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malcolm-little-malcolm-x — Part 37
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MALCOLM X:
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MALCOLM X1
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RICHARD KIX:
MALCOLM K:
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No he was a field Negro.
Oh no MALCOLM he had been taught to read and
write, he was a practicing Christian andass&
matter of fact he had some email skill as an
artisan. 80 he didn't satisfy your standards
of the unskilled laborer. as aa’
He was disguised as a house Negro. (Inaudible) .
Right here in America today you have som@-- lt
Negroes who pretend to be house Negroes oe
and who pretend to be satisfied and who are
looked upon as Toms, but who are just as
dissatisfied as I and WhO. s.sesee
We're not talking about dissatisfaction.
1 never saw, frankly, a Negro in the United
States in my life tine who was wholly
satisfied with conditions under which
either he lived or saw other Negroes live,
I've never seen one, I've seen sone
apologists whe loosely were called
Urmie Toms but even they privately weren't
satisfied and I think one ef the great
developments of the last 5 years has been,
today particularly in the deep South,
Negroes who were regarded as "safo” by the
white community but demonstrated that they were
as antagonistic and as concerned and dissatisfied
as the younger Negroes in the community.
So that these classifications, these meeping
generalizations of yours, I just can't buy
without regard to race, creed or color,
All the pictures I've seen of you, I've seen
quite a bit, you never guile and here we were
talking about things I saw you snile and you
look very nice.
I’1l tell you why. Because the press prides
itself in being able to project m@ as a monster.
So reporters will come along and take 10 pictures
and the ones that I'm smiling in are elisinated
completely and the ones where I’m looking 1ike
I’m about to chew them up are the ones that
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