Prospects For Freedom In 1965- Malcolm X

Mr. President was one of my brothers, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, that is, I feel very honored, I feel very honored, it is an honor for me to be able to return to the Militant Labor Forum again this afternoon, it is the third time that I'm here. I'm just telling my brother that probably tomorrow morning the press will try to make it look like this little chat we're having here tonight took place on Bing or somewhere else, they have a tendency to discolor things, that way. trying to get people to not give due weight to what they hear, especially when nowadays they hear it from people they can't control or, as my brother just pointed out, people they consider irresponsible, but this is the third time I've had the opportunity to be irresponsible but it is the third time that I have had the opportunity to be invited to militant work and I always feel that it is an honor and every time they open the door for me to do it.

I'll be right here, the militant newspaper is one of the best in New York City, in fact, it's one of the best everywhere I go today because everywhere I go I see it, I saw it even in Paris about a month ago, uh, they. We were reading it there and I saw copies in some parts of Africa where I was over the summer. I don't know how it gets there, but if you put the right things in it, you'll see it move tonight during the few moments we have we're going to have a little talk as brothers and sisters and friends and probably enemies too about the prospect of peace or prospect of

freedom

in

1965

, if you notice, I almost slipped there, Paz said.

In reality, peace cannot be separated from

freedom

. No one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. You cannot separate the two and this is what makes

1965

so explosive and so dangerous for the people of this country who in the past "They have been at peace and they have been peaceful, they were like that only because they did not know what freedom was , they let someone else define it for them, but today, in 1965, there are those who have not had freedom and are not in a position to define freedom. They are starting to define it for themselves now and as they are in an intellectual position to define freedom for themselves, they see that they don't have it and that makes them less peaceful or less inclined towards peace.

So in discussing this topic tonight, the

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for freedom In 1965 I think we have to go back at least 12 years or 10 years to the moment when the black man's struggle in America began to be projected into the spotlight not only in this country but throughout the world. It started mainly with the Supreme Court. Judicial decision called the desegregation decision and I should say called the desegregation decision because there has been some doubt about what they actually convey, one of the main ingredients in the black man's struggle in America for the The last 12 years have been the black Muslim movement .

No one can deny the role the Black Muslim movement has played in America over the past 12 years. It has been one of the main ingredients of the increase in militancy on the part of blacks. this country, no matter what direction the black Muslim movement was headed, no matter what their own organizational philosophy was and no matter what other people thought about it, no matter what their personal opinions on the black Muslim movement were, they still did not It cannot be denied that that movement, because of its uncompromising position and its uncompromisingly militant approach to things, forced other civil rights organizations to be more militant than they normally would have been and forced many of the civil rights leaders to be definitively more militant than they would have ever thought to be.

So, in my opinion, the militancy of the black man in America over the last 10 years can be largely attributed to the existence and presence of the movement to which I now refer in order to identify it as the black Muslim movement, its contribution The Black people's fight for freedom in this country was militancy, it made many of our people dare to speak out loud for the first time in 400 years. Many of the black leaders of the Civil Rights Movement dared to speak out loud for the first time. I mean, very strong for the For the first time in 400, almost 400 years of our existence in this country, they became more militant than they intended and made many people become more militant than they intended, it had a knock-on effect chain that actually got a little out of control because the leaders themselves never intended and never intend for our people to go too far, their primary purpose among us has always been to contain our fight, not lead our fight.

Proof of which they are rarely seen until irresponsible elements in the black community start blowing up and then go all over the country to grab one of them from wherever they are traveling and bring them back to calm things down and tell us to be cool or that we take things calmly. t Rock the Boat this is their function this is their role at least it has been until recently they have never been put in the role they are in with the intention of whoever puts them there that they guide us in any uncompromising fight against UN and militant, but the existence of some of the Muslim groups and the black nationalist groups that could not be controlled by the power structure of the center and only use the power structure of expression of the center to avoid calling it as really These nationalist elements Do they really serve their purpose?

In that sense, they gave respectability to civil rights groups and they gave acceptability to civil rights groups. 10 or more years ago the NAACP was seen as a radical almost subversive movement and then when the black Muslim movement came along with the power structure and said thank the Lord for Roy Wilkins and the NAACP. This is true. Pick up any newspaper that was printed 10 years ago and read what was said about the core, the NAACP and the Urban League and some of these other groups. They were considered irresponsible, they were considered moving too fast, they were considered almost extremist and then when they looked around one day and found someone talking about how they are all demons, they spent all night looking for Roy Wilkins and James Farmer and the Reverend Dr.

