Malcolm X: You Will Never Get Protection From the Federal Government

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An interview conducted in June 1963 with Dr. Kenneth Clark.

I would be more interested in your goals. What are the goals of the movement which you represent so effectively?

Malcolm X: Just as you said in the same article, see, we're trying to -- Mr. Muhammad is trying to get us on God's side, so God will be on our side, and help us to fight our battles against the very vicious, deceitful, hypocritical enemy. And this is why Mr. Muhammad puts so much stress upon moral reformation. That when Negroes stop getting drunk, when Negroes stop fornicating and committing adultery, when Negroes stop being addicted to drugs, and these things that destroy the moral fiber and the morale of the Negro, then our people will be able to get together and unite in harmony and unity, and get our own problems solved.

Clark: Toward what end would you want our people united? What would you be --

Malcolm X: Toward being on God's side. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace. His history on this earth has proved that. Nowhere in history has he been brotherly toward anyone. The only time that he's brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he can oppress you, when you will submit to him. And since his own history makes him unqualified to be an inhabitant or a citizen in a kingdom of brotherhood, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God is about to eliminate that particular race from this earth.

So, since they are due for elimination, we don't want to be with them. We're not trying to integrate with that which we know has come to the end of its rope. We're trying to separate from it and get with something that's more lasting, and we think that God is more lasting than the white man.

Clark: So in effect, Minister Malcolm, your movement does not share the integration goals of the NAACP, CORE [Congress of Racial Equality], Martin Luther King's movement, and the student non-violent movement?

Malcolm X: You don't integrate with a sinking ship. You don't do anything to further your stay on board a ship that you see is on its way down to the bottom of the ocean. Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with Pharaoh. And we look upon these other organizations that are trying to get Negroes to integrate with this doomed white man as nothing but modern-day magicians, and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad as the modern-day Moses who's trying to separate us from the modern-day Pharaoh.

Clark: What do you feel Negroes should do in respect to obtaining even more effective protection from our federal government?

Malcolm X: You never will get protection from the federal government. That's like, King is asking Kennedy to go to Alabama to stand in the doorway, put his body in the doorway. That's like asking the fox to protect you from the wolf.

And when black -- now, the masses of black people can see this. And it is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition, or protection from the government.

The government is responsible for what is happening to black people in this country. The president has power; you notice he didn't send any troops into Birmingham to protect the Negroes when the dogs were biting the Negroes. The only time he sent troops into Birmingham was when the Negroes erupted, and then the president sent troops in there, not to protect the Negroes, but to protect them white people down there from those erupting Negroes.

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[monptii]

Malcolm X = perfection in mind

[wufrudelu]

he's saying stuff noam chomsky is still saying

[lilcoco770007]

@rastaR00STER Then prove it! Call these bad ones out1

[chuckbaker]

of course, Mr. Muhammed was fornicating more than Tiger Woods!

[rastaR00STER]

He has alot of bad opinions, but alot of good ones too, not all white men are bad. Infact, almost no one is truly evil, its things that lead to corruption that lead to ignorance and hate.

[IHBenRonYisrayl12]

@wufrudelu He is saying a lot of stuff many of the Israelite Heritage Camps as saying. And surely I see now he was a forerunner. Maybe a John the Baptist in the spirit of Elijah who came to us and we heard him not...Now a generation later his people are awakening, and the seeds that did not fall by the wayside or stony ground where the birds of the air could pluck them up, they are fallen on good ground and what were mustards seeds of revelation are now sprouting with figs.

[IHBenRonYisrayl12]

@wufrudelu If only Malcolm had lived long enough to have his eyes open to the truth of Ahayah in the Spirit of Yahshayah that he is an Israelite and to learn our true biblical heritage and history and the reason for our condition as a people it would have been good. He used a lot of bible references particularly the account of the Children of Israel in Eygptian bondage, if he only knew that we are the descendants of those sent into the captivity of Eygpt a second time.

[Jgchris1981]

@jordan19822000 B4 going to Meccah he relied on Elijah M to give him the truth. On the pilgrimage he spoke to all color and creed of Islam (brothers). It's about peace, fairness, respect, love, etc.. This is also true of Christianity, Judiaism, etc. Why? Humans have forgotten that b4 religion there was only the acknowledgement/worship of God/Allah/Jehova/Yahweh as the creator and no other above Him or next to Him. Walk in his will and follow his steps/commandments/law.God's way is THE TRUTH

[andylumeh]

ENGLAND BLACK MEN AND BLACK WOMEN ARE FINALLY AWAKENING FROM THEIR LONG SLEEP OF RACIAL MAGINALIZATION BY THE WHITE ENGLISHMAN. 1950- 2011

[andylumeh]

ENGLAND BLACK MEN AND BLACK WOMEN ARE FINALLY AWAKENING FROM THEIR LONG SLEEP OF RACIAL MAGINALIZATION. 1950- 2011