[Editor’s note: The following is the conclusion of excerpts from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s address on the occasion of the 12th Anniversary of the Million Man March, titled, “Come Out of Her, My People” delivered from the Atlanta Civic Center on October 16, 2007.]
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that no one person can rise above the condition of his people. Then neither can the Black middle class rise above the condition of the masses.
Spiritual wickedness in high places
Well, this is 2007, but the weight of the police force is still against Blacks and Latinos, so the police are still fulfilling what they were originally organized for. And the police need people on the police force, Black and Hispanic as well as White, who make examples of the Black and the Brown and the poor. So, you fill your jails with them.
In 1957, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was in a debate with J.B. Stoner, the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. It was a debate in written correspondence. Mr. Stoner said that in the future, the Klan will not wear robes. They would be in the various police departments, in the various offices of government.
They would be in corporate America, but their idea would be the same as those who had the hoods and hanged and castrated and beat Blacks and burned crosses on their lawns. And this is what we are seeing today. Thurgood Marshall became a Justice in the Supreme Court, one of our first Black men to serve on the Supreme Court.
He was one of the lead attorneys who fought for equality in education. But Thurgood Marshall became disillusioned on the Supreme Court and he said these words, “The KKK used to wear white, but now they wear black.”
What was Thurgood Marshall saying? That in the highest court of the land, the mentality of the Supreme Court was the same as the lynchers and murderers of our people since slavery.
The same mentality that was on the plantation is now in the highest court of the land and also from the highest political offices and even religious offices.
And this is why Paul said, “We war not against flesh and blood but against principalities, powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Given these dire statistics and this desperate condition, we must ask some hard questions of our spiritual leaders. According to statistics, almost nine of every 10 Blacks consider themselves Christian, but I must ask our religious leaders, whose preachers are we? Who do we belong to? See, if we truly belong to Christ, we can say, “Come out of her and be not partakers of her sins and her plagues.”
So we have to ask our religious people, even Muslims, who want to water down the religion to make ourselves pleasing to American government and politics in a time of hatred for Islam, whose Imams are we? Whose Rabbis are we?
Are you comfortable asking your flocks to come out and separate themselves from this evil world of wickedness, into righteousness and decency and help The Mahdi or Jesus Christ or the Messiah to build the Kingdom of God on earth? Can you do that? Are you willing to do that? If not why not?
I must remind you that Jesus had an altogether different disposition than most of us as religious leaders are willing to show. It is written that on his return, he was not going to come to bring peace to the earth.
He said, “Think not that I come to bring peace, nay a sword.” On his return, he’s seen coming back with a sword in his hand dripping with blood. He comes to execute the wicked to establish his Kingdom on earth. So, I can’t follow Bush! I cannot follow the rulers of this world!
Pharaoh’s modern army
Should we desire to come out of this and create something new and better under the guidance of God? Should we separate from this? Wait, just think … Pharaoh has actually let us go.
Pharaoh has nothing more for us to do except fight in his unjust wars or serve in his prison industrial complex. Pharaoh said to Moses and Aaron, “Rise up and get you forth from among my people, both you and the Children of Israel, and go serve the Lord as you have said.”
But he only did this after the last plague, which was the plague of death. Death came into his house and killed his firstborn and then after that he said, “Take your people and just get out of here!” Then, Moses gave the Children of Israel God’s command and they did according to the word of Moses.
But then Pharaoh had a change of heart because the slaves that God wanted to use, that He produced and purified through the furnace of affliction, Pharaoh then felt threatened that they would one day supplant him. So, he decided to kill them all and he sent his army after Moses and the Children of Israel.
Now, what is the army that Pharaoh sent out to kill the Children of Israel? What is this army that the modern Pharaoh has sent out to kill the children of the former slaves, since we are the fulfillment of the prophetic picture of the Children of Israel?
What is Pharaoh’s army? Is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a part of that army? Is the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) a part of that army? Are the pharmaceutical companies a part of that army?
Is the American Medical Association (AMA) a part of that army? Are the court system and the prison system a part of that army? Is the closing of hospitals in the Black community, is that part of the plan?
Is the placement of Black people near hazardous waste sites, is this a part of the armed forces that have been let loose to kill the modern Moses and Aaron and to kill the modern Children of Israel? Look at the death rates among Black people. Look at the diseases that afflict us.
Look at the government policies that promote this destruction in the Black community. Is this an accident or is this on purpose? The army is behind us, but the Red Sea is in front of us and the Red Sea represents war, revolution and bloodshed that is going on.
The only way we can get through that Promised Land which God has promised, is that there must be a parting of the Red Sea that the righteous may go through safely. This is why we are here today, and this is why the Bible and the Holy Qur’an suggest a plan of salvation for the righteous. Are you ready to come out?
