Malcolm X Message To The Grassroots | House Negro/Field Negro

and for the few moments we have left we want to have an impromptu check-in between you and I we want to talk down to earth in a language that everyone here can easily understand we all agree tonight in all the Speakers have agreed that United States The United States has a very serious problem. Not only does the United States have a very serious problem, but our people have a very serious problem. America's problem is us, we're here, probably the only reason it has a problem is because it doesn't love us. here and every time you look at yourself, black, brown, red or yellow, a so-called black, you represent a person who poses such a serious problem for America because you are not, once you face this as a fact, then you can start. chart a course that will make you seem intelligent instead of unintelligent what you and I must do is learn to forget our differences when we come together we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists you don't get into hell because you're a Baptist and you don't get involved in hell because you're a Methodist, you know you don't get into hell because you're a Methodist or a Baptist, you don't get into hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican, you don't get into hell because you're a Mason Arnel and you sure as hell won't catch hell because you're an American because if he was an American you wouldn't catch a hair, you catch him, I'll throw you a black man, you can tell us all to catch him. hell for the same reason, then we are all black, the so-called black, second class citizens, ex-slaves, you are nothing but an ex-slave, you don't like to be told that, but what else are you? slave, you didn't come here on the Mayflower, you came here on a slave ship in teams like a horse, a cow or a chicken, and you were brought here by the people who came here on the Mayflower, you were brought here by the so-called pilgrims of ours founding fathers they were the ones who brought you here we have a common enemy we have this incoming we have a common oppressor a common exploiter in a common discriminate so once we all realize that we have a better common enemy then we will unite at the base What we have in common and what we have most in common is that the enemy, the white comrade, is an enemy for all of us.

I know some of you think some of them are not enemies, time will tell on the back side. and I think 1954 was the first unity meeting in centuries of black people and once you study what happened at the Bandung conference and the results of the Bandung conference, it actually serves as a model for the same procedure as you and I can use to get our The problematic song has been made. All nations united. They were obscure nations of Africa and Asia. Some of them were Buddhists. Some of them were Muslims. Some of them were Christians. Some of them were Confucians.

Confucianists. Some were atheists despite their religious differences. They bonded a little more. communists some were socialists some were capitalists despite their economic and political differences they united they were all black brown red or yellow the number one thing that was not allowed to attend the Bandung conference was the white man, he couldn't come once They shut out the white man and found they could reunite once they kept him out. Everyone else got involved in the live combat. This is what you and I need to understand and these people who came together did not have nuclear weapons.

They didn't have jet planes, they didn't have all the heavy weaponry that the white man has, but they had unity, they were able to overcome their little differences and agree on one thing: although an African came from Kenya and was being colonized by an Englishman and another African came from the Congo and was being colonized by the Belgians and another African came from Guinea and was being colonized by the French and another came from Angola and was being colonized by the Portuguese when they came to the Dandong conference they looked at the Portuguese and after friendship and after the English and after the other Dutch in Lenoir they realized that the only thing they all had in common was that they were all from Europe, they were all from everyone, they were blonde Europeans with blue eyes and white skin, they began to recognize who the enemy was. the same man who was colonizing our people in Kenya was colonizing our people in the Congo the same man in the Congo was colonizing our people in South Africa and in Southern Rhodesia and in Burma than in India and in Afghanistan and in Pakistan They realized that all over the world, where a dark man was being pressured by a dingo, he was being oppressed by a white man, where the dark man was being singled out, he was being exploited by a white man, so they united under the foundation that they had a common enemy and when you and I here in Detroit and in Michigan and in America, who have been awakened today, we look around us and we realize that here in America we all have a common enemy, whether In Georgia or Michigan, whether in California or New York, it is the same man.

Blue eyes, blonde hair and pale skin see me, so what we have to do is what they did. They agreed to stop fighting among themselves. Whatever little spam they had they resolved between themselves. Gather. Don't let the enemy know. you have a disagreement instead of us expressing our differences in public, we have to realize that we are all the same family and when you have a family dispute you don't go out on the sidewalk if you do, everyone calls you rude, unrefined, uncivilized, Wild if you don't achieve it at home, you take it to solve it at home, you go into the closet, you discuss it behind closed doors and then when you go out on the street, the Poles come in front of our United Front and this is what we need.

