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Malcolm X — Part 17
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Our probicms are your problems, We have lived for over 300 years tn that
American den o; racist wolves in constant fear of losing life and limb. Recemeyy
‘; Ehree students from Kenya were mistaken for American Negroes and were js
'~ brutally beaten by the New York Police. Shorily after that too diplomats from 4
<< Uganda were also beaten by the New York City police who mistook them a revs
American Negroes. "
If Africar.s are brutally. beaten while only visiting in America, imagine the
physical and psychological suffering received by your Brothers and Sisters who
have lived there for over 300 years.
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Our problzm is your problem. No matter how much independence Africans
get here on the “fother Continent, unless you wear your National dress at all times -
_ when you visit America, you may be mistaken for one of us and suffer the same
bsychological c..4 physical mutilation that is an everyday occurrence in our lives,
_—
Your brow ems will never be fully solved until and unless ours are solved
You will never be fully respected until and unless we are also respected. You
will never be recognized as free human beings until and unless we are also
recognized and treated as human beings. .
Our problzm is your problem, Itis not a Negro problem, nor an American
. problem, This is a world problem; a problem for humanity. It is not a broblem
i Of civil rights, but a problem of luman rights,
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If the United States Supreme Court Justice, Arthur Goldberg, a few weeks
ago, could find }:zal grounds to threaten to bring Russia before the United Nations
~~ and charge her with violating the human rights of less than three million Russian
Jews---what makes our African brothers hesitate to bring the United States
-.. Government before the United Nations and charge her with violating the human
rights of twenty-two million African-Americans ?
We pray that our African brothers have not freed themselves of European
colonialism only to be overcome and held in check now by American dollarism,
Don't let American racism be "legalized" by American dollarism,
America is worse than South Africa, because not only is America racist,
but she is also deceitful and hypocrifical, South Africa preaches segregation and
_ practices segregation, She, at least, practices what she preaches, America
preaches inte grotion and practices segregation, She preaches one thing while
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South Africa is like a vicious wolf, openly hostile towards black hat,
But America is cunning like a fox, friendly and smiling, but even more vicious .,
and deadly than the wolf,
™ The wolf and the fox are both enemies of humanity; both are Canine; both’
heemiliate and mutilate their victims. Both have the same objectivzs, but differ —
only in methods.
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