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Malcolm X — Part 9
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NATION OF ISLAM
"But I have never heard any white man yet come
up with a history of angelic déeds tewards nonwhite
people. This history as we know it has been a history
of oppression, exploitation, colonialization, and today
the seeds of oppression, slavery, and colonialism that
were sown by the Europeans has caused what we ¢all the
pendulum of time to be swinging against them today.
"The Honorable ELIJAH MUHAMMAD, a8 a religious
man, he teaches religion but in line with teaching us the
religion of Islam our people are still confronted with a
problem that the government itself confesses its inability
to solve, and if the government will confess to its
inability to solve this problem and the Honorable ELIJAH
MUHAMMAD is solving it for us, the government and I think
the white race, should thank him rather than implyaag
that he is teaching something other then religion. If
the white race doesn't want to be classified as devils
all I say, sir, is that they change their attitude towards
the black people in this country.
"Ves, evidently the listener wasn't aware of the
fact that here in Los Angeles at that time 75 heavily
armed Los Angeles police had brutally shot In cold blood
seven unarmed Negroes here in the city. One of them was
paralyzed for the rest of his life from the waist down,
one died from a bullet in his heart. This a picture of
the one who died, this ita RONALD STOKES, an innocent man
who was shot down by police bullets in Los Angeles and
at that time the coronerts jury ealled it a -jestifiable
homicide despite the fact that they were unarmed, that
they were holding religious services, and that they had
shot up the place where we hold ous Peldeioke services.
So, after hearing the coronerfs jury's decision of
justifiable homicide, I mentioned at the time eas a
religious man I really believed that God would bring
disaster down upon the people who were responsible for
allowing such an injustice to take place in a country
that is supposed te be based upon freedom, justice,
equality, and thinge of that sert. And when this airplane
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