King and some of the others to calm them down and make them think that all our people didn't think that way, so he did his part in the fight, he made Roy Wilkins acceptable and honorable and responsible and sometimes today I think he We have forgotten. What we have done for him is one of the reasons why Tom and Boya have lasted so long in Kenya during the Maau uprising, when the whites were scared to death not only in Kenya but throughout Africa and not only in Africa but in everyone. world because there were people who looked like Kikuyu right here in New York in Mississippi and other places when Malu was in the Rampage and Joo Kenyata was given the image of a monster because his own image was so frightening and in the Seeing the whites, the image of Tom and Boya immediately became acceptable because Kenyata seemed to be so irresponsible.

EMB Boya became responsible, he became acceptably responsible, you know, and he made everyone happy, so they supported him, they supported him, they made him prominent around the world. Kenyatta did it. he did not make himself and he was smart enough to know it so when Kenyatta came out he supported Kenyatta and realized that the kinat contribution made him what he was and because he was smart enough , was blessed with enough knowledge to see the role Kenyata and Ma Mau played in his own prominence, an image of respectability and acceptability. He continued to support Kenyatta and today he is still part of Kenyatta's government and I must take the time here to point out that that is a good study in itself it took the ma ma to bring independence not just to Kenya, it took the ma Mau to bring independence to most of Africa when a man is sad because of his miserable condition he does nothing to change it sadness doesn't change anything it's only when he gets angry because it changes it it takes madness to change it one of the things I noticed when I was in Africa traveling.

I noticed that many Africans who were still colonized were still exploited and still oppressed and one of the things they all had in common was that They seemed sad, they would talk about the sad flight of it but they were not ready to do anything to change it. They seemed to be waiting for some miracle, but the contrasting difference between them and what happened in Kenya made the Kikuyu angry, they just didn't care. what the consequences were they knew they didn't care at all about legality, morality or anything else, all they knew was that they were being unjustly, illegally, immorally oppressed and because of this unjust, illegal and immoral oppression that they were suffering, they came to the conclusion that they would be within their rights. to stop it by any means necessary and they adopted those means when they started using these means in their fight for freedom, the press in the West started projecting them in a very negative image, they were freedom fighters, they were African patriots. fighting against oppression they were not fighting against a legal government they were not fighting against a moral society they were fighting against a colonial power an imperialist power a vulture society and this vulture society with its control of the press and it and its allies here in the United States , who also control the press projected these freedom fighters, these African patriots, uh, in the image of savages, cannibals, terrorists, some as criminals actually and they projected jok kinat in an image worse than all, but the moms They were not aware of the image.

They weren't status seekers, they weren't social climbers, they wanted freedom and they came to the conclusion at one point in their journey that the only way to get it was the way they did it and got it. I admire you. that's why I respect them that's why now that they are free Joo Kenyatta whose image was that of a monster four years ago is the president of Kenya, they respect him so much that when the hostages were in Stanleyville and no one else dared to do something about it, they called Jomo and asked if he would sit and mediate between the American ambassador Atwood there in Kenya and Tom Kanza of Stanleyville, the same man in the West projected as a monster, they had to call him and when you go to Kenya today, you will find white people in Kenya Praying that Kenyata doesn't die the same way.

Yes, they are praying and they should, they are praying that the same man who was projected a few years ago does not die. a monster as an extremist as irresponsible now they say he is the most responsible Head of State on the African continent so the difference between being projected as an extremist or a monster only depends on who controls the projection, if you project your own image then you are able to project a positive image, but when your enemy is your master and when your enemy dominates the press that is going to build, creates this image and projects it abroad, then naturally your enemy will project you in the image of a monster, so I say and I must say because a journalist asked me a few moments ago to confirm or deny the statement I mentioned where I said that we need a mm in the United States.

He would never deny that why we need more than one mm in the United States. I mean, actually, it's a lot of gall for a person to ask me that in a society I'm straying from now because they led me astray. I got sidetracked in a society where in 1964 three civil rights workers can be murdered in Cold Blood and not the Mississippi government, the federal government can't do anything about it. I say we need a mother when a black educator can be murdered in Georgia and they know who murdered him and the government can't do anything about it.

