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Malcolm X Message To The Grassroots | House Negro/Field Negro
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and during the few moments that we have
left we want to have just an
off-the-cuff check between you and me us
we want to talk right down to earth in a
language that everybody here can easily
understand we all agree tonight all of
the speakers have agreed that America
has a very serious problem not only does
America have a very serious problem but
our people have a very serious problem
America's problem is us we're here
probably the only reason she has a
problem is she doesn't want us here and
every time you look at yourself bu black
brown red or yellow a so-called negro
you are you represent a person who poses
such a serious problem for America
because you're not one once you face
this as a fact then you can start
plotting a course that will make you
appear intelligent instead of
unintelligent what you and I need to do
is learn to forget our differences when
we come together we don't come together
as Baptist or Methodist you don't catch
hell because you're a Baptist and you
you know you don't catch hell cause
you're Methodists or Baptists you don't
catch hell because you're a Democrat or
a Republican you don't catch hell
because you're a Mason
Arnel and you sure don't catch hell
cause you're an American because if he
was an American you wouldn't catch no hair
hair
you catch him I'll toss you a black man
you can tell all of us catch hell for
the same reason so we're all black
people so-called Negroes second-class
citizens ex-slaves you're nothing but an ex-slave
ex-slave
you don't like to be told that but what
else are you you are ex-slave you didn't
come here on the Mayflower you came here
in a slave ship in teams like a horse or
a cow or a chicken and you were brought
here by the people who came here on the
Mayflower you were brought here by the
so called pilgrims our founding fathers
they were the ones who brought you here
we have a common enemy we have this
incoming we have a common oppressor
a common exploiter in a common
discriminate so once we all realize that
we have a best common enemy then we
unite on the basis of what we have in
common and what we have foremost in
common is that enemy the white mate he's
an enemy to all of us I know some of you
all think that some of them aren't
enemies time will tell
in band on the back and I think 1954 was
the first unity meeting in centuries of
black people and once you study what
happened at the band dung conference and
the results of the Bandung conference it
actually serves as a model for the same
procedure you and I can use to get our
problem song been done all the nations
came together they were dark nations
from Africa and Asia some of them were
Buddhists some of them were Muslim some
of them were Christian some of them were
Confucian Confucianists some were
atheists despite their religious
differences they came together some more
communist some were socialist some where capitalists
capitalists
despite despite their economic and
political differences they came together
all of them were black brown red or
yellow the number one thing that was not
allowed to attend the Bandung conference
was the white man he couldn't come once
they excluded the white man they found
that they could get together once they
kept him out everybody else fell right
in in felling live this is the thing
that you and I have to understand and
these people who came together didn't
have nuclear weapons they didn't have
jet planes they didn't have all of the
heavy armaments that the white man has
but they had unity they were able to
submerge their little petty differences
and agree on one thing that though one
African came from Kenya and was being
colonized by a Englishman and another
African came from the Congo and was
being colonized by the Belgian and
another African came from Guinea and was
being colonized by the French and
another came from Angola and was being
colonized by the Portuguese when they
came to the Dandong conference they
looked at the Portuguese and after
friendship and after Englishmen and
after the other Dutchman in Lenoir
realized that the one thing that all of
them had in common they were all from
Europe they were all from they were all
Europeans blonde blue-eyed and white
skinned they begin to recognize who the
enemy was the same man that was
colonizing our people in Kenya was
colonizing our people in the Congo the
same one in the Congo was colonizing our
people in South Africa and in Southern Rhodesia
Rhodesia
and in Burma than in India and in
Afghanistan and in Pakistan they
realized all over the world where a dark
man was dingo pressed he was being
oppressed by the white man where the
dark man was
pointed he was being exploited by the
white man so they got together under
this basis that they had a common enemy
and when you and I here in Detroit and
in Michigan and in America who have been
awakened today look around us we to
realize here in America we all have a
common enemy whether he's in Georgia or
Michigan whether he's in California or
New York he's the same man blue eyes and
so what we have to do is what they did
they agreed to stop quarreling among themselves
themselves
any little spam that they had they
settled it among themselves go into a
huddle don't let the enemy know that you
got a disagreement instead of us airing
our differences in public we have to
realize we're all the same family and
