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Malcolm X — Part 4
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“Here in America if a black slave was found
able to read and write ne tac rut to @:itth, and enycne
found guilty of teaching him was east into prison. We
were slaughtered by the wicked white slavemaster if we
were found to have a knowleice of the God (ALLAH) and
religion (Islam) of our foreparents,
"When we wanted to prey te our God (the One
God, ALLAH), we had to 'steal avay' and put our head in
& pail or bucket to keep the wicked white Christian
slavemaster from hearing us and murdering us for praying
to our own God. White man's heaven is black manta hell.
“Gur children, with no cne to teach them, no
one to open their eyes, grew up mentally blind, in gross
dar:mess of ignorance. . . ‘mother gone, father gone,
motnerless children saw a hard time.'? White man's heaven
is black man's hell.
"Seeing the blood roll down the naked backs
of our fathers, and of our brothers and sons. . . seeing
our wives, our daughters, and even our mothers raped and
ravished by the wicihed, inhuman white beasts right before
our very eyes, we worcervec: How long, oh, Lord, how
dongy' .. . White man's heaven is black man's hell,
"We sweated in tle fields, toiling in chains
from morning until night, while the white slavemaster
slept and played. . . we ate from troughs with our
hangs, like animals, while the slavemaster lay in bed
and forced our women to serve him his food on.giiver
platters, . . We were Gresrced in one-piece rags, while
the white slavemaster wore stiks and fine linens. ..
We lived in shack-like huts while the slavemaster lived
in mansions which were built by our very own hands,
White man's heaven is black man's hell,
"We, who were once the ovners of the carth,
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white race was crawling like animals on their hands
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