Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of severe lung infections in young children globally, resulting in approximately 100,000 deaths each year among children under the age of five.
Alarmingly, 97 per cent of these deaths occur in low and middle-income countries.
Although RSV can infect people of all ages, “it is especially harmful to infants, particularly those born prematurely,” said Kate O’Brien from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Around half of all RSV-related deaths occur in babies younger than six months.
New immunisation products
On Friday, WHO issued recommendations for two new immunisation tools: a maternal vaccine, administered to pregnant women in their third trimester to protect their newborns; and a long-acting antibody injection for infants, which begins to protect within a week of administration and lasts for at least five months.
Considering the global burden of severe RSV illness in infants, WHO recommends that all countries adopt either the maternal vaccine or the antibody injection as part of their national immunisation strategies.
“These RSV immunisation products can transform the fight against severe RSV disease, dramatically reduce hospitalisations and deaths, and ultimately save many infant lives worldwide,” said Ms O’Brien.
According to UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, more than 290 schools have been damaged or destroyed in Ituri this year alone, bringing the total number of out-of-school children in the province to over 1.3 million.
Protection crisis
Between January and April 2025, a surge in violence displaced more than 100,000 people – half of them children. During this period, reported cases of abduction, maiming, sexual violence, and the recruitment and use of children by armed groups rose by 32 per cent compared to the same timeframe last year.
John Adbor, UNICEF’s representative in the DRC, referred to the situation as a “protection crisis”, stating: “Violence and conflict are shattering children’s right to learn – putting them at far greater risk of being recruited by armed groups, exploited, and abused.”
“The needs are immense, and our resources are not enough,” Mr. Adbor added, referring to UNICEF’s emergency response in the region.
With more than 1.8 million conflict-affected children now out of school across the DRC, UNICEF is prioritising mental health and psychosocial support through child-friendly spaces, reintegration of children formerly associated with armed groups, and treatment for acute malnutrition.
My subject today was inspired by a sister who visited our home, and at the end of the evening, she asked me, “Brother Farrakhan, I’ve watched you grow and I’m touched by the growth of your love for our people. How can I grow to love like I see you love?”
I never have been asked a question like that, but, while she was asking, Allah (God) was giving me the answer. I answered her, and as I looked at the words going out of my mouth, I realized that Allah (God) had given to me something so profound that I determined that at the first chance I get, I would share it with you.
My subject today is taken from the Bible, and it’s called “The Two Great Commandments of Allah (God).” Jesus said, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
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The Old Testament, or the Torah, of the Bible is full of laws—what things you shall do and shall not do; and the blessings and the cursings if you do or don’t do them. The Holy Qur’an is a book of law, but Jesus said, “…On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
If you have a hanger and you have nothing to hang it on, you can’t hang up that which you want hung. So prophets who brought law come out of the Love of Allah (God) for the people, the Love of Allah (God) for His creation.
You don’t need law if you’re not lawless. Law only prescribes the limits that Allah (God) imposes on the human being for your growth, your development, and your success in the life that He gives you.
When you grow starting with law, starting with imposing limits on yourself, you grow into that out of which the law came. You grow into love. You grow into Allah (God). Then there’s no more need for law, because love is the essence of the law; and there is no law greater than love.
I looked at this word “love” and thought to myself how we have messed it up. You say, “I love you,” but you don’t know what that word “love” means! You use it in such a weak, cheap way because you don’t understand the word and the principle that undergirds the word. If you did, you wouldn’t be in the shape that you’re in. Your life is a loveless life.
You cannot separate self from Allah (God), because the self and Allah (God) are One. To know self is to know Allah (God), because Allah (God) is the Creator of the self and the self that He gave you in His Image is Himself. If you don’t have love, you don’t have life.
These are the same words. The Bible says, “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” People today think they’re living life, but what they call life is really death. And what you call love is really hate. I’m going to prove it.
