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Farrakhan speaks on Malcolm X's separation from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: I look at the wisdom of God. I'm just about finish.
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  Speaker 1: Now Malcolm went out.
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  Speaker 2: Of the nation.
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  Speaker 1: We all were hurt. At least I can speak for myself.
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  Speaker 1: I loved him. Next three lied to Muhammad, and I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know anybody greater than Malcolm X. It hurt me
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  Speaker 1: that he would go out of the nation. But then
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  Speaker 1: the worst hurt was Malcolm going to Mike Wallace, telling
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  Speaker 1: Mike Wallace and listen to the words. Now, Elijah Muhammed
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  Speaker 1: father children from his teenage secretaries. So Malcolm raised it
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  Speaker 1: to a moral issue, listen to me, carefully putting himself
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  Speaker 1: in the righteous position, putting his teacher in an immoral position.
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  Speaker 2: But then he's going to the white man to tell
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  Speaker 2: the white man.
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  Speaker 1: What his leader and teacher had done.
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  Speaker 2: He did it with Mike Wallace. You can't deny this.
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  Speaker 2: This is actual fact.
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  Speaker 1: He came here to Chicago and went to cuts in
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  Speaker 1: it when as cuts in It been a friend of
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  Speaker 1: black people.
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  Speaker 2: And he told cup.
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  Speaker 1: Lade, your Muhammed. I thought he was a man fathered
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  Speaker 1: these children and wouldn't and I was kept it a secret,
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  Speaker 1: and whatnot.
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  Speaker 2: I found it that he was less man than I thought.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he dogged the messenger, the man that took him
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  Speaker 3: from a pimp, from a hustle, from a stick up man.
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  Speaker 2: Send him before the world.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's dog and his teacher.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think we felt.
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  Speaker 1: Elijah Muhammad wasn't just a leader.
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  Speaker 2: That's our spiritual guide and father.
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  Speaker 1: Brother, you don't have to order me to kill you
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  Speaker 1: if you attack my father.
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  Speaker 2: My orders come from my love.
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  Speaker 5: I want you to hear you good, because every Muslim
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  Speaker 5: that loved Elijah Muhammad would have killed Malcolm if we
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  Speaker 5: had gotten a chance.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I don't need no damn applause.
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  Speaker 5: I want you to think now we didn't incite that
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  Speaker 5: Malcolm incited.
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  Speaker 2: That isn't us. He would have been dad. He would
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  Speaker 2: never have lasted a year.
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  Speaker 1: Elijah Muhammad told us to leave im.
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  Speaker 6: Alone, leave him alone, told me to my face, leave
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  Speaker 6: him alone.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm an obedient servant. Yeah, I love Eli to
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  Speaker 1: Mohammed and North that if you attack him, I would
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  Speaker 1: kill you.
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  Speaker 5: Yesterday, today and tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not a killer, but neither are you. But
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  Speaker 1: if somebody attack what you love, each one of you
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  Speaker 1: in here would become a killer instantaneous. In my line.
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  Speaker 5: Mother, let somebody look like they're attacking your child. Here's
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  Speaker 5: a woman who fought a bath because the bear snatched
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  Speaker 5: her baby, and she ran the bad down streaming until
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  Speaker 5: the bad drop her baby.
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  Speaker 2: Love cast out fear.
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  Speaker 5: We don't give a damn about no white man law
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  Speaker 5: when you attack what we love.
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  Speaker 2: And frankly, it ain't none of your business. What have
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  Speaker 2: you got to say about Did you teach Malcolm? Did
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  Speaker 2: you make Malcolm? Did you clean up Malcolm? Did you
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  Speaker 2: put Malcolm out before the world? Was Malcolm your trader
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  Speaker 2: or was he hours?
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  Speaker 5: And if we dealt with him like a nation deals
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  Speaker 5: with a trader, what the hell business is it of yours?
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  Speaker 5: You just shut your mouth and stay out of it,
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  Speaker 5: because in the future we're gonna become a nation, and
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  Speaker 5: the nation gotta be able to deal with traders and
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  Speaker 5: cutthroats and turncoats. The white man deals with his, the
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  Speaker 5: Jews deal with the ass. Salmon Rusty wrote a nasty
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  Speaker 5: thing about the prophet, and here ma'am Comane put out a.
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  Speaker 2: Death thing on him.
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  Speaker 5: And it stands today.
