Farrakhan: 'We'll Tear This Godd*mn Country Up'

"Teach your baby how to throw the bottle if they can. Fight!"

In a speech at a black college in Baltimore the Saturday before the Ferguson grand jury announcement, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said that if the demands of the Ferguson protestors for the indictment of Officer Darren Wilson were not met, “we’ll tear this goddamn country up!

In front of an enthusiastic crowd at Morgan State University, Farrakhan claimed that both the Quran and the Bible justified violence by the “law of retaliation” and accused the American judicial system of working only in the interest of whites. To the applause of his audience, the radical leader said “We going to die anyway. Let’s die for something.”

White people, Farrakhan argued, will only begin to listen to minorities through violence against whites:

As long as they [whites] kill us [blacks] and go to Wendy’s and have a burger and go to sleep, they’ll keep killing us. But when we die and they die, then soon we’re going to sit at a table and talk about it! We’re tired! We want some of this earth or we’ll tear this goddamn country up!

Rather than a peaceful response, Farrakhan encouraged the parents of teenagers to teach them to throw Molotov cocktails:

Teach your baby how to throw the bottle if they can. Fight!

Farrakhan directed some of his ire toward President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, both of whom he condemned for encouraging the black community to protest peacefully:

Tonight in Ferguson everybody is on edge. White folks have never been on edge after they killed a black man. Tonight they’re on edge; so on edge that our president has come out from behind the curtain to ask black young people: “Cool it. That’s not our way.” I heard you, Mr. President; and I asked myself a question: What brings you out of the shadows? Eric Holder, what brought you out now to tell black youth  to be peaceful? […]

I said to myself, Mr. President, why the hell don’t you go to the wicked police department? Why the hell don’t you stand up and tell them that your killing of black youth and brown youth is not going to hold no more? Why don’t you stand up?

Farrakhan also chided religious leaders for acting as “pacifier[s] for the white man’s tyranny on black people”:

And you preachers, your day of being the pacifier for the white man’s tyranny on black people.... You got to know they’re [young blacks] not going to hear you anymore!

The Daily Caller notes that during his incendiary speech, Farrakhan repeatedly referred to Ferguson as “Jefferson,” correcting the mistake after audience members shouted the right city name.

Partial transcript, video via TheDC

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