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0-19 (Rev. §-27-63) bic | ; alcolm X P. By Whites’ Affitude On Trip td Mecca ro net al By 0-5. @ANDLER ‘Malccim~X has informed a ork friend in a letter from Saudi Arabia ‘that he wil return to the Unijed Statgs m two weeks with new, positive Insights ‘on race relations. _- _ “He said he had gained ‘them from his religious experience =, + ifgltne—pacial antagonism to- * “ward whites nor hag he sensed ‘any antagonism on their part = The letter from Mecca, dated April 25, described how he had arrived at his new insights on “% race relations while on a pil- | ‘AD Colors and Ranks’ | “There are Muslims of all colors and ranks here in Mecca from al] parts of this earth,” jhe wrote. —~S | “During the past seven days of this Holy Pilgrimage, white undergoing the rituals of the Hajj [pligrimage}, I have eaten from the same plate, drank from the same giass, slept on the same bed or rug, while pray- ing to the same God—not only with some of this earth's most powerful kings, Cabinet mem- of political and ‘eligious millers —but also with fellow-Muslims was the biondest of ,blond—yet it was the first time in my life , |that I didn’t see them as ‘w! man—Larould look into their fn Mecea, the Holy City off. Tolson Belmont 7 . Mohr ° acon and sed that these avertjot Ged (Allah), then dep oovid Calle regard themselves as ‘white.’ (2:50 Sincerely accept the One- Callahan am oly beliet vi the Oneness|7¢3S, of Man, and they would cease to measure others always Conrad of God (AUah) had actually|in terms of their ‘differences in DeL h removed the ‘white’ from theirlcolor’.” eeoae minds, which automatically uth’ another point he wrote: Evans changed th erican Negro shoa havite toward ee ane ae never be blamed for racial ‘ant- Gale colors, Their belief in the One-|™ositles, because his are only Rosen ness of God has actually made/Teactions, or defense mecha- Sullivan them so different from Amari./Msms which his subconscious} u tean whites, their outer physical ore ee pas rorced him to’ Tavel characteristics play: lerect against the conscious rac- my. mind during” aft sm practiced ... by American! Trotter my clis2 Associations with) hites. . aT ol Tele Room them,” ; “But as America's insane ob-| Before leavin for the Middle; Session with racism leads her Holmes east, Maleoim had said that he|UP the suicidal path, nearer Gandy Sack nator a eed ieady fo the batapre ee tt (Am te teen ee zation or I do bennett mghts struggle this summer. [Of the younger generation, in Islam. He said that for the: first time in his life he hadi. Sought Broader Action the colleges and universities, Malcolm recently withdrew from the Black Muslim Move- ment founded and Muhammad of Chicago he felt its actinn, Malcolm's new movement does not require membership in the Black Muslim faith, It is open to Negro Christians and Black Jews, as well as to non- believers, : : Malcolm's letter said he hoped Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Nigerta,! Ghana, and Algeria before re- turning to New York by May He described some of his re-; actions to Mecca this way: “I have never before witnessed such sincere hospitality and the practise of true brotherhood as I have ‘seen and experienced during this pilgrimage here in Arabis. _ “In fact, what I have seen and experienced on this pil- grimage has forced me to ‘Te- arrange’ much of my own thought-pattern, and to toss aside some of my previous con-| in describing the people on the pligrimage, he wrote: “Their sincere submission to the Oneness of God, and their true acceptance of all nonwhites as equa makes the so-called ‘whites’ rev’ acceptable a3 equals into the brotherhood of Islam with the ‘nonwhites’. Tol} or ceases to be a determining factor of a man’s worth or val- ue once he becomes a Muslim. I Nope I am making Lhis rart very clear, because it is now! very cleartomea, =——<— | “If white Americans would: agcert the religion of Islam, if y would accept THE Oneess ‘elena ne ese —— ol a9 way ei ta visit Egypt, Sudan, Kenya,’ through their own young, less hampered intelfect, will see the ‘handwriting led by Elijanjturn for spiritual salvation to because | the religion of Islam and force religious sectarian-;the older generation o 2 ited its scope of can whites to turn with them.” | on the wall’ and 7 v Cy Qo HD E793 NOT RECORDED 46 MAY 13 1964 The Washington Post and ——_W—— Times Herald The Washington Daily Newa The Evening Star New York Heraid Tribune New York Journal-Ametican New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York times ZL The Worker A The New Leader The Wali Street Journal —~____ The National Observer —______ Peopie's World Date