do with you, but you're supposed to
be walking on hot sands when you jump up and
down. Right or wrong? You've all been in some of
that stuff. They tell you that's crossing the
hot sand. And if you walk up to a Negro Mason
and you ask him, "When you crossed the hot sand
were you walking or riding?" he'll say, "I was
walking." He's a fool. Because he was riding. He
was riding horseback. He was riding on a camel.
It was the white man that was in chains. It was
the white man that had the apron around him. It
was the white man that was walking the white
sand. We walked them at high noon. We wouldn't
even let them walk at night. We stopped at
night. And you know how hot the sun and the
sands are in Arabia. We expected the white man
to die when we were running him out of the East.
But that fool lived, brother [chuckle]. He
lived. A lot of them died on the desert. And I
might come back -- all of this is tied up in the
Masonic ritual. When a man gets initiated into
the higher degrees of that order he goes through
this. They put on the chains, they put on the
aprons, and they darken him up and pretend to be
driving him across. Then when he gets up to the
top order in those degrees, they tell him what
it means. The white man, they tell the white man
what it means; a white Shriner, a white Mason,
what it means. A Negro never learns what it
means. But it actually points back toward the
time when the white man, who is the devil, or
Adam, as they say, was cast out of the Garden.
When the Bible says Adam sinned and was cast out
of the Garden, this is what is meant. And an
angel was put at the East gate to keep him from
coming back in. When the white man was run out
of the East by the Muslims six thousand years
ago into the caves of Europe, the people called
Turks were put there at the Straits of the
Dardanelles, with swords, and any old devil that
they caught trying to come back across the water
- WHOP! - off went his head. The Book tells you
that the angel had a flaming sword, and any time
any of them tried to come back across they were
put to death.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the
white man went down into the caves of Europe and
he lived there for two thousand years on all
fours. Within one thousand years after he had
gotten there he was on all fours, couldn't stand
upright. You watch an old cracker today.
Crackers don't walk upright like black people
do. Every time you look at them, they're about
to go down on all fours. But those who have had
some education, they straighten up a little bit
because they're taught how to straighten up. But
a black man can be the most dumb, illiterate
thing you can find anywhere, and he still walks
like a million dollars because by nature he's
upright, by nature he stands up. But a white man
has to be stood up. You have to put a white man
on the square. But the black is born on the
square.
Can we prove it? Yes. You notice in the East,
dark people carry things on their heads, don't
they? Just throw it up there and walk with it,
showing you they have perfect poise, perfect
balance. It just comes natural to them. You and
I lost our poise. We, you, can't even wear a hat
on your head, hardly, today [chuckle]. The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that within one
thousand years after the white people were up in
the caves they were on all fours. And they were
living in the outdoors where it's cold, just as
cold over there as it is outside right now. They
didn't have clothes. So by being out there in
the cold their hair got longer and longer. Hair
grew all over their bodies. By being on all
fours, the end of their spine begin to grow.
They grew a little tail that came out from the
end of their spine...Oh yes, this was the white
man, brother, up in the caves of Europe. He had
a tail that long. You ever notice that anything
that walks on all fours has a tail? That which
straightens up doesn't have a tail, because when
you get down, you see, you just make that spine
come right on out. And just like a dog, he was
crawling around up there. He was hairy as a dog.
He had a tail like a dog. He had a smell like a
dog. And nothing could get along with him but
another dog. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says
that all the beasts up in Europe wanted to kill
the white man. Yeah, they tried to kill the
white man. They were after the white man. They
hated the white man. So, he says, what the white
man would do, he'd dig a hole in the hill, that
was his cave. And his mother and his daughter
and his wife would all be in there with the dog.
The only thing that made friends with the white
man was the dog. Everything else hated him. He'd
sit outside of the cave at night in a tree with
rocks in his hand, and if any beast came up and
tried to get in the cave at his family, he'd
throw rocks at it, or he'd have a club that he'd
swing down and try to drive it away with it. But
the dog stayed in the cave with his family. It
was then that the dog and the white man
amalgamated. The white woman went with the dog
while they were living in the caves of Europe.