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  Speaker 2: Sudden paths, you don't cross.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said last week, in every prophet's community there
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  Speaker 1: were zealous I'm telling you Elijah Muhammad told us leave
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  Speaker 1: that man alone. I believe Elijah Muhammad said he'll come
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  Speaker 1: back repentant. Leave him alone. At the same time that
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  Speaker 1: Malcolm went out, Wallace D. Muhammad went out too, and wrote.
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  Speaker 2: In the Daily News, Chicago Daily News and.
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  Speaker 1: Sepia Magazine such ugly things about his father, and if
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  Speaker 1: it were not for the mercy of that father, that
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  Speaker 1: son would be dead, killed by one of his own brothers.
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  Speaker 1: But Elijah Muhammad said, leave him alone. Malcolm was his son, Aaron, yes,
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  Speaker 1: but leave him alone.
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  Speaker 2: You're not to judge him. Leave him alone.
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  Speaker 1: We left him alone. I'm gonna tell you something about
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  Speaker 1: the nation, the nation that I love. Some of these
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  Speaker 1: rotten ministers and leaders and captains were in the nation
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  Speaker 1: yesterday and summer in the nation today.
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  Speaker 2: You don't like the way of God.
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  Speaker 1: If God say, put them out in your heart you
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  Speaker 1: want You don't think that's strong enough. So you wanna
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  Speaker 1: beat somebody up, or you wanna exact some kind of
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  Speaker 1: retribution on somebody, as though you.
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  Speaker 2: A God beside God.
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  Speaker 1: You don't like my way because I'm a merciful man.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you are hypocrites right now, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but Elijah Muhammed didn't send me to beat black people
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  Speaker 1: or shoot black people, but to teach black people. And
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  Speaker 1: you'll always find me defending black people because he showed.
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  Speaker 2: Me how to defend my people. You know, sisters and brothers.
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  Speaker 1: In the Bible, David had a son called Absalom, and
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  Speaker 1: Absalom rose up against his father David.
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  Speaker 5: And violated David's wives in the presence of all of
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  Speaker 5: Israel and.
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  Speaker 4: Made war on the father.
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  Speaker 1: And when the father's forces went out to meet.
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  Speaker 5: The forces of the son, David told Joe, when.
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  Speaker 1: You catch my son, don't kill him.
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  Speaker 2: Bring my son to me.
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  Speaker 1: Absalom had long hair, according to the Bible, and he
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  Speaker 1: was caught up in a tree and Joab.
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  Speaker 7: Even though the king said leave him alone.
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  Speaker 1: Joab wanted to be a law unto himself. He allowed
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  Speaker 1: his emotion and his hatred for what that son had
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  Speaker 1: done to take control, and he spared Absalom through and
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  Speaker 1: they brought the son of David back dead. And while
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  Speaker 1: all of Israel was rejoicing, you could hear David in
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  Speaker 1: his tent crying, saying over and over and over again,
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  Speaker 1: my son, my son, my son. I had an experience
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  Speaker 1: with this if any of you ever had an hour
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  Speaker 1: of the body experience, well, if you haven't, I have.
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  Speaker 1: I was in Boston and all of a sudden, my
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  Speaker 1: spirit seemed to rise right up out of my body,
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  Speaker 1: and I could see myself floating above the trees and
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  Speaker 1: the highways.
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  Speaker 2: And I found myself in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: And as I was coming around the house of the
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  Speaker 1: Honorable Elijah Muhammad at forty eight forty seven South Woodlawn,
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  Speaker 1: the Honorably Elijah Muhammad was in the room of Wareth
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  Speaker 1: Dean Mohammed, and he was sitting on his bed, on
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  Speaker 1: Wallace's bed, looking toward the door, with his back to
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  Speaker 1: the window, and he was crying the deepest cry that
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  Speaker 1: I ever heard a man cry, You know when a
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  Speaker 1: man cries, and he's coming up from the.
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  Speaker 8: God, deep, deep deep, And he was saying over and
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  Speaker 8: over and over, my son, my son, my son.
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  Speaker 1: And I said to him through the window, the apostle,
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  Speaker 1: I will be your son. And he never turned to
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge my presence at the window. So my spirit returned,
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  Speaker 1: and I watched myself go right back and get into
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  Speaker 1: my body. And I woke up, and I started reading
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  Speaker 1: the Bible and found the words of David, and know
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  Speaker 1: that I heard the cry of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad
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  Speaker 1: over both Wallace and Malcolm. We have Zealots in the
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  Speaker 1: nation right, and we have agents in the nation. I
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  Speaker 1: believe the Zelus in the mosque in Newark, as it
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  Speaker 1: has now come out that they were from the Newark
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  Speaker 1: Mosque kill Malcolm. But the hurting thing is two innocent
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  Speaker 1: men went to prison for twenty five years of their life,
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  Speaker 1: and they were sentenced to a prison term that they
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  Speaker 1: didn't deserve. By the mouth of Betty Shabbaz, Betty was
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  Speaker 1: so hurt at the death of her husband. Being in
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  Speaker 1: the mass she knew Thomas Johnson and Norman Butler, and
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  Speaker 1: she placed them at the scene of the crime when
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  Speaker 1: they were not there.
