All praises due to Allah for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
l wrote the mayor, the governor and the President...
...but for some reason l haven't heard from them."
Please tell Elijah...
...I have dedicated my life to telling the white devil the truth to his face.
I greet you with the ancient words ofpeace, "As-Salaam-Alaikum. "
P. S. I finally copied out the entire dictionary.
l think the brother is coming along.
"The thief cometh not but for to steal...
...and to kill, and to destroy.
But l am come...
...that they might have life...
...and that they might have it more abundantly."
Saint John 10, verse 10. Are there any questions?
Watch it, baby. This cat is heavy on religion.
l see this has become a struggle between good and evil.
"Satan" has a question.
Yes, sir. But since neither of us are God...
...neither of us can say who's good and who's evil.
Just ask your question.
We were discussing the Disciples. What color were they?
Well, l don't think...
...we know for certain.
-But they were Hebrews? -That's right.
As was Jesus. Jesus was also a Hebrew.
Just ask your question.
What color were the Hebrews?
l have told you that we don't know that for certain.
Then you can't believe for certain that Jesus was white.
Just a moment. Just a moment.
God is white. lsn't it obvious?
That's obvious, but it's not obvious that God is white.
Elijah Muhammad teaches us...
...that Jesus didn't have blond hair and blue eyes.
Elijah Muhammad teaches that images of Jesus...
...in prisons and churches throughout the world...
...are not historically correct.
Because history teaches us...
...Jesus was born in a region where the people had color.
There's proof in the Bible you ask us to read...
...in Revelations, chapter 1, verses 14 and 15...
...that Jesus had hair like wool...
...and feet the color of brass.
-What're you saying? -l'm not saying anything.
l'm proving to you that Jesus was not, to quote an lndian brother...
...he was not a paleface.
Amen.
lsn't that interesting!
Brother Malcolm.
He's waiting for you.
My son....
You have been a thief...
...a drug dealer and a hustler...
...and the world is still full of temptation.
When God spoke to the devil about how faithful Job was...
...the devil argued...
...that it was only God's protective hedge around him...
...that kept him pure.
ln fact, the devil said:
"Remove that hedge and he will curse his Maker."
Well, Malcolm...
...your hedge has been removed.
And l believe...
...you...
...will remain faithful.
Yes, sir.
Thank you, sister.
How many of these should we make?
-Five hundred. -Make it 1000.
Brother Malcolm, this is Brother Earl. He just accepted the teachings.
Brother Earl's dedicated. We need good men like him.
l'm a willing servant for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
Go ahead, brothers. lKeep it busy.
Take a real good look at not just where you live...
...but take a good look at where everybody you know lives.
l don't want you to think you're some bad-luck accident.
Then l want you to go downtown, to Central Park West....
Go in other communities....
You've never seen a Booker T. Washington store...
...in an ltalian community.
You've never seen no Frederick Douglass delicatessen...
...in the Jewish community.
Why's everybody in this community making money but us?
lt's time for black men and women to stand up...
...and take control of our dollars.
lt's time for us to use our dollars for our liberation.
We can do what everyone else can if we become producers...
...and if we become the masters of our own destiny.
We can have wool from sheep just like anyone else.
But where are our clothing stores?
We can get milk from cows, but where are our grocery stores?
We need to control our dollars! We need to control our destiny!
The only thing they respect is our dollars!
--the so-called freedom we should have.
The Statue of Liberty stands like this.
For us, it may as well say, "Stop, don't come no further."
"Don't come no further."
Brothers and sisters, l want you to....
l want you to come down to the temple.
Oh, l'm so surprised!
l'm so surprised. You all been in church two hours...
...expecting to see heaven, but you're still here on earth.
Why don't you come on down to the temple at 2:00?
You'll hear truth, the black man's truth.
No, you can't deny it. You been on your knees for hours...
...begging some God to help you in the hereafter.
But the hereafter is right now. The hereafter is here and now.
Let me talk to you, brother.
l know you're a smart man and a wise man.
You look good.
Now, you're in church every day, praying to this God.
But these so-called white Christians...
...hang our black Christians from trees.
This man hates you. He doesn't do anything for you.
He tells you to foam at the mouth and sing...
...and hope for something in the hereafter.
We can have it now.
-Come on down, 2:00. -See you later.
As-Salaam-Alaikum That means, "Peace be unto you."
We have two children. Carla, who's two, and....
Don't be ashamed when l call you black. You are.
You're black and you're beautiful. Black is beautiful.