We need a m mou and I will be the first to join it and a lot of people who you don't think are willing will line up behind me so going back to the black Muslim movement you have to understand it so you can understand more or less what has happened in the civil rights movement in this country over the last 10 years and to understand what could happen in 1965, the black Muslim movement attracted the most militant young black people in this country, the most restless, the most impatient and More diehards were attracted to the black Muslim movement, but the movement itself, as it began to grow, was actually drawn into the void in the sense that it represented itself as a religious movement and the religion under which was identified was Islam and the people in that part of the world who also identified that their religion did not accept the black Muslim movement as an Islamic or bona fide Muslim movement, they never accepted it as such, so they expressed it and put it in the position to go. by a religion that rejected him, which left him in the void or turned him into a religious hybrid, on the other hand, the government in Washington, I suppose that is where they try to label the black Muslim movement as political, used the press , he maneuvered the press to project the black Muslim movement in an image that would allow the government itself to include him as political and therefore label him as seditious.and subversive and intervene and trample on it as he does.

It crushes most of the bona fide freedom movements that appear in this country. The black Muslim movement was not only a religious hybrid, but it became a political hybrid in the sense that it was more itical than religious, but at the same time it did not participate in politics, it did not participate in the fight for civil rights. He had no part in anything that black people in this country were doing to correct the conditions that existed in our community, other than that he had a moral force that kept our people from getting drunk and taking drugs and things of that type, which he did not It's enough after you are sober, you still pause, so it became a void, it had really developed, it grew, it became powerful, but it was in a void and it was full of extremely militant young people who were not willing to give in. at nothing and they wanted action, more action than the organization itself could produce, more constructive action and positive action than the hierarchy of the organization was really qualified to produce.

The main objective of the movement was land. The main objective of the movement. It was the land, but those in the movement were told that God would come and take them to that land, well, for a while, this was fine, but no one in the movement detected any visible means. that would allow us to see that a plan was a plan for this objective to materialize caused dissatisfaction caused dissension that eventually developed the Division and outside the division immediately those who left uh outside that division or those who left formed uh a real religious group known as Muslim Masque Incorporated that practiced the religion of Islam as it is practiced and Tau and Laor and other parts of the Muslim world, but those who entered into the uh orthodox practice of the religion of Islam in the Muslims incorporated at the same time in that we realized that we were black in a white society, that we were black in a racist society, we were black in a society whose political system was based and nourished by racism, whose social system was a racist system, whose economic system was nourished of racism. with racism we were black people who wanted to be religious who wanted to practice Brotherhood and all that we wanted to love everyone and all that too but at the same time that was a dream you know how my good friend the doctor says wanting Brotherhood, wanting peace and To want all these other beautiful things, we also had to face reality and realize that we were in a racist society controlled by racists from the federal government to the local government, from the White House on down.

City hall racism was what we faced so we knew that this was a problem that was beyond religion and we formed another organization that was not religious and this organization was called the Organization of African American Unity or O Aaau and we, we . He came up with the idea from traveling and observing the success that our brothers on the African continent were having in their fight for freedom, they were liberating themselves faster than us, they were gaining their independence faster than us, they were getting recognition and respect. Even when they got to this country faster than us, so we had to figure out what was going on, how they were doing it and what they were doing so we could try a little bit of that on the African continent, the imperialist and colonial powers had always divided. and conquered had practiced divide and conquer and this had prevented the peoples of Africa and Asia from uniting, so on the African continent an organization known as the oau or organization of African unity had appeared and this had been formed by a group of highly qualified African intellectuals and politicians, and was designed to convert African heads of state who had been kept apart and divided from each other by differences.

Small differences due to personal differences, this organization provided an atmosphere in which these heads of state could immerse themselves. their differences and work together in areas where they could agree towards a common goal and since we in the United States face the same divisive tactics of our enemy, we decided to call ours the African American Unity Organization which would be designed according to the letter and the spirit. of the African unity organization, in fact, we consider ourselves descendants of our parent organization on our mother continent after it was formed. I spent 5 months in the Middle East in Africa primarily for the purpose of getting us better acquainted with them and making AC them better acquainted with us, we gave them a first hand account of our problem and what our problem really consists of.

When I first got there in July I found it difficult to talk to some of them, but when I left in November I didn't find it difficult to talk to anyone and I could say here and now that one of the things that made the target easier to achieve was that the identity of the United States would be identified with Moy Shami. Never could a government do something more politically suicidal than this government that elects Moy Shi. as a bedfellow in 1964 and the offspring of that adulterous act will be something they will never be able to put under the rug when I returned, when I returned last month, Muslim Mosque Incorporated had received official recognition and support from all official religious bodies in the Muslim world and the organization of African American unity also received recognition and support from all the African countries I visited and most of those I did not visit for the first time.

What I answered some reporters kept asking me the question uh we heard you changed and I would say I was nice to the reporter I actually smiled and all that but I was saying to myself how in the world can a white man wait for a black man. to change before he has changed how you expect us to change when you have not changed how you expect us to change when the cause that made us the way we are has not been removed why it is childish it is immature and adolescent on your part to expect us to change expect that we do enough to change when you have not yet gone to the cause of the condition that makes us act the way we do you have the wrong man it is true I am a Muslim and I believe in the Brotherhood and I believe in the Brotherhood of all men but my religion does not makes me stupid My Religion makes me be against all forms of racism prevents me from judging Any Man by the color of his skin teaches me to judge him by his actions and his conscientious behavior and teaches me to be the right one for rights of all human beings but especially African American human beings CU my religion is a natural religion and the first law of nature is self-preservation and one of the things that our people have not been doing in this country until now we have not been exercising the first law of nature we have not thought of ourselves first we have put America first we have put America's interests ahead of our own we have put even the interest of white people above our own we have loved white people when they refused to love us we have tried to move into their neighborhood when they did we knew beforehand that they didn't want us there we have crawled like animals at the feet of the white man in this country and been rejected so today if you see us take a step back and get away from you, you can't blame us, you have to blame yourself, your mother or your father, you don't want to accept the blame yourself. then put it to your mother and father, but not to us, so now, to move on to my talk about 1965 and the

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for freedom in 1964, the oppressed peoples around the world in Africa, in Asia and Latin America in the Caribbean made some progress Northern Rasia freed itself from the yoke of colonialism and became Zambia was accepted into the United Nations the Society of Independent Governments Nalan became Malo was also accepted into the United Nations in the family of independent governments Zanzibar had a revolution that expelled the colonialists and their shortcomings and then United with tangan of what is now known as the Republic of Tanzania, which is progress, in fact I was there, it is one of the most beautiful countries and the best people to meet I was with my good friend Abdul Rakman Muhammed Babu was one of the architects of the Revolution and I consider him a very enlightened human being, a humanitarian and a lover of freedom.

Also in 1964, the oppressed peoples in the area of ​​South Vietnam and throughout the area of ​​South and East Asia were successful in fighting the agents of imperialism. all the king's horses and All the King's Men has not allowed them to unite North and South again dead imperialism all the king's horses and All the King's Men has not allowed them to unite North and South Vietnam again small rice Rice farmers Peasant farmers with a rifle and all the weapons of war Highly mechanized and armored jets, everything else and they can't give that rice back. The farmers return to where they are wanted.

Someone is waking up in the Congo. Additionally, the People's Republic of the Congo, based in Stanleyville, fought in the war. Freedom against Shi who was an agent of western imperialism and by western imperialism I mean that which is based in the United States in the state department in 1964, this government subsidizes shomi, the killer of lumba and shom's mercenaries , hitmen from South Africa along with former Belgium, the colonial power, dropped paratroopers on the people of the Congo, used Cubans they had trained to drop bombs on the people of the Congo with American-made planes, unsuccessfully, the fight continues and the American man, Shami, is still losing all this in 1964 now I continue like this doesn't mean I'm anti-American, I'm not, I'm not anti-American or anti-American and I'm not saying that to defend myself because if I were, I would have the right to say that, After what America has done to us, this government should be lucky our people aren't anti-American, they should get on their knees every morning and thank God that 22 million black people haven't. become anti-American because if someone has the right to be anti-American, we have been given every right to do so and the whole world would take our side if we became anti-American, you know, that's something to think about, but we are not anti-American. -Americans, but we see that we are against or against what the United States is doing wrong in other parts of the world, as well as in her own, and what she did in the Congo in 1964 is wrong, she is a criminal criminal and what she did for the American public to get it.

For the American public to accept it is criminal. What he is doing in South Vietnam is criminal. She is causing American soldiers to be killed every day. They kill them every day. They die every day for no reason. That's wrong now, you're not supposed to be like that. blind with patriotism that you can't face reality wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it now if I'm anti-American for saying that then Wayne Moris is an anti-American Church senator from somewhere out there he's anti-Americans , many of them in Washington DC are anti-American, so I'm just telling you what I read the good senators said also in 1964, China exploded their bomb, which was a scientific breakthrough for the oppressed people in China who were suffering for a long time. time, for my part, I was very happy to hear that the great people of China were able to show their scientific progress.

Advanced knowledge of science to the point where a country that is as backward as this country keeps saying and therefore you know what is behind everyone. And for the poor people to come up with an atomic bomb, why did I have to marvel? It made me realize that the poor can do just as well as the rich, which is why all these small advances were made by oppressed people elsewhere. of the world during 1964, these were tangible games and the reason they were able to achieve these achievements was that they realized that power was the magic word power against power power in defense of freedom is greater than power in the name of tyranny and oppression because real power power comes from conviction and produces action action without concessions also produces Insurrection against oppression this is the only way to end oppression with power power power never power never steps back alone In the face of more power, he does not do so with a no power, he does not back down from a smile or from a prayer or from some type of loving and non-violent action.

Power that is not the nature of power to recoil from anything other than some more power and this is what people have realized in Southeast Asia in the Congo in Cuba in other parts of the world that power only recognizes Power and all who recognize it realize that this has now won here in America. different when you compare our advances in 1964 with the advances that people in other parts of the world have made, only then can you appreciate the great betrayal experienced by black people here in America in 1964, when the power structure began the new year. in the same waythat they started that in Washington the other day only now they call it the Great Society, the Great Society last year, 1964 was supposed to be the year of the Pledge, they opened the New Year in Washington DC and at city hall and in Albany speaking about the year of the promise that blacks would make advances in education we would have better schools better school facilities better teachers jobs would open up there would be fewer blacks in the unemployment lines than in areas of the South where we had not previously been able to vote we would be able to register and vote , that we would be socially acceptable AC to those who in the past did not consider us socially acceptable, but by the end of 1964 we had to agree. that instead of the year of the Promise, instead of these promises materializing, they replaced them with devices to create the illusion of progress and 1964 was the year of illusion and deception, we received nothing but a promise, we did not receive nothing that would really solve the problems we face.

In January of 1964, in 1963, they had used a trick: one of their devices to vent frustration was the March on Washington, they said to make us think we were making progress, imagine marching on Washington and getting nothing in return. not at all, but it shows you how clever the power structure is of the people through the leaders as long as the people believe in the leaders in '63 it was marked in Washington in '64 what was the civil rights bill right after they passed the civil rights bill they murdered a black man in Georgia and did nothing about it they murdered two whites and a black man in Mississippi and they did nothing about it, so the Civil Rights bill has produced nothing as far as we were concerned, it was just a valve, a vent that would allow us, it was designed to allow us to release our frustration, but the bill itself was not designed to solve our problem, as we see what they did in 1963 and we saw what they did in 1964.

What will they do now in 1965 if the March on Washington was supposed to diminish the explosion and the Civil Rights bill? it was designed to decrease the explosion that's all it was designed to do it was not designed to solve the problem it was designed to decrease the explosion because everyone in their right mind knows that there should have been an explosion you can't have all those ingredients those explosive ingredients that They exist in Harlem and in other places where our people suffer and do not have an explosion, so these are devices to reduce the danger of the explosion, but they are not designed to eliminate the material that is going to explode, what will they give us in 1965?

I just read where they plan to appoint a black cabinet member. Yes, they have a new trick every year. They're going to take one of his black boys and put him in the cabinet so he can walk around Washington with a lit cigarette in one hand and a fool. At the other end and because his immediate personal problem will have been resolved, he will be the one to say to our people, look how much progress we are making. I'm in Washington DC. I can have it in the White House. I am your spokesperson. I'm you, you know your leader, while our people are still living in Harlem in the slums and still receiving the worst form of education and the worst facilities to try to educate our children, this is the device that they will use, they will make. a black cabinet member, I read that's one of the tricks they put in place, but will it work?