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  Speaker 2: And the same Betty.
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  Speaker 1: So vindictive and hurt.
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  Speaker 2: You understand, the hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Got on l I b in New York and said
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  Speaker 1: that I, as well as some of Malcolm's brothers, were
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  Speaker 1: a part of an assassination committee.
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  Speaker 2: To destroy her husband. Hypocrisy is a hell of a thing.
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  Speaker 1: So in my conclusion, the FBI knew that Malcolm was
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  Speaker 1: going to die?
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  Speaker 7: How did they know?
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  Speaker 1: Who informed them? In Spike's movie, when Malcolm was in
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  Speaker 1: the hotel. You saw the bug in the lamp shade.
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  Speaker 2: Has to throw you off the track.
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  Speaker 1: They may have bugged the lemp shade, but the scripture says,
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  Speaker 1: where there are two or three of you gathered together
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  Speaker 1: in my name, there I am also among you. That's
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  Speaker 1: the way it is with the FBI. Wherever there are
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  Speaker 1: two or three of you gathered together. But whatever your
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  Speaker 1: righteous purpose is, that enemy agent is right there among us,
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  Speaker 1: playing like he's one of us.
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  Speaker 2: So the zealous, like joy.
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  Speaker 1: Could not respond to their leaders instruction. Their hatred for
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  Speaker 1: Malcolm was greater than their leader's instruction. Somebody told Malcolm
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  Speaker 1: to take the gods off the door, don't let them search,
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  Speaker 1: and Malcolm went along with it. Malcolm was very confused,
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  Speaker 1: very upset. If you listen to his talk, you watched
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  Speaker 1: him when he was clean and firing. Then when he
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  Speaker 1: got his beard and he was disheveled, and he just
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  Speaker 1: didn't have it. And the same people that he whipped
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  Speaker 1: in debate began to beat up on Malcolm.
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  Speaker 2: Poor brother, poor brother.
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  Speaker 1: He was writing to the honorably Elijah Muhammad to get
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  Speaker 1: back in the nation.
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  Speaker 3: When he was assassinated.
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  Speaker 1: No uniform policeman nowhere in the ballroom, but an agent.
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  Speaker 1: Jeane Roberts was one of his bodyguds. And when Malcolm
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  Speaker 1: fell under the bullet, it was this agent who claimed
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  Speaker 1: to be giving Malcolm mouth to mouth resuscitation.
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  Speaker 4: It was an agent in the Panther party that told
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  Speaker 4: the authorities where Fred Hampton would be sleeping, and they
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  Speaker 4: drugged out.
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  Speaker 1: Brother, and they shot so many holes in that apartment
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  Speaker 1: on the west side. There was no way that Fred
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  Speaker 1: Hampton and Mark Clock could have lived in. Anybody that
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  Speaker 1: got out of there.
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  Speaker 2: I was lucky.
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  Speaker 1: It's always been agents and stool pigeons that set us
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  Speaker 1: up for the big devil? Was there an agent among
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  Speaker 1: those so assassinated Malcolm? Why we're two arrested at the ballroom,
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  Speaker 1: as I said last week, and only one later was
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  Speaker 1: mentioned in the paper. One was dropped and dropped completely
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  Speaker 1: out of sight. When Spike leader, let me tell you
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  Speaker 1: something about Spike. You may not like Spike.
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  Speaker 2: That's my brother.
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  Speaker 1: I love him, I think I understand him. Spike read
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  Speaker 1: the autobiography of Malcolm. Spike fell in love with Malcolm,
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  Speaker 1: as many of you did. Spike was hurt that such
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  Speaker 1: a great one was lost to us, and Spike believed
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  Speaker 1: that eled to Muhammad had him killed.
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  Speaker 2: And he makes a hint, ever so slightly.
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  Speaker 1: In his book The Making of the Movie Malcolm X.
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  Speaker 1: He makes a hint that in his heart he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get even with Elijah Muhammad in the nation of Islam.
