The 8 million non-voting Negroes are the majority, the downtrodden black masses. They have refused to vote, or to take part in politics, because they reject the Uncle Tom approach of the “clergy-politician” leadership that has been hand-picked for the American Negroes by the white man himself.
The clergy-politician leadership does not speak for the Negro majority; they don’t speak for the black masses. They speak for the “BLACK BOURGEOISIE,” the “brainwashed” (white-minded) middle-class minority ... who, because they are ashamed of black, and don’t want to be identified with black or as being black, are seeking to lose this “identity” by mingling, mixing, intermarrying, and integration with the white man.
The race problem cannot be solved by listening to this white-minded (brainwashed) minority. The white man must try to learn what does the majority want. The next President would be wise to try and learn what the black masses want. And, the only way to find this out is by listening to the man who speaks for the black masses of America.
I declare to you and to the entire world, that the man here in America who speaks for the majority, the downtrodden, dissatisfied black masses ... is this same man whom so many thousands of our people are flocking toward to see and hear ... this same Mr. Muhammad who is labeled by you as a Black Supremist, and as a Racist!
If the 3 million middle-class Negroes are casting their ballots for integration and intermarriage ... what do the non-voting black masses who are in the minority want? Find out what the black masses want, and then perhaps America’s grave race problem can be solved.
The black masses are tired of following these hand-picked Negro “leaders” who sound like professional beggars, as they cry year after year for white America to accept us as first-class citizens.
Since this clergy-politician “leadership,” which was carefully hand-picked for us by the white man, has failed to solve the problem for the downtrodden black masses ... God Himself has stepped into the picture, and has made Messenger Elijah Muhammad a wise, fearless, and uncompromising spokesman for the 20 million black people here in America, who, behind the Divine Leadership of this man of God, will now never be satisfied until we have a home in a land that we can proudly call our own.
We have accepted your invitation to come here to Yale University Law School this evening to let you know first hand why 20 million so-called Negroes cannot integrate with white America ... why white America, after 100 years of religious hypocrisy and political trickery will never accept us as first-class citizens here ... and why we must therefore seek some separate territory of our own.
In your blind emotion, again many of you will cry out that this is wrong, that this is not religion, that this is not Islam ... that this is just another economic-political philosophy.
I must remind you to keep an open mind. Let your own Christian bible be the judge: