So what I'll do is put the chapters down, I'll write them down for you.
All right.
As well as the New Testament chapters of St Matthew.
- Brother Minister. - Yes?
I hope that doesn't mean you won't come and visit my class, though.
Oh, no! No. I'd love to come to your class.
- (chuckles) - I love to teach. I love sharing.
You see, this is the wonderful thing about Mr Muhammad.
When he gives you this knowledge, when he shares this knowledge with you...
...you can't help but to run out and... - Excuse me, um, Brother Minister...
...would it be OK if we just sat down for a moment?
- It's a pretty big building, and, uh... - Oh, yes.
- (chuckles) - Yes, sister. I'm sorry.
- I've had you on your feet all day. - Oh, no. No, no.
- My mistake. - You've been on your feet for days.
And, uh... you didn't even finish your salad.
- So, let's talk about you for a change. - Mm.
- How tall are you? - Why do you ask?
- Idle question. - Oh.
Well, if it's just an idle question, I hope you won't force me to answer it.
(chuckles) No. I won't force you.
Well, Brother Baines says that I'm tall enough for a tall man.
He's briefed you also, then? (laughs) How old are you, sister?
You know, Brother Malcolm...
...there are a few things about women that you don't understand.
- Some of us, we're possessive, very vain. - Are you?
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, Sister Betty. - Certainly.
Brother Malcolm, Brother Johnson was attacked by the police.
Excuse me, sister.
- There was a scuffle! - The brother was just watchin'!
- The cop came along, he said "Move on!" - Didn't move quick enough for the ofay!
Crack! He was bleedin' like a stuck hog!
So what you gonna do?
He'll rap a little. He's a Muslim.
But you ain't gonna do nothin' but make a speech.
Muslims talk a good game, but they never do nothin'.
Unless somebody bothers Muslims.
- Charlie, wait up. - More troublemakers. Here they come.
(* radio plays Perry Como: "Round And Round")
We demand to see Brother Johnson.
Who the hell are you?
I'm the minister for Muslim Temple Number Seven.
- Never heard of you. - Where is he?
- Nobody here by that name. - Wait a second. What is your name, fella?
Don't worry about what my name is.
Two witnesses saw Brother Johnson brought in here, beat up.
- Nobody saw him brought out. - You didn't hear the sergeant?
- Outside. - I suggest you look outside that window.
* Cos you've found what you've been dreamin' of
* In the night, you see the oval moon
* Going round and round in tune
- Jimmy, c'mere a second. - Yes, we intend to see Brother Johnson.
- Who the hell are they supposed to be? - They're brothers of Brother Johnson.
Eddie, let me take a look at that blotter.
Uh...
Yeah. We got a Muslim. Relief musta put it down.
- Must have. - Yeah, but you can't see him.
- Because you ain't his lawyer. - No lawyer, no see.
Well, until I am satisfied Brother Johnson is receiving proper medical care...
...nobody will move.
* Then your love, you'll hold herround, round, round
* In your heart's a song with a brand-new...
Get an ambulance.
Now!
(siren wails)
All right, break it up! You got what you wanted.
No. I'm not satisfied.
To the hospital.
(* military drumbeat)
(crowd murmurs)
- Walk on! - (shouts and conversation)
Sidney, come on!
(crowd shouts)
Keep fightin', son!
- (siren wails) - (shouting and chanting)
(crowd) We want justice! We want justice! We want justice!
All right, that's enough. I want these people moved outta here.
Fruit of Islam are disciplined men. They haven't broken any laws. Yet.
- What about them? - That's your headache, Captain.
- But if Brother Johnson dies, I pity you. - We want justice!
Doctor?
He'll live. He's getting the best care we can give.
- Thank you, Doctor. - Certainly.
- We want justice! - All right. OK.
Now let's disperse this mob!
We want justice! We want justice!
We want justice!
(scattered shouts)
That's too much power for one man to have.
Brother Minister, I'm ready to take some heads.
We gotta do somethin' to put fear in those devils!
Look, I'm ready to do something also.
Chicago said to be patient, that's what we're gonna do.