Can the one they are going to put there enter the fire and put it out when the flames start to JUMP when people pass by in the streets and their explosives move. Will the one they are going to put in the cabinet be able to go among those people while they do it? They burn faster than they burn those who vent it internationally in 1964 until 1964 and Until 1964, what was the device they used? They sent well-chosen black representatives to the African continent, whose mission was to make the people of that continent think that all our problems were solved.

They went there as apologists. I saw some of them. Some of them saw the results that some of them had left there, but their main mission was to go to Africa, which is the most vital country for the interests of the United States, so these Toms should not be called Toms today in day. There are three of us, so they sent these guys there, don't bother the man he is, he is doing his job and because his immediate personal problem will have been resolved, he will be the one to tell our people, look how much progress we are making.

I'm in Washington DC I can have it in the White House I'm your spokesperson I'm you know your leader while our people are still living in Harlem in the slums and still receiving the worst form of education and the worst facilities in which to try to educate our children, this is the device that you will use, you will appoint a black member of the cabinet. I read that it's one of the tricks they put in place, but will it work? Can the one they are going to put there? Step to the fire and put it out when the flames start to JUMP when the people take to the streets and its explosive movement that they are going to put in the cabinet can go among those people or they will burn it. faster than they burn those who were there when the people take to the streets and their explosive movement will allow the one they are going to put in the cabinet to go among those people while they burn him faster than they burn those who were there. international level in 1964 until 1964 and until 1964, what is the device they use, they send well-chosen black representatives to the African continent, whose mission was to make the people of that continent think that all our problems were solved, they went there as apologists.

I saw some of them track, some of them saw the results that some of them had left there, but their main mission was to go to Africa, which is the country most vital to the interests of the United States. These Toms you're not supposed to call them Toms nowadays they're F you, so these guys were there, no, no, don't bother the man that is, he's doing his job, he's going to put you on TV, so they can be investigated, so these PMS don't actually go to Africa because they want to explore or learn something for themselves, expand their reach, or communicate with each other, between their people and our people there, but they go mainly to represent the United States . government and when they go, they gloss over things, they tell how good we are here, how the civil rights bill has solved everything and how the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded, oh yes, that's how they tell it, in fact , they manage to widen the gap between the African American and the African, the image they leave of the African American is so repugnant that the African ends up not wanting to identify with him or have a relationship with him and it is only when the African with a nationalist mentality, with a nationalist mentality or black mentality, uh African American, goes abroad to the African continent and establishes direct lines of communication and allows the African brothers there to know what is happening here and to know that our people are not so foolish as to be blind to our true position in this structure, then Africans begin to uh understand us, identify with us and sympathize with our problems, to the point that they are willing to make whatever sacrifice is necessary so that their long-lost brothers have a better rest than we have had until now on a national scale during 1964.

As I just mentioned politically, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party had its face in Atlantic City at a convention where Lyndon B Johnson was the boss and Hubert Humphrey was the next bar and the Mayor Wagner had had a lot of influence, but none of that. The influence showed itself either way when the hopes and aspirations of the people, the black people of Mississippi, were at stake, although in early '64 we were told that our political rights would be expanded, it was in 1964 that the two white civil rights workers who worked with the black civil rights worker were killed and all they were doing was trying to help black people in Mississippi learn how to register.

All this is your crime. They were trying to show our people in Mississippi how to become registered voters this was their crime this was the reason they were murdered and the most unfortunate part of their murder was that the civil rights organizations themselves were so cowardly when it came to react in a way that they should have reacted to the murder of these three civil rights workers, the civil rights groups, so those three brothers sold them, sold them down the river because they died and what has been done about it and what voice raised every day today regarding the murder of those three civil rights workers has been forgotten, nothing more is heard about it and the only time it comes up is when Jed goo calls one of the black leaders a liar and then another discussion starts and then they ask what about the brother brothers who were murdered, but when it comes to the murder itself, it is forgotten, overlooked and nothing has been done about it, that's why I say if we get involved in the civil rights movement and we go to Mississippi or anywhere. more to help our people register to vote we intend to come prepared we do not intend to break the law because when you try to register to vote you are following the law, it is the one who tries to prevent you from registering to vote who is breaking the law and you have right to protect themselves by any means necessary and if the government does not want civil groups to be equipped, the government should do its job regarding the Harlem incident that took place over the summer when citizens of Harlem were attacked in a PG how You pronounce that p word PG that's what it was?

