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100~6295 ——_ b|< Lm 77 spoke on the value of racial up-lift and stressed the good that the Grand Sheik was doing in bringing such knowledge of ths Moorish teachings to them and that they no longer have to think of themselves as being people unrespected by other races because they have no flag. He pointed out that they no longer had to consider themselves es Colored Americans ar Negro Americans, but rather as Moorish Americans because according to dictimary, the ward ‘Colored’ mans dye, tinted, painted, or dipped, and the word ‘Negro! was a slave word, which had no meaning. He also ax- pressed the economic valus, inasmch as the status of the people will change after the war. He pointed out that it would be best for the Moorish Americans to prepare themselves for the change now and expressed his gratefulness for the new mythical teachings of the Grand Sheik. He deplored conditions of the people, wir have not been aroused by this emergency (meaning that Colored people should take advantage of present world conditions). The next speaker was Grand Sheik eS). His ‘opening re- marks were in honor of Allah and the people of Islaum. Ee then described the Moorish movement as the one which teaches tha peo- ple not to hate. He indicated that he has been educated in Af- rica. He explained that there was no such people as Negroes or Colored people but rather that they should be known as Moorish Americans, regardless from what part of the globe they originated from. He went on to state that most people are under the impres- sion that the Negro never had a flag and that this was a slave teaching handed down to them because in reality the Moorish flag, which he displayed, (a flag with a light green background with a large red star in the center) was the oldest inown flag to civili- zation and that the African people are the founders or the mother af all civilizatio. He explained that the Mocrish movement was entirely patriotic. Turner went on to state that he was named after Frederick Doug- las, the great Negro liberator, who told Abraham Lincoln; tif you do not let these people go, there would rise from among them their om leaders, who will free them.' Turner went on to explain that the Negro people in America are still slaves accarding to the Dred-Sc ott decision, because they are still being lynched in Amer- ica. He explained that the Negro is being discriminated against in the Armed Forces. al