You receive gifts, and you give gifts. And you have a tendency to love those who give you gifts, but, nobody has given a gift like Allah (God) gives. He gives you eyes and then gives you something to look at. You have an Earth at which you can keep on looking and looking and looking.
And the more you look, the more you see, and the more you see, the more you marvel at a Mighty God. When you get tired of looking at the Earth, you lay down on the grass and look up at the wonders in the heavens above you. If you get tired, you can go down in the water and look at a world under the water.
You open the Earth, and another world is in the Earth. The more you look, the more you see. So the Master said, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” All you have to do is seek, but what you’re looking for is already here.
Knock and it shall be opened unto you. Ask and it shall be given, because Allah (God) is the Essence of love itself, and there is no love without Allah (God). If Allah (God) is not involved in your life, then love is not involved in you. And the words that you use are a mockery.
Mother, when you have your first child and you love it so much, and you put all you have into that little one, you may say to yourself, “Lord, I don’t know if I could ever love another child like I love this one.” Then you find out you’re pregnant again, and you’ve got more love for number two. Then if you have three, you have love for three.
You have four, you have love for four. It makes no difference how many you have, Allah (God) gives you the capacity to love whatever you bring. So when He says, “Love Me with all your heart,” you don’t know what all is until He stretches you, until you’re willing to be stretched. Allah (God) would not give you a Commandment that He knew you couldn’t fulfill.
When Jesus says that the first great Commandment is to love Allah (God) with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, he knows that each of us can do it. But you have to know why. I’m in debt to Allah (God) for the eyes that He gave me to see this marvelous creation.
I’m in debt to Allah (God) for the ears that He gave me that I can hear the sound of my mother’s voice, the sound of my brother, my sister, the sound of my teacher, the sound of music. I can hear it, and I love what I hear because Allah (God) gave me ears.
I loved the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He was my teacher. I loved him so much, I thought. And I did love him, and do love him, but was it love or was it that he satisfied a need? Think with me now.
Maybe you should say “I need” rather than “I love” because the word and our actions are not congruent. You’re hungry. You need food. You need the protein, the carbohydrates, the chemistry of what you eat, to keep what you love alive. When you fall in love with food, then you show how much you hate yourself.
The fact that I didn’t love myself meant I could never have loved Elijah Muhammad as much as I thought. And if you don’t love yourself, you can’t love Allah (God) as much as you would like. It starts with your recognition of Allah (God) and your recognition of yourself.
If you hate the fact that you’re Black, how could you love the God that made you Black? If you hate the nappiness of your hair and Allah (God) gave you that hair, how can you love Allah (God) and hate what Allah (God) has made? You’re lying to yourself. You’re lying to your wives, your husbands, your friends, because you can never love your neighbor except to the degree that you love yourself.
And your love of Allah (God) is tainted. It’s only based on what Allah (God) can do for you. And you love people based on what you expect people to do for you. If they ever stop doing for you, what happens to your love? So your love and our love has a condition to it.
I found out as a young minister that I loved Allah (God), I loved the resurrection of our people, but I also loved the applause. You noticed that I told you today not to applaud so much, but to listen and think. I don’t love that anymore. But when I was a child, I spoke like one. Now I’m becoming a mature man, and I have to put away childish things. I want you to hear me today.
I told this sister that I really didn’t love myself. I loved Elijah Muhammad and his family. I would do anything for him and his family, but I wouldn’t do it for mine. And I have to analyze that now. How could I look after Muhammad’s wife and don’t look after mine? How could I sacrifice for Muhammad’s children and neglect mine?
I could say, “it’s the cause. I’m for the Nation!” But I’m a liar if I say that I’m for the Nation and not for my family, when my family is the essence of the Nation. When you neglect your family, you have neglected the Nation. When you uphold your family and look out for your family, you’re looking out for the Nation.
When I began to answer this sister’s question about love, I said, “You know, sister, the more I fell in love with me, the more I could demonstrate love for you, because you and I are from the same source.”
