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Malcolm X — Part 30
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at het ideas into » cohesive whole.
- New facts that to come out in the light of the Water- Elijah Muhammed but developed significant differences
FB! was Wnolved in the snsaninations of two of the most lant year he expressed his own independent end evolving:
prominent jeaders of the Black movement in the United views rather than thoes of the Musiins. Ha sat shout
States, Malcolm XK and Martin Luther King, Sreeiopine sheen £0 2 final outcome, drewing together she
. : . existing idem te had additi nod
crt mencrandums diued by J. Cage Hoover berween r nial
1961 and 1970. Xerox copies of thet memoranchens, The idee of tha white person a the enenty was the
tehich cutline a government plot 1 “expose, disrupt, beginning of political wisdom for Blacks who had :
fuadirect oF otherwise nevirslise” the Black tiberation illusions that the while racist power tiructure would hand j
Moverhenn|, ware relemed by the Government in March them freedom on a golden platter. Tha idea that Blacks
in response to a court order, Most references to indie == had to fight for their freedom was an indespensable ;
idush: and organisations are blacked out oF eovered first step, Ae Malcolm X pointed out time after timp i
Overt, Rowevel by counting number of isiiars and spaces Slacks needed to depend on their own organised strength, |
made by the typewriter it's not hard 10 figure out who their own independent Movement, sims and progr amen.
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is being referred to. After tis stage had been reached, whore they were an
One of dre FBI's main sine was to prevent the organised force, then they might look for other sectors
emergence of @ cohesive and radical teadershig such as Of St iety including working Class whites, to ally with,
that whuch Malcolm X may bers been able to give had making the right kind of alliances. And by the right
he not been sain so s00n, The circumstances of X's kind of alliance he did not mean working in the .
death (and ateo King’s) have never been fully or sacie- © Democratic Party, as many Black liberals and radicale
factorily clarified. This fact and tha publication of the ave been doing. He regarded the Democratic Party
FBI memos led to the allegation of Rav. Jeue Jackson ‘With all the concempt it destrees, and saw that it was
{President of Operation PUSH, » ieading Black organig- == 8 back ward step for Black militants to support thet
ee ae armTat tow dice of Kins} . Bety, _
thet “the FB! Sgured prominently in the assassination He began I FH causes of raci
Sackson himself was an eyewitness to King's murder = tudly the nature of capitalion as a system — alweys
and hed described to reporters how the potics, cunning — from tha goint of siew: of how the interests of Black
sowards him after the shooting, hed ashed hies where the ‘prople could be protected and promoted, From thie
fight behind where they were running from... they hia discussions with African revolutionaries — de come j
ware corning from wherw the shot had been fired! te the conclusion that the capitalat cysiem wan, and ‘
murdet edeltted in court to being part of « group of
. development dus to his desth, it can at the very leant be
heen, Mine yearn ister the loose ends ore stilt loft seid that Matcolet X was pro socialist and anti capitaiet,
danging. : ‘which wes quite 5 thing for the times. it was his utter
wing of the Black mowernem. Unlike the other wing — fight raciwe which propetied him in the direction of
pitomlesd by King — he evolved ta 8 postition where bocislions, -
he did nat think that Blacks would achieve equal rights
tet ad m son by seraly reforming the Malcolm X tu came to the Black Liberation movement
syitem. Tha may be a position held fairly widely
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