when you have a family squabble you
don't get out on the sidewalk if you do
everybody calls you uncouth unrefined
uncivilized Savage if you don't make it
at home you take you to 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
poles are coming front our 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 the white mate
put the white man out of our meeting
number one and then sit down and talk
I would like to make a few comments
concerning the difference between the
black revolution and the Negro
Revolution there's a difference are they
both the same and if they're not what is
the difference what is the difference
between a black revolution and a Negro
revolution first what is a revolution
sometimes I'm inclined to believe that
many of our people are using this word
revolution loosely without taking
careful consideration what this word
actually means and what its historic
characteristics are when you study the
historic nature of revolutionists the
motive of a revolution the objective of
a revolution and the result of a
revolution and the methods used in a
revolution you may change words you may
devise another program you may change
your goal and you may change your mind
look at the American Revolution in 1776
that revolution was for what 4-lane how
was it why did they want land
independence how was it carried out bloodshed
number one it was based on land the
basis of Independence and the only way
they could get it was bloodshed the
French Revolution what was it based on
the lane les against the landlord what
was it four lane how did they get it
bloodshed was no love lost was no
compromise was no negotiation I'm
telling you you don't know what our
revolution is because when you find out
what it is you'll get back in the alley
Konami the rest in revolution what was
it based on land the lien lists against
the landlord how did they bring it about
bloodshed you haven't got a revolution
that doesn't involve bloodshed and
I said you were afraid of Li long as the
white men send you to Korea you bled he
sent you to Germany you bled
he sent you to the South Pacific to
fight the Japanese you bled you bleed
for white people but when it comes time
for seeing your own churches being
bombed in little black girls we murder
you bleed when the white man says bleed
you bite when the white man says bang
and you bonk when the white man says but
I hate to say this about us but it's
true how you gonna be nonviolent in
Mississippi as badly as you were in
Korea how can you justify being
nonviolent in Mississippi in Alabama
when your churches are being bombed and
your little girls are being murdered and
at the same time you're gonna get
violent with Hitler and Tojo and
if violence is wrong in America violence
is wrong abroad if it's wrong to be
violent defending black women in black
children and black babies and black men
then it's wrong for America to draft us
and make us violent abroad in the face
the Chinese Revolution they wanted land
they threw the British ah
along with the Uncle Tom Chinese yeah
they did they set a good example when I
was in prison I read an article and
don't be shocked when I say I was in
that's what America means prison when I
was in prison I read an article in Life
magazine showing little Chinese girl 9
years old her father was on his hands
and knees and she was pulling the
trigger cause he was an uncle town China
when they had the revolution over there
they took a whole generation of Uncle
Tom's just wiped him out and within 10
years that little girl became a
full-grown woman no more times in China
and today today is one of the toughest
roughest most feared countries on this
earth by the white man because there are
no uncle towns over there [Music]
of all our studies history is best
qualified to reward all research and
when you see that you've got problems
all you have to do is examine the
historic method used all over the world
by others who had problems similar to
yours and once you see how they got
there straight then you know how you can
get your straight please there's been a
revolution of black revolution going on
in Africa in Kenya the Mau Mau were
revolutionaries they were the ones who
made the word or hurroo they were the
ones who brought it to the fore the Mau
Mau they were revolutionaries they
believed in scorched earth they knocked
everything aside that got in the pan and
their revolution also was based on land
a desire for land in Algeria the
northern part of Africa a revolution
took place the Algerians were
revolutionaries they wanted lame prints
offered to let them be integrated into
frames they told them to the fridge to
hell with frames they wanted some land
and they engaged in a bloody band
so I cite these various revolutions
brothers and sisters to show you you
don't have a peaceful revolution you
don't have a turn the other cheek
revolution there's no such thing as a
non-violent revolution only thing only
kinda revolution as nonviolent is the
the only revolution based on leaven your
enemy is the Negro revolution the only
revolution in which the goal is a
desegregated lunch counter the
desegregated theatre a desegregated Park
and a desegregated public toilets you
can sit down next to white folks on the toilet
that's no revolution revolution is based
on land land is the basis of all
independence wind is the basis of
freedom justice and equality the white
man knows what a revolution is he knows
that the black revolution is worldwide
in scope and in nature the black
revolution is sweeping Asia sweeping
