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+. ihe ee --Fur-crample: as long as my son lives in my house and de- pends upon me for sustenance, I can regulate his life; I can seg- régate him. As long as he is de- pendent upon me for food, cloth- ing and shelter I] can tell him what time to come in, what room to sleep in. and who his friends should be. As long as he is dependent upon me I can control his lifc, limit his movement, his liberty, his very behavior. .. a5 well as his choice: of friends. This is a form of segregation. Become Independent But as soon as my son grows up and begins to think he has become a man, HE SEPARATES FROM ME! This doesn't mean he is anti-father {or anti-me) . » but his. mental matarity makes him realize he can’t stay in my hause DEPENDANT UPON ME, ang ; expect, me to accept him as my equal He = SEPARATE house for himse’ if. He starts a family for himsez, and by being able to provide the necessities of life for himself and bis family, he proves that he is independent of me. His ability to make himself independent of me proves that he is a man Whereas I once had to care for him, he now cares for himself. He can do for himself and his farsiler arhat YT ha samy Whael . nave done for done for mine. He is now qualified to come and go as he wishes, and free to ‘choose his own friends. I am forced to recognize him. “His SEPARATION and DE- PARTURE from my home have placed him out of my jurisdic- tion: by J his own initiative he has’ becom: independent. — . . . 7 . - - -- eo. : id |teaves my house and sets up; a | | lt a 3 « —Lived Like Children" *: The Honorable Elijah Muham-. mad teaches us that for 400 years | our people, 20 million EX- SLAVES, have been living like “children” here in the white man’s house. We have waited for the white “father” of this house | to supply us with our every need: jobs, food, clothing, shelter. even schools. . . and yet we have nerve enough to resent it when the one we regard as the “father” treats us like children by sez- regating us; telling us where to eat, sleep, work or play. ‘The Honorable Elijah Muham- mad says that if we have be- come mature, and if we think we are now equal to the “great white father” who has been car- ing for us up to now, . . then we should prove it by SEPARAT- ING from the white man; by leaving his house, and by setting up housekeeping now for our- selves, Economie Future There can never be any such thing as equal JOB-OPPOR- TUNITIES unless the blacks own some factories just like the. whites. 4 White people came here poor? uneducated immigzants just fif- ty years ago, and some only ten years ago. They set up small factories and sma'i businesses: WHITE economic structure that they developed this inte the is the America of today. Those whites provided an economic fu- ture for their. children. Our people have been here in America for over 400 years We: have been so-called “free” for 100 years, and today the govern- ment economists say the pur- chasing power of our people is over $20 billion per year, hy than’ are the masses) * of _ psople ‘still jobless “ang i fey