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Reparations and the Presidential Election
By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan | Last updated: Sep 11, 2012 - 8:26:03 PM

[Editor’s note: The following article is an excerpt taken from a keynote address delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on July 8, 2004 at the United Methodist Church in Chicago, Illinois during the National Black United Front’s convention celebrating its 25th anniversary. To order this message in its entirety on DVD and CD, please call 1.866.602.1230, ext. 200.]
 

In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.
 
We are 50 years from Brown v. Board of Education. While Blacks in the Civil Rights Movement cheer that we’ve come 50 years, there is sadness because, in 50 years, nothing has really changed. We’re 40 years from the Voting Rights Act and civil rights that allowed us to go here and go there, yet we are getting further and further behind socially, economically and otherwise.

They allowed us the right to vote and we voted into office a few Black men here and a few Black women there. We have nearly 10,000 elected officials, but we’re in a worst condition and position today. There’s something wrong with that picture. In football and in warfare, it is the art of deception that wins the war and wins the game, and we are a greatly deceived people. Like a dog running after its own tail, we never quite catch up.
 
It’s time now for us to assess where we are, because if we don’t make a serious change in our way of thinking and a serious commitment for real liberation, the death of our people will grow exponentially by the chemical and biological warfare that murders us daily. As Black doctors find it difficult to continue to practice medicine because of the high rate of liability insurance, we have less and less doctors. One doctor for every 2,000 Black people, when in Cuba it’s one doctor for every 185 people.

...one doctor for every 2,000 Black people...
Illinois, south of the gun controllers in Chi town