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0-19 {Hev. 5-27-63) en as oe Te 8 RO ee ee * * . 4 r ack Nationalism =. \3—— ‘Tt was _ of Malcolm X's defection from the Black Muslim ; movement came the same day that the Senate began debating the civil rights bil. There is a , dialectical relationship between’ white and black _ supremacy, and the longer and more bitter the | fight over civil rights legislation, the more it will " profit the rabid movement Malcolm X represents. - Extremes in this case reinforce each ofher—every | Paes tar 7 . foolish and hate-laden word uttered in the Senate '‘ against civil rights will find its echo if equally foolish and hateful black nationalist propaganda. Malcolm X is the younger, smoother and more plausible disciple of Elijah Muhammad—or was, until he broke with the master because he felt \ that Mr. Muhammad was too narrowly sectarian. - Now Malcolm X asserts that’ he is “prepared to cooperate in local civil rights actions in the South and elsewhere." But it should be clear that the effect of his help may be more likely to demoralize ‘and destroy the movement than to help it. Black nationalists do not believe in desegrega- tion; rather, they seek, ag Malcolm X has said, “to heighten the political consctousness of the Negroes and intensify their identification against white society.” Obviously, this objective will not be furthered by an orderly and just advancement of Negro claims against the white Majority. In- Stead, black nationalism must grow by sowing despair and discord among Negroes. | Thus the movement stands {n somewhat the same relationship te-the-beoader civil rights cam- paign as did the American Communist Party to the liberal and labor causes of the 1930s. The Communists, too, were not interested in finding solutions to the social calamities of that period. They were interested in promoting tumult in order _ to heighten the political awareness of the prole- _tariat and disrupt the processes of democracy in | a capitalist society. ; oo + No doubt the civil rights leadership will be able to contain the black nationalist element, At : the moment, the Negro separatist movement is _Rot large, although like the Communists, it is capable of generating Tonstterable noise. But it could grow at an alarming rate if Negroes come to feel that a promise made « century ago can- not be redeemed within the framework of demgo- eratic methods. -~ | : “e There is a note af menace in Maleclm X's as. ’ sertion that “there can be no revolution without * bloodsh ”" While this menace can be over- , Stated, it is nevertheless reaL It forms a cloud rs “on the horizon as American democracy faces one ofitesupreme tests. a Rami oe ‘a. ow # . Owe teresting coincidence that the news . AEE . Belmont we Mohr Casper Callghan ans Gale Rose avel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy bie E- The Washington Past and E-b Times Herald The Washington Daily News Tne Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American —_—H New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post . The New York Times The Worker — The New Leader | athe Wall Street Journal —___~ The National Observer People’s Worid Date mans 5 1964 {jon 39F BA)