Africa is wearing his head in Latin
America the Cuban Revolution that's a
revolution is in Asia revolution is in
Africa and the white man is screaming
because he sees revolution in Latin
America how do you think he'll react to
you when you learn what a real
revolution is you don't know what a
revolution is if you did you wouldn't
use that word our revolution is bloody
revolution is hostile revolution knows
no compromise revolution overturns and
destroys everything that gets in its way
and you sitting around here like are not
all these folks no matter how much they
hate me no you need a revolution [Applause]
who ever heard of a revolution quit a
lock arms as Reverend Clegg was pointing
out beautifully singing we shall
overcome just tell me you don't do that
in a revolution you don't do any singing
it's based on land a revolutionary wants
land so he can set up his own nation an
independent nation these Negroes aren't
asking for no nation they trying to
when you want a nation that's called
nationalism when the blent when the
white men became involved in a
revolution in this country against
England what was it father
he wanted this lives with yourself
another white nation that's weight
nationalism the American Revolution was
great nationalism the French Revolution
was white nationalism the Russian
Revolution - yes it was white
nationalism you don't think so why you
think Khrushchev and mill can't get
their heads together white nationalism
all the revolutions that's going on in
Asia in Africa today are based on what
black nationalism a revolutionary is a
black nationalists he wants a nation I
was reading some beautiful words by
Reverend clean pointing out why he
couldn't get together with someone else
[Applause]
because all all of them were afraid of
being identified wouldn't black
nationalism if you're afraid of black
nationalism you're afraid of revolution
and if you love revolution you love
to understand this you have to go back
to what young brother here referred to
as the house negro and the field negro
back during slavery there was two kind
of slaves there was the house Negro in
the field Negro the house Negro they
lived in the house with master they
dressed pretty good
they ain't good cuz they eat his food
what he left
they lived in an attic or the basement
but still they look near their master
and they loved the master more than the
master loved himself they would they
would give their life to save their
masters house quicker than the master
would the house Negro it's the master so
we got a good house here the house
Negroes there yeah we got a good house
in whenever the master said we he said
if the missus if the minister's house
caught on fire the house Negro would
fight harder to put the blaze out then
the master would if the master got sick
the house Negro said what's the matter
he identified himself with his master
more than his master identified with
himself and if you came to the house
Negro and said let's run away let's
escape let's separate that house Negro
would look at you and say man you crazy
what you mean separate where is there a
better house than this where can I wear
better clothes than this where can I eat
better food than this that was that
house Negro in those days he was called
a house [ __ ] and that's what we call
him today because we still got some
this modern house Negro loves his nest
he wants to live near him he'll pay
three times as much as the house is worth
worth
just a little neighbor's master and then
I'm the only one on my job I'm the only
one in this school you nothing but our
house negro and if someone come to you
right now and say let's separate you say
the same thing that the house Negro said
on the plantation what you mean
separated from America this good white
man what you gonna get a better job than
you get here I mean this is what you say
I left nothing in Africa that's what you
say why you left your mind in Africa [Applause]
[Applause] [Music]
on that same plantation there was the
field negro the field negro
those were the masses there was always
more Negroes in the field then there was
Negros in the house the Negro in the
field caught him he ate leftovers in the
house dead high up on the hall the Negro
in the field didn't get nothing but what
was left of the insides of the hog
they call him chitlins nowadays in those
days they column what they're worth
gasps that's what you were a gut either
[Applause]
the feel Negro was beaten from morning
till night
he lived in a shack in a hut he will
cast off clothes and he hated his master
I say he hated his master he was
intelligent that house Negro loved his
master but that field negro remember
they were in the majority and they hated
the master when the house caught on fire
he didn't try and put it out that field
negro pray for a wind for breeze when
the master got sick the field negro
prayed that he died if someone come to
the field negro and said let's separate
listen run he didn't say where we go and
you got field Negroes in America today
I'm a field negro the masses are the
field Negroes when they see this man's
house on fire you don't hear these
little Negroes talk about our government
is in trouble they say the government is
in trouble [Applause]
imagine a negro our government I even
heard one say our astronauts but won't
even let him never plan and our
astronauts our need there's a Negro
that's out of his mind
as a Negro is out of his mind just as
the slave master in that day used Tom
the house Negro to keep the field