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  Speaker 1: So when Spike and I talked, and my son in
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  Speaker 1: law asked, Spike, have you ever read the Holy Koran?
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  Speaker 1: Didn't you ask him that, brother Leonard?
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  Speaker 4: What did he say?
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  Speaker 1: He said he had never read this book. So we
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  Speaker 1: asked him on what basis are you going to judge
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  Speaker 1: the domestic life of Elijah Muhammad if you don't read
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  Speaker 1: and understand the book out of which he acted.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that Malcolm X.
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  Speaker 1: Gave up Elijah Muhammad because of some sex thing?
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  Speaker 2: Do you really think it's that shallow? How could he?
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  Speaker 1: How many wives did Prophet Muhammad have, brother back Daddy.
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  Speaker 1: Some people say nine, some people say eleven. Now, when
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  Speaker 1: Malcolm was slandering men to be like Mohammad talking about
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  Speaker 1: teenage secretaries, didn't the prophet take a wife who was
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  Speaker 1: a pre teenager? What was her name, Aisha? When he
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  Speaker 1: married her? How old was she? She was eleven years old?
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  Speaker 1: But he did not have conjugal relations with her until
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  Speaker 1: what year?
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  Speaker 2: They say, fourteen?
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  Speaker 1: Wow, now, palm, how you going to leave Elijah who
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  Speaker 1: had wives, some of them young women? And that man
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  Speaker 1: took you up out of the man that cleaned you up.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't know nothing about no prophet Muhammad. Prophet Muhammad
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  Speaker 1: didn't come and get you out of jail. It wasn't Uma,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't Ali, it wasn't Apple. Back up, it wasn't Uthman.
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  Speaker 1: How you gonna say you're gonna dump a man that
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  Speaker 1: cleaned you up and then go follow the prophet that
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  Speaker 1: had eleven wives and one of his was a preteenager?
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  Speaker 2: Does that make sense? Come on, you know anything about Malcolm?
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  Speaker 5: You ever read his words, study his teaching or what
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  Speaker 5: he taught from the honorabilized Muhammad. Do you think Malcolm
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  Speaker 5: could go to Mecca.
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  Speaker 2: And beat bamboozled hoodwinked.
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  Speaker 1: I've been to Mecca many, many times.
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  Speaker 2: I ate food.
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  Speaker 9: Out of a ball with white people, brown people, red people,
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  Speaker 9: yellow people. I drank water with black, brown, red, yellow,
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  Speaker 9: and white in Mecca.
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  Speaker 2: That didn't change me and make me think that there's
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  Speaker 2: no racism in Islam. I'm not no fool.
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  Speaker 1: It.
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  Speaker 2: Can't nobody fool me? Asked, I know what I'm looking at.
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  Speaker 2: Why in the hell is Africa so backward?
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  Speaker 5: Why won't the Sadis back Africa back to Somalis that's
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  Speaker 5: suffering in Somalia. Why didn't the Saudis send money in
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  Speaker 5: a field?
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  Speaker 1: Why you don't back the Muslims in Bosnia.
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  Speaker 2: Got some problems. You're not gonna fool me that there
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  Speaker 2: is no.
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  Speaker 1: Color in Islam. You tell that to some other person,
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  Speaker 1: You don't tell that to me.
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  Speaker 7: I know better.
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  Speaker 1: Why are Muslim Arabs in the black community selling pig
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  Speaker 1: to my people?
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  Speaker 2: You know it's divinely forbidden, but you sell it.
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  Speaker 1: Yet the prophet said, a man is not a Muslim
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  Speaker 1: till he wants for his brother what he wants for himself.
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  Speaker 5: So evidently you don't see us as your brother because
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  Speaker 5: we're in a savage condition. Nobody wants us.
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  Speaker 1: Until God came to claim us as his own. So
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  Speaker 1: Malcolm is dead and the sisters who were the wives
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  Speaker 1: of the all of Elijah Muhammad have been slenderd. You
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  Speaker 1: don't ask a man if he's married, are you having
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  Speaker 1: sex with your wife?
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  Speaker 2: The question is moved. If that's my wife. I have
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  Speaker 2: a right to that.
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  Speaker 1: So why didn't Malcolm say he took wives.
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  Speaker 2: Why did he.
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  Speaker 1: Say teenage secretaries? Because he knew that would inflame you.
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  Speaker 2: And it would keep you away from.
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  Speaker 1: Elijah Muhammad because he had become embittered. Now I conclude
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  Speaker 1: in that scenario, was Malcolm worthy to sit in the
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  Speaker 1: seat of Elijah Muhammad and and be a redeemer of
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  Speaker 1: our people?
