During the Holy Day of Atonement activities in Atlanta, Georgia in October, I spoke at Clark Atlanta University, where I was shocked to see that this beautiful university campus is a plantation. Mothers work hard and put together what they can to send their children there, or children borrow money to go to school only to end up with an education that they can’t use. And the college presidents are not preparing young Black men and women to do something that is constructive in creating jobs. They allow youth to come out of college, begging the White man to give them a job, instead of training them to make a job for themselves! In a strange and perverse way, the Black community has started to wage a kind of war against young Black men, and the Black community has also been engaged as a part of this destructive process of killing off our beautiful, young Black men. 1. Who are young Black women going to marry? 2. Who is going to build and maintain the economies of Black communities? 3.Who is going to anchor strong families in the Black community? 4. Who will young, Black boys emulate as they grow into men? 5. Where is the outrage in the Black community at the destruction of its young Black men? 6. Where are the plans and the supportive actions to change this? The article I quoted ends with asking, “Is this the beginning of the end of Black people in America?” That is a very good question. The list of those who have failed young Black men starts with the government; with foundations, schools, media, Black churches, Black leaders—and even our parents. In fact, parents, today, are afraid of their children. Parents, today, do not know how to handle what they see in the young boys and the young girls that they have brought into the world. It is difficult for me to tell Black children to stay in school, because I know what they are being fed. I know that to tell them to tell Black children to stay there is like asking them to patronize the kind of restaurant that serves dead cats, rats and dogs on the menu. What Black children are being fed is actually garbage! Garbage! And if I had the time I would take it from the kindergarten and tear it to pieces to show you all of you who teach; if teachers are going to teach this garbage that you have been taught to these young people that they, themselves, have been taught, then your days of teaching are finished—unless you get Higher qualifications. Don’t tell me anything about your degree! I know what you received, and the result of what you received is the condition that we are looking at! This is a conspiracy that blows the minds of sane people and I suspect that all of us in here are sane. It is unthinkable that somebody would plan to kill an entire people. See you couldn’t think like that, but don’t you think that others don’t think like that. ~The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 04:21:40 +0000
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