Reparation Plan of The Most Hon. Elijah Muhammad
As Delivered by El Hajj
Malik Shabazz
 Can
America escape? Can America atone? And if so how can she atone
for these crimes? In my conclusion I must point out that The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad says a desegregated theater, a desegregated
lunch counter won't solve our problem. Better jobs won't even
solve our problems. An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient
pay for four hundred years of slave labor. He also says that
a better job, a better job in the white man's factory, or
a better job in the white man's business, or a better job
in the white man's industry or economy is, at best, only a
temporary solution. He says that the only lasting and permanent
solution is complete separation on some land that we can call
our own. Therefore, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that
this problem can be solved and solved forever just by sending
our people back to our own homeland or back to our own people,
but that this government should provide the transportation
plus everything else we need to get started again in our own
country. This government should give us everything we need
in the form of machinery, material, and finance-enough to
last for twenty to twenty-five years until we can become an
independent people and an independent nation in our own land.
He says that if the American government is afraid to send
us back to our own country and to our own people, then America
should set aside some separated territory right here in the
Western hemisphere where the two races can live apart from
each other, since we certainly don't get along peacefully
while we are together.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the size of the territory
can be judged according to our population. If a seventh of
the population of this country is black, then give us a seventh
of the territory, a seventh part of the county. And that is
not asking too much because we already worked for the man
for four hundred years.
He says it must not be in the desert, but where there is plenty
of rain and much mineral wealth. We want fertile, productive
land on which we can farm and provide our own people with
food, clothing, and shelter. He says that this government
should supply us on that territory with the machinery and
other tools needed to dig into the earth. Give us everything
we need for twenty to twenty-five years until we can produce
and supply our own needs.
 And
in my conclusion I repeat: We want no part of integration
with this wicked race of devils. But he also says we should
not be expected to leave America empty-handed. After four
hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming.
A bill that is owed to us and must be collected. If the government
of America truly repents of its sins against our people and
atones by giving us our true share of the land and the wealth,
then America can save herself. But if America waits for God
to step in and force her to make a just settlement, God will
take this entire continent away from the white man. And the
Bible says that God can then give the kingdom to whomsoever
he pleases. I thank you.
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