And right to this very day the white woman will
tell you there is nothing she loves better than
a dog. They tell you that a dog is a man's best
friend. They lived in that cave with those dogs
and right now they got that dog smell. They got
that dog...they are dog lovers. A dog can get in
a white man's house and eat at his table, lick
out of his plate. They'll kiss the dog right on
the nose and think nothing of it. You're not a
dog kisser. You don't see black people kissing
or rubbing noses with dogs. But little white
children will hug dogs and kiss dogs and eat
with dogs. Am Iright or wrong? You -- all have
been inside their kitchens cooling their food,
and making their beds, you know how they live.
The dog will live right in the white man's
house, better than you can; you try and break
your way in there and they'll put a rope around
your neck [chuckle], but the dog has got free
run of the whole house. He's the white man's
best friend.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that they
lived up there for two thousand years, and at
the end of two thousand years the scientists in
the East, realizing that it was originally
predestined that the white race would rule for
six thousand years, and that they already lost
two thousand years in the caves of Europe, sent
a prophet up there, form Mecca, to teach the
white race, the race of devils, how to become
civilized again, and become upright, and come
back and rule the way they had originally been
meant to. The name of that prophet was Moses.
Moses never went down into Egypt. Moses went
into the caves of Europe and civilized the white
man. It was Moses who raised the devil from a
dead level to a perpendicular and placed him on
the square. Moses taught the white man how to
cook his food. Moses taught the white man how to
build a house for himself. He taught the white
man also some of the tricknology that Yacub had
originally meant for him, and it was Moses who
put the white man back on the road toward
civilization. He told him that he was supposed
to rule for six thousand years, but that much of
the time had already been lost, and at the end
of time one would come who would destroy the
whole white race. Moses taught them this. And
this is why when the Jews, two thousand years
later, were looking for the Messiah, they
thought that Jesus was the Messiah and they put
him to death because they knew when the Messiah
came he was going to destroy that whole race of
devils. The Jews knew this, so they put him to
death thinking that they could stop him from
destroying them. But actually, they made a
mistake because Jesus two thousand years ago
wasn't the Messiah. Their time wasn't up two
thousand years ago. Their time would not be up
until two thousand years later, the day and time
that we're living in right now.
So, brothers and sisters, my time has expired. I
just wanted to point out that the white man, a
race of devils, was made six thousand years ago.
This doesn't mean to tell you that this implies
any kind of hate. They're just a race of devils.
They were made six thousand years ago, they were
made to rule for six thousand years, and their
time expired in the year 19914. The only reason
God didn't remove them then was because you and
I were here in their clutches and God gave them
an extension of time -- not them an extension of
time, but they received an extension of time to
give the wise men of the East the opportunity to
get into this House of Bondage and "awaken" the
Lost Sheep. Once the American so-called Negroes
have been awakened to a knowledge of themselves
and of their own God and of the white man, then
they're on their own. Then it'll be left up to
you and me whether we want to integrate into
this wicked race or leave them and separate and
go to our own. And if we integrate we'll be
destroyed along with them. If we separate then
we have a chance for salvation. So on then note,
in the name of Allah, and His Messenger The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad, I bring my talk to a
close, "As-Salaam Alaikum."
With your hands outstretched in this manner,
follow silently in the closing Muslim prayer: In
the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful,
All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the
Worlds, The Beneficent, the Merciful, Master of
this Day of Judgment in which we now live, Thee
do we serve and Thee do we beseech for thine
aid. Guide us on the right path, The path upon
which Thou hast bestowed favors, Not the path
upon which Thy wrath is brought down Nor of
those who go astray after they have heard Thy
teaching Say : He Allah is one God Allah is He
upon whom nothing is independent but Upon whom
we all depend He neither begets nor is He
begotten and none is like Him.
I bear witness
there is none to be served but Allah. And I bear
witness that The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is
His True Servant and Last Apostle. Amen.
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