What to do in the community, in the city and in the state, we must stop airing our differences in front of the white fellow, remove the white man from our number one meeting and then sit down and talk business with each other. I would like to make some comments about the difference between the black revolution and the black revolution there is a difference if both are equal and if they are not what is the difference what is the difference between a black revolution and a black revolution first what is a revolution A Sometimes I am inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word revolution lightly, without carefully considering what this word really means and what its historical characteristics are when studying the historical nature of revolutionaries the reason for a revolution the objective of a revolution and the result of a revolution and the methods used in a revolution you can change the words you can devise another program you can change your goal and you can change your mind look at the American Revolution in 1776 that revolution was for what 4 lanes how was it because What did they want the independence of the land?

How did it take place? Bloodshed number one. It was based on land. The basis of independence and the only way they could achieve it was bloodshed. The French Revolution. What was the basis of Les Lane against the landowner? it was four lanes how they got it bloodshed there was no love lost there was no compromise there was no negotiation I'm telling you, you don't know what our revolution is because when you find out what it is you will go back to the alley you will get out of the way Konami the rest in revolution what it was based on the land the lists of embargoes against the owner how they caused bloodshed you do not have a revolution that does not involve bloodshed and you are afraid to bleed I said you were afraid of Li while the white men sent you to Korea you bled he sent you to Germany you bled he sent you to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese you bled you bleed for the whites but when the time comes to see your own churches being bombed in black girls we murdered you have no blood you bleed when the white man says bleed you bite when the white man He says bang and you hit when the white man says but I hate to say this about us, but it's true that you're going to be nonviolent in Mississippi just as bad as you were in Korea.

How can you justify being non-violent in Mississippi in Alabama when your churches are being bombed and your girls are being murdered and at the same time you're going to get violent with Hitler and Tojo and someone else you don't even know if violence is wrong in America violence is wrong abroad if it is wrong to be violent defend black women in black children and black babies and black men then it is wrong for America to recruit us and make us violent abroad against her the Chinese Revolution they wanted land they threw the British in ah along with Uncle Tom's Chinese yes they did they set a good example when I was in prison I read an article and no Don't be surprised when I say I was in prison, you're still in prison that's what prison means in United States.

When I was in prison, I read an article in Life magazine that showed a 9-year-old Chinese girl, her father was kneeling and she was pulling. the trigger because he was an uncle from the city of China when they had the revolution there, they took a whole generation of Uncle Tom they simply annihilated him and in 10 years that girl became an adult woman no more times in China and today today she is one of the toughest, harshest and most feared countries on this earth by the white man because there are no uncle towns there from all our studies, history is best qualified to reward all research and when you see that you have problems, all you have What to do Is to examine the historical method used around the world by other people who had similar problems as yours and once you see how they got there then you will know how you can clear it up please there has been a black revolution revolution in Africa in Kenya.

The Mau Mau were revolutionaries they were the ones who made the word or hurroo they were the ones who put it in the foreground the Mau Mau were revolutionaries they believed in the scorched earth they knocked down everything that was put in the frying pan and their revolution was also based on the land a desire for land in Algeria the northern part of Africa a revolution occurred the Algerians were revolutionaries they wanted silly impressions they offered to let them integrate into frames they told the refrigerator to hell with the frames they wanted a land not another frames and they got involved in a bloody gang, so I cite these various revolutions, brothers and sisters, to show you that there is no peaceful revolution, there is no revolution to turn the other cheek, there is no such thing as a non-violent revolution only.

The only non-violent revolution is the Black Revolution, the only revolution based on yeast, your enemy is the Black revolution, the only revolution in which the goal is a non-segregated lunch counter, a non-segregated theater, a non-segregated park and Non-segregated public toilets, where you can sit next to them. for white people in the bathroom that is not a revolution the revolution is based on the land the land is the basis of all independence the wind is the basis of freedom justice and equality the white man knows what a revolution is he knows that the revolution black has global reach and scope nature the black revolution is devastating Asia devastating Africa is leading the way in Latin America the Cuban Revolution that is a revolution they overthrow the system the revolution is in Asia the revolution is in Africa and the white man is shouting because he sees the revolution in Latin America how it is I think it will react to you when you know what a real revolution is.

