Black Man's History by Malcolm X I want to thank Allah for
coming and giving to us our leader and teacher here in America,
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. I want to thank Brother Benjamin
at the outset for doing a wonderful job of opening up our eyes
and giving us a good preliminary basic understanding of the
means and the objectives of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and
also I am thankful to Allah for bringing so many people out here
tonight, especially just before Christmas. You know, it's next
to a miracle when you get this many of our people together so
close to Christmas interested in anything whatsoever that's
serious. And actually what this shows is the change that's
taking place among the so-called Negroes not only here in New
York but throughout the entire world. Today dark mankind is
waking up and is undertaking a new type of thinking, and it is
this new type of thinking that is creating new approaches and
new reactions that make it almost impossible to figure out what
the black man is going to do ne