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in common with the people_of_ Ag and the people of Africa have nothing to do with Negroes of? the Western World. : “It is true,” he continued, “that for many years those of us of Af- rican ancestry in the West were reluctant to identify with Africa, but this was [the result of] an image projected by our enemies. This enemy created a negative image of Africa as a jungle, a place full of wild animals, ete. The image was made hateful to us, They knew that once we were made to hate our own origin, we ould hate ourselves, And all pe ne of African ancestry through the world would hate Africa and late themselves. They did it shrewdly and so successfully th they created those of us in the West who hated ourselves — our nose, our lips, our skin, our hair. “Since 1959," Malcoim X said, “when the African states began to emerge, the image of Africa and the image of Africans has been changing. This threatens the num- ber-one racist society on the face of the earth — the United States, uth Africa preaches and prac- tices racism, but the United States Pteaches integration and practices s(gregation. It is, therefore, much ore hypocritical.” The hall rang with applause the black nationalist leader added: “Efforts of ‘liberals’ to solve our problems for us have been efforts to make us become more Amer- ican than African. They have no desire or intention to solve the race problem because it would mean giving up power — and no one ever gives up power, It has to taken from them, The bi-lingual question period, at followed was extremely live. y, with many pointed and polit: ically sophisticated queries and comments. “How is it possible that certain _. neople gre still preaching non- violence?” an African asked, “Easy to answer,” replied Mal- colm X, “Shows you the power of dollarism, The dollar makes anything possible, When the Sharpeville Massacre took place in South Africa, it brought out the fact that the brothers in South Af- rica had to go into action, that non- violence had hecome outdated. So they used their tricks. They gave an African a peace prize for being nbn-violent. In America, there are ai increasing number of black people who have come to the same cpnclusion regarding non-violence; so they come up with another peace prize!” Queried on the results of the re- cent U.S. presidential election, Maleolm replied: 4 “It is the same system. It isn't a President who can help or hurt; it is the system. And this system is not only ruling us in America; it is ruling the world, Nowadays, when a man is running for Presi- dent of the United Siates, he is not running for President of the Unit- ed States alone, but he has to be acceptable to other areas of the world where American influence rules. “Tf Johnson had been running by himself, he would not have been acceptable te anyone, The only thing that made him accept- le to the world was that the rewd capitalists, the shrewd im- perialists knew that the only way people would run toward the fox would be if you showed them a wolf. So they created 2 ghastly alternative. And it had the whoh world — including people whe call. themselves Marxists —- hoping thal: Johnson would beat Goldwater. | have to say this: those who clai to be enemies of the systerm were on their hands and knees waiting for Johnson to get elected — be- cause he is supposed ta be a man fey of peace. And at that moment he : j had troops invading the Congo and i South Vietnam! He even has troops my areas where other imperi hive already withdrawn. Peac Cyrps to Nigeria; mercenaries the Congo!”