“Coretta you’re going to have to speak today because Malcolm X is here. He’s just spoken and he has aroused the people and you need to speak because you need to, ah, you know, to set a nonviolent tone.”-Andrew Young On February 4, 1965, during a visit to Selma, Alabama, Malcolm spoke to 300 civil rights workers at Brown Chapel AME Church. If the federal government does not find it within its power and ability to investigate a criminal organization such as the Klan, then you and I are within our rights to wire Secretary-General U Thant of the United Nations and charge the federal government in this country, behind Lyndon B. Johnson, with being derelict in its duty to protect the human rights of twenty-two million Black people in this country. And in their failure to protect our human rights, they are violating the United Nations Charter, and they are not qualified to continue to sit in that international body and talk about what human rights should be done in other countries on this earth. I have to say this, then Ill sit down. Back during slavery, when Black people like me talked to the slaves, they didnt kill em, they sent some old house Negro along behind him to undo what he said. You have to read the history of slavery to understand this. There were two kinds of Negroes. There was that old house Negro and the field Negro. And the house Negro always looked out for his master. When the field Negroes got too much out of line, he held them back in check. He put em back on the plantation. The house Negro could afford to do that because he lived better than the field Negro. He ate better, he dressed better, and he lived in a better house. He lived right up next to his master - in the attic or the basement. He ate the same food his master ate and wore his same clothes. And he could talk just like his master - good diction. And he loved his master more than his master loved himself. Thats why he didnt want his master hurt. If the master got sick, hed say, Whats the matter, boss, we sick? When the masters house caught afire, hed try and put the fire out. He didnt want his masters house burned. He never wanted his masters property threatened. And he was more defensive of it than the master was. That was the house Negro. But then you had some field Negroes, who lived in huts, had nothing to lose. They wore the worst kind of clothes. They ate the worst food. And they caught hell. They felt the sting of the lash. They hated their master. Oh yes, they did. If the master got sick, theyd pray that the master died. If the masters house caught afire, theyd pray for a strong wind to come along. This was the difference between the two. And today you still have house Negroes and field Negroes. Im a field Negro. If I cant live in the house as a human being, Im praying for a wind to come along. If the master wont treat me right and hes sick, Ill tell the doctor to go in the other direction. But if all of us are going to live as human beings, as brothers, then Im for a society of human beings that can practice brotherhood. But before I sit down, I want to thank you for listening to me. I hope I havent put anybody on the spot. Im not intending to try and stir you up and make you do something that you wouldnt have done anyway. I pray that God will bless you in everything that you do. I pray that you will grow intellectually, so that you can understand the problems of the world and where you fit into, in that world picture. And I pray that all the fear that has ever been in your heart will be taken out, and when you look at that man, if you know hes nothing but a coward, you wont fear him. If he wasnt a coward, he wouldnt gang up on you. He wouldnt need to sneak around here. This is how they function. They function in mobs - thats a coward. They put on a sheet so you wont know who they are - thats a coward. No! The time will come when that sheet will be ripped off. If the federal government doesnt take it off, well take it off. Thank you. https://youtube/watch?v=mg5uQQw2leU
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:14:30 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015