Negroes in check the same old slave
master today has Negroes who are nothing
but modern Uncle Tom's 20th century
Uncle Tom's to keep you and me in check
keep us under control keep us passive
and peaceful in nonviolent that's Tom
making you nonviolent it's like when you
go to the dentist and the man is gonna
take you to you're gonna fight him when
he start pulling
so these scripts and stuff in your jaw
called Nova King to make you think
they're not doing anything to you so you
sit there in coach you got all that
novocaine in your jaw you suffer peacefully
blood running all down your job and you
don't know what's happening because
someone has taught you to suffer
peacefully the white man do the same
thing to you in the street when he can
want to put nuts on your head and take
advantage of you and don't have to be
afraid of your fighting back to keep you
from fighting back you get these old
religious Uncle Tom's to teach you and
me they're just like novocaine suffer
peacefully don't stop suffering just
suffer peacefully as Reverend Clete
pointed out that's your blood flow in
the streets this is a scene and you know
he's the Christian preacher if it's
ashame to him you know what it is to me [Applause]
because nothing in our book the Quran as
you call it Quran teaches us to suffer
peacefully our religion teaches us to be
intelligent be peaceful be courteous
obey the law respect everyone but if
someone puts his hand on you don't send
that's a good religion
in fact that's that old-time religion [Applause]
that's the one that my iPod used to talk
about an eye for an eye and a tooth for
tooth and a head for a head and a life
for a life that's a good religion and
then anybody no one resents that kind of
religion being taught but a wolf who
intends to make you his meal this is the
way it is with the white man in America
he's a wolf and your sheep anytime our
Shepherd a pastor teach you and me not
to run from the white man and at the
same time teachers don't fight the white
man he's a traitor to you and me don't
lay down our life all by itself
no preserve your life it's the best
thing you got and if you got to give it
up let it be even steven [Applause]
the slave master took Tom and dressed
him well and fed him well and even gave
him a little education a little
education gave him a long coat and a top
hat and made all the other slaves look
up to him then he used Tom to control
them the same strategy that was used in
those days is used today by the same
white man he take a Negro so called
Negro and make him prominent build him
up publicising make him a celebrity and
then he becomes a spokesman for Negro
I would like to just mention one thing
else quickly and that is the method that
the white man uses how the white men
uses these big guns or Negro leaders
against the black revolution they are
not a part of the black revolutionary
they're used against the black
revolution when Martin Luther King
failed to desegregate Albany Georgia the
civil rights struggle in America reached
its low point King became bankrupt
almost as a leader plus even financially
the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference was in financial trouble plus
it was in troubled period with the
people when they failed to desegregate
Albany Georgia other negro civil rights
leaders of so-called national stature
became fallen islands as they became
fallen islands began to lose their
prestige and influence local Negro
leaders begin to stir up the masses in
Cambridge Maryland Berea Richardson in
Danville mature Danville Virginia and
other parts of the country local leaders
begin to stir our people at the
grassroots level this was never done by
these Negroes whom you recognize of
national stature they controls you but
they never incited you or excited they
controlled you they contained you they
kept you on the plantation as soon as
King failed in Birmingham Negroes took
to the streets King got out and went out
to California to a big rally and praised
about I don't know how many thousands of
dollars come to Detroit and how to march
and raise some more thousands of dollars
in recall right after that Wilkins
attacked King accused King in the core
of starting trouble everywhere and then
making him double ACP get him out of
jail and spend a lot of money many
accused King and Cobb
and all the money in not cleaning back
this happened I got a didn't documented
evidence in the newspaper why started
detective King and King style attacked
Narayan farmers started attacking both
up and as these Negroes of national
statute begin to attacked each other
they begin to lose their control of the
negro masters and Negros was out there
in the streets they was talking about we
gonna march on Washington by the way and
right at that time Birmingham had
exploded and the Negroes in Birmingham
remember they also exploded they begin
to stab the crackers in the back and
bust them up side the head yes they did
that's when Kennedy sending the truth
down in Birmingham so and right after
that Kennedy got on the television and
said this is a moral issue that's when
he said he gonna put out a civil rights
bill and when he's mentioned civil
rights bill in the southern crackers
start talking about they were gonna
boycotted or filibuster then the Negroes
not talking about what we're gonna march
on Washington march on the Senate march
on the White House march on the Congress
and tie it up bring it to a halt don't
let the government proceeding said it
was going to go out to the airport and
