[Editor’s Note: The following contains an excerpt from an interview conducted by Juni Liburd, host of Issues: St. Kitts-Nevis on Freedom FM 106.5, with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan at the Marriott Hotel in Frigate Bay, St. Kitts & Nevis on April 13, 2018, which was streamed live via FreedomSKN.com and Facebook Live.]
We are victims of social engineering. Taking factories out of the inner cities 40 years ago and not replacing them with anything that would give job opportunities to Black people to feed their families, then drugs were brought in, guns were brought in to create the havoc that we now see.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was a national security adviser, I think under Jimmy Carter, he said, “It’s easier to kill a million people than to control a million people.”
With the technology that’s now available: You and I are talking, and the words that we just spoke are on social media. If it’s on Facebook, if it’s on Instagram, if it’s on Twitter, if it’s on any of the media outlets that this iPhone and smartphone, and the work of Steve Jobs and others has done, the whole world is at our fingertips in an instant.
The control of the masses that has always been the purview of elites who control media and information that goes to the public—that’s over now! So what you have in Black America, in the Caribbean, in the UK, in Africa, all over the world, is an instant communication that is causing the awakening of the masses.
This is both good and bad. It’s good that we are awakening, which means we are demanding more, we are trying to correct the mistakes that we make, but we are also forcing government to do what government does not want to do for the masses of Black and Brown people. So things are better in one way, and worse in another.
What is worse? The fact that the enemy—and we do have a vicious enemy, an enemy that wants to see us slaughter each other. So guns that young people don’t have the money to buy nor do they have the skill in use, sometimes, some of the gang leaders have said that they come into the community with crates full of the most deadly kind of weapons—the Uzi, the AK-47, the Mac-10.
All of these automatic weapons, bullets are brought in; then they are distributed among the gangs. So the gang mentality is “we kill each other.” So right now the youth of America, Black and Brown, are under assault by the government and the use of police force against young people.
They stop us, they frisk us; if we have marijuana on our person, or we are found with a gun: We usually don’t live if we’re found with a gun; but with marijuana, the prison industrial complex gets our bodies—and the 13th Amendment will be in full force, that you only are a “citizen” as long as you are not a felon.
‘As many felons as there
are in the prison system
of America, they are
working for the multinational
corporations
for no jobs [i.e. no pay],
but when they get out of
prison there is no job for
them at all, so crime is
offered to them.
So as many felons as there are in the prison system of America, they are working for the multi-national corporations for no jobs [i.e. no pay], but when they get out of prison there is no job for them at all, so crime is offered to them. So, that’s the bad thing.
But war that is coming up is going to break the power of those that have subjected both the Black and the Brown, and those who are struggling in the Caribbean. … This is another place where you see things happening, and you’re not so sure of what you are looking at.
But I remember when I was a young Calypsonian there was a song that a Calypsonian [Lord Vader, “Small Island”] sang; it goes: “Small island go back where you come from / They come by de one and de two and de t[h]ree—now I find dem up inside me breadfruit tree! So Trinidad a too-small island, Go back where you really come from!”
Well, now you see people coming; they’re buying citizenship, they bring money—but that’s how they came to Texas. When Texas was under the control of Mexico, they came “by the one, the two and the three,” then pretty soon a war started, and that caused America to go to war with Mexico.
Mexico lost Texas, Mexico lost Arizona, California, because of a few that came that opened the door for the many whose desire it was to come. So we’ve got to change that lyric: “They come by de one and de two and de t[h]ree, soon dey gonna tell you, ‘We own all your country.’”
So if we are not wise, knowledgeable as to how this is going, we are opening the door to the “Trojan horse” that has in their mind to take the resources of the Caribbean, to take the islands of the Caribbean—because Europe is going up in flames in the Third World War, so they’re looking for a place to hide, a place to live, and a place to continue to keep us in servitude. So now we are servants in the tourist industry, not producing industry, and that’s why the unity of the Caribbean is a must.