And the more I could fall in love with me—not in a vain way—the more I could love Allah (God) Who Created me. I soon will be 70 years old, and I’m just learning how to love. It’s a long distance, brother, but it’s better to learn at 70 than never to learn at all.
I told the sister, “Go home and write down all the things about yourself that you love. And everything about yourself that you love is of Allah (God).
And on the other side, write down the things about yourself that you don’t like, and that’s what you’ve got to work on in order to love yourself more. Until you do that, you can’t love people any more than you love yourself. And you cannot love Allah (God) any more than you love yourself.”
And this is why the teaching of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad is the greatest message that you could receive, because in it is a profound knowledge of Allah (God) and a profound knowledge of self. You can only love yourself based upon what you know of yourself.
Lati Group, owned by Yossi Lati and the fashion company Renuar, launched its new residential project “Lati Kadima” in Kadima-Zoran this week - and has already achieved overwhelming success. At the launch event, around 80 apartments were sold under the government’s target price program and an additional 6 on the open market. As of now, only 20 units remain for sale - all of them spacious garden apartments and penthouses, designed for families seeking a high-quality lifestyle in a refined and intimate residential setting.
The project consists of 120 apartments spread across 12 boutique buildings, each three stories high, built over six plots. The planning was entrusted to the award-winning architecture firm A.B. Architects and includes stylish lobbies, high-quality finishes, and a strong emphasis on privacy for each unit.
The development is located near parks, playgrounds, and sports fields, with quick access to Highway 4 and planned proximity to schools and kindergartens. The apartment sizes are around 150 square meters, with balconies or gardens ranging from 90 to 200 square meters. The company notes that the apartments have been designed to provide the ultimate living experience, with an emphasis on comfort, privacy, and modern design.
''Lati Kadima'' Project (credit: Renderings by Albi)
Construction is expected to last about three years, with prices starting at NIS 5.5 million. Lati Group, active for over 20 years, is a G-5 classified (unlimited) contracting company with experience in building thousands of housing units and commercial centers across the country, including in areas such as the Krayot, Akko, Or Yam, Netanya, and Eilat.
Yossi Lati, CEO and Owner: “The enthusiastic response at the launch event only confirmed what we already knew - ‘Lati Kadima’ is a sought-after project that brings a new level of quality of life to the heart of the Sharon region. Only 20 apartments remain - this is a real opportunity.”
Raw papaya can help reduce uric acid levels and relieve joint pain.(photo credit: Albi) Vitamin A, also abundant in papaya, is essential for the proper functioning of the body's natural defenses. It plays a crucial role in maintaining healthy vision and may help prevent age-related macular degeneration. Carotenoids and flavonoids, other components found in papaya, possess anti-inflammatory properties that contribute to overall health and wellness. The enzyme papain, contained in papaya, aids in breaking down proteins and facilitates digestion, which is particularly beneficial for those suffering from constipation. Consuming papaya can prepare the digestive system to receive nutrients more effectively. 'Papain not only helps in digestion but also helps in breaking down and eliminating uric acid,' reports Jansatta. For individuals dealing with high uric acid levels, raw papaya can be especially helpful. It provides relief from joint pain and swelling and assists in gradually dissolving uric acid crystals due to its alkaline nature. Some studies found that papaya has a hypoglycemic effect on the body, decreasing blood glucose levels. 'This property of papaya could be advantageous for individuals managing blood sugar levels,' explains Everyday Health. 'The consumption of beta-carotene, an antioxidant also found in papaya, can reduce the risk of cancer. Among younger men, diets rich in beta-carotene may have a protective function against prostate cancer, according to a study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Biomarkers,' states Medical News Today. Papaya is low in calories and rich in fiber, making it an ideal choice for those aiming to lose weight. Its combination of vitamins, potassium, and fiber contributes to heart health, potentially helping to prevent heart diseases, which are among the leading causes of death worldwide. Furthermore, due to its vitamin A content—a nutrient necessary for the production of sebum that keeps hair hydrated—papaya may help improve hair health. Enthusiasts often recommend eating papaya in the morning on an empty stomach to maximize its health benefits. Consuming it before other foods allows papain to prepare the digestive system for better nutrient absorption. Regular consumption of papaya enhances digestion and contributes to overall well-being. It is important to note that individuals with a latex allergy may also be allergic to papaya because it contains enzymes called chitinases. As with any dietary changes, it is advisable to consult with a healthcare professional, especially for those with existing health conditions or concerns. Papaya's versatility adds to its appeal. It can be enjoyed raw, blended into smoothies, or added to salads, bringing both flavor and health benefits to the table. Its nutritional richness and delightful taste make papaya more than just a fruit—it is a valuable addition to a healthy and balanced diet.