You don't have to come here begging these folks for a job.
You can wash their clothes and scrub floors for them.
You can rock their little brats to sleep your whole life.
You'll still end up poor.
Yet you're here on the auction block being examined...
...like you're a horse or a slave.
You see this here? This is who you are. Beautiful.
Your beautiful black selves, with pride and dignity.
l'd also expect you to work one Saturday every month...
...and occasionally in the evening--
See, these are the questions you and l have to ask:
"How did we get this mind?"
You're not an American, but an African who happens to be in America.
You must understand the difference.
We didn't come over on the Nina, the Pinta and the whatchamacallit.
We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us.
Landed right on top of us.
Shorty?
ls that you, brother?
Now, this is exactly what l'm talking about, the slave mentality...
...the slave mind.
This brother and l had the slave mind.
We used to rob together. We slept with white women.
We even went to prison together.
Don't be surprised. Some of you are still in prison...
...prisons of your mind.
Stand up, brother. Come on.
The brother's a little shy.
Come on, brother. Give me a hug.
That's all right, brother.
Look, he's still got his hair fried.
That's the slave mind.
Red, that's the best preacher hype l ever did hear.
No hype, brother. lt's the truth.
Come back to the temple and hear more.
l can't pay that shit no mind.
You need to pay it all your mind. What's left.
Take it easy. This is me. Shorty.
Let's go around the corner....
No, sir. Not anymore. l've been clean for eight years.
-Eight years? -Eight years.
My trouble is, l love pigs feet and white women too much.
So l damn sure can't be no Muslim.
That's because you're lost, brother. That's because you're lost.
But we can find you.
What do you hear about the old gang?
You heard about Sammy?
Dead. Knocked over in bed with a chick 25 years younger than he was.
Had 25 grand in his pocket, also. Guess it was his lucky number.
What about....
What was his name?
Cadillac?
Gone too?
Hooked on heroin. Been in and out of Lexington five or six times.
Sophia?
Still happily married to that rich ofay.
-She married him? -She married him.
Went for the money.
-The money. -Thank you, honey.
l haven't seen West lndian Archie.
Grapevine says he's living in the Bronx.
If you wanna call that living.
It's been good seeing you.
Same here, Red.
Get the hell away from me, bitch!
l'll pay you tomorrow!
How you doing, Archie?
My man, Red.
Come here, man.
No, don't get up. lt's all right.
ls...
...really you, Red?
Yes, it's me.
l came to...
...just to thank you...
...for saving my life.
When l think back to when we were in Harlem trying to...
...gun each other down--
l wasn't going to shoot you, man.
lt was...
...just my rep.
You know?
All l had was my rep.
But now...
...you tell me this.
You did really have that number?
l don't know, Archie....
l don't remember, and it's not important.
The important thing now is to get you back on your feet.
You know, l have some angles...
...ain't been figured yet.
lt's all right.
Help me with my arm.
l need to exercise my arm.
That's better?
Yep. lt feels good.
Good.
What happened to our women? They could've been doctors, lawyers...
...or teachers or mothers. Who'll raise our children?
What happened to our men?
Men who could've been mathematicians, electricians, physicians.
What's the little boy gonna do...
...when he's looking for his father who's in jail?
What'll the girl do...
...when she's looking for her mother who's out selling herself?
I'm telling you, that devil has made dead souls out of you and I.
You're dead, spiritually.
You're dead to the knowledge of yourself and your people...
...and to the knowledge of your God.
Why, he should get down on his knees.
He should beg our mercy.
Oh, my brothers and sisters...
...his kind has committed God's greatest crime...
...against your and my kind every day of his life!
He should get on his knees and say he's committed a crime.
But does he do that?
Does he do that? No, no, he scorns you.
He splits your head with his nightstick.
He busts you in the head with his billy club.
And he calls you a nigger...
...a coon. That's what he says to you. "Boy!" "Nigger!"
Four hundred years is long enough.
You've sat down and laid down and bowed down for 400 years.
l think it's time to stand up. l think it's time to stand up.
-We're with you! -All right.
Bless you.
Glory! My Lord! Praise Him!
Yes, sir. Next Wednesday, 8:00.
l'll see you there.
Brother Baines? Excuse me, sister.
Do you think we can get a loudspeaker set up outside?
l'm sure we can.
Brother Malcolm, this is Sister Betty.
She lectures our Muslim women on hygiene and diet.
She stresses care for the body and regular eating habits.
Good.
-As-Salaam-Alaikum. -Alaikum-Salaam, sister.
Brother Minister...
...the sister wonders if you know what Harriet Tubman did...
...between taking souls to the Promised Land?
No. What's that, sister?
She ate.
Excuse me.
She's interesting.
Minister, l was hoping you'd come and speak to my class.
Yes, l'll speak to your class.
-But l'm a hard man on the women. -Are you?
We must be very careful when it comes to women.
Too many of our women...
...have too much of the devil in them.
Bleaching and dyeing...
...and ironing their hair.
Running around in the streets half-naked.
Talking too much.
Listening to the wrong men...
...making them deceitful, untrustworthy, fresh.
And you men are to blame too.
We don't protect, we don't value, we don't even support them.
See, the building of a new nation...
...begins with the woman.
Because the mother...
...is the first teacher of the child.
The message she gives that child, the child gives to the world.
When it comes to choosing a mate...
...Samson, the strongest man that ever lived, was destroyed...
...by the woman that slept in his arms.
Should l tell my sisters, then...
...that we don't believe in marriage?
No, we don't oppose marriage.
We're not Catholic priests.
We don't believe in celibacy.
Mr. Muhammad teaches that if a woman...
...is the right height and complexion for a man--
lf she's...
...half the man's age, plus seven.
And if...
...she understands that man's essential nature is strong...
...and she's willing to support that.
And if she...
...can sew and cook and...
...loves children...
...and stays out of trouble....
l think you've made your points, Brother Minister.
Good.
You haven't any time for marriage.
So what l'll do is write the chapters down for you...
All right.
...as well as the New Testament chapters in St. Matthew.
Brother Minister....
l hope you'll still come visit my class, though.
No, l'd love to come to your class. l love to teach.
l love sharing. This is the wonderful thing about Mr. Muhammad:
When he gives you this knowledge, you can't help but share it--
Excuse me, Brother Minister...
...would it be okay if we...
...just sat down for a moment?
lt's a big building and....
Sister, l'm sorry. l've had you on your feet all day.
My mistake.
You've been on your feet for days.
And you didn't even finish your salad.
So let's talk about you for a change.
How tall are you?
Why do you ask?
ldle question.
Well, if it's just an idle question, l hope l'm not forced to answer.
No, l won't force you.
Brother Baines says that l'm tall enough for a tall man.
He's briefed you also?
How old are you, sister?
You know, there are a few things about women...
...that you don't understand.
Some of us, we're quite possessive, very vain...
...and persistent when we've set our mind to something.
What have you set your mind to?
Being a good Muslim...
...a good nurse...
...and a good wife.
Brother Malcolm?
-Excuse me. -Certainly.
Brother Johnson was attacked by the police.
Excuse me.
-A scuffle! -He was just watching.
-The cop said, "Move on!" -He didn't move quick enough for him.
Crack! He was bleeding like a stuck hog.
So what you gonna do?
He'll rap a little. He's a Muslim!
But you ain't gonna do nothing but make a speech.
Muslims talk a good game, but they never do nothing...
...unless somebody bothers Muslims.
We demand to see Brother Johnson.
Who the hell are you?
The minister of Muslim Temple No. 7.
Never heard of you.
-Where is he? -Not here.
Wait a second. What is your name?
Don't worry about what my name is.
Two witnesses saw Johnson brought here beat up, but not brought out.
You didn't hear the sergeant? Outside!
l suggest you look outside that window.
Jimmy, come here a second.
We intend to see Brother Johnson.
Who the hell are they?
They're brothers of Brother Johnson.
Eddie, let me take a look at that blotter.
We got a Muslim. Relief must've put it down.
-Must have. -But you can't see him.
-Because you ain't his lawyer. -No lawyer, no see.
Until l'm satisfied that Johnson is receiving proper medical care...
...nobody will move.
Get an ambulance. Now!
Break it up. You got what you wanted.
No, l'm not satisfied.
To the hospital.
We want justice! We want justice!
All right, that's enough.
Move these people out of here.
Fruit of lslam are disciplined men. They haven't broken any laws...yet.
What about them?
That's your headache.
But if Brother Johnson dies, l pity you.
Doctor?
He'll live. He's getting the best care we have.
-Thank you. -Certainly.
All right, okay.
Now, let's disperse this mob!
That's too much power for one man to have.
Brother Minister, l'm ready to take some heads.
We gotta do something to put fear in those devils.
l'm ready to do something also. The word out of Chicago was to be patient.
-l'm tired of being patient. -Then you get on the phone--
You get on the phone, call Chicago and let Mr. Muhammad know.
Have a seat, son.
The only thing l like integrated...
...is my coffee.
What can l do for you?
Well, Mr. X...
...my name is Benjamin.
l was out there tonight.
Take it easy now.
And l saw what it is that you did.
The way you talked to them policeman and all.
Well, Mr. X...
...l want to be a Muslim.
l ain't never seen a nigger-- l mean...
...colored person--
Negro...
...talk to no police like that before.
And you want to be Muslim? Join the Nation Of lslam?
You know what that means? To be a Muslim?
Do you?
No, not exactly. But l wanna be one.
Just like you.
You shouldn't join any organization unless you know what it's about.
Thank you.
You shouldn't give up so easily either.
We could use more young warriors like yourself.
Come on by the temple next Wednesday, 8:00.
8:00 sharp.
Yes, sir. 8:00 sharp.
Thank you, Mr. X. And l won't make you out a liar either.
l don't think you will.
Tonight, l shall...
...introduce you as my national minister.
lt will be a difficult task.
Your assignment...
...is to build temples all over this nation.
More work than you've ever done.
Yes, sir.
You will be in the public eye.
Beware of them cameras.
Them cameras are...
...bad as any narcotic.
White devil will be watching your every step.
And your own brothers will be...
...jealous...
...hostile.
Go slowly.
Yes, sir.
Here's a glass.
lt's dirty water.
Foul.
lf you offer this to the people...
...they have no choice.
They'll drink from it...
...if they're thirsty.
But if you offer them...
...this glass...
...and let them make their own decision...
...they will choose the pure vessel.
lslam is...
...the only religion...
...that addresses the needs and the problems...
...of the so-called Negro in America. Especially in the slums...
...in the ghettos.
lslam is the only way out for drugs and crime...
...and unemployment, prostitution...
...alcohol...
...gambling...
...and adultery, fornication.
This sweet...
...gentle man, at whose feet I kneeled, gave me the truth from his own mouth.
Present the pure vessel.
I adored him in the sense of the Latin root of the word adorare...
...which means to worship and to fear.
He was the first man I ever feared.
I don't mean fear such as one has of a gun...
...but the fear one has of the power of the sun.
I pledged myself to him, even if it cost me my life.
-Hello? -Hello, Betty?
Yeah, this is Malcolm.
-l know. -Right, I'm here in Detroit.
-Will you marry me? -Yes.
You heard what I said, right?
-Did you hear my answer? -Yes, l think so.
-Are you eating? -l've been eating.
Good.
I love you, Betty.
I love you back.
lt's not gonna be easy.
No choice.
l'll be away a lot.
l know.
ln fact, l'm leaving in the morning.
Hush, now.
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia...
...Trenton, Newark, up through number 7 all the way up to Boston.
You're with me...
...even when you're away.
l've never told you this...
...but the very first time l ever saw you...
...standing up on the podium...
...you were cleaning your glasses...
...and l felt so sorry for you.
Sorry for me?
Why?
Because no one as young as you should be so serious.
But l don't think that anymore.
What do you think?
l want to have a lot of babies with you.
Dear heart.
l love you.
We're waiting on you folks. Trying to starve us?
Brother Malcolm, Sister Betty...
...we pray that Allah blesses you with a happy and fruitful marriage.
Congratulations, Brother Minister.
Check them out. Front page!
l must emphasize at the start that Elijah Muhammad is not a politician.
So l'm not here this afternoon as a Republican nor as a Democrat.
Not as a Mason nor as an Elk.
Not as a Protestant nor a Catholic.
Not as a Christian nor a Jew.
Not as a Baptist nor a Methodist.
ln fact, not even as an American.
Because if l was an American...
...the problem that confronts our people today wouldn't even exist.
So l have to stand here today as what l was when l was born...
...a black man.
Before there was any such thing as a Republican or a Democrat, we were black.
Before there was any such thing as a Mason or an Elk, we were black.
Before there was any such thing as a Jew or a Christian, we were black people.
ln fact, before there was any such place as America, we were black.
And after America has long passed from the scene...
...there will still be black people.
l'm gonna tell you like it really is!
Every election year, these politicians are sent up here to pacify us.
They're sent here and set up here by the white man.
This is what they do.
They send drugs in Harlem down here to pacify us!
They send alcohol down here to pacify us!
They send prostitution down here to pacify us!
