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Malcolm X — Part 3
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"are so great. Small wonder, then, that every four
years the eyes of the entire world are tu:ned toward
America wondering who will be our next 'god.!
"Launching into a bitter criticism and
recimination against those who are playing with the
lives and the rights of the Negro people in blocking
effecive legislation on Civil Rights, Mr. X said 'It
is not American Foreign Policy that decides who will
get the 'enair,' but rather her Domestic Policy. In
this great drama, he continued, ‘the Negroes play the
leading role and are being posed a serious problem.
The position the American Negro occupies is both
strategic and unlque, For, although the Negroes are
deprived of most of thetr voting powers yet their diluted
vote will swing the balance of power in the Presidential
or any other election in this country. What would the
role and the position of the Negro be if he had a full
voting voice?
“'No wonder, then,' he continued, 'the
freedom or equal rights struggle of the Negro people
is so greatly feared by his enemies.' Standing
applause greeted the brilliant young orator as he
declared, ‘If the present leaders of the so-called
American Negro don't unite soon and take a firm stand
with positive steps designed to eliminate immediately
the brutal atrocities that are being committed daily
against our people; and, if the so-called Negro
intelligentsia, intellectuais and educators won't
unite to help aiter this nasty and most degrading
situation; then,' he sald, ' the little man iIn.the
street will henceforth begin to take matters into
his own hands, As an example,' he continued, 'the
struggle led for Negro job rights by a beautiful ycung
Negro woman in Los Angeles, California. Mias Helen
Smith, will muitiply 10,000 fold through the width and
breath of this land. Beacause, the little man in the
street today is fed up with the empty promises of the
white man, and the ignorance, and greed that has been
causing > our own politicel end reiigious leaders b
sell out."
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