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0-19 (Rev, 12-24-64) Misshapen Flowers | Bui he is survived by his Harlem, the ghetio which created him and shaped him, The fact that he has been murdered solves nothing. It will not make life easier in America for anyone -- white or black. - ul Others preaching the identical or similar doctrines are certain to rise out of the poverty and misery that is Harlem, that is Atlanta, that is Chicago, that is Houston. Somewhere, at this very moment, in a dozen angry minds, the idea of becoming the next Malcolm X i is taking form. Who it will be, and where it will be, I leave to historians to . Take 15,000.00 seeds, cultivate them with the calloused hand of indifference, nurture them with despair, water them with injustice, and another misshapen human flower is certain to bloom. I have never been concerned about Malcolm X in particular as much as the frustration, hopelessness, bitterness and despair which _ he exemplified. He belonged to the past. His dream was fer a separate black state, for two nations within one —.an issue which was resolved at Appomattox Courthouse a century ago. As such, like the Back-to-Africa Movement sponsored by | whites in the 1850's, or of Marcus Garvey's in U the °30's, his “answer’' femme 2 nates Date ee eS ee | ee ; a 1 ee ee en Se Y 1H1é. America’s Negro citizens, uve Trst Of whom ranned t arrived bere as slaves the year before the Mayflower” ae Tere. ft ji Tolson ms f mont ee Casper Callahan Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele Room 5 lar e ge SS By Whitney M. Young Jr. to stay and to claim their twin birthright — liberty and freedom from the country to which they have given so much in blood, sweat and tears. Ta do otherwise would be to make a hollow_empty ; mockery of all their forefathers fought and sometimes died for, j [229-379 32/- An KOF } RECORDER 176 MAR 5 sss % 7 ———— The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daily news BS The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journai-American New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Baltimore Sun The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People's World Date