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He warned the crowd not to be distracted by the successes of re cent decades. "We have to come out of the thinking of a slave and come into the thinking and acting of free men and women," Farrakhan said. "We cannot depend on others for what the horrible condition of our people demands now that we do for our- selves." Farrakhan, 74, ceded leadership duties last year because o f illness after nearly three decades. He had surgery for prostate cancer in January. The address was the ^-ou's keynote speech for Farrakhan s Holy Day of Atonement, which also commemorated the 12th anniver sary of the Million Man March, held Oct. 16, 1995 in Washington, D.C. Farrakhan cut a healthy-looking figure in a gray and gold pinstriped suit, a wide smile flashing often under the trademark side-part in his wavy, black hair and thin-rimmed glasses. The fiery orator spoke for nearly 2 1/2 hours, touching on issues in clu d in g the d is p a ritie s blacks face in areas such as e d u c a tio n , healthcare, vot ing and incar c e ra tio n , the Jena Six case in Louisiana, and the recent arrest of Atlanta rap Farrakhan per T.I. on fed eral weapons charges, the war in Iraq and the Michael Vick federal dogfighting case. He criticized both the black middle and upperclasses and white America, and said that separation from a world of materialism and individualism was the only way the entire black com m unity could progress. In addition to racial disparities, violence committed against blacks at the hands of other blacks is also a threat — and one that did not exist during the struggle for civil rights, Farrakhan said. "I want to talk to my gang-bang ing family," he said. "You make it very difficult for me. In the '60s we knew who the enemy was. But in 2007 you are the enemy. 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