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  Speaker 2: Wait?
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  Speaker 1: Wait, I mean, have you ever read the story in
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  Speaker 1: the Bible of Noah and his sons?
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  Speaker 5: Did you know that Noah had three sons. Noah got
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  Speaker 5: all of them out of the flood. They landed on
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  Speaker 5: Mount Ararat. You remember, according to the Bible, he sent
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  Speaker 5: a raven out, The raven didn't come back.
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  Speaker 2: He sent a dove out, the dove came back. He
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  Speaker 2: came outside of the ark. According to the Bible, he
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  Speaker 2: got drunk and was naked laying in the sand. Two
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  Speaker 2: sons refused to look on his nakedness.
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  Speaker 1: And covered him, and another son called Ham looked.
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  Speaker 10: Down at his neck goodness and mocked the man who
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  Speaker 10: got him out of the flood, And Noah cursed him,
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  Speaker 10: and God upheld the curse, according to the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Now you look at Elijah Muhammad.
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  Speaker 7: Did he get Malcolm out.
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  Speaker 1: Of Malcolm's condition? If he saw the leader in that condition,
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  Speaker 1: what should he have done?
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  Speaker 2: Cover him?
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  Speaker 1: Since the leader covered him? Why don't you cover the
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  Speaker 1: leader and wait till understanding come? Why would you go
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  Speaker 1: to the enemy of both of you? He became vindictive.
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  Speaker 2: He was hurt and bitter. Now let me conclude.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's long. Tell me I've been teaching all day.
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  Speaker 1: You know how I know Malcolm Shoes. Did you know
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  Speaker 1: that before Spike made the movie that this brother was
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  Speaker 1: trying to make the movie Malcolm X.
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  Speaker 7: You didn't know that, did you?
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  Speaker 2: I never told you.
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  Speaker 7: But brother, I know.
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  Speaker 5: Well you whip me when.
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  Speaker 1: I went overseas. Thank you come out here. Brother Boss says,
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  Speaker 1: You've been whipped me a long time. Did you start?
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  Speaker 2: My brother and I been together a long time.
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  Speaker 1: When Godfrey Cambridge died, Brock Peters called my wife and
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  Speaker 1: I was on my way to California in the automobile,
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  Speaker 1: and I happened to stop in New Mexico, and I
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  Speaker 1: called my wife and she told me to call Brock
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  Speaker 1: Peters because Godfrey Cambridge, the comedian, had died, and they
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  Speaker 1: wanted me to speak at his funeral. I spoke at
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  Speaker 1: Godfrey Cambridge's funeral and at the funeral was Maya Angelou,
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  Speaker 1: James Baldwin, Cecily Tyson, all Hollywood was there. And when
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  Speaker 1: it was over, we went back to Brock's house and
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  Speaker 1: I was sitting with Maya Angelou and James Baldwin, and
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  Speaker 1: I told James Baldwin, I would like to do a
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  Speaker 1: movie on the life of Malcolm. I think it would
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  Speaker 1: be the greatest help to bring people from the street
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: to Islam. James Baldwin said, I wrote the first script.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: He said, I don't know nobody that could do it
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: better than you. He said, I'll send you the script.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: This was December.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I said, you know, Jimmy, I'll be in Egypt in February.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: And he was living in southern.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: France then and he was to meet me in Egypt
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: and we were to go over the script before I
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: went into the Middle East to get money to do
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the film. As our lives my witness.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: He sent me the script.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I read it and when I saw Malcolm in bed
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: with the white woman, I said, oh no, I said,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I can't play that part.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: We gotta fix this up.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: So if you notice Spike kind of handled that, you know,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: he tried to handle it as gingerly as he could.
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: But with me, he wouldn't be have to.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Handle it at all, because I wasn't gonna get near
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: no white woman and no scene like that, because images
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: mean a lot. Brother Akbar was with me.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: We were in Uganda with Ed I mean.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Ede, I mean called Moama Kadaffi and told Kadaffi, I
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: got a brother here that you have to meet. And
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: they flew me.
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: From Egypt to Uganda and from Uganda back to Libya
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: on edia means plane, and we missed Kadaffi, and so
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: he had me meet with his people.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: And when I told his people what I had in
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: mind of about a movie, did they mock me and
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: kind of laugh and I had to kind of beat.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Them up a little bit.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Nothing happening.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: I went to Mecca and sat with the scholars in
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: Mecca about making a movie about Malcolm X's life, and
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: the scholars looked at me and said, it is against
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: them