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Malcolm X — Part 11
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RE:
MALCOLM K, LITTLE
grandmother were the property of the white wan.
He could take her at will and right here in
Washington, D. €, today I am told that althagh the
white people move out to the outskirts, you car
walk through the Negro community and sea white men
and white women driving around our community et
might, still taking advantage of our women. And these
dumb Negro wen haven't got sense enough or enough
manhood in them to put a stop te it, and if a black
man can't go into a white neighborhood with «
white woman, thease KRegro men ought to wake up and
keep these white men out of our seighborhoods
after our women.
"Yr. Malcolm X, you were handed a copy of a newapaper
before entering our atudios here today, an article
in particular which comes out of one of the leading
newepapers in the country, an article which has the
topic "There Are Two Ways - Black Muslim and KAACP,"
How do you feel about the afforta of the NAACP insofar
as improving the relationship is concerned, the
advancement of the Negro and #0 forth?
“Well, that article ig in the magazine section of
today's ‘New York Timea.' The NAACP has done « .
job according to its own understanding, I imagine if
was effective in ite day. But we are living in a new
day now and the black people on the scene now aren't
willing to wait around here for a white man to
make up his mind that we are human beings. The whites
don't have to go to the Supreme Court oF .. .
before the President for freedom. I don't see
where black people should have to wait for some
presidential proclamation or some senator or
congressman to make up his mind that we are free,
“One final queation, Mr, Malcolm X, why the use of the
‘Ky -
"X stands for the unknown, and if a Chinese
were to walk in bere with the name Patrick Murphy
you would think he was crazy because Patrick Murphy
i#@ an Irish name, a white man's nam@, and a China
Ayer ote ome RAR, gO ENE Cores aap ie) Ae ne ee pienso etm ce gee
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