Well, what is the condition of The Modern “Sons of Men”? Here we are in the ghettos of America, almost on our “all fours.” We are rejected by civilized society, and despised. Oh, I am not talking about the few who are somewhat “educated”—but trained in the way of their former slave masters and their children. No. What I am talking about are the masses of our people.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to us, “No one man can rise above the condition of his people.” We have a Black president, and we are proud that one of us has been selected and elected to that high post. But he cannot escape being a member of a people who are despised, rejected and lost. “Lost,” in this sense, means incorrigible; “lost” in this sense means that “we cannot be healed from our condition” because scholars and scientists look at the condition of Black people and say, “They are hopeless, they are lost, they are incorrigible. No one can correct them!”

And then the worst description is “We are dead”: We have eyes, but we cannot see; we have ears, but we cannot hear; we have tongues, but we cannot speak a truth that has not entered our ears and our hearts. … “Blind,” “deaf” and “dumb”—at the mercy of our former slave masters and their children! The Sons of Men in a cave-like condition.

This beautiful country called the “United States of America” is, yet, referred to in the Bible as a “wilderness.” As Europe was a “wilderness” at the time of Prophet Musa’s arrival—no “cities,” no “towns,” just caves and savages and wild beasts. … Today in America: While we have some of the most beautiful cities in the world and the greatest road system; and America’s infrastructure, though it needs help to be revived with its bridges and skyscrapers—we can’t say that this is a “wilderness” like ancient Europe was. However, this is a wilderness in that the first four letters of the word wilderness is “wild.” And that which is wild, untamed, uncivilized, uncultured, unrefined—that’s “The American Way of Life” of a savage, brutal people.

In America there are more jails than any nation on this Earth, and more prisoners in prison than any nation on this Earth. There are more weapons in the hands of the American people than other nations of the Earth. This nation has been built on violence, uncivilized, uncultivated, brutal and wild “berserkers.” And that is why the prophet gave America one of those names of a “beast” in both the Book of Daniel and in the Book of Revelations.

But God has come … And He has given us The Knowledge of The Time and What Must Be Done.

You know, when our fathers went down to the shores of Virginia and wanted that ship “Jesus” to take them back to their native land and people, consider the scriptures of the Bible, in the Book of Psalms, Chapter 137 where it teaches us: “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion…” Those who “carried us away captive,” those who “wasted us” required of us mirth; and those who carried us away captive required of us a song, saying, “Sing us one of those songs of Zion

…” And the answer came back: “How can I sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?”

The Black man and woman in America are called “citizens” mockingly, because we are not given the rights and privileges of the White citizens of this country.

Our poor people are fighting every day for justice! Even the trained lawyers from among our people who have learned law and stand in a court to fight for justice for any member of our race that feels that they need “justice”: The judges look at that lawyer, the juries look at that lawyer; and oft-times our lawyers cannot get justice for us! Our Black lawyers, though they’ve presented their case with “skill” and “great acumen”, there is the mindset by others: “The nerve of them, to show that they can use The Enemy’s law to bring justice to those deprived!” Then The Enemy looks at them, and regardless of the wisdom of their fight for justice, the verdict comes back not in the favor of our people deprived of “justice.”