I was reading about it again I can't I can't pronounce it it's not my word but that when the people of Harlem were the victims of that boom that's your word over the summer we had heard long before it happened that it was going to happen we had heard about it that there were elements in the power structure that were going to incite a riot something in Harlem that could call for a riot in order to intervene and be justified in using any measures necessary to crush militant groups that were still considered to be in the embryonic stage and realizing that there was a plan of action to instigate something in Harlem so they could intervene and crush it.

There were elements in Harlem who were prepared, qualified and equipped to retaliate in situations like that who intentionally did not get involved and the real miracle of the explosions in Harlem was the restraint exercised by the people. from harl the miracle of 1964 I tell you directly the miracle of 1964 during the incident that took place in harem was the restraint exercised by the people in Harem who are qualified and equipped and whatever else there is to protect themselves when they are being attacked illegally and immorally and unjustly and an illegal attack an unjust attack and an immoral attack cannot be done against you by anyone just because a person has a uniform does not give him the right to come and shoot up your neighborhood no This is not right and my suggestion would be that while the police department don't use those methods in white neighborhoods, they shouldn't come to Harlos and use them in our neighborhood.

I was not here. I am happy to have done it. I'm not here because I would be dead, they would have to kill me. I would rather be dead than let someone walk around my house or in my neighborhood shooting where my children are, they are in the line of fire, either they die or I die is not smart and it all started when a police officer shot a child and they let him go just like they released the sheriff in Mississippi when he killed the three civil rights workers. I'm almost finished. I'm just taking my time tonight because I'm overworked and I'm taking my time I'm taking my time I'm not rushing I mean I hope you don't misunderstand me when I say that and I'm not advocating anything illegal against the police I know good cops and bad cops I know cops who do everything they can to be human and protect other humans and treat people as if they were human beings, then I know others who shouldn't be In the force some of them are not morally or even mentally qualified They don't even psychologically to be in the good, I don't like that guy, but those who can pass the test are fine, we don't include them. with the rest, while millions of our people are starving in this country, this government is spending billions of dollars abroad to feed other people, they send wheat to Russia and Poland, some of those other places, and they dump a large amount into the ocean to maintain the the market falls while people watch this is something that doesn't add up how are you going to have peace in 1965 and you are hungry there are no jobs the welfare workers don't even work and you read where they dump while you ride the edge page Do you think they are crazy?

In 19654 we still had with us the slumlords, people who don't own the houses but don't live there, they usually live around the big count qus or somewhere where they contribute to the naac core and all the slum organizations. civil rights they give you money to go out and pick it up and they own the house where you pick it up and thePoor housing conditions that continue to exist there keep our people as victims of health problems. The infant and adult mortality rate is higher in Harlem than anywhere else in the country or city. They promised us jobs and gave us welfare checks.

Instead, we still have work. We are still unemployed. Social assistance takes care of us. we, Beggars, robbing us of the Dignity of our manhood to mark that 1964 was not a year of promises as promised in January of that year blood flowed in the streets of Harlem Philadelphia Rochester In some places here in Jersey and elsewhere In 1965 even more blood will flow than you have ever dreamed of, it will flow both in the center and in the upper part of the city, why will it flow? The causes that forced it to flow in 65 or 64 have been removed. the causes that made it flow in 163 have been moved the causes are still there how can you sit on and and and naively in such a naive way and make yourself think that things Are they improving when the causes that created the bad condition still remain the same?

Only one problem is solved, it is the leader who is given the peace prize while the people do not have peace or, as he himself said, while he is up on the mountain, the people are in the valley, I am going to tell them why they are in a floor and So I finished my little talk in 1964, 97% of black American voters supported Lyndon B Johnson, Hubert Hum and the Democratic Party, 97%, no minority group in the history of the world has ever given so much uncompromising support to only one. candidate and a party in the history of the world, no people, no group has ever gone all the way to support a party and its candidate like See the people, the blacks in the United States in 1964, look how many people voted for gold, more than 26 million, why when you deduct non-white people from the total white population, find out that whites were almost evenly divided between go water and Johnson, yes, get the total number of voters in this country and find out how many of them are whites, subtract the non-whites, the Puerto Ricans, the blacks and the rest, and you will discover that the whites did not support Johnson as they want to brag that they did, the non-whites supported him at 97% and the First Act of the Democratic party Lynon was included in 1965 when Mississippi state representatives who refused to support Johnson came to Washington DC and Mississippi blacks sent representatives there to challenge the legality of these people sitting.

