Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.
Malcolm X — Part 11
Page 9
9 / 91
Zz RE; MALCOLM K, LITTLE
over my, over the Honorable Elijah Muhammad sending
me to Washington, They should be happy that a man
who has been refurmed himself by Mr. Muhammad
and who in turn has reformed others, why they
Should be happy to see the entry into the city
of such a man.
I. “Lets take this matter of crime now. How do we
account for some of the Muslims being in ‘one.
institution here, the Lorton Reformatory where
we had a considerable amount of trouble here
sometime ago.
M. “YY am glad you asked that. What the press fails
to point out is that no Muslims go to prison, Those
men weren't Muslims before they went to prigon.
Thaw men mae Manwdeot¢danes thhadkianwoen ¢hoaw want ¢..
prison. They were Christians, Baptists, Methodists,
Catholics, Negroes, and this type of religious .
concept that they had im: society in which they
traveled, circles in which they traveled, led them
into a life of crime and the inability of that
religion to reform them of these criminal tendencies
igs what made themwind up in prison, and after
getting in prison they heard about the teachings .
of the Honorabie Elijah Muhammad, and then becane
Muslims, then reformed themselves and were then
rehabilitated and changed, and became better
men, but despite the fact that the Christian
psychologists, the Christian thedogists were unable
to reform these men and rehabilitate these,men,
and then they became Muslims and reformed themselves
instead of the prison authorities patting these men
on the back and encouraging them _Aand rehabilitating
them, and instead of the prison authorities giving
recognition and credit and respect to the religious
doctrine of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, it was |
the prison authorities themselves who put out the
false propoganda to make it appear that the
Muslims were going to prison; these were Negro
Christians who went to prison. it was the Muslims
who went in prison and reformed them and are bringing
them out of prison and making them better men.
~ 6-
COR Ra nee rE Ra OR RR, RB OL ey Ra BB are oe ie TE en egg ae SS han, Peer Ee
Community corrections
No user corrections yet.
Comments
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.
Continue Exploring
Reader
Topic
Agency Collection
Explore This Archive Cluster
letter
bureau
Related subtopics
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic