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ts | ee ere But everyone else “profits and benefits from wat the Negre spends except the Negro him- self.” The lost money, according to i Malcolm X, is stacked away in|: white banks, as part of church funds, so that only the white ™man and’ the preacher can profit from it “Fhis same money,” stated (Coniinued on Page 3) (fontinued from Page 1} , the Impassioned orator, "hide is dead capital as far as you' concerned, is used to build jim crow housing, and loaned to the same white businessmen who discriminate against you iISCiNiINnagss Baise in jobs. But this Negro Preacher is thinking only of himself, is- terested only in his own wel- fare.” . “Malcolm X pleaded with the Negro preachers present to go back into their churches and put their members’ money to work for the members, instead of for the preacher and the white man. He suggested to them that instead of churches, which benefit only themselves, they build factories and super- markets, which would benefit them and their congregations. Supermarkets, he pointed out, could not only feed them, but employ them as well. He stress- the importance of this fouble function by reminding | the clergymen that we are the \iest te prosper during good times, and the first to suffer during hard times. Malcolm X concluded his iec- | ture by saying: i “Mr, Muhammad is teaching us how to build a. heaven ' (ECONOMIC SECURITY) for ourselves here on this earth. His teachings are awakening Negroes in America by the thousands. They now are he- ginning to see that there is to be no heaven ‘in the sky’, and ff the Negro preacher is not ready to start making IMMED- IATE AMENDS by showing them how to get soma heaven right here on earth, then the . Negro preacher will soon find | t himself left in the Negro church preaching only to him: | self.” —_——e —_———_—_——