Fast-forward to the present day as you look around. We truly have so much to be thankful for, and we should be so grateful that we’ve been given the privilege to live here. But more than ever before, we seem to be missing this very important message. How often are you spared from danger, bad things or misfortune, and all the while you may be neither aware nor appreciating it? Whether it is the food you eat without choking, the car ride you take without injury, or the decision you make to do or not do something that inadvertently turns out to be the wise choice, these things in themselves are little miracles. And since COVID, the war, and everything else, despite our deep pain – and there is plenty – we have been blessed with so much. How are we meant to show our gratitude? What is our role in all of this?
An illustrative image of a note saying 'Today I Am Grateful.' (credit: Albi)
Having awareness of, and being thankful for, all that you have can change your entire outlook on life. For those making a small blessing over food, for example, it can give them a moment in which to pause, take notice, and have greater appreciation for the food they put in their mouth.
Thanking someone for a good deed or actually doing a good deed yourself for someone else’s benefit requires going out of your way – taking a detour. It may require an investment of time, often goes against an “I want it now” immediate gratification philosophy, and takes you off course if you’re feeling pressured and focusing on your individual success. Or does it?
Perhaps what you may not have seen is how a totally different approach to life may be exactly what will lead to greater fulfillment. It may just have enabled you to be in the right place at the right time. Perhaps the goal isn’t in successfully “getting there,” but instead it is the act of going there or “living life” that makes us successful. If we travel with the right set of values, every step of the journey has potential to be wonderful, and the end destination may be less important.
Focusing on someone else and not on yourself may be the very thing you are meant to be doing because you play such an integral role in helping to make our wonderful country even better. Look around and see how much people are doing for others, and you, too, will see the everyday miracles. Only when we learn to work together will we fully appreciate what the lessons are that we are meant to learn.
Here are some suggestions to help you create your own miracles:
1. Let go of things. Decide when it is time to move on and not hold a grudge.
2. Anger gets in the way of forgiveness and your ultimate happiness. Slow down. Take a step back and not forward when you get angry. Count to 10, breathe.
3. Choose to see the cup as half full instead of half empty. See each drop put in as a blessing.
4. Be happy with yourself for what you have, and don’t dwell on what you don’t have. Being rich is in the eye of the beholder. You can feel like a billionaire; all you have to do is look around.
5. Smile. If outwardly you can be happy, then your inside will begin to radiate with joy as well. Smiles are contagious, and those around you will want to be with you and experience your joy.
6. Don’t wait to appreciate things. Seize the moment. It might not come again. Change “I will be happy when...” to “I am happy now because I am grateful for...”
7. Say “Thank you” for even the smallest things. See how your world can change as a result. Notice and appreciate each other and each moment as you go through your day.
8. Appreciate all that nature has given you for free.
9. Never think that what you were given was not enough and look for more. Let go of expectations. Be grateful for everything you have.
