By ANY means necessary Feb 1965 Malcolm X delivered this speech on the very night that his home in New York was firebombed.
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Malcolm X, transcribed and edited by the Malcolm X Museum and Noaman
Ali
You can listen to this speech, click here
http://www.themalcolmxmuseum.org/
February 14, 1965
note - Malcolm delivered this speech on the very night that his
home in New York was firebombed. He was terribly tired and worried,
yet he still showed up all the way in Detroit-- this shows his extreme
courage and determination.
This is probably his last speech outside of New York, and displays his
intellect and honesty, as well as his ideas and understanding close to
his death.
Distinguished guests, brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen,
friends and enemies:
I want to point out first that I am very happy to be here this evening
and I'm thankful [to the Afro-American Broadcasting Company] for the
invitation to come here to Detroit this evening. I was in a house last
night that was bombed, my own.
entire transcript here
http://www.malcolm-x.org/speeches/spc_021465.htm
long term strategy here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_strategy
The battle rages onward until JUSTICE prevails
Brothers and sisters, let me tell you, I spend my time out there in
the street with people, all kind of people, listening to what they
have to say. And they're dissatisfied, they're disillusioned, they're
fed up, they're getting to the point of frustration where they are
beginning to feel:
What do they have to lose?
And when you get to that point you're the type of person who can
create a very dangerously explosive atmosphere. This is what's
happening in our neighborhood, to our people. I read in a poll taken
by Newsweek magazine this week, saying that Negroes are satisfied. Oh
yes, poll you know, in Newsweek, supposed to be a top magazine with a
top pollster, talking about how satisfied Negroes are. Maybe I haven't
met the Negroes he met. Because I know he hasn't met the ones that
I've met.
But this is dangerous. This is where the white man does himself the
most harm.
He invents statistics to create an image, thinking that that image is
going to hold things in check. You know why they always say Negroes
are lazy? 'Cause they want Negroes to be lazy.
They always say Negroes can't unite because they don't want Negroes
to unite. And once they put this thing in the mind, they feel that the
Negro gets that into him and he tries to fulfill their image. If you
say you can't unite him, and then you come to him to unite him, he
won't unite because it's been said that he's not supposed to unite.
It's a psycho that they work, and it's the same way with these
statistics.
When they think that an explosive era is coming up, then they grab
their press again and begin to shower the Negro public, to make it
appear that all Negroes are satisfied. Because if you know that you're
dissatisfied all by yourself and ten others aren't, you play it cool;
but you know if all ten of you are dissatisfied, you get with it.
Well, this is what the man knows. The man knows that if these Negroes
find out how dissatisfied they really are -- and all of them, even
Uncle Tom is dissatisfied, he's just playing his part for now -- this
is what makes them frightened. It frightens them in France, it
frightens them in England, and it frightens them in the United States.
And it is for this reason that it is so important for you and me to
start organizing among ourselves, intelligently, and try to find out:
What are we going to do if this happens, that happens, or the next
thing happens? Don't think that you're going to run to the man and
say, "Look, boss, this is me." Why, when the deal goes down, you'll
look just like me in his eyesight; I'll make it tough for you.
Yes, when the deal goes down, he doesn't look at you in any better
light than he looks at me.
They call it a humanitarian project and that they're doing it in the
name of freedom. And all of this, these glorious terms, are used to
pave the way in your mind for what they're going to do.
Then they take Tshombe. You've heard of Tshombe. He's the worst
African that was ever born. The lowest type that was ever born. He's a
murderer himself. He's the murderer of Lumumba, the former prime
minister of -- the first and only rightful prime minister of the
Congo.
He's an international -- he's a murderer with an international
stature as a murderer.
Yet the United States government went and got Tshombe in Spain, and
put him as the head of the Congolese government.
This is criminal!
Here's a man who's a murderer, so the United States takes him, puts
him over the Congo, and supports his government with your tax dollars.