You don't know what a revolution is. If you knew, you wouldn't use that word. Our revolution is bloody. The revolution is hostile. The Revolution knows no compromises. The Revolution demolishes and destroys everything. that gets in your way and you're sitting here like you're not all these people, no matter how much you hate me. No, it needs a revolution. Who has heard of a revolution? tell me you don't do that in a revolution you don't sing anything you're too busy swinging it's based on land a revolutionary wants land so he can establish his own nation an independent nation these blacks ain't asking for no nation they're trying to crawl back to the plantation when you want a nation that is called nationalism when the blent when the white men were involved in a revolution in this country against England what was father he wanted this live with yourself another white nation that has weight nationalism, the American Revolution was a great nationalism , the French Revolution was white nationalism, the Russian Revolution - yes, it was white nationalism, you don't believe it, why do you think Khrushchev and Mill can't understand each other?

White nationalism, all the revolutions that are happening in Asia in Africa today are based on what black nationalism is. A revolutionary is a black nationalist. He wants a nation. He was reading some beautiful words from Reverend Clean pointing out why he couldn't meet with anyone else here in town because we were all afraid of being identified, wouldn't that be black nationalism? If you are afraid of black nationalism, you are afraid of the revolution and if you love the revolution, you love black nationalism, to understand this you have to go back to what the young brother here called the theblack from the

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the black from the house they lived in the house with the master they dressed quite well they are not good because they eat their food what he left, they lived in an attic or in the basement, but still they looked close to their master and loved the master more than the master loved himself.

They would give their lives to save their master's house faster than the master would save the house. Black, he is the master. so we have a good house here, the black house there, yes we have a good house when the teacher said that we, he said that we, that's how you can tell a black house if the lady, if the The minister's house caught fire, the black house would fight harder. to put out the fire then the master would do it if the master got sick the Negro house said what's wrong boss we think he identified with his master more than his master identified with himself and if you came to the Negro house and said let's run away we're going to escape we're going to Separate us that house, the Negro would look at you and say, man, you're crazy, what do you mean, separate us, where is there a better house than this?

We called it today because we still have a few houses running around here. This modern house. The black man loves his nest. She wants to live near him. He will pay three times what the house is worth, just the owner of a small neighbor, and then he will brag to "me." I'm the only black one here I'm the only one at my job I'm the only one in this school you're nothing more than our black house and if someone comes to you right now and says let's split up, you're saying the same thing that the black house said in the plantation what do you mean separated from America this good white man what are you going to get a better job than the one you have here I mean this is what you say I didn't leave anything in Africa that's what you say why did you leave your mind in Africa that the same plantation was the black man from the field the black man from the country those were the masses there were always more black people in the field than black people in the house the black man in the field caught him he ate leftovers in the house dead at the top of the hallway The black man in the field got nothing but what was left of the pig's entrails, nowadays they call it chitlins in those days they write in columns what they're worth gasps, that's what you weren't guts either and some of you still have the eaters feel that The black man was beaten from morning until night he lived in a hut in a hut he took off his clothes and hated his master I say he hated his master he was intelligent that black man from home loved his master but that black man from the country remembers that They were in the majority and they hated the master when the house caught fire he didn't try to put it out that black man from the field prayed for a wind for the breeze when the master got sick the black man from the field prayed that he would die if anyone came to the black field and said: Let's separate, let's listen, let's run, he didn't say where we are going and he said that any place is better than him.

You have country blacks in America today. I'm a country black. The masses are country blacks when they see this man's house. fire you don't hear these little blacks talk about our government is in trouble they say the government is in trouble imagine a black our government I even heard one say our astronauts but I won't even let him never plan and our astronauts, our need. a black is crazy like a black is crazy, just as the slave master of those days used Tom, the house black, to keep the country blacks under control. The same old slave master today has blacks who are nothing more than the modern Uncle Tom.

