Brothers and sisters, the time has come for you and me to wake up to the reality of the times we live in today. Why, any time you have governments and countries, who, in a war can pause and boldly say Black people cannot enter our boarders to escape the violence of war. But only white, intelligent, civilized, men, women, and their children can enter and escape the violence- we have a reality check!
You thought this good white man would treat you fairly in the time of war, cause he gave you a little freedom to walk around his cities, his universities, and on his jobs, well, you were wrong. Now they are showing you their true colors. They are that Red Dragon the Bible speaks of, that old serpent called the Devil.
If you don't think he's a devil, look what they are doing around the world and right here in America. They destabilized the Middle East, talking about a War on Terror, while he's the biggest terrorist ever. They invaded and made war in the name of bring freedom and democracy to Iraq, Libya, Egypt, and Afghanistan. They fermented wars and coups with their CIA, armies, mercenaries, and, yes, their missionaries too. And right here at home we have a political machine and a President that's bent on destroying Black people. A system that looks the other way at the ingrained racism of the institutions of this country and the mass incarceration of the young Black males. And the opposition party, the Republicans, are no better, why, they're bent on sending us back to the good old days-as they call it, of Jim Crow, segregation, and more mass incarceration.
Brothers and sisters, we gotta wake up to this new world we're living in today. Don't be fooled by your iPhone and Smartphones. Don't be lulled to sleep by a barrage of digital images scientifically designed with algorithms that enslave you in a cyber-world, while they butcher you in the real world.
Wake up! It's time you and I shake ourselves from off the ground of ignorance, false dreams, naïve hope, and the Kool-Aid of false integration and political manipulation. It's time that we put back on our beautiful garments; garments of love towards one another, garments of intelligence and wisdom, of faith in our God and our Black Messiah. It's time we put back on our garments of righteousness, of doing good to one another, of defending one another. And that's what I'm doing today, I'm telling you the truth because I love you- what is life if you don't have love for the people? My life is worth nothing if all I live for is me.
So, I'm telling you the truth because I love you. And I want you to preserve your life- It's the best thing you got! This is love teaching. And when you have a whole lot of people walking in love towards each others-genuine love, where your well being is my concern and my well being is your concern, why, there's nothing we can't face, nothing we can't do as a people in the face of any odds, even in the face of this great Red Dragon-of this Beast!
In Closing, I say all that to say this, brothers and sisters, as long as we've been here in this country, we ought to be wiser. We ought to be able to see through the trickery of our enemies. We ought not be fooled any longer. The time is short, and the hours are ticking away. The season of our American coma is ending and the time of our resurrection as a people is coming. Will you and I be ready? Or will we continue to sleep, to suffer peacefully in a pool of blood, while they rip us apart? Wake up! And save your life and your baby's life! Wake up!!
-Zarach
MALCOLM X THE BALLOT OR THE BULLET April 12, 1964 - YouTube
