The Minister’s first statement described why a movement now is being made to take millions back to Washington, D.C.“We are over 50 years from the march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge, we are over 50 years from the first March on Washington, we are nearly 50 years from the murder of Malcolm X and the assassination of Dr. King, and nothing has changed,” said Min. Farrakhan. “We have loved our enemies and we have given all that we have for this nation. We built the country. Our sweat and our blood, our tears and our slave labor made America rich and powerful,” he added. “All the hell that we are catching for the last 150 years is under not the Confederate flag,” the Minster then thoughtfully paused, “but under the American flag.”

“We’re going back to Washington, because the capitol of the country represents the tyranny under which we live! That flag flies over the U.S. Congress,” said Min. Farrakhan. “The flag flies over the state capitols where we don’t get justice, the flag of America flies over red lining, over police brutality and mob attacks, the flag of America flies over the Supreme Court where we can’t get justice! So my question tonight is, how can we continue to support a flag and a country that does not support our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? We must go back, but we must go back with a determined idea that it is Justice…Or Else!