The Uncle Tom of the 20th century to keep you and me in check, keep us in check, keep us passive and peaceful in non-violence, that's Tom making you non-violent, it's like when you go to the dentist and the man is going to take you, you will fight with him when He starts throwing those scripts and things in your jaw called Nova King to make you think they're not doing anything to you, so you sit there on the trainer, you have all that novocain in your jaw, you suffer peacefully, the blood runs for all your work and you don't know what's happening because someone has taught you to suffer in peace the white man does the same thing to you in the street when he can he wants to put nuts on your head and take advantage of you and you don't have to be afraid of your counterattack to keep you from fighting back, you get these old Uncle Tom religionists to teach you and me, they're like novocain, suffer peacefully, don't stop suffering, just suffer peacefully, as Reverend Clete pointed out, that's your blood flow in streets.

This is a scene and you know he is the Christian preacher, if it embarrasses him, you know what it embarrasses me because nothing in our book, the Quran, as you call it, the Quran teaches us to suffer peacefully, our religion teaches us to be intelligent, to be peaceful. courteous obey the law respect everyone but if someone lays a hand on you don't send them to the cemetery that's a good religion in fact that's that religion of yesteryear that's the one my iPod used to talk about an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and head for head and life for life, that is a good religion and then no one is bothered that that type of religion is taught, except a wolf that tries to make your food, that's how it is with the white man in the United States is a wolf and your sheep every time our shepherd is a shepherd, he teaches you and me not to run away from the white man and at the same time the teachers do not fight against the white man, he is a traitor to you and to me we do not put an end to our life alone, not preserving your life, it is the best thing you have and if you have to give it up, let it be even Steven, the slave master, took Tom, dressed him well, fed him well and even gave him some of Education.

His poor education gave him a long coat and a top hat and made all the other slaves admire him, then he used Tom to control them. The same strategy that was used in those days is used today by the same white man to take a black man. called black and make him prominent, strengthen him, publicize him, make him a celebrity and then become a spokesperson for black people and a black leader. I would like to mention one thing more quickly and that is the method that the white man uses like white men. use these big guns or black leaders against the black revolution they are not part of the black revolutionary they are used against the black revolution when Martin Luther King failed to desegregate Albany Georgia the fight for civil rights in the United States reached its lowest point King bankrupt Almost as a leader and even financially, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was in financial trouble and was in a troubled period with the people when they failed to desegregate Albany, Georgia, other black civil rights leaders of so-called national stature They became fallen islands as they fell. the islands began to lose their prestige and influence local black leaders began to agitate the masses in Cambridge Maryland Berea Richardson in Danville mature Danville Virginia and other parts of the country local leaders began to agitate our people at the

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level this was never done by these Negroes whom you recognize of national stature they control you but they never incited or excited you they controlled you they contained you they kept you on the plantation as soon as King failed in Birmingham The Negroes took to the streets King came out and went to California for a great rally and praised I don't know how many thousands of dollars come to Detroit and how to march and raise thousands more dollars to get it back right after that, Wilkins attacked King, accused King downtown of starting trouble everywhere and then creating him double ACP get him out of jail and spend a lot of money many accused King and Cobb and all the money in not cleaning up this happened.

I got undocumented evidence in the newspaper why Detective King and King attacked Narayan farmers style. They started attacking both of them and as these national charter blacks started attacking each other, they started losing control of the black masters and the blacks were in the streets, they were talking about, by the way, we're marching on Washington and right on that. The moment Birmingham blew up and the black people in Birmingham remember they blew up too, they started stabbing cookies in the back and popping them in the head, yes they did, that's when Kennedy sent the truth to Birmingham, and right after about that, Kennedy went on television and said this is a moral issue, that's when he said he was going to publish a civil rights bill and when he mentioned the civil rights bill in the south, the crackers started talking that they were going to boycott or obstruct, so the blacks didn't talk about what we are We will march on Washington We will march on the Senate We will march on the White House We will march on Congress and we will tie it up, we will stop it, let's not let the government procedure say it was going to go out to the airport and lie down in the fugitive and don't let any plane land.

