Our economic philosophy of black nationalism means that instead of our spending the rest of our lives begging the white man for a job, our people should be re-educated to the science of economics and the part that it plays in our community. We should be taught just the basic fundamentals: that whenever you take money out of the neighbourhood and spend it in another neighbourhood, the neighbourhood in which you spend it gets richer and richer, and the neighbourhood from which you take it gets poorer and poorer. This creates a ghetto, as now exists in every so-called Negro community in this country. If the Negro isn’t spending his money downtown with what we call the man, the man is himself right in the Negro community. All the stores are run by the white man, who takes the money out of the community as soon as the sun sets. We have to teach our people the importance of where to spend their dollars and the importance of establishing and owning businesses. Thereby we can create employment for ourselves, instead of having to wait to boycott your stores and businesses to demand that you give us a job. Whenever the majority of our people begin to think along such lines, you’ll find that we ourselves can best solve our problems. Instead of having to wait for someone to come out of your neighbourhood into our neighbourhood to tackle these problems for us, we ourselves may solve them. https://kickstarter/projects/1252814726/malcolm-x-collected-speeches-debates-and-interview
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 04:54:40 +0000