- I'm tired of being patient! - Well, then you get on the phone...
(lowers voice) You get on the phone and you call Chicago, let Mr Muhammad know.
(Elijah Muhammad) I am here to bring a solution to the problems of...
...(chuckles) the so-called Negro and his white slave master.
You are seeking something.
- Have a seat, son. - You are seeking...
...an answer to your 400 years of slavery.
Y'know, the only thing I like integrated...
...is my coffee.
- (laughs) - What can I do for you?
Well, Mr X, uh...
...my name is Benjamin. And I was out there tonight.
Take it easy, now.
And... and I saw what it is that you did.
I mean, the way you talked to them policemen and all.
Well, Mr X...
...I wanna be a Muslim.
I mean, I ain't never seen a nigger, uh, I mean, coloured person...
...Negro...
...talk to no police like that before.
You want to be a Muslim, join the Nation of Islam.
- Yes, sir. - You know what it means to be a Muslim?
Do you?
Um... (clears throat) No, not exactly. But I wanna be one.
I mean, just like you.
You should never join any organisation unless you know exactly what it's about.
The Church has failed you!
Thank you, brother.
You shouldn't give up so easily, either.
We can use more young warriors like yourself.
Come on by the temple, next Wednesday, eight o'clock sharp.
Yes. Eight o'clock sharp.
Thank you, Mr X. And I won't make you out a liar, neither.
No, I don't think you will.
All right!
(chuckles)
Tonight...
...I shall introduce you as my National Minister.
It will be a difficult task.
Your assignment...
...is to build temples all over this nation.
More work than you've ever done in your life.
- Yes, sir. - (chuckles)
You will be in the public eye. Beware of them cameras.
Oh, those cameras are...
...bad as any narcotic.
White devil be watchin' your every step.
- Yes. - And your own brothers will be...
...jealous...
...hostile.
Go slowly.
Yes, sir.
Here is a glass.
Mm-hm.
Dirty. The water? Foul.
If you offer this to the people, they have no choice.
They'll drink from it, if they're thirsty.
- (chuckles) - But if you offer them...
...this glass...
...and let them make their own decision...
...they will choose the pure vessel.
Islam is the only religion...
...that addresses the needs and the problems...
...of the so-called Negro in America...
...especially in the slums... - Right.
...ghettos.
Islam is the only way out of 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 them the pure vessel.
And 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...
...and I don't mean fear such as one has of a gun...
...but the fear one has of the... of the power of the sun.
I pledged myself to him, even ifit cost me my life.
(telephone rings)
Hello?
- Hello, Betty? - Yes?
Yes, this is Malcolm.
- I know. - Right. I'm here in Detroit.
- Will you marry me? - Yes.
You heard what I said, right?
- Did you hearmy answer? - Yes, I think so.
Brother Malcolm?
- (laughs) - Are you eating?
- Yeah, I've been eating. Mm-hm. - (laughs) Good.
I love you, Betty.
I love you back.
(exhales)
* Ella Fitzgerald: "Azure"
- It's not gonna be easy. - No choice.
I'll be away a lot.
I know.
- In fact, I'm leaving in the morning. - Oh, hush now. Shh.
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia.
Trenton, Newark, up through Number Seven...
...on the way up to Boston... - Malcolm.
Shh.
You're with me...
...even when you're away.
* You're a blue illusion
* While I'm in this
- (chuckles) - * Azure interlude...
I've never told you this.
But the very first time I ever saw you...
...standing up on the podium...
...you were cleaning your glasses...
...and I felt so sorry for you.
- Sorry for me? - Mm-hm.
Why?
Because no-one as young as you should be so serious.
But I don't think that any more.
What do you think?
I want to have a lot of babies with you.
(softly) Dear heart.
- (knock at door) - I love you.
We're waitin' on you folks. You tryin' to starve us?
Brother Malcolm, Sister Betty...
...we pray that Allah blesses you with a happy and a fruitful marriage.
(laughter)
That's right! Congratulations, Brother Minister!
- Congratulations! - You made the front page!
Check it out! Front page!
(laughter and applause)
I must emphasise that The Honourable Elijah Muhammad is not a politician.
