With the words “I bring you civilized greetings in an uncivilized world,” Professor Griff began his message on the miseducation and oppression of black youth in America.

Speaking to about 50 people at the Carl Sandburg auditorium Tuesday night, Griff went back 500 years in history and made a point by point presentation of the European and American practice of “Minticide,” or the absolute destruction of a group of people’s mind and culture, against Africans and the black race in general.

Before he began his presentation, he laid several ground rules. First, he warned against becoming emotional because “if we become emotional, we tend to say things we’ll regret or don’t mean.”

Then, recognizing his message was controversial and would upset some people, he said, “I’m American, and being protected by the First Amendment, I tend to speak my mind. If I step on your toes, I’m not talking to you, I’m talking to the person next to you.”

Speaking on the need to focus on history to explain the struggle of blacks today, Griff said, “If we know what happened yesterday, we can understand today.”

With that explanation he went back to ancient Egypt, saying the Greeks went in and stole Egyptian philosophical thought, architecture and technology. Once this happened, “it was important to destroy Africa so they could steal their thoughts (and get away with it).”

He outlined history perverted to preserve the good image of the white race at the expense of others. He said Columbus had waged genocide against the indigenous people of the new world through biological and chemical warfare by wiping out millions with gonorrhea and syphilis.

Griff said the perversion of history was just one way whites kept blacks suppressed. He also stated religion as a prime method for control. Asking the audience to close its eyes and picture Jesus Christ, he then asked those who had pictured a black man to raise their arms. Only a handful did.

He said by making Jesus white, whites had created an image of God as a white man, and the opposite of that was black, which symbolized evil, the devil and ignorance. This way, religion would be used to make blacks see themselves as inferior.

Pulling out a dollar bill, he cited several examples of racism in the design. He used the picture of George Washington, who was a slave owner, as an example. Also, referring to the eagle on the back of the bill, he said an eagle hunts by grabbing its prey in its talons. Pointing at the eagle on the dollar bill, he said the arrows on its left talon signified the oppression of American Indians, and the black olive branch on the other side signified the oppression of blacks.

Then he talked about the new world order. He said Bush never got a chance to finish what he had started, and Clinton is too weak to do it, but eventually it would be reality.

In this new world order, paper money would be eradicated completely, replaced by credit cards that would be used for every type of transaction, from buying groceries, to filling your gas tank. That, with UPC codes on all products, would be used to control the amount of food black people could obtain, and in effect, limit their population.

All this would be done to protect the white race, which is a minority worldwide, from being wiped out by blacks.

Among other things, he went on to talk about the wrongness of celebrating holidays created by whites, such as the fourth of July, because when the U.S. achieved its independence, blacks were slaves in plantations.

He also talked about AIDS, saying it had been injected into blacks by the government to control their population, and that once their goals had been met, the government would miraculously announce a cure.

Griff went far in assuring the whites in the audience that his anger wasn’t directed at them. He said it was “them”, or the super-rich that controlled the country, they were the true racists. Still, he said all whites, regardless of whether they were racist or not, reaped the benefits of an inherently racist society.

“Being protected by the First Amendment, I tend to speak my mind. If I step on your toes, I’m not talking to you, I’m talking to the person next to you.”

Professor Griff, recent NIU speaker