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Date of issue: 30.04.2015
Song language: English
Malcolm’s Theme |
Here in this final hour |
We come to bid farewell |
To one of our brightest hopes |
Extinguished long ago |
A man has memory of a champion |
What brave and gallant and he |
Who lies before us |
Unconquered still |
Honor, pride, and love |
Afro-American, was Malcolm |
A master of words was he |
To weave me through so long ago |
He wrote no more, it’s true |
I say, again, Afro-American |
As he would want me to |
To those who tell us |
To free his memory |
We smile and say to you |
I say, again, Afro-American |
As he would walk me to |
To those who tell us |
To flee his memory |
We smile and say to you |
Have you ever talked to |
Brother Malcolm? |
Or have him smile at you? |
Do you ever really listen? |
If so, you know this too |
Malcolm, was a man too |
A living black man too |
For this we honor him |
And so we honor, the best in ourselves |
The gift he gave us all |
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah |
Oh yeah, yeah now brother |
You loved me so |
We leave you now with words from |
El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz |
Before I get involved in anything I have to straighten out my position. |
And… |
which is clear, I am not a racist, in any form whatsoever. |
I don’t believe in |
any form of racism, I don’t believe in any form of discrimination or |
segregation. |
I believe in Islam, I’m a muslim. |
And there’s nothing wrong with |
being a, being a Muslim. |
Nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. |
It just teaches us to believe in Allah, as the God. |
And those of you who are |
Christians, probably believe in the same God. |
Because I think you believe in |
the God that created the universe, and that’s the one we believe in; |
the one who created the universe. |
The only difference being, you call him God, |
and I — we call him Allah, Jews call him Jehovah. |
If you can — If you |
understand Hebrew, you probably call him Jehovah too. |
If you can understand |
Arabic, you probably call him Allah. |
But since the white man, your friend, |
took your language away from you, during slavery, the only language you know |
is his language, you know, your friends language. |
So you call him — you call |
upon the same God he calls for. |
When he’s putting a rope around your neck you |
call for God and he calls for God. |
But the real religion of Islam doesn’t teach |
anyone to judge another human being by the color of his skin. |
The odd statement |
is used by the Muslim, to — uh, measure another man, is not the man’s color, |
but the man’s deeds. |
The man’s conscience behavior, the man’s intention. |
And when you use that measure — standard of measurement, or judgement, |
you never go wrong |
No more a man, but a seed |
Which will come forth again |
We’ll know him as a prince |
Our own black shining prince who died |
Because He loved us so |
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