I understand the vicious cycle. I have had to put young men in jail for doing wrong and I see the system that's been set up to keep them there. Not to repair them, not to repair their spirit, not to repair their minds, but to keep them bound up, and we need to change that. Only righteousness is gonna do it. They want young people to go to jail for 40, 50, 60 years -- that's what they plan. And then they're gonna build factories on the same land that they got the prison so they can move those prisoners from the prison to the prison industrial factory -- making beds, making clothes, doing everything but rehabilitating them to come out and live as men and women should. That is free labor - 21st century slavery. That is what is being prepared -- people are building prisons, they are putting money into prisons -- stock--American Express invests in prisons, Victoria's Secret's clothes are made by prison labor -- that's her secret.

We need to understand the principalities of which we are warring against -- money is their god. They have set up a system where you don't look for crime to go down, you look for crime to go up -- cause now you're getting a return on your investment and our children are the commodities. And I'm telling you as someone inside the system. I'm telling you what I know.

It's time for us to stand up. We have to understand something. When you  see someone coming out of someone's house with a VCR or with a TV, 9 times out of 10 it is a black youth. We are preying on each other -- It's not white folks coming into our community to steal our cars or break into our houses. We are preying on each other. People around the corner from one another are breaking into each others homes.

So we are warring against principalities. If we want to start correcting what is wrong, we gotta start at home. We have to start looking at our community as a whole... We're gonna have to start reaching outside of our own sons and daughters and start talking to these other young people and bring them into our homes. And I'm not telling you something that I don't already do. I don't just count my blood children as my children; I've got three or four other sons that I have taken into my home. Each of us must embrace some other young man. The system is not going to change them. You can't make somebody humane and treat them inhumanely. I can't take somebody into jail and disrespect them and have them beaten and not feed them right and not give them a blanket, and then expect them to come out and treat other people right. It's not gonna happen. We have already taken away their freedom, you don't need to take away their dignity as well.

And when they come out, they've gotta be able to come into something. Not just be let loose -- much like they did with us during slavery -- they just let us loose -- didn't have nowhere to go. They just say, "You are all free!", but everyone is standing around looking -- where we gonna go. They just let us loose. So we gonna have to set something up so that they can continue to get that support, so they can get the love that they need to fight the fight cause it's hard when you been out there in the street and it's the only life you know -- you gotta be shown another way.

The war is gonna be waged by us in our communities. It's gonna be waged by us as we take them in and show them another way. And I've been out there. The police can't do it -- the job of the police is to incarcerate and every police officer is not like me. There are some like me. But some are just out there -- they're gonna go by the book. They're gonna beat people up, put them in jail. They're not going to take the time to try to change them. So you all, as the saints, gonna have to do it. We have to find a way to reach them and that is our salvation.

Don't be afraid of these young men out here slinging rocks -- selling drugs. A lot of times I go and talk to them. I go and talk to them, and I'm a captain. I say to them, I am out here as a police officer  - a captain - and I just wanna talk to you and I talk to them about why they are doing what they are doing. I tell them about another way - come visit with 
me - man to man - not police officer to drug dealer. I wanna show you another way. Nobody stops to talk to them. They are afraid of them so they pass them by - ignore them or call the police. But who's gonna talk to them and who will show them another way. Who  is gonna reach their hand out to them and bring them in. If it's not you, then who's gonna do it. Everybody's waiting on somebody else. The police can't do it. They're not gonna take the time and they are not gonna come across like I might, like you might.

So you all, as the saints, are gonna have to start the movement and that's what it is -- much like the one Jesus Christ was involved in - cause that was a revolution "the change of things" and he stood up against principalities in which he lost his life so that we might have life - and we have to be just like him. Just like him and we can't forget about the sisters either. They have a part to play in this also. Unless we take to the streets and do something about it, that cycle will continue.

So I'm asking you all to dedicate yourself to this -- to try to make a difference - nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.