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Malcolm X — Part 4
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"The Christian religion that the slavemasters
had brainwashed us itth made us iook upon everything
white as being right, which automatically compelled us
to believe that dary had to be wrong. . . and all dark
people were ‘eursed.'
"Messenger Muhamvad seys no wonder we were
dividecdi No wonder we hated ourselves! We were actually
desnpising only that which the slavemasters' Christian
religion had brainwashed us into thinking we were. We
so-called Negro Christians fought among scurselyes (among
QUR VERY OWN KIND) at the slightest provocation, filling
the white man's hospitals, prisons, jails, and cemeteries
with OUR OWN KIND. .
"But at the very same time our own religious
ieaders, the Negro preachers, were teaching us to love, be
patient, understanding, forgiving, 'tucn the other cheek!
to the brutally white Christian slavemasters, who were
holding the bible out to us in one hand and the LYNCHER'S
ROPE in the other,
“We were taught by our ignorant religious leaders,
the Negro preachers, (whcese doctrines only proved them te be_
‘puppets,’ ‘parrots’ and ‘tocls' Por the white slavemasters}
to be kind to our enemy, while 2t the same time we were
practicing impatience and vicious eruelty towarg OUR OWN
KIND, ; a
"As Negro ‘Christians! we idolized our white
Christian slavemasters, and seemed to live only for the
@ay when we would be allicwed by them to enter into their
twhite heaven,! where their plurality (TRINITY) of white
gods would then allow us to mix and mingle (INTEGRATE)
freely with them (Deut. 20:36).
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