So I'm not here this afternoon as a Republican...
...nor as a Democrat. - Tell us, brother!
- Not as a Mason, nor as an Elk. - Tell us what you here for!
- Not as a Protestant, nor a Catholic. - That's right!
- Not as a Christian, nor a Jew. - C'mon, man! All right, now.
- Not as a Baptist nor a Methodist. In fact... - Come on, brother! Come on!
...not even as an American. - (approving shouts)
Because if I was an American...
...the problem that confronts our people today wouldn't even exist!
- That's right! - So now we ain't Americans, huh?
So I have to stand here today as what I was when I was born.
- A black man. - (shouting and applause)
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.
In 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.
(cheering)
I'm gonna tell it 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 into 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 even 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!
No, I say and I say it again...
...you've been had! You've been took!
- Right on, brother! - You've been hoodwinked! Bamboozled!
Led astray! Run amok! This is what he does.
Y'know, some people call this hate teaching.
But this isn't hate teaching.
- This is love teaching. - (approving shouts)
- I wouldn't tell you this if I didn't love you. - No, you wouldn't!
I wouldn't stick my neck out for you if I didn't love you.
I want you to understand one thing, everything that I teach you...
...everything that I've said to you...
...has been taught to me by this dear man, this divine man.
Yes, sir!
All praise is due to Allah for The Honourable Elijah Muhammad!
- (Malcolm X) Oh, yes! - (Betty) Attallah's fine...
...and misses you as much as I do.
But the news that you've dedicated fournew temples...
...is almost as good as having you with us.
- (Malcolm X) And the white people... - (Betty) Please take care of yourself.
...try to hide theirguilt by accusing The Honourable 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 for I don't know how long...
...try to hide theirguilt by accusing The Honourable Elijah Muhammad...
...of being anti-Semitic...
...simply because he's trying to teach you and I...
Simply because he's trying to teach you and I to...
...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! No, this isn't black supremacy! - (screaming and shouting)
- This is black intelligence! - That's right!
- (applause)
Come on!
I didn't do nothin'! I didn't do nothin'!
(applause, TV announcer)
* We are not afraid... *
The black people in this country...
Keep those people back!
...have been the victims of violence at the hands of the American white man...
...for 400 years.
And we thought, by following those ignorant Negro preachers...
...it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalising us!
A hundred years ago, they used to put on white sheets and sic bloodhounds on us.
Well, nowadays they've traded in the sheets...
Well, some of them have.
(applause)
- They've traded in the sheets... - (applause swells)
Please... please. They've traded in those white sheets for police uniforms.
They've traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs.
Andjust like that old Uncle Tom back during slavery time...
We must remain true to non-violence.
I'm asking everybody in the line...
...if you can't be non-violent, don't get in it.
...teaching us to love our enemy and pray for those who use us spitefully...
...you got these chicken-peckin' Uncle Tom so-called Negro leaders today...
But isn't it a great day?
You've got these Uncle Tom Negro leaders today...
...that are telling us we oughta pray for our enemy...
...we oughta love our enemy...
...we oughta integrate with an enemy who bombs us, who kills and shoots us...
...who lynches us, who rapes our women and children. No!
- That's right! C'mon! - No!
No! That's not intelligent. That's not intelligent!
The Honourable Elijah Muhammad is trying to teach you and I...
...that just as the white man, and any other man, for that matter, on this earth...
...has the God-given right, the human right, the civil right...
...the natural right and any other kind of high 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 The Honourable Elijah Muhammad is trying to teach you and I.
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 yourname...
...which is the letter... X?
Yes, uh, during slavery time...
...the slave master gave the Negro, so-called Negro...
...uh, named the so-called Negro after themselves.
The Honourable Elijah Muhammad teaches us...
...that once we come into the knowledge of Islam, 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.
I see. Thank you. Er, 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...
...churchgoing American Negro in the country.
- (scattered applause) - Mr Malcolm X...
...why do you teach black supremacy? Why... 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 BA, or an MA, or a BS or a PhD?
I'll tell you. You call him a nigger. That's what the white man calls him, a nigger.