Now -- they hired him to occupy the position as head of state over
the Congo -- a killer! He is a hired killer himself! His salary's paid
by the United States government. And he turns -- his first move is to
bring in South Africans, who hate everything in sight.
He hires those South Africans to come and kill his own Congolese
people. And the United States, again, pays their salary.
Tonight one of the things that has to be stressed is that which has
not only the United States very much worried but which also has
France, Great Britain, and most of the powers, who formerly were known
as colonial powers, worried also, and that primarily is the African
revolution. They are more concerned with the revolution that's taking
place on the African continent than they are with the revolution in
Asia and in Latin America.
But since the French government and the British government and this
government here, the United States, know that I have been almost
fanatically stressing the importance of the Afro-American uniting with
the African and working as a coalition, especially in areas which are
of mutual benefit to all of us. And the governments in these different
places were frightened because they know that the Black revolution
that's taking place on the outside of their house --
And I might point out right here that colonialism or imperialism, as
the slave system of the West is called, is not something that's just
confined to England or France or the United States. But the interests
in this country are in cahoots with the interests in France and the
interests in Britain. It's one huge complex or combine, and it creates
what's known as not the American power structure or the French power
structure, but it's an international power structure. And this
international power structure is used to suppress the masses of dark-
skinned people all over the world and exploit them of their natural
resources.
So that the era in which you and I have been living during the past
ten years most specifically has witnessed the upsurge on the part of
the Black man in Africa against the power structure.
He wants his freedom.
Now, mind you, the power structure is international, and as such, its
own domestic base is in London, in Paris, in Washington, D.C., and so
forth. And the outside or external phase of the revolution, which is
manifest in the attitude and action of the Africans today is
troublesome enough.
So that once you realize that I believe in the Supreme Being who
created the universe, and believe in him as being one -- I also have
been taught in Islam that one God only has one religion, and that
religion is called Islam, and all of the prophets who came forth
taught that religion -- Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, all of them.
And by believing in one God and one religion and all of the prophets,
it creates unity. There's no room for argument, no need for us to be
arguing with each other.
So when I got over there and went to Makkah and saw these people who
were blond and blue-eyed and pale-skinned and all those things, I
said, "Well!" But I watched them closely. And I noticed that though
they were white, and they would call themselves white, there was a
difference between them and the white one over here. And that basic
difference was this: in Asia or the Arab world or in Africa, where the
Muslims are, if you find one who says he's white, all he's doing is
using an adjective to describe something that's incidental about him,
one of his incidental characteristics; so there's nothing else to it,
he's just white.
But when you get the white man over here in America and he says he's
white, he means something else. You can listen to the sound of his
voice -- when he says he's white, he means he's a boss.
That's right. That's what "white" means in this language. You know
the expression, "free, white, and twenty-one." He made that up. He's
letting you know all of them mean the same.
"White" means free, boss. He's up there. So that when he says he's
white he has a little different sound in his voice. I know you know
what I'm talking about.
This was what I saw was missing in the Muslim world. If they said they
were white, it was incidental. White, black, brown, red, yellow,
doesn't make any difference what color you are. So this was the
religion that I had accepted and had gone there to get a better
knowledge of it.
But despite the fact that I saw that Islam was a religion of
brotherhood, I also had to face reality.
And when I got back into this American society, I'm not in a society
that practices brotherhood. I'm in a society that might preach it on
Sunday, but they don't practice it on no day -- on any day. And so,
since I could see that America itself is a society where there is no
brotherhood and that this society is controlled primarily by racists
and segregationists -- and it is -- who are in Washington, D.C., in
positions of power.
And from Washington, D.C., they exercise the same forms of brutal
oppression against dark-skinned people in South and North Vietnam, or
in the Congo, or in Cuba, or in any other place on this earth where
they're trying to exploit and oppress.
This is a society whose government doesn't hesitate to inflict the
most brutal form of punishment and oppression upon dark-skinned people
all over the world.
Nothing much has changed , more white christian and jewish war crimes
continue unchecked world wide
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