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y wal" or a, anes lh amined A popter te f yo Li. / 4 rhe cota NY 105-8999 Malcolm X‘s speech employed clever, distortions of truth to lead to distorted conclusions ~ e.g., when World War II started, the US was not taking Negroes into the Army or Navy for fear they would learn to use weapons against whites. The tone of the speech reflected Malcolm's assertion at the beginning that he had just concluded two months of "quiet rearrangement" of his "thinking " in Cairo. He was not nearly so emotional as he sometimes has been in the past, nor did he lay himself open to traps as often as he is sometimes prone to do. The audience response was good with several interruptions for applause, particularly during his attacks on the United States' effort in Africa. Following Malcolm's speech the student moderator felt compelled to note that of course African studéfats don't believe that United States aid comes “out of human kindness". The four questions from the audience were rather bladd, put did permit Malcolm to develop the theme that while Goldwater was a rather open racist, Johnson ("the fox”) was more Bubtie, but that the latter's record during thirty years in Congress was also that of a raciat. In discussing the coming election, he stated that the American people don't govern, that Southern- dominated congressional committeescontrol unde the senority system and it is they "who send military equipment to Tshombe." In answering the final question, he emphasized the relative unity between himself and such leaders as Martin Luther King, saying that their differences were primarily differences of method rather than goals. "The main difference is that he doesn't mind being beat up and I do.’ “118 | al ee ee ee { | 5 \ \ | | | | | | ve RET |