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The white power structure today is just as much interested in perpetuating slavery as the white power structure was a hundred years ago, only now they use modern methods of doing so. And realizing that the black people in this country are waking up and becoming filled with a desire to be looked upon as men, and as human beings, the white power structure, to slow down that struggle for freedom and human dignity, uses tricks. A hundred years ago they could do it with chains, today they use tricks, and one of the tricks that they’ve invented is this token integration, to get Negro, so-called Negro leaders, to accept a few token crumbs of integration, that don’t solve any problems for the masses of black people in this country whatsoever, but it does make the hand-picked Negroes be satisfied to slow down the cry of the masses.
And a good example of that is as soon as the spirit of rebellion or of revolution begins to spread among the masses of black people in this country, and they begin to take an active part, and they showed that they weren’t confined to this non-violent approach, then the government, or the power structure began to sit up and take notice and now as the…as you said earlier, the President is talking about new legislation and to take it out of the street and put it back in the courts. Why, as long as it’s in the streets, it’s in the hands of the masses of black people who will not compromise, or who cannot be brought out. But when you put it back in the courts, then that puts it back into the hands of the hand-picked Negro leaders who will allow the judges and the other persons that are involved in this white power structure to slow them down. It’s only a trick.
And as long as the masses of black people are involved in the struggle for freedom, not integration, but freedom, respect as a human being, respect as men, and that they’re willing to die to be respected as men then the power structure sits up and takes notice. But as long as the mass element is led—and when I say led, I use “led” in quotes—actually, contained by Uncle Tom Negro leaders, who hold them back, who tell them “turn the other cheek”, and things like that, then the white power structure isn’t worried at all. They’re only worried when they know that the masses of black people are ready to explode, and in exploding it will destroy some of the furniture in their house, and then they react accordingly.
June 12, 1963 episode of the television program Open Mind which held a special episode entitled: Race Relations in Crisis. Guests include Malcolm X, Alan Morrison, Wyatt Tee Walker and James Farmer.
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