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Malcolm X — Part 3
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"The 'so-cslled Nezro' here in North
America accept themselves as such. ‘Negro’ means
something no good and dead. Nowhere in the world
other than here in North America is the dark man called
Negro. In Cuba the dark man is called a Cuban; in
India he is cailed an Indian; and so forth.
"Some time ago the Minister of Finance
from Africa came to the United States. Sisters and
brothers, this is a big man with lots of money. He
went into aresteurant, and because of his skin he was
refused service. Why? Because they thought he was one
of the 'so-called Negroets' that belong here in North
America. As goon as they found out he was from
another country where the cark man is not calied
‘Negro’ they welcomed him in, wholeheartedly, bor.d
to him, We go around bragcing thas we have the
richest country in the worid, Let's face it, sisters
and brothers, it is the richest country and it should
be, because they have worled our parents ('so-called
Negroes!) for 300 or 400 years for nothing, and have
ali the money piled up in Forts FMnox. We do:.& own a
thing. They deprive us of our native tongue. We don't
know our own name. We don't nave a language. We don't
have a flag. This thing here (pointing to the United
States flag on the wall) doesn't mean anything to us.
It hasn't cone anything for us. Amy time you live
under a flags that does not protect you, that 17%as isn't
any more than an old dirty rag. Oh, yes, some of you
people out there ere scared and saying I'm going to
gall for talking like this. But the hell that the
‘so-called Negroes’ have gone through for these many
years in North America wiil maxe the inside of the jail
house lock like the best suite in tne Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel.
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