Didn't Johnson say anything? What did Humphrey say anything? What did Robert the pretty boy Kennedy say? the black people have supported this is the party they have supported where were they when the black man needed them a couple of days ago in Washington DC they are where they are always moving their thumb somewhere in the pool hall or in the gallery so black people in 1964 they will not be controlled by these Uncle Tom leaders, you believe, they will not be held in Jack, they will not be held in the plantation by these overseers, they will not be held in the coral, they will not be held.

Remembering all the frustration of these black representatives from Mississippi when they came to Washington DC the other day thinking that they knew that the Great Society was going to include them only to see the door closed in their faces like that, that's what makes them think that that's which makes them realize what they are facing, it is this kind of frustration that produced the ma mou. They got to the point where they saw that it takes power to talk to power, it takes power to make Power respected, it almost takes madness to deal with power. structure that is so corrupt, so corrupt, that in 1965 we should see a lot of action, since the old methods have not worked, you will be forced to try new methods if you read this week's article in Us News and World Report, which is not the The best magazine in the world where it says that the big six call themselves The Big Six the leaders of the black community who have been endorsed by the White Community the big six themselves are turning to Africa Dr.

King farmer everyone They are admitting that the problem of the black man in the United States is inseparable from the problem of the Africans. Dr. King and Mr. Farmer and the others, Roy, including Uncle Roy, are admitting that the problem that the black man cannot get dignity in America until the black man cannot get dignity in America. man has dignity on the mother continent they are admitting this they are admitting that the roots of the black man in America are still in Africa they are admitting this I was surprised to see them admit so much so soon and so publicly I was surprised to see that they will say in public what they have always accepted I was privately surprised, but it shows that they themselves are taking a revolutionary approach to the problem.

They are beginning to see that the black man problem in America no longer exists. It is no longer a black problem or an American problem, it is a global problem, when they begin to identify our struggle with the struggle of the brothers on the mother continent, then these six greats, Uncle Roy, see the need to internationalize the problem now , or they have to deny it. nor confirm it, but I don't think this magazine says everything it has said and cites them here. Dr. King says there is a growing willingness among us blacks to identify with Africans, there is a sense of pride as an American.

Blacks see importance in the United Nations for courtesies that Black Americans are not accustomed to receiving in their own country. Dr. King says he was on the mountain and he is there beginning to see that it is the only way the black man in this country can become. Any solution to your problem will have to be a solution in which the government in Washington has nothing to do with because the government cannot solve the problem. The government is made up of crackers from Mississippi and Georgia and Alabama and Arkansas and Texas because they are starting to see that it is not we who should take our problem to Washington but it is we who should take Washington through the United Nations it is not us who have committed the crime it is not us who have committed the crime it is our government that has committed the crime crime our government has not protected our lives, has not protected our property, has not given us a proper education, has not even given us proper facilities for education, has not housed us, has failed like the men there in the book in Boston when they threw all the tea into the sea taxation without representation has to go, so in my conclusion I say read another newspaper, many of you say: well, would we have the right to address the black man's problem? in this country before the UN I say yes because here it says that this is in the publication from a couple of days ago the publication is a newspaper from New York, it presents itself as liberal, which is a misrepresentation, it says uh, to House asked to condemn Soviet treatment of Jews, Assistant Representative from Queens today urged the House to condemn what he called the hateful and discriminatory treatment of the Jewish community in the Soviet Union.

He drafted a resolution for presentation that would condemn Russia for persecuting Jews and record that the House of Representatives favors continuation. American efforts to obtain through the UN global condemnation and banning of anti-Semitism in the form of treaties Soviet policy Halin says in a prepared speech that involves a premeditated effort to eradicate Jewish culture and religion, is a deliberate policy but also secret if this representative voted into office probably by many people sitting here can go to Washington DC and have that house, that government body get involved in what is happening to 3 million people all over the other side of the world and do for that government to enter the United Nations and condemn it for its abuse of the rights of those three million people.

I say that the 22 million black people in this country are justified and within our rights we ask our brothers on the African continent to take this government to the United Nations and protect us. sh