I posted this before but Malcolm never get old... These are traps that he creates. If you speak in an angry way about what has happened to our people and what is happening to our people, what does he call it? Emotionalism. Pick up on that. Here the man has got a rope around his neck and because he screams, you know, the cracker thats putting the rope around his neck accuses him of being emotional. [Laughter] Youre supposed to have the rope around your neck and holler politely, you know. Youre supposed to watch your diction, not shout and wake other people up— this is how youre supposed to holler. Youre supposed to be respectable and responsible when you holler against what theyre doing to you. And youve got a lot of Afro-Americans who fall for that. They say, No, you cant do it like that, youve got to be responsible, youve got to be respectable. And youll always be a slave as long as youre trying to be responsible and respectable in the eyesight of your master; youll remain a slave. When youre in the eyesight of your master, youve got to let him know youre irresponsible and youll blow his irresponsible head off. [Applause] And again youve got another trap that he maneuvers you into. If you begin to talk about what he did to you, hell say thats hate, youre teaching hate. Pick up on that. He wont say he didnt do it, because he cant. But hell accuse you of teaching hate just because you begin to spell out what he did to you. Which is an intellectual trap—because he knows we dont want to be accused of hate. And the average Black American who has been real brain-washed, he never wants to be accused of being emotional. You ever watched them? You ever watched one of them? Do that. Watch them, watch the real bourgeois Black Americans. He never wants to show any sign of emotion. He wont even tap his feet. You can have some of that real soul music, and hell sit there, you know, like it doesnt move him. [Laughter] I watch him, and Im telling you. And the reason he tries to pretend like it doesnt move him is that he knows it doesnt move them. And it doesnt move them because they cant feel it, theyve got no soul. And hes got to pretend he has none just to make it with them. This is a shame, really. And then you go a step farther, they get you again on this violence. They have another trap wherein they make it look criminal if any of us, who has a rope around his neck or one is being put around his neck—if you do anything to stop the man from putting that rope around your neck, thats violence. And again this bourgeois Negro, whos trying to be polite and respectable and all, he never wants to be identified with violence. So he lets them do anything to him, and he sits there submitting to it nonviolently, just so he can keep his image of responsibility. He dies with a responsible image, he dies with a polite image, but he dies. [Laughter] The man who is irresponsible and impolite, he keeps his life. That responsible Negro, hell die every day, but if the irresponsible one dies he takes some of those with him who were trying to make him die. Malcolm x 1964
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 20:29:41 +0000
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