Now, you have to understand this type of thinking...
...and 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...
...in the big house, either in the basement or up in the attic.
He'd dress pretty good, he ate pretty good, what the master left him.
He loved his master.
I'd say he loved his master better than the master loved himself.
If the master said "We got a nice house here"...
...he'd say "Yeah, boss, we got a nice house here."
Master's house is on fire, the house Negro would be running to put the blaze out.
If the master got sick, he'd say "What's the matter, boss? We sick?"
"We sick." You see, this is the thinking of the house Negro.
Now, if another slave came up to him and said...
..."Let's run away, let's separate, let's get away from this cruel master,"...
...he said "Why? What's better than what we got here?"
"Run away? I'm not going anywhere!" This is the house Negro.
We called 'em the house nigger.
And that's what we call 'em today. 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 Islam.
That he has aspirations to lead the Nation.
You made Malcolm the man he is.
You lifted him out of the darkness.
You...
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 I say so.
The ministers think he is of great benefit to himself.
(shouting)
- Do you have any white friends? - One question at a time.
- Did you say white people are devils, sir? - Yes, I've said white people are devils.
- Should all blacks be armed, sir? - Well, one of your most famous men said:
..."Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition." That's the way you think.
Malcolm, do you think your cause will be successful?
I sincerely hope so.
- Do you advocate violence? - No, sir.
Has there been a white man who's helped your people in history?
Has there been a white man that's helped my people in history?
- That's correct, sir. - I don't understand the question.
You preach anti-white, anti-Christian science.
- Are you saying you're anti-white? - No, you're saying I'm anti-white.
Are all white people devils?
- Do you only educate young black men? - Well, we gotta move out.
- We've got a plane to catch. - (reporters shout)
Excuse me. Mr X? Um...
Hi, I... I've read some of your speeches...
...and I honestly believe that a lot of what you have to say is true...
...and, and I'm a good person in spite of what my ancestors did...
...and I just... I wanted to ask you...
...what can a white person like myself who isn't prejudiced...
...what can I 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.
I took my Master's degree in prison, over the course of six and a half years.
In fact, my old burglary hang-out was just outside this campus.
I lived like an animal.
I stole. I used drugs.
I smoked reefers. Cocaine.
I committed adultery. Had it not been for The Honourable Elijah Muhammad...
...l'd have surely been in an insane asylum, or dead.
Or possibly even the 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 Negro, the so-called Negro in America gets on God's side...
...and listens to the teachings of The Honourable Elijah Muhammad...
...he'll want to get off of drugs. He'll want to get away from a life of crime.
He'll want to get away from committing adultery and fornication.
Then he would want to get off the welfare. He would want to get a job...
...earn a living and take care of his family, and they would respect him.
His son will say "I'm proud that that's my father."
His wife will say "I'm proud that that's my husband."
"Father" only means that you're taking care of your children.
That's what it is to be a father.
"Father" doesn't mean that you're having some babies. Anybody can have a baby.
Anybody can go out and get a woman, but not anybody can take care of that woman.
There's another word for it. It's called responsibility.
If the so-called Negro in America was truly an American citizen...
...we wouldn't have a racial problem.
If the Emancipation Proclamation was true, we wouldn't have a race problem.
If the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution were authentic...
...we wouldn't have a race problem.
If the Supreme Court desegregation decision were authentic...
...we would not have a race problem!
But you have to see that all of this is hypocrisy!
These Negro leaders are running around telling the white man...
...that everything is all right, that we got everything under control...
...that everything The Honourable Elijah Muhammad teaches is wrong.
But I'm telling you, Mr Muhammad said these things were gonna come to pass...
...and now these things are starting to come to pass.
(loud cheering)
Now, these same Negro leaders...
...who are running around talking about there's about to be a racial explosion...
(chuckles) Yes, there's gonna be a racial explosion.
And a racial explosion is more dangerous than an atomic explosion!
(shouting and applause)
There's going to be an explosion because black people are dissatisfied.
They're dissatisfied not only with the white man...
...but with these Uncle Tom Negro leaders...
