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Malcolm X — Part 22
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Re: Afro-American Broadcasting ;
and Recording Company
“and starts to protect himself no matter how many necks he
has to break and heads he has to crack,
"Y saw in the paper where they teok this blac
woman down in Selma, Alabama, and knocked her right down
on the ground, dragging her down the street. You are
trying to pretend like you did not see it because you
knew you should have done something about it and didn't.
It showed the sheriff and his henchmen throwing this black
woman on the ground, and Negro men standing around doing
nothing about it, saying let's overcome them with our
capacity to love. What Kind of phrase is that. Overcome
thes with our eaonsed ty toa love, Tt discraces the reat of
us because over the world the picture is flashed showing a
black woman with some white brutes with their knees on her
holding her down and black, full-grown wen standing around
watching it. Why you are lucky they let you stay on earth
much less stay in the country. When I saw it I dispatched
a wire to Rockwell, who was one of the agitators down
there. Lincoln Rockwell was warned in the wire that I
am no longer held in check from fighting white supremacy
by Elijah Muhammad's separatist black Muslim movement and
that if Rockwell’s presence in Alabama causes harm to come
to Dr. King or any other black person in Alabama who is
doing nothing other than trying to enjoy their rights, then
Reckwell and his Ku Klux friends would be met with maxinun
retaliation from those of us who are not handcuffed by
this non-violent philosophy.
hs
“They enly know one language and what you and I
have to start deing in 1965, I mean that is what you have
to do because most of us already have been doing it, is
start learning a new language. Learn the language that
they understand and then when they come up on our doorstep
to talk, we can talk. They will get the point. There
will be a dialogue, there will be some communication,
and I am certain there will then be some understanding.
Why? Because the Klan is a cowardly cutfit. They have
perfected the art cf making the Negroes be afraid, and
as leng as the Negro is afraid the Klan is safe. But
the Klan itself is cowardly. They never come, One of
them never comes after one of you. They all come together
and they are scared of you. You sit there when they are
putting the rope around your neck saying ‘forgive them
Lord, they know not what they do.‘ As long as they have
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