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NATION OF ISLAM "yes, as a Muslim not a political leader but a minister for the Honorable ELIJAH MUHAMMAD, As long as America is supposed to be a free country and supposed to be based on democracy and is supposed to be for freedon, justice, and equality. And there are 20 million black people in the country, so-called Negroes who don't have these rights but are relegated to the realm of second class citizenship we don't believe that any progress has been made. "The Muslims who follow ELIJAH MUHAMMAD have been able to solve this problem. We have our own schools. We have our own schools in Chicago and in Detroit where we never have drop out problems. We never have any trouble with juvenile delinquency whatsoever. And in cities where we don't have our regular established schools, we have schools on Saturday and on Saturday our children are taught fespect fér parents, respect for authority, respect for teachers, respect for education and by taking advantage of these opportunities it instills in our children a love for education. We just don't have that problem and you wiil find in most of our Mosques across the country any of the so-called Negroes who come in who have the proper qualifications or are in the field of education we set them up as advice counselors for our ehildren right within the Mosques. Whenever the Muslim parent has children in school the Negroes who have education they will consult with this particular type of Negro and he will give our children instructions, he will check over what they are studying in school and Will also give them the advice , they will gi¥e them the incentive to go further in school and not to drop out. These are actually problems that we could solve ourseives: but as long as black people sit around and wait for someone else from the eutside to come and tell our children or give our children some kind of counseling in so far as the field of education is ecncerned we will always be on the bottom of the ladder.