...that are trying to pose as spokesmen for you and I!
(wild cheering)
Just like you have a powder keg...
...when you have a powder keg and there's too many sparks around it...
...the thing's going to explode.
And if the thing that's going to explode is sitting inside the house...
...and if it explodes, then the house is going to be destroyed.
I said, the house is going to be destroyed!
So The Honourable Elijah Muhammad is teaching you and I...
...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 his own property!
(wild cheering)
The Honourable 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 trying to tell him, and more importantly...
...he's trying to tell 'em that if he doesn't do something about it...
- Uh-huh! ...if he doesn't do something about it...
...it's gonna explode any day now.
Oh, yes, it is.
I'm just here to tell you and I'm gonna make it very short.
Preach, Brother! Preach on!
I'm here to tell you about the Honourable Elijah Muhammad's greatest greatness.
His greatest greatness is that he has the only solution for peace in this country.
The Honourable Elijah Muhammad's solution...
...is the only solution for you and I.
It's the only solution for the white man.
Complete separation...
...between the black race and the white race.
(cheering)
It's the only solution!
(crowd chants) All praise is due to Allah for The Honourable Elijah Muhammad!
All praise is due to Allah for The Honourable Elijah Muhammad!
All praise is due to Allah for the Honourable Elijah Muhammad!
All praise is due to Allah for The Honourable Elijah Muhammad!
Brother Malcolm!
Yes. Yes. Hold on.
Yes, sir. It's all right. My brother, how you doin'?
- Can I ask you something? - Yes, anything.
Are you Elijah's... pimp?
- (woman) He should be killed... - Wait, hold it. Hold on. Hold on.
- What are you saying, brother? - (whispers) "His greatest greatness."
Just say what you're saying.
If you don't know, man, I feel the sorriest for you.
(chuckling) Oh, come on, brother. Wait. Look, let me tell you something...
- No, let me tell you... - Haul him out! Get him out of here!
Stop! You gotta get out!
Get out before it's too late!
- Don't, Malcolm! Get out! - Disrespectin' the black man! Get him out!
- It's all right. It's all right! - Get out, Malcolm!
- Sir? - You all right, Brother Malcolm?
He's just hungry for knowledge, that's all. Yeah, that brother's starving.
- Yes, sir. - So am I. Let's get something to eat.
(chuckles)
- All right. We'll talk about it tomorrow. - OK. Night-night, Daddy.
Night-night.
(groans) Oh...
Long night. (sighs)
(chuckles) Oh, yeah.
What you lookin' at?
- You. - Why are you lookin' at me like that?
Because you're in trouble.
How do you know that?
Oh, dear heart.
Because I know you.
Well, if you know me...
...you know that I don't like to bring my troubles into my house.
Mm? Mm. You know that also.
- Yes, I do. - OK.
But I'm not made of glass, and I won't break.
Look, Betty, I just want peace.
I want to sit here with you, I want to... be still.
I want peace in my house.
- Have we ever had a fight? - Never.
- Argument? - Never had one, no.
We're gonna have one...
...right now, if you don't talk about it.
- Talk about what, Betty? - The talk's everywhere.
There's always talk and there's always gonna be talk.
Aren't they talkin' now about me trying to take over the Nation?
Aren't they talkin' about how we're... gettin' rich off the Nation of Islam(?)
We can talk about that, too.
- Well, let's talk about it. - It's not just talk any more.
"UPl: Elijah Muhammad...
...67-year-old leader of the black Muslim movement...
...today faced paternity suits from two former secretaries...
- These are slanders, lies. ...he fathered their four children."
Don't you realise this is the devil's newspaper?
He's trying to divide us.
Don't you see that? Divide and conquer. He's trying to bring down our leader.
"Both women...
...in their twenties, charged that...
...they had intimacies with... - Intimacies with Mr Muhammad.
You think I'm not aware of these accusations, Betty?
Huh? You think I'm not aware of these vicious lies?
Brother Baines and I were talking about this very thing today.
Baines? Is he your friend?
- What's the matter with you. - Nothing. What's the matter with you?