"The research confirms that reducing sitting time may be a promising strategy for preventing deterioration of neurological functions and the cognitive decline resulting from it," said the head of the research team from Vanderbilt University, according to Sky News. This statement underscores the study's implication that merely adhering to recommended exercise guidelines may not be sufficient to protect against the negative effects of prolonged sitting.
Neuroscientist Marissa Gogniat from the University of Pittsburgh also emphasized the importance of minimizing sedentary behavior. "Reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease is not just about exercising once a day," she stated, according to Scienze Notizie. Gogniat noted that decreasing the amount of time spent sitting is crucial for lowering the risk of cognitive decline associated with aging.
The findings challenge the common belief that physical activity can fully offset the detrimental impacts of extended sitting periods. Instead, the research suggests that prolonged sedentary behavior is an independent risk factor for brain deterioration. Volunteers who sat more exhibited more pronounced neural atrophy, including faster reductions in hippocampal thickness, regardless of their levels of physical exercise.
Previous studies have linked excessive sitting to heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. This new research adds neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer's disease to the list of health concerns associated with a sedentary lifestyle. According to Vice News, "This brain shrinkage occurs even in individuals who engage in physical exercise for the duration recommended by specialists."
“Integration” vs. “Separation”: Which Way Should We Go?” For some of us, the word “integration” conjures up a lot of the pictures of the “1960s” when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and so many of our Black leaders and a host of young men and women went into the streets and marched for integration of public places such as restaurants, hotels, motels, rest rooms, etc.;
Marching and suffering for a “Voting Rights” Bill because these wonderful brothers and sisters and these well-meaning leaders of our people felt that it was time that Black people share in “The Promise” of America.
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That “promise” being “liberty and justice for all,” “a piece of the economic pie”; that “promise” being “full-fledge citizenship” with all of the rights and privileges of that citizenship.
On the other hand, there was the principle teacher of “separation,” the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
We know that before the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the great and Honorable Marcus Garvey advocated separation. We know that Noble Drew Ali also spoke of separation. We know that the Communist Party back in the 1920s and 1930s also advocated separation.
Although decades have gone by since the principle advocate of separation stood up, the issue of “separation” became a great issue when President Abraham Lincoln was on the scene, and other presidents after him, where there was this constant battle of
1) “Should the descendants of African slaves in America stay, and we become a part of the American way of life?” or 2) “Should we, as Black people, leave and return to our own self, our own kind, our own people and become an independent nation?”
Today, we have to look at the “Integration” and “Segregation,” and behind these words discover meaning, and behind the meaning discover the intent of the parties who are advocating either way.
If the intent of the Government in advocating integration is to trick us into believing that our 400-year-old enemy has now become our “friend,” and that we should forgive and forget and be glad to take part in this great American way of life, then the intent is evil. So the result of such evil intent can never bring justice to a people who are aggrieved.
We now have to know not just the word and what it means, but we have to analyze the motivation as best we can of the United States government in advocating integration for Blacks.
Then, we have to look at the practicality of “integration” or “separation”—which will work? And if integration will work, how? If separation will work, how? And then let’s come to an equitable agreement on what we shall do.
Integration, many times forced under armed guard, (right photo) decimated Black institutions in America. Photos: MGN Online
Understanding ‘segregation’, ‘separation’ and ‘integration’
What is “segregation”? When people criticized the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, they said “Oh, that man wants segregation!”—but what does it mean?
Segregation is “separation of an inferior by a superior.” In the house where we grew up, mother and father told us which entrance to come in, do you remember? That is, if we had two entrances to our door or house; sometimes it was only one, and you had to come in there.
But if mother fixed her living room up real pretty and didn’t want you messing it up, she would tell you before she went to work: “Don’t go in that living room”—these are orders from your superior; and if you venture into that living room with your company, “You’re going to get it when I come home.
In fact, I don’t want you having any company in my house when I’m gone! Do you understand?” And you always said, “Yes, yes, I understand Mom/Dad.” That’s “segregation,” which is enforced on by “superiors.”
