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Malcolm X — Part 32
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i, mad exposing the guilty slave-
master whom they have grown -
® trust, love and idolize.
told how the black people ef
jthe East were Hving fn pal-
, aces along the banks of the
_ Nile River, wearing jong ik.
.@n robes, cooking and sea.
soning thelr food ... while
the white man was crawling
on his qall-feurs up in the
_ Caves and hillsides of Eu- ;
4* repe, going naked or weering
- animal skins to coverthelr .
-hairy bodies, eating rew |
| meat like the other ferocious
wild beasts.
:| He explained that the Black}
—— Reople of Egypt had mastered |
the sciences of mathematics
and astronomy before the white
ace had yet even suspected
hat the earth was not flat.
a ’ Yardstick
“Hearing the white scientists
admit that the Nile River that
funs. through the heart of Af-
rica is the Yardstick of Civi-
lization, how can the Negroes
in America continue to believe
they were savages hefote the
: Twhite man kidnapped them
‘ [and brought them ‘here to be
_ {Made slaves?" queried Mr. X.
: t He spoke of how the white
man brags about how he stole
this country from the Indians,
>If it Is not hate to say how
“the white man stole this coun-
try from the indians, then why
|
{
apped us from the East,
ought us here in chaing,
fie us of our ancient cul
Te,“ robbed ‘us of all know]
‘edge concerning our gioriou
‘history .and then made us hi
Slaves?
The sutspoken Malcolm XE -;
tis it hate to teach our people ;
ow this same white man kid-
rs | _e
The white man ‘lynched, mur-
ered, slaughtered our fathers
nd brothers; he raped a
avished our helpless: women ¢
Will... and then trained th
ignorant, greedy Negro preagh-
ers to “parrot” his religious
to us, a “pacifying religion”
that wis skilfully designed te
brainwash us and keep us in
“our place.”
Naked Truth .
“Ne, Mr. Muhamed is net
teaching hate,“ cried the
fiery Mr. X. “he ‘is teaching
the naked truth thet these
Negroes need te know:
truth so plain that only a fool
would dispute ft... and the
Negro preachers are quickest
to prove themselves to be the
biggest fools.”
+ A flood of mail has already
begun to rain down upon Sta-
tion WHBI, as Harlemites an-
‘ticipate the replies the Ne
preachers ‘are certain te mak
n defense of the heated bar
ag Mr. X has turned el
gainst them.
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