Wake up! Are you so committed that you've blinded yourself?
You 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 Muhammad Speaks in over a year!
I am not interested in personal publicity.
- Not one single sentence in your own! - Our people know what I'm doing.
But do you know what Baines is doing?
What is this "Baines, Baines, Baines"?
Everyone can see this but you! Oh...
Baines is the one who saved my life...
...when I was crawling around like an animal.
He brought me to The Honourable Elijah Muhammad!
- Yes! A long time ago! - And The Honourable Elijah Muhammad...
- A long time ago! ...brought me back from the dead!
- You've repaid them over and over! - Don't you raise your voice in my house!
Ask them. Ask them why they have new cars and houses full of furniture. Hm?
Is this what it's about, Betty? Do you want some new furniture? Do you want cars?
What do we have? What do we have, Malcolm?
Broken-down jalopy...
...the clothes on our backs. Hm?
- So I'll get you some new clothes. - We don't even own our own home.
What about our children? What about me? You don't even own life insurance.
Look, Betty, the Nation of Islam will provide if anything happens to me.
Will they?
Are you sure?
Or are you blind?
All right.
(drawer slams shut)
Um...
...l've got work to do, so...
There's always work to do.
- Sweetheart, you got to help me. - I'm trying.
I'm raisin' our children almost by myself. You're runnin' all over the country...
Do you want me to stay home?
You don't know how many times they ask me "Where's my daddy?"
Do you want me to cook the food? Make the beds and do everything?
- These people need me. - We need you. We need you!
Well, I need you, too! But what do you want me to do?
- Tell me! What do you want me to do? - 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, Brother Minister. - Wa-alaikum salaam, sister.
Her name's Eva Marie.
And she's two years old.
Brother Minister, I didn't do anything wrong.
I didn't do anything to be put in isolation.
I believed in him.
I believed in The Honourable Elijah Muhammad.
Believe in Allah.
(strains)
This is Saudi, she's two. You have Lisha. She's three.
From their mouths, I heard their stories of who had fathered their children...
The Honourable Elijah Muhammad is the father of my children.
...and that The Honourable Elijah Muhammad had told them I was his best...
He of ten spoke of you. He loves you, like you were his own son.
...the greatest minister that he ever had, but that someday I would leave him...
...and turn against him, and so I was dangerous.
While praising me to my face...
And he said that about me?
...he was tearing me apart behind my back.
- You're absolutely sure about all this? - Yes, I am, Brother Minister.
All I want is support for my three children...
...that The Honourable Elijah Muhammad provide for them. That's all I want.
Allah will provide.
For all of us.
What are you talkin' about, "blackout"?
Perhaps some of the brothers are a little jealous.
Maybe they think you've been gettin' too much press. It'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.
"I'm telling you God's words, not no hustle."
Remember, Brother Baines? That's what you told me in prison.
"I'm telling you God's words, not no hustle."
Brother Malcolm...
...what do you want? A new car?
A new house?
It's the money, isn't it?
How do we tell the whole world that we're moral leaders...
...because we follow the personal example of The Honourable Elijah Muhammad?
Elijah Muhammad is a human being. And so are you.
- Do you know your Bible? - Do you know yours?
David slept with Bathsheba, but he is remembered for slaying Goliath.
Noah was accused of drunkenness, but God gave him the ark.
Solomon had 700 wives, but he was the greatest, wisest king in history.
Brother Baines is a two-bit hustler, but one hand washes the other.
The deeds of a great man far outweigh his weaknesses.
Who needs the nutmeg now, brother?
- Baines, I'm not gonna lie... - Be careful, Malcolm.
I warn you.
You be careful.
(door opens)
(door closes)
I'm not surprised.
You have a very good understanding of prophecy, of spiritual matters.
I'm not surprised.
I 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.
(clock ticks)
I must...
...plant my seed in fertile soil.
It is only the fulfilment 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 had been ready to lay down my life for him.
The thing to me that is worse than death itself is betrayal.
You see, I could conceive death, but I couldn 't conceive betrayal.
Not of the loyalty which I had given to the Nation oflslam and Mr Muhammad.