The condition that you are in here in America is definitely an inferior one, right? You don’t have any money, you haven’t made a way for yourself, you’re not bringing any food in the house, so “mother” has the right to tell you when to come, when to go and what room you are going to stay in.
And if you “act up”: “Go to your room and stay there.” That’s “segregation,” brothers and sisters. Mr. Muhammad couldn’t be advocating that! That is what White people set up in order to set themselves apart from you and me.
They were in the superior position while we were in the inferior position, so they set us apart: “You go over there, you live on that side of the tracks and you’d better not cross over.”
This is the way it’s been, and every time we moved we’ve had to pay a price for disobeying the unwritten rule of a man who thinks he’s superior that he put on a people that he has relegated to an inferior position. So we understand “segregation.”
The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad
Now, “separation” is a little different from “segregation”. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad has said to us that separation is a voluntary act done by two equals who realize that they cannot get along in peace, so they come to a decision that it is “best for us to separate: You go your way, I’ll go mine.”
And within the word “integrate” is the word integer which, in Mathematics, is a term that means “something that is whole; a whole number.”
The reason you call a whole number an “integer” is because that which is now “whole” at one time was a fraction; so when you bring a fraction into a whole number, you have brought it from a part to a whole and you call that whole an “integer.”
The word “integrate” or “integration” conveys a similar meaning: “People who are separate, we want to make them whole, so we develop a policy that will bring them together.”
While in Mathematics it is the process of finding the “least common denominator” to bring a fraction into a whole number, in politics you evolve a policy—which is really a “strategy”—to bring dissimilar things together into a whole.
The Strategy of those who want to continue Oppression
Notice that I said “integration in politics” is a policy which indicates a “strategy.”
America is considered “the melting pot” of the world, right? The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor has on it, “… Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” This is really not talking to the world at large; it’s talking to Europe because “The Golden Door” means that America is to represent “heaven” for European refugees.
America has been a land of opportunity for Italian, Greek, Polish, Irish and Russian immigrants, is that right? For Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians; for Spaniards, Portuguese, French and Dutch people. …
They all have come to America, and the policy, the strategy, of the United States government is to minimize their cultural heritage back in Europe and to maximize an “American heritage” so that they could be integrated into the fabric of what is called “American Society.”
Though they say “Anglo-American,” “Italian-American,” “Greek-American,” “Polish-American,” or “this American, that American,” they all feel more akin to America than they do to the land that they are refuges from, and this means that they have successfully been integrated into “American society.”
So, the policy (strategy) of the United States government has worked for all Caucasians; these that have been integrated into American society are of the same racial strain, but of different ethnic backgrounds (some a little darker, some a little lighter; some a little blond, some a little brunette, but they’re all the same people).
But here is another “ingredient”… When it comes to “Asiatic” or “African” people, you’ve got something different now that has entered into this “American society.” But to this very day, the Chinese are not integrated, the Japanese are not integrated—and they don’t ask for it.
They run their own “China Town,” their own “Japanese Town,” would you agree? Their own politics run their neighborhoods, and they have their own separate economy inside the main American economy. Everybody makes their way, because they understand something that you have yet to understand.
They understand that they don’t have to be White to get out of the American economy. Their unity, their intelligence and their skill will enable them to get support for their own separate identity and their separate community yet within the body politics of the United States.
Due to faulty leadership, you and I have not yet realized that we can maximize our own strength in America and yet be separate from America and grow powerful. We feel that the only way to be successful is to “get in” with White folks, be like White folks!
Do what pleases White folks: Laugh for them, dance for them! Give your woman to them! Send your sons and daughters off to fight for them! You haven’t realized how to maximize your own strength in your own vital numbers.
But White people know your potential power, and they have said: “We cannot afford segregation anymore because the n- – – -rs aren’t going to take it. They are too militant now for us to tell them where to go, how to go, when to go. So we’ve got to abandon this as a strategy, as a policy.
We cannot afford to grant them separation and let them build a nation of their own. Even though they are big enough to have a nation, we can’t let them do this because if they become an independent nation, and join the community of nations and look out in the world market for help from other nations to help them get up on their feet, pretty soon they may join on to our enemies and come against us because they may remember what our fathers did to their fathers. So we cannot let them go….
We must not ever let ‘Negroes,’ ‘nrs’ or ‘Colored people’ even entertain the idea that they should have a nation of their own. That is unthinkable! We must make them think that everything that they want, everything that they need, they must seek it from us.”
So a strategy was evolved into a “policy,” and that policy became the pride of the government under John F. Kennedy, and it became the cry of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, and it became the cry of all sick and affected Black leaders who have always felt that “unless we are approved by White people, we are not approved at all”; unless we get some certificate from them saying “You’re okay,” you are really not okay.
So if you were looking at “separation” from the viewpoint of a White oppressor, separating a Black nation out from a nation founded in White Supremacy-based ideals is “crazy,” “absolutely insane” and “madness”!
“Integration”: The Trick to make you think you’re ‘free’, ‘equal’
“Integration” has destroyed the Black institutions of education. In the South, when you were in school under Black teachers, you had to know something about Black history on this side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Because of the education you received, this caused you to grow up with a degree of pride in the accomplishments of Black people, feeling, knowing and believing that you also could achieve. And even though you left the South and came North, you came North with a spirit to achieve.
And although when you got out of those Black high schools; and after those Black colleges wherein you learned whatever you learned and became a teacher some other profession, when you went to the big White Universities for your Masters or Doctorate degrees, your roots were so strong because of that segregated learning.
However, when they broke up segregation (which kept you together, but separate in an inferior position), they thought that integration would make you better. But if you go back down South now you’ll see that they’re going to schools and they have no knowledge of Black accomplishments.
This isn’t even being taught anymore in southern schools! The Black colleges are being systematically closed up or integrated into a major university system.
And Black hospitals that were flourishing in southern towns are closed up today and Blacks have no medical facilities in most of the major cities of the South and you are forced now to go into White hospitals to deliver your baby, not knowing whether you are going to come out with a baby, or not!
You are forced to go to White hospitals for them to experiment on you because you thought integration meant freedom, and you found that integration was a trick.
White people never intended for you to be a “full American” sharing in the rights and privileges of America. Since “integration” has been advanced as a policy and a strategy, White people know that it has failed. They don’t admit openly its failure, but there’s a pullback now from all of the issues that were sent through the integration policies, such as “bussing.”
“I’m going to bus you out of your neighborhood and take you to a better school where you can learn.” And where is this “better” school? Wherever White folks are, that’s the “better” school. But now White people are saying “I don’t want them n—-rs in our neighborhood!
I ain’t bussing my children into no Black neighborhood to achieve no ‘racial balance’—that’s out!” And they’ve gotten so strong now that they have made school boards pull back; the federal government is pulling back and the mood in the country now is shifting …
Now what is it that White people never wanted to do? They never wanted to let you go. their thinking is being turned by events in the international world and events on the national scene.
Today’s international pressures, domestic pressures, the forces of nature that are at work are absolutely forcing White people to take a stand—a very militant, anti-Black stand.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to us that Allah (God), Master Fard Muhammad, had The Power to turn their minds and force them to do what He Wills against their own will. He said Master Fard Muhammad has The Power to make them bow to His Will … And the Bible teaches that “every knee will bow and every tongue will be forced to confess.”
Whether you want to or not, circumstances will force you to do the very thing you don’t think you will ever do.
“The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that The Essentials of Life are Freedom, Justice and Equality. Anything that deprives you of freedom, deprives you of justice, deprives you of the essentials of life.
If this world of the Caucasian is a world designed to deprive you and me, Black people, dark people and their own people, of Freedom, Justice and Equality, then this means what? That separation is absolutely vital to your own life.”