You can't get drugs in Harlem without the white man's permission.
You can't get prostitution in Harlem without the white man's permission.
You can't get gambling in Harlem without the white man's permission.
Every time you break the seal on that liquor bottle...
...that's a government seal you're breaking.
l say, and l say it again, you been had.
You been took.
You been hoodwinked.
Bamboozled. Led astray.
Run amuck. This is what he does.
You know, some people call this hate-teaching.
This isn't hate-teaching.
This is love-teaching.
l wouldn't tell you this if l didn't love you.
l wouldn't stick my neck out for you if l didn't love you.
l want you to understand one thing: Everything l teach you...
...everything l have said to you...
...has been taught to me by this dear man.
This divine man.
All praise is due to Allah for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
Attallah's fine.
And she misses you as much as I do.
But the news that you've dedicated four new temples is almost as good...
...as having you with us. Oh, dear heart.
--white supremacy, try to hide their guilt by accusing Elijah Muhammad...
...of being a black supremacist...
...simply because he's trying to uplift the mentality...
...the social and economic condition of his people.
And the Jews who have been guilty of exploiting black people...
...try to hide their guilt by accusing Elijah Muhammad...
...of being anti-Semitic...
...simply because he's trying to teach you and l--
He's trying to teach you and I...
...to be in charge of the businesses in our own community.
To own the businesses in our own community.
To have economic leadership in our own community.
No, this isn't black supremacy...
...this is black intelligence.
The black people in this country...
...have been the victims of violence...
...at the hands of the American right wing...
...for 400 years.
Four hundred years.
We thought by following those ignorant Negro preachers...
...that it was God-like to turn the other cheek...
...to the group that was brutalizing us.
A hundred years ago, they used to put on white sheets...
...and sic bloodhounds on us.
Nowadays, they've traded in the sheets--
Some have traded in the sheets--
They've traded in the sheets--
Please, please.
They've traded in those white sheets for police uniforms.
They traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs.
Andjust like Uncle Tom back during slavery time....
We must remain true to nonviolence. I'm asking everybody in the line.
If you can't be nonviolent, don't get in it.
--to love our enemy and pray for those who use us spitefully.
You've got chicken-pecking Uncle Tom, so-called Negro leaders today.
And it's another great day.
You've got these Uncle Tom Negro leaders today...
...that tell us we ought to pray for our enemies.
We ought to love our enemy and integrate with the enemy...
...who bombs us, who kills and shoots us, who lynches us...
...who rapes our women and children. No!
No! That's not intelligent.
That's not intelligent.
Elijah Muhammad is trying to teach you and l...
...that just as the white man and any other man on this earth...
...has the God-given right, the human right, the civil right...
...the natural right, and any other rights you can think of...
...to protect himself...
...just as this white man has the right to defend himself...
...we have the right to defend ourselves too.
This is only natural. This is what Elijah Muhammad is trying to teach.
He's not teaching us to hate the white man.
He's teaching us to love ourselves.
Mr. X, before we begin our discussion tonight...
... "The Black Muslims: Hate Mongers"...
...would you mind explaining for us the meaning of your name...
...which is the letter "X"?
During slavery time, the slave master...
...gave the Negro-- the so-called Negro...
...named the so-called Negro after themselves.
Elijah Muhammad teaches us...
...that once we come into the knowledge of lslam, the knowledge of ourselves...
...we replace our slave name with an "X" ...
..."X" in mathematics representing the unknown.
Since we've been disconnected, or cut off from our own history...
...our own past, our own culture, our own land...
...we use the "X," the unknown, until we get back to our country.
l see. Thank you. Dr. Payson?
Mr. X is a.... He's a demagogue.
He has no place to go, so he exaggerates.
He's a disservice to...
...every good, law-abiding, church-going American Negro in the country.
Why do you teach black supremacy?
Why do you teach hate?
Well, for the white man...
...to ask the black man...
...why he hates him...
...is like the wolf asking the sheep, or the rapist asking the raped...
..."Do you hate me?"
The white man is in no moral position to accuse the black man of anything.
This is a black man asking the question.
What would you call an educated Negro with a B. A., an M. A., a B. S. or a Ph. D.?
You call him a nigger. That's what the white man calls him.
You have to understand this thinking.
To understand this type of man, you must understand that historically...
...there were two types of slaves: The house Negro and the field Negro.
The house Negro lived in the house...
...next to his master. ln the big house, in the basement or the attic.
He dressed good, he ate good, what the master left him.
He loved his master.
He loved his master better than the master loved himself.
lf master said, "We got a nice house," you say, "Yeah, we got a nice house."
Master's house caught on fire, the house Negro...
...would put the blaze out.
lf the master got sick, he'd say, "What's the matter? We sick?"
"We sick" ! This is the thinking of the house Negro.
lf another slave said...
..."Let's run away, let's separate from this cruel master" ...
...he said, "Why? What's better than what we got here?
l'm not going anywhere." This is the house Negro.
ln those days, we called them house niggers.
That's what we call them today because we still got a lot of house niggers.
Dear Holy Apostle...
...the ministers think Malcolm is getting too much press.
They think he thinks he is the Nation of lslam.
That he has aspirations to lead the Nation.
lt was you who made Malcolm the man he is.
You lifted him out of darkness.
You go and tell the brothers...
...that what the Brother Minister...
...is doing, has done...
...has been of great benefit to the Nation.
And you tell them that l say so.
The ministers think he is of great benefit to himself.
One at a time.
-Did you say white people are devils? -I said they're devils.
Should all black men be armed?
Well, one of your most famous men said:
"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition." That's the way you think.
Do you think your cause will be successful?
I sincerely hope so.
-Do you advocate violence? -No, sir.
Has a white man helped your people?
Has there been a white man that's helped my people?
-Correct. -I don't understand the question.
You preach anti-white, anti-Christian science.
You're saying you're anti-white?
-No, you're saying it. -Are all white people devils?
We've gotta move out. We've got a plane to catch.
Excuse me, Mr. X?
l've read some of your speeches...
...and l honestly believe that a lot of what you have to say is true.
l'm a good person in spite of what my ancestors did.
l just wanted to ask you...
...what can a white person like me, who isn't prejudiced...
...what can l do to help you and further your cause?
Nothing.
My high school was a black ghetto...
...in Roxbury, right here in Boston.
I got my college education on the streets of Harlem in New York City.
l took my master's degree in prison...
...over six and a half years.
ln fact...
...my old burglary hangout was just outside this campus.
l lived like an animal.
l stole.
l used drugs.
l smoked reefers, cocaine.
l committed adultery. Had it not been for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad...
...l'd have surely been in an insane asylum or dead...
...or possibly even a murderer of one of you.
So what is Mr. Muhammad trying to do? He's trying to get us on God's side...
...so that God will be on our side and help us fight our battles.
When the so-called Negro in America gets on God's side...
...and listens to the teachings of Elijah Muhammad...
...he'll want to get off of drugs and get away from a life of crime.
He'll want to get away from committing adultery.
Then he'd want to get off welfare. He'd want a job...
...to take care of his family. And his family would respect him.
His son will say, "l'm proud that that's my father."
His wife will say, "l'm proud that that's my husband."
"Father" only means that you take care of your children. That's what it is.
"Father" doesn't mean that you're having some babies.
That doesn't make you a father.
Anybody can go out and get a woman.
But not anybody can take care of that woman.
There's another word for it. lt's called responsibility.
lf the so-called Negro in America was truly an American citizen...
...we wouldn't have a racial problem.
lf the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic...
...if the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments...
...were authentic, we wouldn't have a race problem.
lf the Supreme Court desegregation decision were authentic...
...we wouldn't have a race problem.
But you have to see that all of this is hypocrisy.
These Negro leaders are telling the white man...
...that everything's all right, we got it under control.
That everything Elijah Muhammad teaches is wrong.
Mr. Muhammad said these things were gonna come to pass...
...and now they're coming to pass.
Now these same Negro leaders...
...are running around talking about there's about to be a racial explosion.
Yes, there's gonna be a racial explosion.
And a racial explosion is more dangerous than an atomic explosion.
There's going to be an explosion because black people are dissatisfied...
...not only with the white man, but with these Uncle Tom Negro leaders...
...that try to pose as spokesmen...
...for you and l.
Just like you have a--
Just like you have a powder keg.
When you have a powder keg and there's too many sparks...
...the thing's going to explode.
lf the thing that's going to explode is sitting inside the house...
...and if it explodes, then the house is going to be destroyed.
l said the house is going to be destroyed.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is teaching you and l...
...and trying to tell the white man to get this powder keg out of his house.
Let the black man separate from his house.
Let the black man have his own house.
Let the black man have his own land and property.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is trying to tell the white man...
...that this thing, this explosion, is gonna bring down his house.