I'm telling you what they said, it was the bases that were on the street, they scared the white man to death, they scared the white power structure in Washington DC to death. I was there when they discovered this. The black steamroller was going to come down on the Capitol they called Wilkins they called Randolph they called these national black leaders like you respect and told them to cancel it Kennedy said look let this go too far and the dead old men boss I can't stop it because I can't I stopped I'm telling you what they said they said I'm not even in this let alone in front they said these blacks are doing things on their own they're running ahead of us and that sneaky old Zorro said well if you all participate and I'll put you up in the lead, I will support it, I will appreciate it, I will help it, I will do it. join and they spent a few hours they had a meeting at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City the Carlyle Hotel is owned by the Kennedy family that is the hotel where Kennedy spent the night two nights ago it belongs to his family a philanthropic society headed by a white man named Stephen Courier gathered all the major civil rights leaders together at the Carlyle Hotel and told them that if you all fight each other you are destroying the civil rights movement and since you are fighting for white liberals' money, let's establish What is known as the United Civil Rights Leadership Council, this Council report and all civil rights organizations will belong to it and we will use it to raise funds.

Let me show you how clever the white man is and how quickly he was formed. they elected Whitney Young as president and who do you think became co-president Stephen Curry the white man a millionaire Powell is talking about it today in COBOL this is what he was talking about power knows what happened Randolph knows what happened Wilkins knows it that happened King knows what happened, each of the so-called big six know what happened once they were formed, but the white men promised them and gave them eight hundred thousand dollars to divide among the big six and they told him that After the march was over , they gave you seven hundred thousand more, a million and a half dollars divided among the leaders you have been following, burned in jail for committing crimes and have nothing but Frank James, Jesse James and whatever his name is. -The brothers as soon as they organized the setup, the white men put top public relations experts at their disposal, opened the media across the country at their disposal, and then began projecting these grand arrangements as the leaders of the March which originally were not.

Even in March you're talking as much on Houston Street as Easton is still talking here on Hastings Street, you're talking about my talk on Lenox Avenue now about calling it Philip Morris Street at Central Avenue and 42nd Street at 63rd Street, that's where the talk was made march, there was talk, but the white man put the big six ahead, he made them march, they started marching, they took over and the first move they made after taking control they invited Walter Reuther, a white man, they invited a priest, but a rabbi and an old white preacher, yes, a white preacher, the same white element that put Kennedy in power, the Catholics, the Jews and the liberal Protestants, the clean click that put Kennedy in power power, joined the march on Washington, it's like when you drink coffee that's too black which means it's too strong what you do you integrate it with the tree you weaken it if you pour too much cream on it you won't even know you ever had coffee it used to be hot it turns cold and it used to be strong it weakens it used to wake you up now it will put you to sleep this is what they did with the march on Washington they joined it they didn't integrate it they infiltrated it they joined they became part of it they took over and when They took him, he lost his militancy, they stopped being angry, they stopped being hot, they stopped being intransigent, why does it even look like a march, it became a picnic, a circus was nothing more than a circus with clowns and everyone had a right.

Here in Detroit I saw it on television. with clowns, leave it, white clowns and black clowns. I know you don't like what I say. I'll tell you anyway because I can prove what I say if you think I'm telling you wrong, bring me Martin Luther King and eight Philip Randolph and James Farmer and meet those other three and then see if they deny itover the microphone now it was a betrayal it was an acquisition when James Baldwin arrived from Paris they would let him speak because they couldn't force him to follow the script. Burt Lancaster destroyed the BC of him that Bolden was supposed to do.

They didn't let Robin out because they know Baldwin says anything he smears. They controlled it so hard that they turned those blacks. It was time to get to the city, how to get to a good stop, what sign to carry, what song to sing, what speech they could give and what speech they covered for me and then they were told to leave the city before sunset and each of those moments They were out of town at dusk now I know you don't like me saying this but I can back it up, it was a circus of performances, anything Hollywood could do, performance of the year, Luther and those other three demons should get an award from the Academy for the best actors because they acted like they really loved black people and fooled a lot of black people and the six black leaders should also receive an award for best supporting cast.