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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 50
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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LOUIS FARRAKHAN -- 03/14/96
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Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has been awarded
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"Newsmaker of the Year" by the National Newspaper Publishers
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Association. He spoke, at a dinner given in his honor by that
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association, on March 14, 1996. The speech was broadcast on C-
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Span that same day. The following are excerpts from his talk.
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[Farrakhan had recently returned from a trip to Africa and the
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Middle East.]
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[...continued...]
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You've got to go and *see*, brothers and sisters, for yourself!
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Whether Saddam Hussein is right or wrong, why should the children
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die!? And you have a slogan, "Save the Children," and 500
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thousand of 'em dead in Iraq. And you can *see* hunger in the
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faces because there's no food, adequately, for the children to
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eat!
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The mothers are bringing forth their babies prematurely because
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of malnutrition. And they've got incubators in there that they
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can't even get parts for! They've got to put 2 in an incubator.
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You've got to go, and *see*!
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But of course, there's an embargo. You can't go. *You* can't go.
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*I* can!
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And the reason I can go is *not* because I'm a "defiant negro". I
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am a human being! And I am *not* just an American citizen, I am a
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*world* citizen! You can't limit me to the continental United
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States of America! I'm *not* just you. You didn't *take* me from
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"just you". You *brought* me from Africa, why shouldn't I be
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concerned with what you're doin' in Africa?
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I am a Muslim, and I must be concerned in what happens to Muslims
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all over the earth. And you cannot limit me by your laws!
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And for you to tell me that you can arrest me for interfering in
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your foreign policy, then you should come on and do that! Because
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I'm gonna interfere with *any* policy you have that evilly
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affects Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Central and South
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America! [applause]
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[Shows enlarged photo] Here's a baby. What's this disease? Hemi-
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hypurger(?). It's a birth defect. Not from malnutrition, this is
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from uranium in the bombs! We saw children dying, of Leukemia.
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That is *treatable* -- but there's no medicine to treat them.
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This child, on one side is swollen big, on the other side it's
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small.
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Many of us couldn't leave the hospital with dry eyes. The
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Minister of Health, Dr. Ali(?), he was so incensed by what he saw
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because he knew he wasn't in a hospital. He said he was in a
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death camp, because a hospital is where you *cure* people because
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you have the means to cure them! Here's a hospital that doesn't
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have the means to cure. So the doctors are just presiding over
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death! This is what sanctions have done.
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And a great American statesman said (I can't think of his name
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now), he said, "Sanctions is a method of mass destruction." And I
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agree.
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And I say this to you in conclusion: I am hurt, to come back
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home, to be treated like an enemy when I did a friendly thing.
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And believe me, there's linkage now, in places where there was no
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linkage before. There's economic opportunity that opened up. That
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is magnificent.
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And so I conclude saying, black brothers and sisters, stop using
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the language "minority". Never again should you use that, in
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reference to yourself. You are only a minority if you limit
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yourself to America. But when you see yourself as an
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international people, then you outnumber the oppressor 11-to-1.
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You are the majority people on this earth, and you ought to start
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*acting* like the majority party and taking *responsibility* now
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for your brothers! And your sisters.
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We were blest to be brought into slavery. That was a cursing, but
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it turned out to be a blessing. Because we grew up in the house
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of the world leader. And we went to the best schools that there
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is in the world and we have mastered every art, every science,
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every discipline. And now we must use that to *lift* human beings
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all over the earth.
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They didn't tell you that I went to Turkey, a white Muslim
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country. Now if I'm such a racist, why did I go to Turkey? You
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should have seen us Muslims, just huggin' and kissin' each other!
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The *white* Muslims, kissin' the black Muslim. And the black
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Muslim kissin' the white Muslim. Because we are Muslims! And we
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look *past* color and race when we mature!
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Brothers and sisters, this trip was historic.
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And they sent me to Syria, through the Iraqi border. And Syria's
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and Iraq's borders have been closed for years. And the only way
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we could get to Syria was that President Saddam Hussein had to
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talk to President Hassad. And they talked.
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And I talked to *each* one of these persons about reconciliation
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and atonement. Iran and Iraq have slaughtered each other; over a
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*million* lives have been lost. Should I not ask them to atone?
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To reconcile?
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Brothers and sisters, don't let the media destroy a wonderful
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potential for us. I am your brother, and I am your servant. I did
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the best I could to represent you and to be just and fair in my
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remarks. I did the best I could to speak for the good of America,
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but also to condemn those policies in America with which I
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disagree, and to give those who are oppressed hope that change
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can come inside America. *You* are the catalyst for change. You
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are in the most strategic position of any people on earth because
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you are inside America. And now, you must rise, inside America.
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Politically, we *must* get every one who is unregistered to
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register. We *must* become a political force inside America to
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affect America's foreign policy. In this regard, we take our hats
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off to the Jewish community. Because we can learn from them (and
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we already have). The Jewish community, though small in number...
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America, every year, gives *billions* to Israel. No questions
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asked. No questions asked.
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America is the only super-power left, and she's drunk with her
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own arrogance. She's drunk with her own power. And the only thing
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that can sober her up is an *awakened* and *enlightened* American
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electorate.
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So I leave you with this thought: America is pushing "democracy"
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all over the world. Is America truly a democracy? Democracy
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presupposes an enlightened electorate, that has the ability to
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choose what is in their best interest. When you go to the
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American people, ask them, "Who is Senator Dole?" According to
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what I read recently, over 50 percent of the American people
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don't even know that Dole is the majority leader in the Senate.
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If you go to the American people and ask them, "Where's Estonia?
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Where's Latvia? Where's Lithuania? Where's Chechnya?" ---- "Huh?
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What??" The American education system is being dismantled, right
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in front of your eyes. And the American people are more and more
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being manipulated by the television. By the radio. So you don't
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have *enlightened* decision making. You are herded like sheep by
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slick advertising on television. If you really want to make
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America a democracy, you have to make the American people the
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most aware and enlightened people on earth. Then nobody can
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manipulate their vote and take it like you take candy from a
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baby.
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Let's get busy. Let's stop fighting each other.
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And if they say things about me, don't believe it. Question it.
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Question me! And then if I'm wrong *you* correct me! But don't go
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along with the enemy, whom you *know* wants to separate me from
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you so that they can destroy me. (And then, 30 years from now,
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they'll say, "You know, that guy Farrakhan, he was an all right
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guy. Let's name an alley after him." [laughter])
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Thank you for listening, and may God bless you.
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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