This is what he's telling him. More importantly, he's telling him...
...that if he doesn't do something about it...
...if he doesn't do something about it, it's gonna explode any day now.
l'm just here to tell you, and l'm gonna make it very short.
l'm here to tell you about Elijah Muhammad's greatest greatness.
His greatest greatness is that he has the only solution...
...for peace in this country.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad's solution...
...is the only solution for you and l.
lt's the only solution for the white man.
Complete separation...
...between the black race and the white race.
lt's the only solution.
All praise due to Allah for Elijah Muhammad!
Brother Malcolm!
Yes, yes. Hold on, hold on.
Yes, sir. lt's all right. My brother. How you doing?
-Can l ask you something? -Anything.
Are you Elijah's pimp?
He should be killed for talking like that!
What are you saying, brother?
"His greatest greatness."
Just say what you're saying.
lf you don't know...
...l feel the sorriest for you.
Oh, come on, brother.
Let me tell you something.
lt's all right.
He's just hungry for knowledge, that's all.
Yeah, that brother's starving.
So am l. Come on, let's get something to eat.
We'll talk about it tomorrow.
-Okay, night-night, Daddy. -Night-night.
Long night.
-What you looking at? -You.
Why you looking like that?
You're in trouble.
How do you know?
Oh, dear heart.
Because l know you.
Well, if you know me...
...you know l don't like to bring my troubles home.
You know that also.
Yes, l do.
But l'm not made of glass.
And l won't break.
Look, Betty, l just want peace.
l want to sit here with you. l want to...
...be still. l want peace in my house.
-Have we ever had a fight? -Never.
-Argument? -Never had one, no.
We're gonna have one...
-...if you don't talk about it. -Talk about what?
-The talk's everywhere. -There's always gonna be talk.
Aren't they talking now about me trying to take over the Nation?
Aren't they talking about how we're getting rich...
...off the Nation of lslam?
-We could talk about that too. -Let's talk about it.
lt's not just talk anymore.
"UPl: Elijah Muhammad, 67...
...leader of the Black Muslim movement...
...today faced paternity suits from two former secretaries."
These are slanders. These are lies. Don't you know that?
Don't you realize this is the devil's newspaper?
He's trying to divide us.
Divide and conquer. He's trying to bring down our leader.
"Both women...
...in their 20s, charge that they had intimacy--"
"lntimacies with Mr. Muhammad--"
You think l'm not aware of these accusations?
You think l'm not aware of these vicious lies?
-Brother Baines and l discussed it today. -Baines?
ls he your friend?
What's wrong?
Nothing. What's the matter with you?
Wake up! Are you so committed that you've blinded yourself?
You're so dedicated, you can't face the truth?
Baines?
He's the editor of the newspaper that you established.
Ask him why your name hasn't appeared in it for over a year.
-l'm not interested in publicity. -You're in every other paper.
Our people know what l'm doing.
-But do you know what Baines is doing? -Baines! Baines!
You're so blind! Everyone can see but you!
Baines is the one who saved my life.
When l crawled in prison like an animal...
...he brought me to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
And Mr. Muhammad brought me back from the dead--
A long time ago! You've repaid them!
Don't you raise your voice in my house!
Ask them.
Ask them why they have new cars, houses and furniture.
ls that what this is about? You want furniture?
-You want cars? -What do we have?
What do we have, Malcolm?
Broken-down jalopy....
The clothes on our backs.
So l'll get you new clothes....
We don't even own our own home.
What about our children? What about me?
We don't even own life insurance.
The Nation will support all of you if anything happens to me--
Will they?
Are you sure?
Or are you blind?
All right.
l've got work to do, so....
There's always work to do.
-Help me. -l'm trying to.
l'm raising the children practically by myself.
What do you want me to do? Stay home?
You don't know how often they ask, "Where's Daddy?"
You want me to make the beds and go on the road?
-The people need me! -We need you!
l need you too. But what do you want me to do?
Open your eyes. Open your eyes.
You can face death 24 hours a day, but the possibility of betrayal...
...never enters your head.
Open your eyes.
-As-Salaam-Alaikum, minister -Alaikum-Salaam, sister.
Her name's Eva Marie.
And she's 2 years old.
Brother Minister, l didn't do anything wrong.
l didn't do anything to be put in isolation.
l believed in him.
l believed in the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
Believe in Allah.
This is Saudi. She's 2.
And you have Lisha. She's 3.
From their own mouths I heard who had fathered their children.
