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ab nom aa oy ry Up agape TOOT co in bid ex ‘a. ‘J 3 Raion {, rw ) 7 Vii Mis pacth NY 105-8999 Mr. ROBINSON cited MALCOLM X as an outstanding example of this reporting and he then made the following comments on. MALCOLM X: "Mr. X., as he is projected by what we regrettably | call the ‘white press,' doesn't even exist. As Dick Gregory. has said, Malcolm was ‘invented' by the people who edit big newspapers, control big television and radio and publish big newspapers and magazines. "Malcolm has big audiences, but no constructive program. He has big words, but _ne records on deeds in civil w4 al Tights. He is terribly militant on soapboxes on street corners of Negro ghettos. Yet, he has not faced Southern police dogs in Birmingham as in Lather has done, nor gone to jail for freedom as Royfiiaiine and s Farmer have done, nor led a Merch on Washifigton as A, Philip-Randolph did, nor brought abou. creative dialogue between budiness and civil rights leaders as Whitney Young does daily. aes ~ - -"In fact, here is a man who has been exposed and Gisowned by the very organization which he had so eloquently espoused - the Black Muslims. In spite of all this, Mr. X receives more publicity in national media than is given to all the responsible Negro leaders we have mentioned above, White colleges flood him with speaking engagement offers. You can count on one hand Negro colleges which have invited him if there are any. "It is the function of media to report, yes. But the Maltanta W teaen baw beer At etawntaA wwthiar than nancnrtadA-. Ata _PBeAVw A A IE 2A VO) Me ee 2 I WIG 2G pws Vea; Saba torted so that many whites imagine that Malcolm has a popular following; distorted so that a number of whites and colored people, more concerned with public attention than with civil rights, more hungry for headlines than for jobs and justice, have suddenly reached for ,mantles of leadership which they are not prepared to wear." _ - 54 - : ani