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ba 78 23 wed af | se dey Bnei ome - ee a a a ce eae ae Ee eet Bt ee et RE: MALCOLM K, LITTLE "Well, this is another thing, we have had meetings plenty of times that white people attended, and it didn't help them. We have had meetings where we let white reporters come in, They did nothing but distort what was said or took it out of context, or blew up what they considered to be negative. They don’t come to listen objectively and then go out and report objectively; they go out to project us a8 a racist group, a8 a black supremicist group, or. as a group that is advocating violence, this is what the white press does, so in plus what 211 the white press needs to do if they want to cover our meetings from here on in, is to hire some Negro reporters and I think Negro reporters should give Mr. Muhammad a lot of eredit because we are making the white press hire them. We are making the white network hire them because if they want to cover our meetings, let them get someone black who looks like us to come in and cover our meetings. Instead of these reporters going out and treating us unfairly, they should give us credit because it it wasn't for us they wouldn't even have a job. I heard that one television network is flying a» Negro in a1] the way from New York City just to cover this meeting because we won't let the white reporters in, and this means that this particular network which is one of the largest in the country, here in this city, the Capitol, doesn't even have one Negro in this city working for them. So they have to go out of town and bring one in, Why this only further proves of #hat Honorable Elijah Muhammad is teaching is true. Any kind of job that the white mn even gives to a Negro usually is tokenism and is window dressing to try to make the Negro think he is sincere in trying to solve this problem when he is actually not. Plus we want to just bave our own black people in here so we can discuss our problems ourselves; have a little family chat. And whenever you have a family chat you can understand each other better, but when there are strangers in your midst, you are very touchy about what is said in front of strangers, and our problems can only be solved if we sit down and analyze it realistically, and most Negroes are go self conscious around white people that-if your make an -~9-