And from their own mouths I heard that Mr. Muhammad...
...had told them I was the best.
He often spoke of you. He loves you like a son.
The greatest minister he had, but that I would leave him...
...turn against him. And so I was dangerous.
Mr. Muhammad, while praising me to my face...
...was tearing me apart behind by back.
-You're sure about all this? -Yes, l am.
All l want is support for my three children...
...that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad provide for them.
That's all l want.
Allah will provide...
...for all of us.
What do you mean, blackout?
Perhaps some brothers are a little jealous.
Maybe they think you've been getting too much press.
lt's nothing. Forget it.
Now about our coming up in the world a little.
The Nation's grown. We've grown with it.
You know our people.
They want their leaders to be prosperous.
One hand washes the other.
"l'm telling you God's words, not no hustle."
Remember what you told me in prison?
"l'm telling you God's words, not no hustle."
Brother Malcolm...
...what do you want? A new car?
A new house?
lt's the money, isn't it?
But we tell the whole world that we're moral leaders...
...because we follow...
...the personal example of Mr. Muhammad.
Elijah Muhammad is a human being...
...and so are you.
-Do you know your Bible? -Do you?
David slept with Bathsheba...
...but he's remembered for slaying Goliath.
Noah was accused of drunkenness, but God gave him the ark.
Solomon had 700 wives, but he was history's greatest, wisest king.
Brother Baines is a two-bit hustler, but one hand washes the other.
A great man's deeds outweigh his personal weaknesses.
Who needs the nutmeg now, brother?
-l'm not gonna allow-- -Be careful, Malcolm.
l warn you.
You be careful.
l'm not surprised.
You have a very good understanding of prophecy, of spiritual matters.
l'm not surprised.
l have built this Nation...
...under the divine guidance of Allah.
He has brought me back from the dead to lead my people.
After me, there will be no more.
No more.
l must...
...plant my seed in fertile soil.
lt is only...
...the fulfillment of prophecy.
My faith had been shattered in a way I can never fully describe.
Every second of my 12 years with Mr. Muhammad...
...I'd been ready to die for him.
The thing to me that is worse than death itself is betrayal.
I could conceive death, but I couldn't conceive betrayal.
Not of the loyalty I gave to the Nation of Islam and Mr. Muhammad.
During that time, if Mr. Muhammad had committed any crime...
...punishable by death, I would have tried to prove I did it...
...to save him.
I would have gladly gone to the electric chair in his place.
What did he say?
-l'm so sorry. -There's nothing to be sorry about.
l just got a lot of work to do, that's all.
How can you work?
Because we have to teach.
We gotta teach the people. We gotta teach on Solomon, Moses...
...David. Solomon had 700 wives.
A man's good deeds, they far outweigh any of his....
My father used to say that...
...you can't make a rooster stop crowing after sunrise.
Well, the sun is up.
So what do l say about this so-called national day of mourning?
l say the white man's acts of violence should be condemned...
...by our beliefs and by his own.
The lKoran teaches us that those who work evil...
...will be condemned, punished or judged according to their works.
The Holy Bible teaches us that you reap what you sow.
This is divinejustice.
ln the Americas' soil, the white man has planted seeds of hatred...
...the seeds of violence.
He's allowed those weeds to choke...
...the lives of millions of black men and women for 400 years...
...and the lives of lndians in these Americas for 500 years.
And now those same weeds...
...have choked his own chief gardener.
You ask me what l say. l only say what the Bible says.
l say what the lKoran says.
l say it's justice.
Don't you even feel a bit remorseful or saddened by lKennedy's assassination?
l don't think anyone would deny that when you send chickens...
...out from the barnyard...
...those chickens will return to your barnyard, not your neighbor's.
lt's an example of the devil's chickens coming home to roost.
The violence that he's perpetrated here and abroad...
...four children in Birmingham, or Medgar Evers, or in Africa...
...this same violence has claimed one of their own.
Being a farm boy, chickens coming home to roost never made me sad.
ln fact, it's only made me glad.
Did you...
...read the paper today?
Yes, sir. l did.
That was a bad statement you made.
You knew from my instructions...
...no minister was to make any statements against this man.
The country loved this man.
You have made it...
...hard...
...for Muslims...
...in general.
Yes, sir.
We must disassociate ourselves...
...from your terrible blunder.
l must silence you.
For 90 days...
...you must not make any statements to the press...
...nor are you to speak at any temples.
Yes, sir.
l submit 100 percent.