lay down on the runaway and don't let no
airplanes land I'm telling you what they
said it was the grass roots out there in
the street scared the white man to death
scared the white power structure in
Washington DC to death I was there when
they found out that this black
steamroller was going to come down on
the Capitol they called in Wilkins they
called in Randolph they called in these
national Negro leaders as you respect
and told them call it off Kennedy said
look y'all letting this thing go too far
and old toms dead boss I can't stop it
I'm telling you what they said they said
I'm not even in it much less at the head
of it they said these Negroes are doing
things on their own they running ahead
of us and that old shrewd Fox he said
well if you all on in and I'll put you
in I'll put you at the head of it I'll
endorse it I'll welcome it
I'll help that I'll join it the very a
matter of hours went by they had a
meeting at the Carlyle Hotel in New York
City the Carlyle Hotel is owned by the
Kennedy family that's the hotel Kennedy
spent the night at two nights ago
belongs to his family a philanthropic
society headed by a white man named
Stephen courier called all the top civil
rights leaders together at the Carlyle
Hotel and told them that by you all
fighting each other you're destroying
the civil rights movement and since you
fighting over money from white liberals
let us set up what's known as the
Council for United civil rights
leadership this formless Council and all
the civil rights organizations will
belong to it and we'll use it for
fundraising purposes let me show you how
tricky the white man is and as soon as
they got it formed they elected Whitney
Young as the chairman and who you think
became the co-chairman Stephen Curry the
white man a millionaire Powell is
talking about it down at the COBOL today
this is what he was talking about power
knows it happened Randolph knows it happened
happened
Wilkins knows that happened King knows
it happen every one of that so-called
big six they know what happened once
they formed it but the white men over it
he promised them and gave them eight
hundred thousand dollars to split up
between the big six and told him that
after the March was over they give him
seven hundred thousand more a million
and a half dollars split up between
leaders that you've been following burn
to jail for crime cracker
and they have nothing but Frank James
and Jesse James and what-you-call-it brothers
soon as they got the setup organized
they white men made available to them
top public relations experts open the
news media across the country at their
disposal and then they begin to project
these bigfix as the leaders of the March
originally they weren't even into March
you are talking this much talk on
Houston Street as Easton speak still
here on Hastings Street you are spoken
to my talk on Lenox Avenue in now on
what to call it Philip Morris Street in
Central Avenue and 42nd Street in 63rd
Street that's where the March talked was
being talked but the white man put the
big six ahead of it made them to march
they became to march they took it over
and the first move they made after they
took it over they invited Walter Reuther
a white man they invited a priest but a
rabbi and old white preacher yes a white
preacher the same white element that put
Kennedy in power labor the Catholics the
Jews and liberal Protestants clean click
that put Kennedy in power joined the
march on Washington it's just like when
you got some coffee that's too black
which means it's too strong what you do
you make it weak if you pour too much
cream in you won't even know you ever
had coffee it used to be hot it becomes
cool and used to be strong it becomes
weak it used to wake you up now it'll
this is what they did with the march on
Washington they joined it they didn't
integrate it they infiltrated it they
joined it became a part of it
took it over and as they took it over
that lost its militancy they cease to be
angry they cease to be hot they cease to
be uncompromising why it even seems to
nothing but a circus with clowns and all
you had one right here in Detroit I saw
it on television with clowns leave it
white clowns and black clowns I know you
don't like what I'm saying I'm gonna
tell you anyway cuz I can prove what I'm
saying if you think I'm telling you
wrong you bring me Martin Luther King
and eight philip Randolph and James
farmer and know those other three then
see if they'll deny it over the
microphone now it was a sellout it was a
takeover when James Baldwin came in from
Paris they would let him talk because
they couldn't make him go by the script
Burt Lancaster wrecked his BC Bolden was
supposed to make they wouldn't let Robin
get out there because they know Baldwin
libelous say anything they controlled it
so tight they turn those Negroes were
time to hit town how to come quite a
stop what sign to carry what song to
sing what speech they could make and
what speech they cover me and then told
them to get out of town by sundown [Music]
and every one of those times were out of
town by sundown now I know you don't
like my saying this but I can back it up
it was a circus of performance it be
anything Hollywood could ever do the
performance of the year Luther and those
other three Devils should get an Academy
Award for the best actors cause they
acted like they really loved Negro and
fooled a whole lot of Negro and the six
Negro leaders should get a or an award
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