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Malcolm X — Part 32
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“Mr, Muhammad has predicted [bring our own community up/and policemen who attack
that by 1970, more than 90 per!to par rather than forcing our-|them with nightsticks and fire
‘cent of Negroes will have
turned te the Muslim religion.”
Malcolm X denied that Ne-
groes are responsible for the
iDistrict’s high crime rate.
“They (Negroes) are only
practicing what the white man
has forced on them,” he de-
clared. ‘No Negroes are in the
Terarchy of organized crime.
Negroes are the victims. The
wmeki¢tn mane sarituntn Awa nian
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gambling, prostitution and
dope, but he blames Negroes
_,for them.”
if the Muslims were at the
Malcolm X explained, because
‘they would teach the Negroes
“to gland on our own feet and
selves on the white man.”
Would Separate Races
The Negroes’ approach to
their Birmingham problems is
no good, Malcolm X indicated.
“You draw away from them
and they accuse you of hate
and you draw to them and
they sic their dogs on you,” he
argued.
“Mr. Muhammad teaches us
to separate from the white man
since you can’t get along with
him,” he continued.
Birmington Negroes, he said,
should kill’“the two or four
‘leadership level in Birmingham |legged dogs which attack them.”
ithere would be no disorder,
If Muslims were involved in
the Birmingham protests, he
said, they would defend them-
selves against the,-nalice dogs.
hoses,
Malcolm X said he was as-|'
signed here by Mr. Muham-/'
mad to make “faster progress”
for the Muslim movement. He|'
replaces Lucius X, Brown as |
minister of the Washington ||
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longer represents Mr. Muham-
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