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en ae el 0-19 (Rev. 12-14-64} Tolson Belmont Mohr DeLoach getrers—@nce they kept “MTOM, Casper everybody else fell right in and Callahan fell in line. This is the thing that Conrad - Foreet Differences you and I have to understand. nra — And these people who came to Felt , What yoo and I need fo do is gether didn’t have nuclear wee Gale earn to forget our differences. pons, they didn't have jet planes, When ‘we come together, we don't they didn't have all of the heavy Hosen come together as Baptists or ~ armaments that the white man Sullivan Needs ee aoetist ey ne has. But they had unity , . . Tovel ause you're a Baptist, and you . don’t catch hell because you're a They qealized all over the yone Trotter Methodist, You don't catch hell where the dark man was being - eR because you're a Methodist or oppressed, he was being oppressed © ¢/e Tioom Baptist, you dont catch hell be by the white man; where the dark Holmes ton? man was being exploited, he was G cause you're a Democrat or a Re- : loi b it andy publican, you don’t catch hell be- Se oar tae y the wine basis % . y ether o snd yoo sure don't catch hell be. — that they had a common enemy. cause you're an American; because And when you and I here in if you were an American, you Detroit and in Michigan and in wouldn't caich heli. You caich Americe who have been awakened hel] because you’re a black man. oday look aroun . You catch hell all of. us catch realize here in America we ali MALCOLM X hell, for the same reason, i h g.common enemy, whether SPEAKS So we're all black people, so- he's in noe orgie or ic Ks _ called Negroes, second-class citi- whether he’s in ifornia or New | 2 zens, ex-slaves, You’re nothing but York. He’s the same man — blue CONTINUED 7.8 an ex-slave. You don’t like to be eyes and blond hair and pale skin "= told that. But what else are you? — the same man. So what we have Loi You are exslaves. You didn't to do is what they did. They 2 come here on the Mayflower. You : agreed to stop quarreling among eral came here on a slave ship, In themselves, Any little spat that chains, like a horse, or a cow, or e Bandung conference, and the they had, they'd settle it among a chicken, And you were brought ults of the Bandung confer- themseivés, go into a huddle — here by the people who came here | ince, it actually serves as a model don't let the enemy know tha on the Mayflower, you were! bor the same procedure you and you've got a disagreement. brought here by the so-called Pilgrims, or Founding Fathers. They were the ones who brought you here. We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a@ common oppressor, a comma exploiter, criminator. But once we all real- ize that have a enemy, then we unite — on the we common basis of what we have in common. | Ang what we have foremost in- common is that enemy — the white man. He's an enemy to all of us. I know some of you a@l] think that some of them aren't enemies. Time will tel. not allowed to attend the Ban. ‘he white man, put the white man ly News In Bandung back in, I think, {dung conference was the white Out of our meetings, and then sity , 1954, was the first unity meeting "He couldn’t come, Once they own and talk shop with eachy |. in centuries of black people. And |pxciuded the white man, they ther. That's what we've got to do. sun and a common dis-: | gtheists. Despite their religious TOMiinois T can use to get cur problems solved. At Bandung all the na- tions came together, the dark, na- tions from Africa and Asia, Some of them were Buddhists, some of them were Muslims, some of them were Christians, some were Confucianists, some were ifferences, they came together. me were communists, some were cialists, some were capitalists — pite their economic and polit- ical differences, they came to- . gether. All of them were black, | brown, red or yellow. i The number-one thing that was once you study what happened aty/ ound that they could get to —— ——_ Instead of airing our difference: in public, we have to realize we’ all the same family. And whe you have a family squabble, you don't get out on the sidewalk. If you do, everybody calls you un- couth, unrefined, uncivilized, sav- age, If you don’t make it at home, you settle it at home; you get in the closet, argue it out behind closed doors, and then when you come out on the street, you pose a@ common front, a united front. And this is what we need to do in the community, and in the city, and in the state. We need to stop airing our differences in front of Next week: What is a Eevolution? ah Week ae Lhe wOPk ET . on Post and ald on Daily News 3ter a tnai-American ld Tribune The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The Nattonal Observer People’s World Date THE MILITANr PAGE 4