We will then set up our own farms, factories, business, and schools ... and show him how much we appreciate the education he has given us, by using it to become self-sustaining ... economically and otherwise.
We want some land where we can create unity, harmony and brotherhood ... and live together in peace. Since America now sees that this false show of integration and intermarriage will not work, she should make immediate steps to set aside a few of these states for us, and put us there to ourselves.
If America will repent and do this, God will overlook some of our wicked deeds (as in the days of Nineveh) ... but if America refuses to give Mr. Muhammad what God instructed him to ask for ... then, like the biblical houses of Egypt and Babylon (slave empires of the bible), God will erase the American government and the entire race that it favors and represents, from this planet ... and God will then give the whole earth back to the original owners, the black man!
4. MALCOLM X’s
“UNIVERSITY SPEECH”
The following is Malcolm X’s “university speech,” a long lecture he used in the hope of converting students—particularly Negroes—on various university campuses during 1961-1962. It is of some interest that this speech was given at Atlanta University, the great citadel of Negro learning in the Deep South, and Dr. Lonnie Cross, chairman of the department of mathematics, not only joined the movement but became assistant to Jeremiah X, minister of the Atlanta Temple.
This lecture contains a unique passage. It will be recalled that in his Harvard speech Malcolm chastised Moslems from the East who had migrated to America but failed to gather converts. In this speech he goes further; in a stinging passage Malcolm flatly accuses Moslems from the East of attempting to turn “our slave masters” (the American white man) into good Moslems. He accuses orthodox Moslems of “passing us by” and attempting to proselytize the foes of the Negro rather than the Negro himself.
This is without doubt the strongest position any Muslim has ever taken against the orthodox Moslem movement and further underscores my contention that the Black Muslims are not really concerned about orthodox Islam. They need the façade of world-wide Islam, of course, but the Black Muslim movement is a home-grown operation with home-grown aims and ideas. Nowhere is that more clearly stated than in this “university speech.”