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(_@ J®@ with his master. He called his naster's house our house, our food, our this and our - that. If his master was sick he'd even go to the boss and say what's the matter boss are we sick. He identified more closely with his master than bis master identified with hinself. When the house caught on fire the house Negro would fight harder to protect his master's house than the master would hisself. MING: ‘Then how to do account for the 500 slave revolts.cervsss oe - . MALCOLM X: I'm coming to that. If someone were to come to the house Negro and say lets escape, lets leave, lets separate, he would be insulted. Where could he go and find a i better hone. = hl MING: What about the slavery revolts? safer’ . - MALCOLY X: The field Negro who lived out in the shack» who were poorer, ate poorer, wore poorer clothing and had anomosity in his heart toward his master when the master's house was on fire, the field Negro wouldn't try to put it out, be‘d hope a wind would come along and burn it, and if you came to a field Negro and said lets escaps, lets leave here, lets separate, he wouldn’t ask you where are we going. The field Negro who was the mass element would be ready and willing to go to escape at any time. It was the house Negro who didn't want to leave and you have the sane situation today here in America, house Negroes and field Negroes. House Negroes who think ‘ . they can't live without their waster and ; : field Kegroes who are the masters, who are 4 ready to separate and do sonething for themselves. ry. HO” ‘ay eer + im MING: Yell MALCOLM, NATE TURNER who was the most famous of the organizers of siave revolts and who was unsuccessful and who was hanged as the price of his lack of success, as JOHN BROWK was hanged for his lack of success, was by your terms a house Negro. 7 as 1. oo “ es Sees . ce ” raf. ere. OL “| : eae lant A . «a 17 =