During the previous 12 years, had he committed a crime punishable by death...
...I would have said and tried to prove that I did it, to save him...
...and gladly gone to the electric chair in Mr Muhammad's place.
* Ray Charles: Up in the mornin '
(footsteps)
* Out on the job
- * (gospel choir) Oh... - * I work like the devil for my pay...
What did he say?
* I know that the lucky old sun...
- I'm so sorry. - No, there's nothing to be sorry about.
I just got a lot of work to do, that's all.
- How can you work? - Well, because we have to teach.
We got to teach the people, we got to teach on Solomon and Moses, David...
Solomon had 700 wives.
A man's good deeds, they far outweigh any of his...
(chuckles) My father used to say that, uh...
...you can't make a rooster stop crowing once the sun has come up.
Well, the sun is up.
* I know that lucky old sun
* Has nothin' to do
* But roll around heaven all day
- * Oh... - * Dear Lord... *
So what do I say about this national day of mourning...
...so-called national day of mourning?
I say the white man's acts of violence should be condemned...
...not only by our beliefs, but by his own.
The holy Koran teaches us that those who work evil...
...will be condemned, or punished, or judged, according to their works.
The holy Bible teaches us that you reap what you sow. This is divine justice.
In the soil of the Americas, the white man has planted the seeds of hatred.
He's planted the seeds of violence.
He's allowed those weeds to grow up...
...and choke the lives out of millions of black men and women for 400 years.
In fact, the lives of Indians in these Americas for the last 500 years.
And now those same weeds...
...have choked one of his own gardeners, in fact, his chief gardener...
...and you ask me what I say. I only say what the Bible says.
I say what the Koran says.
I say it's justice.
- (cheering and applause) - As salaam alaikum.
(crowd shouts)
Minister X, don't you even feel a little bit of remorse...
...saddened by President Kennedy's assassination?
Sir, I don't think anybody here would deny...
...that when you send your chickens out in the morning from your barnyard...
...the chickens will return that evening to your barnyard, not your neighbour's.
This is a prime example of the devil's chickens coming back home to roost.
That the chickens that he's sent out...
...the violence he's perpetrated here and abroad...
...be it four children in Birmingham...
...or Medgar Evers, or Lumumba overin Africa.
I think this same violence has come back to claim one of their own.
Now, being an old farm boy myself...
...chickens coming home to roost nevermade me sad.
- In fact, it's only made me glad. - (reporters shout)
(coughs)
(sniffs and gasps)
Did you...
...read the paper today?
Yes, sir, I 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...
...(coughs) in general.
(coughs)
Yes, sir.
We must dissociate ourselves from your terrible blunder.
I 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.
Yes, sir. I submit 100 per cent.
(phlegmy cough)
(coughs painfully)
(coughing continues)
(laboured coughing)
(telephone rings)
(child babbles happily)
You leave us alone.
- Betty? - Leave us alone. Stop calling here.
Who's putting you up to this? We have children here!
Stop it! Stop...
Hello?
- (whispers) It's all right. It's OK. - They keep calling.
- They keep calling... - Shhhh.
(whispers) Shh. Now, just, uh...
We'll take the babies, put them into bed.
C'mon, babies, let's go to bed now.
- C'mon. Come on. - Bedtime.
Let's go.
- Good night, Mommy, good night, Daddy. - There you go. Night-night.
- Good night, Sidney. - Night-night!
- Come on. - Good night.
Brother Minister, I have to level with you.
They gave me a mission. But I couldn't do it.
- I love y'all. - What kind of mission?
To wire your car...
...so it would explode when you turned the ignition.
The ministers say you're spreading untruths about Mr Muhammad.
The ministers say that you are the greatest hypocrite, a... a Judas.
A Benedict Arnold.
The ministers say that your tongue should be cut out...
...and delivered to Mr Muhammad's doorstep.
- And what do you say? - I'm with you, Brother Minister.
- You'll be marked for death. - Yes, sir.
Let me die, then.
(sighs)
Brother, I can't come between you and your father.
- You're my father. - Brother, go on home.
Don't come back. That's an order.
Yes, sir.