[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wer hat Euch beigebracht Eure Hautfarbe zu hassen? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wer hat Euch beigebracht die Beschaffenheit Eurer Haare zu hassen? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wer hat Euch beigebracht die Form Eurer Nase zu hassen? Und die Form Eurer Lippen? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wer hat Euch beigebracht Euch selbst von Kopf bis Fuss zu hassen? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wer hat Euch beigebracht Euer eigenes Volk zu hassen? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wer hat Euch beigebracht die Rasse der Ihr angehöft zu hassen? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und zwar so sehr, dass Ihr nicht unter Euer Gleichen sein wollt? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bevor ihr fragt, ob Mr. Muhammad Hass lehrt, solltet Ihr Euch fragen Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wer Euch beigebracht hat das zu hassen, was Gott aus Euch gemacht hat. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Die meisten von uns Schwarzen, oder "Negros" wie sie uns nannten, glaubten wirklich wir wären frei.\N Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ohne zu merken, dass in unserem Unterbewusstsein die Ketten die wir los zu sein glaubten, immer noch da waren. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Das Bedürfnis vom Weissen Mann anerkannt zu werden trieb uns in viellerlei Hinsicht an. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm wollte diese Wahrnehmung der Minderwertigkeit bekämpfen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er wusste, dass es mühevoll sein würde und dass manche Leute einen töten würden um das zu verhindern,\N Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aber er wagte es dieses Risiko auf sich zu nehmen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er sagte etwas, das über Jenes was andere Anführer zu jener Zeit meinten hinausging. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Während die anderen Anführer um Einlass in das Haus ihrer Unterdrücker bettelten, sagte er dir ein eigenes Haus zu bauen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er vertrieb die Furcht der Afro-Amerikaner und sagte: "Ich werde laut aussprechen was wir uns denken." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ihr werdet sehen, die Leute werden davon hören und uns nicht unbedingt was antun.\N Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aber ich spreche nicht für die Massen." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er sagte das auf eine starke, männliche Art die aussagte: Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Ich habe keine Angst davor das auszusprechen was wir uns all die Jahre nur gedacht haben." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Deshalb liebten wir ihn. Er sagte es offen, nicht hinter verschlossenen Türen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er hat sich für uns mit Amerika angelegt. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und ich jedenfalls, als Muslim, glaube, dass der Weisse Mann klug genug ist. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wenn wir ihm verständlich machen könnten was die Schwarzen wirklich denken \N Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,und wie satt wir es haben, ganz ohne kontraproduktiven Schmeicheleien. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nun, ihr macht es euch ja selbst schwer. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Der Weisse Mann glaubt Euch die Schmeicheleien, weil ihr ihm schmeichelt seit er Euch hierhergebracht hat. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hört auf damit. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sagt ihm was Ihr denkt! Sagt ihm in welcher Hölle Ihr euch befindet. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dass er kein Haus haben sollte, wenn er es nicht in Ordnung bringen kann. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Es sollte Feuer fangen und verbrennen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Schon fast das ganze Jahrhundert haben die Schwarzen in diesen Strassen in Harlem ihre Kultur gefeiert. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,und die Rassenfrage in Amerika diskutiert. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hier reihte sich Malcolm zum ersten Mal bei den Strassen-Rednern ein, die den Hoffnungen und dem Zorn von Harlem eine Stimme liehen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ich lehrte Nationalismus und will raus aus dem Land des Weissen Mannes, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,denn Integration wird nie stattfinden. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So lange Ihr lebt werdet Ihr euch nicht ins System des Weissen Mannes integrieren können! Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,125te Strasse und 7te Avenue. was das Zentrum der Aktivitäten der Strassen-Redner. << Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Als Malcolm dazu stiess hatte er eigentlich keinen Standort. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also etablierte er seinen Platz vor dem Buchgeschäft von Elder Michaux. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Als Malcolm die kleine Plattform bestieg, kam er für die ersten vier oder fünf Minuten gar nicht zum sprechen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und dann öffnete er seinen Mund << Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man nennt Mr. Muhammad Hassprediger, weil er Euch dazu bringt Drogen und Alkohol zu hassen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man nennt Mr. Muhammad Rassist, weil er uns nicht nur lehrt, dass wir so gut wie der Weisse Mann sind, sondern besser.\N\N Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ihr seid besser als der Weisse Mann! Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aber das heisst nicht unbedingt viel. Wir wissen ja, dass wir besser sind als er. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was ist er schon für ein Vergleich? Seht Euch seine Haut an. Verglichen mit seiner sieht Eure Haut wie Gold aus. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Es gab eine Zeit in der wir begeistert von den Weissen waren. << Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wir dachten, sie wären schön, weil wir blind und dumm waren. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wir konnten nicht Ihr wahres Gesicht erkennen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seit der ehrenwerte Elijah Muhammad uns den Islam nähergebracht und uns gezeigt hat wie wir uns bessern können, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sehen wir diese alte, blasse Gestalt genau so wie sie ist. Alt und blass.\N Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Diese Ansprache zeigte mir, dass es kein zurück gab, wenn man ihn erst einmal reden gehört hat. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Selbst wenn man seine Meinung nicht änderte, musste man Sie überdenken. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hier in unseren nördlicheren Städten waren wir es nicht gewohnt gesagt zu bekommen, dass wir Teufel und Unterdrücker waren Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er sprach für eine leise Masse schwarzer Menschen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und zwar ganz offen über die eigenen Sender der Teufel. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und das war eine Kriegshandlung. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Als er die Bühne verließ, stieg ich von der --> Insel<--?? und ging zu ihm. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Als ich ihn erreichte stellten sich Bodyguards in den Weg und er schiebt sie an die Seite. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ich stellte mich vor ihn und streckte meine Hand aus und sagte: Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Ich stimme nicht mit allem was Sie sagten überein, aber einiges davon gefiel mir."\N\N Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er sah mich an, nahm sanft meine Hand und sagte: "Eines Tages wirst du, Schwester. Eines Tages wirst du", und lächelte dabei. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um seine Botschaft zu verdeutlichen, benutze Malcolm sein eigenes Leben als Lehre für schwarze Amerikaner. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er predigte sie in Fabeln und Parabeln und später beim Schreiben seiner Autobiography mit Alex Haley. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er wollte Kontrolle darüber wie sein Leben zukünftig gedeutet werden würde. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ich war sehr hingerissen von einer Aussage die er später über sich selbst traf. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er sagte: "Ich bin Teil von allen die ich je getroffen habe."\N Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und damit meinte er, dass all die Dinge die er in seiner Jugend getan hatte Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ihn etwas Aussetzten was ihm vertschiedene Fähigkeiten beibrachten, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,die sich zu Malcolm entwickeln sollten, der zum Wortführer der Nation of Islam werden würde. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Sie wurden in Omaha geboren, richtig?" - \N"Ja Sir." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Und Ihre Familie verließ Omaha, als Sie wie alt waren. Ein Jahr?" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Ich schätze etwa ein Jahr alt." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Warum verließ sie Omaha?" - \N"Soweit ich weiß brannte der Ku Klux Klan eines Ihrer Häuser in Omaha nieder." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Das machte Ihre Familie sicherlich unglücklich." -\N"Nun, zumindest verunsicherte es uns." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Also haben Sie wohl eine etwas voreingenommene Haltung. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sie können sich dem nicht auf eine große, akademische Weise annähern." -\N"Ich finde das stimmt nicht, denn Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nachdem wir Omaha verließen und nach Lansing, Michigan zogen, wurde wieder unser Haus niedergebrannt.<< Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mein Vater wurde vom Ku Klux Klan getötet. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und trotz all dem war irgendjemand mehr unter den Weißen integriert als ich. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Niemand hat wie ich in der Gesellschaft der Weißen gelebt wie ich. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wir waren die einzigen schwarzen Kinder in der Nachbarschaft. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hinten auf unserem Grundstück war eine bewälderte Fläch und die Weißen Kinder Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kamen alle zu uns um hinten im Wald zu spielen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm schlug vor Robin Hood zu spielen. Also spielten wir dort Robin Hood mit Malcolm als Robin Hood. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und die weißen Kinder ließen das zu. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm sagte er war der hellhäutigste unter den sieben Kindern von Earl and Louise Little. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eine Erinnerung, so meinte er, an den Weissen der seine Großmutter vergewaltigte. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1929, als Malcolm 4 Jahre alt war, brachte sein Vater, ein Tischler und Prediger, die Familie nach Lansing, Michigan. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lansing war eine kleine Stadt und die westliche Seite war jene auf der die Schwarzen lebten. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm lebte mit seiner Familie außerhalb der Stadt. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und sie hatten eine 16.000m2 große Parzelle mit einem kleinen Haus darauf. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man sah sie irgendwie als Farmer an. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Drei Monate nachdem die Littles einzogen leiteten die weißen Nachbarn rechtliche Schritte ein um Sie zu vertreiben. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ein Bezirksrichte urteilte, dass das Gelände nur Weissen vorbehalten war. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aber Earl Little weigerte sich umzusiedeln. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Michigan betrug die Mitgliederzahl des Ku Klux Klans etwa 70.000. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fünf Mal soviel wie in Mississippi. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Für Malcolms Familie war die Feindseligkeit von den Weißen eine Gegebenheit des Lebens. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wir schliefen alle und plötzlich hörten wir einen großen Knall. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und als wir aufwachten war überall Feuer. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und wir stießen alle gegen die Wände und gegeneinander. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ich erinnere mich, dass meine Mutter rief: "Aufstehen, aufstehen. Es brennt. Raus hier!" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Daran erinnere ich mich genau. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ich hörte meine Mutter und meinen Vater rufen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sie gingen sicher, dass Sie uns alle erwischten und rausbrachten. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Das Haus brannte komplett ab. Die Feuerwehr kam nicht und das Haus brannte nieder. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolms Vater, Earl LIttle, beschuldigte die örtlichen Weißen das Feuer gelegt zu haben. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Die Polizei verhaftete ihn und bezichtigte ihn der Brandstiftung. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Die Beschuldigungen wurden später fallen gelassen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In der Stadt in der wir aufwuchsen nannten die Weißen uns "hochnäsige Nigger". Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Diese klugen Nigger von außerhalb der Stadt." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Zu jener Zeit, wann auch immer ein Weisser dich als "Kluger Nigger" bezeichnete, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,war es ihre Art zu sagen: "Das ist ein Nigger bei dem man aufpassen muss. Er ist nicht dumm." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mein Vater war unabhängig. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er wollte von niemanden durchgefüttert werden. Er wollte sein eigenes Essen heranschaffen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Niemand sollte über seine Kinder bestimmen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er wollte selbst über sie bestimmen und das tat er. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er sprach immer von Marcus Garvey's Denkweisen und versuchte die Schwarzen dazu zu bringen Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sich auf Vordermann zu bringen, keinen Ärger zu verursachen und miteinander daran zu arbeiten ihre Lage zu verbessern. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aber damals galt man damit als Unruhestifter. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In den 1920ern predigte Marcus Garvey, ein schwarzer Nationalist, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dass schwarze Amerikaner eine von der weißen Gesellschaft unabhängige Nation aufbauen sollten. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mit einer Mitgliedschaft von hundert von tausenden suchte Garvey's "Universal Negro Improvement Association" \N Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stärkere Beziehungen mit afrikanischen Ländern. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Die UNIA hatte ihre eigene Flagge, ihre eigene Nationalhymne und eine afrikanische Legion, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,welche schwor schwarze Menschen zu Hause und im Ausland zu verteidigen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Das US Bureau of Investigation bezeichnete Garvey einen der führenden Negro --->Hassprediger<-- ??. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Die Regierung deportierte 1927, aber Malcolms Eltern hielten ihm die Treue. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Earl rekrutierte neue Mitglieder, Louise schrieb dür die Garvey-Zeitung. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meine Mutter ließ uns aus der Garvey-Zeitung mit dem Namen "Die Negrowelt" vor.\N Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und sie sprach mit uns auch über unsere Unabhängigkeit. Wir sollten uns selbst nicht Negros Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oder Nigger nennen, denn wir seien schwarze Menschen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wir sollten stolz darauf sein uns schwarze Menschen zu nennen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Wie lautet ihr echter Name?" -\N"Malcolm X. " Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Ist das ihr gesetzlicher Name?" -\N"Soweit es mich betrifft ist es mein gesetzlicher Name." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Würde es sie stören mir den Nachnamen ihres Vaters zu nennen?" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Mein Vater kannte seinen Nachnamen nicht. Er bekam seinen Nachnamen von seinem Großvater\N Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,und der bekam ihn von seinem Großvater, welcher ihn von seinem Slavenmeister bekam. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Der wahre Name unseres Volkes wurde während der Sklaverei vernichtet." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Gab es einen Punkt im Stammbaum ihrer Familie Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in dem sie einen Nachnamen benutzen mussten, und wenn ja, wie lautete der? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Der Nachname meiner Vorfahren wurde ihnen genommen, als sie nach Amerika gebracht und versklavt wurden. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und dann wurde ihnen der name ihre Sklavenmeister gegeben, welchen wir ablehnen." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Sie meinen, sie wollen mir nicht einmal sagen wie der vermeintliche, oder übergebene Nachname ihres Vaters war?" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Ich erkenne ihn nicht im geringsten an." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,September 1931. Malcolm war sechs Jahre alt, als seine Mutter eine Vorahnung hatte. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wir befanden uns alle im Haus und hatten unser Abendessen Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,und meine Mutter hielt Wesley, meinen jüngsten Bruder. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Als sie ihn wahrscheinlich stillte schlief sie ein, mit dem Baby im Arm. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mein Vater machte sich im Schlafzimmer bereit um in die Stadt zu gehen um Geld zu holen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und sie wachte auf und sagte: "Earl, geh nicht in die Stadt, sonst wirst du nicht zurückkommen." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In jener Nacht um etwa elf Uhr wurde Earl Little in einer Abgelegenen Gegend außerhalb Lansings gefunden. \N Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sein Körper war fast von einer Strassenbahn in zwei Hälften geteilt. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Die Polilzei bezeichnete Earl LIttles Tod als Unfall. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Die Angelegenheit war ziemlich schleierhaft, denn damals meinte man, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dass es kein Unfall mit der Strassenbahn war, sondern Reverend Little vor die Bahn gestossen wurde. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tatsächlich erinnere ich mich an genau jene Worte. Dass er wahrscheinlich gestossen wurde. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Der Tod meines Vaters verursachte einen großen Schock in der Familie, denn er war die Macht und Stärke im Haushalt.<< Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wir waren eine organisierte und strukturierte Familie. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nach der Schule gingen wir sofort nach Hause und machten uns an die Arbeit im Garten. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wir reinigten den Hühnerstall und machten uns fürs Bett fertig. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und morgens standen wir auf, holten das Wasser vom Brunnen und brachten es ins Haus. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So war es als Vater am Leben war, denn das nicht zu tun brachte als Konsequenz eine tracht Prügel. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also waren wir diszipliniert. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und nach dem mein Vater ermordet wurde und durch das Unvermögen meiner Mutter so schnell wie ich oder Malcolm zu laufen Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,verhalf uns dazu mit Sachen davonzukommen die wir sonst nicht einmal versucht hätten. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wir wurden immer freier. << Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Louise Little bemühte sich ihre sieben Kinder durch die Große Depression zu bringen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sie war in eine Position gedrängt in der sie kein Einkommen hatte und suchte sich arbeit. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sie war eine stolze Frau. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sie verkaufte Sachen und strickte für andere Leute. Sie tat viel um nicht allein auf Sozialhilfe angewiesen zu sein. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sie mochte es nicht gesagt zu bekommen, was sie zu tun und zu lassen hat. << Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und das ist eine der Hauptursachen die sie mehr als alles andere niederschmetterte. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Je mehr Zeit verging, desto mehr konnte man erkennen, dass sie ermüdete. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sieben Jahre lang, während Malcolm die Pupertät erreichte, zog sich seine Mutter langsam von der Gesellschaft zurück. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Zwei Tage vor Weihnachten 1938 wurde Louise Little als paranoid diagnostiziert Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,und ins Kalamazoo State Hospital gebracht. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eines Tages als ich von der Schule nach Hause kam war sie nicht mehr da. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ich erinnere mich daran, dass ich mich leer fühlte, denn sie würde uns nie verlassen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ich fühlte den Schmerz ihrer Abwesenheit und es sollte nur einige Wochen dauern. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sie würde sich erholen und zurück kommen, aber es sollte noch Jahre dauern. << Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Louise Little blieb die nächsten 26 Jahre in Kalamazoo. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Der 13-jährige Malcolm musste zusehen wie das Gericht seine Familie trennte, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,indem sie die jüngeren Geschwister Pflegestellen in Lansing übergaben und ihn in eine weiße Gemeinde zehn Meilen entfernt brachten. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In der Vergangenheit war die größte Waffe des weißen Mannes seine Fähigkeit zu teilen und zu erobern. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wenn ich euch mit meiner Hand schlage, spürt ihr das gar nicht. Es mag brennen, weil die Finger nicht zusammen sind. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aber alles was ich tun muss um euch zurück auf euren Platz zu verweisen ist diese Finger zu vereinen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er war der einzige der achten Klasse in Michigan - einer Schule in der er, glaube ich, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,der einzige Schwarze in seiner Klasse und einer der wenigen in der ganzen Schule war - Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,der herausragender Einserschüler war, der sogar zum Präsidenten seiner Klasse gewählt wurde. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alle Anderen in der achten Klasse waren weiß und offenbar musste er außerordentliches Leisten um das zu werden.\N Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Und dann gab es den Malcolm der die Schule verließ und nach Roxbury, Massachusetts ging Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,und zum ersten Mal dem ausgesetzt wurde was man lose Abzocker nennen könnte. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ich selbst bezeichnete mich damals in Roxbury als kleiner Abzocker. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this particular day ??? Malcolm X had come into Buscity???, had on his zoot suit with the wide Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,??? had with the long 3/4 lenght coat ?? with the chain that went down to your ankles. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The last time I recall, Cab Calloway used that outfit for his stage uniform. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Malcolm left Lansing he had nothing but an old square suit on. White man suit as I call it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he came back from Boston, oh Lord, Malcolm had a zoot suit on him and a wide brim hat with Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a chain from his hat down to his lapel. He was the top of the town. Everybody was talking Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about Malcolm. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he was dancing on the floor, and he was floating around those pants ??? like he was a floating balloon. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that coat was like a wing. The way he'd be dancing ??? flying around with that big ???. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this used to really shake up the girls. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Boston they called him "New York Red" in New York they called him "Detroid Red". Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,????????? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he had pictures of him and Billy Holiday and all these people of that time out there. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who were just being made known to the rest of the black world. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm works the kitchen crew on the New Haven Railroad between Boston, New York Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Washington DC. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1942 he moved to Harlem and at age 17 began travelling in a world of ??? after hour clubs and small time hustlers. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had reached a point at where he said: "You'll never make it on this janitory jobs and selling Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sandwiches on these trains and shining shoes and stuff like that. You never will get anywhere." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had the reputation of being a hustler. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That he was a street person but he was a hustler. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was a con man.???? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the white folks ??? came out at night and they wanted black women, he could arrange for Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them to get them. If they wanted bootleg-whiskey he knew where to get it. If they wanted drugs he knew where to get it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He made it possilbe. He knew what they wanted and he knew where to get it and he would be Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the middle where he could make a profit off of it. And this is the way he started doing it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looking back at that time, Malcolm said: "Only three things worried him. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jail, a job and the army. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To avoid derving in WW2 he told his draft board that he wanted to organize black soldiers to Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kill whites. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was judged unfit for the military. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolms gambling and drugs and Harlems night life were expensive. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had already been arrested twice for petty crimes. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he moved back to Austin back in 1945 he organized a gang to burglurise homes of prominent families. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other gang members included his friend Malcolm Jarvis, his white girlfriend B. and Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two other white women. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This girl knew that these people were down to Florida that time of the year. There was nobody Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,home, so we broke into the house and we'd get some of their valuables and Malcolm would take Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most of the stuff and pawn it and get money for his gambling habit. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After two weeks of doing this that's when the case broke ??? when he made the mistake of going to Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the pawn shop to retrieve a watch with over a thousand dollars that came out of one of Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the houses. That's when he was arrested by three police men. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm Little, Malcolm Jarvis and the three women were charged with breaking and entering. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact that two black men were with white women becaome an issue in the court. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm was definitely involved with two white women and this is what made the case so Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,powerful. So outrages. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The women testified that Malcolm had forced them to participate in the burglaries. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The two men received the maximum sentence. 8-10 years in state prison. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When they sentenced us, I went out of my mind. I reached up and grabbed the bars of the cage and Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I shook them, almost shook them right up off the floor, and I hollered at the judge. And I said to him, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You might as well kill me as to give me 10 years in jail." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I was they call a mad negro. I was one. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I knew what I saw was real. I knew there wasn't anything funny about it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew that when they laughed all together they were laughing: "Look what we did. We doing it to the Negro." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then they had the unintimitadet gall Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to ask the girls, before they took them out of there, to press charges against us for rape. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The girls wouldn't do it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm Little was 20 years old, facing 8-10 years in state prison. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had wandered far from the Garvey pride and independence his parents had preached. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was now prisoner number 22843. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To remain a criminal is the disgrace. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I formerly was a criminal. I formerly was in prison. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not ashamed of that. You never can use that over my head, and he is using the wrong stick. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't feel that stick. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They charged Jesus with sedition. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Didn't they do that? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said he was against Cesar. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said he was discriminating because he told his desciples, : Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Go not the way of the gentiles, but rather go to the lost sheep. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Got to the people who don't know who they are. Who are lost from the knowledge of themselves. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And who are strangers in a land that is not theirs. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go to those people! Go to the slaves! Go to the second class citizens! Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go to the ones who are suffering the wrath of Cesars brutality! Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if Jesus were here in america today he wouldn't be going to the white man. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The white man is the oppressor! He would be going to the oppressed. He would be going to Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the humble. He would be going to the ???. He would be going to the rejected and the despised. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He would be going to the so called american negro. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prison 1946 Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Behind prison walls Malcolm hustled bets, fed his drug habit and argued against the exiscante of god. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The men in his cell block called him "Satan". Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But at the same time encouraged by an older black inmate, Malcolm began reading and taking Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,english courses. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm described vividly prison life. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That he was in effect lonely and limited ??? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but had plans for....He was going to do a lot of reading. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he certainly did a lot of writing, because I think there were times when he probably Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wrote me every week. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During the second year in prison his brothers and sisters wrote to him about what they Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called "The natural religion for the black man". Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A religion that taught that black people were the original people. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That god was black and was called Allah. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They told Malcolm that they were now a part of the Nation of Islam. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Followers of the honorable Elijah Muhammed, the messenger of Allah. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think Islam is one of the greatest religion of all time for all people of america. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The so called american negro have to be completely re-educated. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Islam gives him that qualification that he can feel proud and does not feel ashamed to be Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called a black man. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came into the muslim movement in 1947. And then started to bring my brothers and sisters in. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We already had been indoctrinated with americas ??? philosophy. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they didn't have anything to do wiht convincing us about we were black and should be proud, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were already that when we came in. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I wrote to Malcolm and told him about...I said to him: "If you will believe in Allah, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he would get out of prison. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's all I wrote because I know that he had very low tolerance for religion and I didn'T Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intend to use that tolerance. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm's brothers and sisters wrote the young prisoner that black people in america were Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,part of a lost tribe. Soon to be delivered out of bondage. And that whites, according to Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammed - were a race of devils whose domination on earth was about to end. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At first he liked every bit of it except one thing he couldn't understand. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was the part that we were teaching about the white man being the devil. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm wrote to Elijah Muhammed. And Elijah Muhammed answered. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when he answered he would recite the part of ??? scripture. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then he gave him the key. He said the key the bible is this book, that everything that takes Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,place in this bible is on this earth. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you don't have to die to go to hell, you can catch ??? hell while you are living. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the white man is the one that is putting the hell on you. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, that's a very convincing teaching, especiall when you use the white mans history to Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coraborate this. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm began reading history, philosophy and religion. The writing of D.E.B Debois, Shakespeare, Sokrates, The Fables of ???, The lives Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Gandhi and Ned Turner. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he finds all this history of how white christians lynched black christians. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,White christians were the once who were involved in the slave trade. Those were christians. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Malcolm began to see this and then he began to study it himself and prove that if there is such Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a thing as a real devil on this earth it has to be the white man. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammed told Malcolm to submit to Allah. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But for Malcolm submission would always be difficult. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took a week before he could force himself to bow in prayer. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Later, to help spread the teachings of Elijah Muhammed, Malcolm joined the prison debate team. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Competing about visiting college teams from harvard and MIT. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's when Malcolms name and fame started to spread amongst the prison population. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, as the population started to grow at the debating classes, most of the fellas used to Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,come over out of curiosity, just to hear him speak. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1950 Malcolm wrote to the Governor demanding the right to practice the muslim religion in prison. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His letters would later end up in FBI files. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Bureau had been keeping a close watch on the Nation of Islam since the late 1930s. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm considered a trouble maker, was denied an early parole. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was not eligible to be led out at that time because he had been a threat to society. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They considered him dangerous. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Knowledge-wise and otherwise, religious-wise. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He would have been like a rotten appel in a box full of a thousand. He was gonna spoil many. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On August 7th 1952, after six and a half years in prison Malcolm was released. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Within a month he was accepted into the nation of islam. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm Little had become Malcolm X. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How did you happen to join the muslim movement? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in prison. I was a very wayward criminal, backward, illiterate, uneducated and whatever Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other negative characteristics you could think of, type of person. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until I heard the teachings of the honorable Elijah Muhammed. And because of the impact that it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had upon me, in giving me a desire to reform myself and rehabilitate myself for the first time Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my life. Also to be able to see the effect that it had upon others. This is what made me accept it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I noticed that after being exposed to the religious teachings of the honorable Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammed immediately it instilled within me such a high degree of racial pride and racial Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dignity that I wanted to be somebody. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I realized that I couldn't be somebody by begging the white man for what he had. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that I had to get out of here and try to do something for myself or make somethign out Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of myself. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first time that I recalled seeing Malcolm was at the home of my father, honorable Elijah Muhammed. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I saw a thin ?? man, tall man, young man, ???. He was just meeting you, the first thing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would get from him was a smile. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said: "This is Wallace!" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I smiled at him. I was happy to see him because I had heard of him too. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said: "The messengers son." And he was so excited about the messenger. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Really it wasn't just seeing Wallace, it was seeing the messengers son. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Malcolm came out he was just so full of fire. He had gotten so full of fire, that he got out at the right time at Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the right place so could expound ???. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He came to Detroit, he was surprised to find there was such few people. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,??? powerful deity in his mind. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he says: "I'm surprised that you are sitting here and so many empty seats. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everytime you come out here this place should be full. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that excited the honorable Elijah Muhammed. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the early 1950s the Nation of Islam was unknown in most black communities. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Total membership was believed to be no more than 400 people. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm was sent on the road to spread the message. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Within two years he helped organize temples in Boston, Hartford and Philadelphia. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammed then named Malcolm Minister of the most important temple on the east coast. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Harlems temple number 7. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Muhammed knew that Malcolm had experience. That he knew New York. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He also knew, that he was that kind of men - complexion, height, speech and courage - all has Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be taken into consideration, when you select a man to stand before the people. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plus, this is an international city. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You got to have your best in New York. And Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is why Mr. Muhammed selected him. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1955, when Elijah Muhammed visited the New York temple it was to inspect the work of the Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ambitioned and outspoken minister, who had transformed tiny storefronts along the east coast Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a congregation of thousands. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammeds massage made a whole lot of people feel whole again. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Human being again. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of them came out and found a new meaning to their manhood and their womanhood. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Had Elijah Muhammed tried to introduced an orthodox form of ??? oriented islam, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I doubt if he would've attracted 500 people. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he introduced a form of islam that could communicate with the people he had to deal with. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was the king to those who had no king. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was the messiah to those some people thought unworthy of a messiah. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ??? thing is that Elijah Mudammed is like nothing I have ever taken. Like some medicine. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see. A medicine that has cured me of all my ???. I was a sick man. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I embraced the teachings of honorable Elijah Muhammed, these teachings cured me Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of decease. I'm a well man now. I feel good. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As long as you stay with the doctor you continue to be good - Yes sir. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What about you? How do feel about the honorable Elijah Muhamed? - Honorable Elijah Muhammed Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is trying to teach all of ??? people they are ???. - Go ahead brother. - Elijah Muhammed tries to wake them up. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inside muslim temples no white people were allowed. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Members worked to build a self sufficiant community. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thounded on strict rules and absolute obedience. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The nation set up muslim schools for its children. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Teaching mathematics, sciene, history and arabic. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Who is the original man?" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The original man is the ??? black man" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The makers of all?? and the king of planet earth" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muslim women studied nutrition, child bearing and guidlines on how to care about their husband. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muslim man studied parental responsibility, history and religion. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The elite core, called "The fruit of Islam" was trained in hand to hand combat and was Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expected to protect the temples and to punish any members who spoke out against the messanger. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was surprised when I went to some of the muslim families. The faith that they had in the Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammed and in Malcolm. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked one father: "Suppose your son came home one day and told you that he renounced the muslim Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,religion." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said: "I would turn him from my door and I would never allow him in again." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I asked Malcolm. He said: "He meant it and he would do it." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said: "Not worry about what would happen to his son?" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No, he wouldn't worry about what would happen to him. His allegiance is to Elijah Muhammed. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To help expand the Nation of Islam Malcolm created a newspaper: "Muhammed speaks". Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And persuaded other black newspapers to carry the messengers weekly column. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His strenght was, once he believed in a thing he would give anything he had to it. All of his energy. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'd become a workaholic. He'd work day and night for it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He only required around 4 hours of sleep. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And many times he wouldn't even get that. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Than you just kind of wonder: "How can anybody keep up that kind of ???". But he did it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Day in and day out. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plus, on top of that he's reading. He's reading papers, keeping up with what the news is. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's just a person that's too ??? to life in such a way. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That he doesn't miss too much of it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At age 32, after devoting 5 years to building the Nation, he sought the approval of Elijah Muhammed Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to merry sister Betty X. A college edubated member of Harlems temple number 7. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the years that followed the demands of his ministry allowed little time for his growing family. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He sometime, if I could catch up, he would have to read to the children. They would always want Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the story read again. So that they would really just wait that he was on the last page and say: "Read it again." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He started giving the books different endings. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had a beautiful sense of humor. Especially if he was kidding me about pork. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,???? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're a decent human being, smart historian. I give you 99 as a human being and you stop eating Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pork I gonna give you a hundred. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A beautiful sense of humor plus the fact that when you got to know him he was kinda shy. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm was now in the nation of islams inner circle. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammeds most visible represantitive. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had the messengers confidence and the loyalty of thousands of muslims. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a sense Malcolm had found a father. Elijah Muhammed had found another son. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God's Angry Men tangle with police. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Riot threat as cops beat moslem. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On an april night in 1957 a muslim brother was beaten by New York City police. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His skull fractured, Johnson Hanton lay in a backroom of a Harlem police station. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When word spread that Hanton was dying Malcolm ordered the muslims into the streets. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Other Harlem residents joined them. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The community had endured a long history of police brutality. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many considered the police an occupying force. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,18th precinct was notorious for their prejudice. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,?????? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was the first time that anyone had marched on to 28th precinct in protest to something that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they felt wasn't right. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know what would have happened in Harlelm that night because the atmosphere was Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not... I think the word to use is charged. Well, this atmosphere was explosive. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm demande medical treatment for Hinton. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After a long negotiation police agreed to send the prisoner to Harlem hospital. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even then the muslims diffused to disperse. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This seargant came out and tried to chase ??? the muslims who were standing across the street. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Malcolm came out and told him: "You can't do that. They're not gonna move for you. I'll send them away." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He went out to the front of the station on the first step and just waved his hand and the people walked away. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A police commissioner on the scene remarked: "That's too much power for one man to have." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm would later take New York city to court and win the largest police brutality settlement Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the cities history. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They realized that anytime a person could wave his hand and have a large number of people Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,automatically move away without any conversation, that by the same token that same Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,man could wave his hand and cause those people to create some kind of disturbance if he wanted to. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe from that point on the police department and the political people in New York City realized Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they had a significant force in the city to deal with. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The hate that hate produced. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good evening I'm Mike Wallace. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last week on news beat our 6:30 news program on January 13, we presented a five part series Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which we called the hate that hate produced. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The study of the rise of black racism. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of a call for black supremacy among a small but growing segment of the american negro population. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have come to here??? and to see the greatest and wisest and most ... Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This 1959 documentary was the first television portrayal of the internal activities of the Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nation of Islam. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm saw the television program as an opportunity. Elijah Muhammed was against it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Muhammed told malcolm no. It wasn't gonna do any good. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All it would do is hurt us. ??? we were trying to do. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm wasn't satisfied. He didn't insist but he continued to ask Mr. Muhammed, could he do it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Muhammed reluctantly agreed. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Trial," Nation of Islam Play. -\NI charge the white man with being the greates liar on earth. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Trial," Nation of Islam Play. -\NI charge the white man, ladies and gentlemen of Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the jury with being the greatest murder on earth. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I charge the white man of being the greatest adultere on earth, so therefor... Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here was this auditorium overflowing. Thousands of people about ??? an organization Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew nothing about. I found it difficult to critic when I saw it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course when we put it on the air, New Yorkers - cause that's all that saw it - were stunned. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was this organisation, "The Black Muslims", about which white New Yorkers simply knew nothing. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Minister Malcolm X, as he addresses a non-muslim audience. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How could so few white people rule so many black people? This is the thing you should wanna know. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How could so few...The white man today will tell you that thousands of years ago, the black man Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in africa was living in palaces. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The black man in africa was wearing silk. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The black man in africa was cooking and seasoning his food. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The black man in africa had mastered arts and the sciences. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wasn't flat. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is that right or wrong? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was amazed at his ??? to communicate. And at the naked honesty with which he expressed his Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feelings about black people or the white people. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He scared me. I'm sure he intended to. But certainly??? after I saw him in The hat that hate produced Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew that I would never forget this man. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I first saw Malcolm on the television, he scared me also. ??? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,turn off that television. That man is saying stuff you aint supposed to hear. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So of course we did. But always, you know when the sun comes into the window and you jump up Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get it, to close the blinds or pull down the shades, but before you do that the sun comes in? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, before each time we turned the televition off a little sun came in. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While the documentary helped bring in new converts, the racial views of the Naition of Islam Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shocked white america and many in the black community. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Preaching of racial hatred and racial advantage and the bigotry involved is a bad thing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wheter it's colored or white. For years the NAAPD has been opposed to white extremists preaching Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hatred of nagro people and we are equally opposed of negro extremists preaching against Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,white people simple for the sake of whiteness. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most in the civil rights movement believed that integration was the way to solve americas racial problems. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Malcolm preached that black people were able to solve their own problems without the help of whites. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At a time when black americans began to identify with freedom movements in africa and latin america, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm developed alliances with revolutionary leaders from around the world. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He encouraged to see themselves not as a minority but as a part of a world majority. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The riots ??? of african nations ??? with the spread with the nation of islam. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the civil rights movement. Gave black america a burst of pride.over and above anything we had had. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvin. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will ??? wipe away our tears. That's the benifit of our unity. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are passing the basket through the crowd and I think anybody standing here should put Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one dollar in that basket. Don't you think you should? Sure, this are freedom dollars, brothers. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not asking you to give us some money to make us rich, we put up business. The honorable Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammed had set up more business than any black man in america. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Nation Of Islam with its interlocking corporations was now reputed to be the largest Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,black owned business empire in the united states. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Nation of Islam, during the early 60s was perhaps enjoying its best days. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were opening restaurants and grocery stores and seen the Muhammed speaks paper compete Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with other black papers. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've seen Malcolm on television kind of frequently. We were proud of him. In our opinion Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was doing an excellent job of representing the honorable Elijah Muhammed and the Nation of Islam. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were seeing the Fruit of Islam not just exercising in some small facilities but seeing them Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,great numbers, hundreds of them, on the streets of big cities like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My view on the Fruit of Islam was that these were the absolute baddest, cleanest brothers Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I had seen in my life. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was some bad blood, you don't understand? I mean you did not mess with FOI. When they came Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out in the street people would say: "Yes sir!". Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The growing presence of the Fruit of Islam attracted police attention. There were increasing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,numbers of confrontations and arrests. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm warned that members of the FOI would always obey the law, but would also defend Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,themselves if attacked. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In cities across america police agencies were determined to contain the black muslims. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was only a matter of time until the two forces would again collide. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On a spring night in 1962 another confrontation. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It began as a stop and search of muslim men delivering dry cleaning. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It ended with a full police assault on the muslim temple. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This time 8 men were shot. 1 Police officer and 7 muslims. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Temple secretary Ronald Stokes was dead at the scene. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I arrived at the mosque in Los Angeles after the shootin took place. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was great sadness amongst people. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm was walking back and forth shaking his head: "They're gonna pay for it." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If anyone would break into our temples we would defend it with our lives. The temple was sacred. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And those brothers, they acted on what they were taught. And I'm sure that anyone seeing police Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,break into a church would be outraged. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This didn't cause us a great surprise to us, the fact that they would resist our police officers and Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cause trouble because we have been watching this group for a long time and Chief Parker Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,warned some time ago that we might have trouble with them. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muslims riot. Kultist killed, policeman shot. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Los Angeles times reported the insident as a muslim riot and a wild gun fight. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Four Wounded, 26 taken into custody; two officers beaten. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muslims shoot, beat police in wild gunfight. \NBut it was never proven that any of the guns fired Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muslims shoot, beat police in wild gunfight. \Nbelonged to the muslims. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm called for churches and civil rights organisations to form a united fund with the Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,muslims against police brutality. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let us remember that we are not brutalised because we are baptist. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are not brutalised because we're methodists, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are not brutalised because we're muslims, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are not brutalised because we're catholic. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are brutalised because we are black people in america. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm telling you they came out of those cars and we have enough witnesses to hang them. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With their guns smoking. Chief Parker knows this, Mayor ??? knows this and every police official in the city knows that. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They didn't fire no warning shots in the air. They fired warning shots point blank at innocent, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unarmed, defenseless negroes. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cause I say, two of the brothers were shot in the back. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another was shot in the shoulder. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two of them was shot - excuse the expression - through the penis. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me tell you something. You say, we hate white people? We don't hate anybody. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We love our own people so much they think we hate the ones who are inflicting injustice against them. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coroner's INquest 1962 Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Patrolman Donald Wease, the officer who killed Ronald Stokes testified that he knew Stokes Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was unarmed but that Stokes had raised his hand in a menacing way. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The all white coroners jury deliberated 22 minutes and found the death a justifiable homicide. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,14 muslims were then ordered to stand trial on assault charges. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,11 would be found guilty and sentenced to prison. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were people that sayin ???: "Never be the aggressor but if someone attacks you, we do Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not teach you to turn the other cheek." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were muslims who were not from the east coast, but from other parts of the country, that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would actually ?? to go out there and kill those police officers even though they may have Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,been killed in the process of doing it. But that's how strong the attitude of muslims was Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against those brothers just being shot like that. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muhammad speakes: Court sets murdere free!" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The conflict of the Los Angeles mosque brought to the surface the growing differences between Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammed. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The messenger insisted Allah would evange Stokes death, but Malcolm demanded justice Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the courts. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would it have been possible for them to get a fair trial ther would be no necessity for a trial at all. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the victims of police bullets and you don't take the victims to court as a criminal. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You take the one who shot the victim to court. And it is the police who should be on trial here in Los Angeles. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm began to talk less and less about god is going to get rid of the caucasian. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he began to talk about how we were gonna be able to bring him to justice. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And make them guilty and that they are not guilty according to the law of the land. ??? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was not our argument at all. Our argument was that we were devine people and that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we would be protected and finally delivered. Put into the seat of authority by Allah. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was our teaching at that time. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To avoid further confrontations with city authorities, Elijah Muhammed summoned Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm to a meeting at the messengers home. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammed told him very definitely: "If you had reacted the way you should have reacted, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have had more faith in Allah, Ronald Stokes would be alive." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was it. ??? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Malcolm said ???? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He just listened. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Muhammed told him: "That's one man that we lost. I never did tell you that we were going to Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lose anyone. But that's the way it is when you build an alligience??? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said: "They were wrong. But if I send my followers out there to do battle with those people Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in an alley??, undercover or on top of the cover, they will get slaughtered and I'm not gonna do that. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Malcolm didn't like that. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm had always said: "Muslims don't back down." In Harlem he had now to explain Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what happened in Los Angeles. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ronald Stokes was not the least ??? among the followers of the honorable Elijah Muhammed. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was one of the highest. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was the secretary of our Los Angeles mosque. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as we explained ??? on me, many of you thought that we should go right on out then, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make war on the white man. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You wanted to do it yourself didn't you? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Didn't you? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You wanted some action then, didn't you? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cause you don't like the idea of white people shooting black people down, do you? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're ready to do something about it? Aren't you? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know you are and the white man should be thankful that god has given the honorable Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammed the control over his followers that he has. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Told him to play it ??? cool, calm and collected. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And leave it in the hands of god. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the months following the Los Angeles insident, Malcolms faiths in the messenger were further Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tested by rumors about Elijah Muhammed private life. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once a months he would go to Chicago to take money to Elijah Mohammed. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he would always go to the side door. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And on this particular day, when he got to the side door there were three young ladies and they were Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knocking and banging on the door: "Open the doodr, open the door! We need money for food, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our children don't have this or the other." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He immediately felt that, number one he didn't belong there. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm had long dismissed stories that Elijah Muhammed had fathered eight children with Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,six of his secretaries. Now he approached the messengers son Wallace to confirm what he had Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I told him: "Yes, I know about that. You can see things but you don't wanna see it, so you just Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,block it out of your mind. I'm aware of secretaries having some kind of reletiaonship with my Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,father. ??? with their children. I've seen him take that children and somewhere in my consciousness Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was sure I was ??? that that was his family, but I never accepted it to deal with it in my mind. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never did I accept it to deal with it in my mind. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Officials in the nation accused Wallace Muhammed of starting rumors and Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conspiring against his father. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The charge that I gave Malcolm information on my fathers domestic situation is true but only after Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm had already told me that he witnessed that sitiuation. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It gives me great pleasure and an honor and ??? at this time to introduce to you and present to you Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the messenger of Allah, your admired and beloved ??? teacher, the most honorable and humble Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah Muhammed. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm had submitted himself to Elijah Muhammed as his spiritual leader. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He never tried to see anything else. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the things that he tried to put into practice himself, he thought were also being practiced Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by his leader. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when he found out differently, it just took all of the wind out of his sails. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In public the two men continued to embrace. In private suspicion had replaced faith. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The relationship was further complicated by Elijah Muhammeds failing health. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolms popularity vastly improved. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number one, Mr. Muhammed was thinking he had bronchitis. So Mr. Muhammed went to ??? public meetings Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe once, twice a year. That's it. And the rest of the time Malcolm was going everywhere. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was Malcolm who sparked the growth of the Nation all over the country. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was in demand. Nobody was asking for Elijah Muhammed to speak, they were asking for Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm to speak. And naturally Malcolm got more involved with the civil rights struggle. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And his argument became more an argument that you would expect from someone who was in the Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,civil rights struggle, then you would from someone who was following the honorable Elijah Muhammed. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The 60s showed us the white man in an image that the Nation of Islam had cast him in. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the image of a brutal person, you know. Turning the dogs out on the demonstrators. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Using the fire hoses. All this helped the Nation of Islam charge against the white race. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And made it possible for the Nation of Islams spokesman, Malcolm X, to get the press, to get Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the camera on him and to state what he had confidence in, that was an alternative, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that was seperation. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As muslims we believe that seperation is the best way, and the only sensible way. Not integration. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But on the other hand, when we see our people being brutalized by white bigots, white racists, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we think that they are foolish to allow themselves to be beaten and brutalized and do nothing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatsoever to protect themselves. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If a dog is biting a black man the black man should kill the dog. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wheter if that dog is a police dog, a hound dog or any kind of dog. If a dog is ?? on a black man Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when that black man is doing nothing but trying to take advantage of what the government says is Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,supposedly his than that black man should kill that dog or any two legged dog who ??? the dog on him. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Malcolm talks, ??? talk, ?? articulate for all the negro people who hear them, who listen to him. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,?????? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,?????? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's Malolm's great authority over any of his audiences. He ??? their reality. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was probably about 14 years old and I was involved in a demonstration at this construction site. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The community was demanding integration of the work force. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We realized that Malsolm had come to watch the demonstration, when my shift changed I ran Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,across the street to talk to Malcolm. We had quite an argument that morning. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he tried to explain to me what was wrong with my laying down on the ground in front of a cement truck. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Malcolm said if these are people who could lynch black people, murder black children, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enslave black people, why couldn't they run over somebody with a truck? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said: "They'd say it was an accident. Oops, my foot slipped, but you'd be " Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just as dead." And when he left and I turned around to go back across the street. I went back Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I got on the picket line, but I never laid down on the street in front of a truck again. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were sitting across this table at the ????, talking about race relations in america and Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm at one point said okay, what's your solution and he was not asking me for advice. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He just of wanted to put me on the spot for a moment. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was at the time under the spell of Dr. King and his notion of the beloved society which Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be colorblind and in which color would not be a disability for anybody. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm was kind of looking back at me and said: "You're dreaming. I haven't got time for dreams." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The goal of Dr. King is full equality...-\NNo. -\N Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and full rights citizenship for negroes. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The goal of Dr. Martin Luther KIng is to get Negroes to forgive the people who have Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brutalized them for 400 years by lulling??? them to sleep and making him forget what Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that whites had done to them. But the masses of black people in america today don't go for Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what Dr. Martin Luther KIng is puttin down. You said in one of your articles, his psychologically insecure Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or something like this. However you put it. But you didn't endorse what Martin Luther King was doing yourself. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do not reject his goals of full integration and full equality rights for american citizens, do you reject... Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you don't think he's walking on the right road I'm quite sure you don't agree that he'll head to Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the right place. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were aware, or felt that it was somewhat dangerous to be too closely associated Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Malcolm. He was saying some pretty rough things, particularly about whites. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those of us who wanted to keep peace with the white world, some of us had our jobs in the Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,white community. We didn't really get too close to Malcolm. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has been suggested also that this movement teaches a gospel of violence, that... Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, the black people in this country have been the victims of violence by the hands of the Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,white man for 400 years. And following the ignorant negro preachers, we had thought Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And today the honorable Elijah Muhammed has shown black people in this country that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just as the white man and every other person on this earth has god given rights, natural rights, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,civil rights. Any kind of rights that you can think of when it comes to defending hiself. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black people should have the right to defend themselves also. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In August 1963, 250.000 americans for the march on Washington. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm came to us. He told us the story about the ????. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One thing I can say about Malcolm: Anytime he told us something he could back it up. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had a ???? and he ??? said, I'm gonna tell you. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know what I'm talking about. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, who pays the bills for civil rights? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,??????? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to fight your battles. And it started in the street, but once you let them become integrated Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,???? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and than he relates it to a cup of coffee that is hot and as soon as you water it, put the milk in it cools down. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these analogies Malcolm used sometimes were funny, but they hit home. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,KIng: ????? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of the people that we were organizing had also heard of Malcolm X, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and respected him and listened to him and anytime that he was going to be on Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they made an effort to hear those speeches. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And felt that he indeed understood what their problems were and that they needed to Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be fought against. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I suppose not always non-violently. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nineteen days after the march of Washington a bomb blew apart the sunday school Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the 16th street baptist church in Bur???, Alabama. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,20 people were insured. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,4 little girls were killed. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here we're talking about bombing a church and killing 4 little girls. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the feeling of anger and not being able to do something or not doing something was Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tremendous. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of us sort of became desatisfied. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because sort of became desatisfied. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He never spoke of it,??? that we were doing anything to help our people. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who'd been brutalized by the whites and the police during the civil rights movement. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We felt that we should have gotten involved. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One white man named Lincoln supposedly fought the civil war to solve the race problem and Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the problem is still here. And then another white man named Kennedy Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,came along running for President and told negroes what all he was going to do Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for them and they voted for him 80%. He's been in office now for three years and the problem Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is still here. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When police dogs were biting black women and black children and black babies in Birmingham, Alabama Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Kennedy talked about what he couldn't do becasue no federal law had been violated and Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as soon as the negroes exploded and began to protect themselves and got the best of the crackers Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Birmingham, then Kennedy sent for the troops. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He didn't have any new law when he sent for the troops when the negroes errupted, than he had at Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the time when the whites had errupted. So we are within our rights, and with justification, when we Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,express doubt concerning the ability of the white man to solve our problem. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also when we express doubt concerning his integrity, concerning his sincerity. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because will have to confess that the problem has been around for a long time and whites Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had been saying the same thing about it for the past hundred years and is no nearer Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the solution today than a hundred years ago. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, he has changed. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Changed from religious talk to ??? talk. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the point where I told him (Malcolm), that I listened to him when he first started Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I listen to him now. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I hear a change. He says: "What kind of change do you mean?" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say: "Well, your talks when you first started out caused me to have chills when you speak. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because of the truth of what you were saying. But now I don't feel that anymore." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He told his answer to me: "Maybe you have lost your religion or your spirit" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said: "Well, maybe I have, but I'm just letting you know how I feel." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After a while we began to notice that there were some rumblings ?? from Elijah Muhammeds family. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every now and then there'd be little things they would say to let you know that they got Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a problem with Malcolm rising up before the public like he's doing, because everybody had Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,began to recognize him now as the spokesman. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Spokesman" might be alright, but at the same time he's getting the public (s attention), Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the media has got him. Everybody is all "Malcolm, Malcolm, Malcolm X" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're hearing Elijah Muhammeds name less and less. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm believed he could handle the jealousies within the Nation of Islam. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But tentions between him and the messenger would come to a head??? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in late November in 1963. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're sittin in the restaurant, drinking coffee, having this meeting and the captain of the mosque, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Joseph, got a telephone call from his wife. He got up and went to the phone booth, took the call Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he came back to the table looking visibly shocked. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, that his wife had just told him that Kennedy had been shot. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm sent somebody to get a radio out of the back and plugged in the radio and listened. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the announcer was saying: "To repeat. We're confirming that the president has been shot Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Dallas, Texas. At this point we don't know how serious it is." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Malcolm said immediately: "That devil is dead". Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. Mr. Muhammed and his son called Malcolm and said: Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Brother Minister Malcolm? My father told me to tell you and we're calling all over the country, that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that we should not say anything in a degradory way whatsoever, because the Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,man was the president of the united states. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that people loved him." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The muslims had schedules a rallye at the manhattan center in new york city. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The day of the rallye the messenger called Malcolm to remind him to teach the Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spiritual side and avoid saying anything about the president's death. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he was clearly nervois about what he might say. He spoke from a prepared speech. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never specifically mentioned Kennedy. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then as if ??? courting desaster, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he opened the floor up for questions. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Normally he would speak ????? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this day he asked for questions and answer. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He went into this litany, comparing other leaders around the world who had somehow sufferd Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the hand of the United States Government and his agents and how this compared to what Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just happened to Kennedy. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said: "Patrice Lamumba died and his wife became a widow, his people had their leader cut down Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the US Government had been involved in doing that." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he went through a ??? of these always winding up with the involvement of the Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,United States Government. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that the final point when you do those kind of things all around the world you set up an Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,situation, an atmosphere, an environment in the world and sooner or later those chickens Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,come home to roost. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he ??? I was really took ???. I didn't understand that. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he answered the question: "Well, I know I'll get in trouble for this, but as far as I'm concerned Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a case of the chickens coming home to roost." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,??? John Ali, the National Secretary was there. That's how Mr. Muhammed got the news so fast. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This ??? is from messenger Elijah Muhammed, the ??? muslim from america. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Malcolm ?? addressed in a public meeting at ?? center in New York City on Sunday, December 1st, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did not speak for the muslims when he made comments of the ??? death of the president, John F. Kennedy. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was speaking for himself and not muslims in general. And Mr. Malcolm has been Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suspended from public speaking for the time being. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muhammad on President Kennedy:\NNation Still Mourns Death Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While the Nation of Islam publicly ??? for the slayed president, the leadership announced Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the silencing of Malcolm X for 90 days. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was to give no speeches and to have no contect with the press. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were doing alot of Kennedy Stories and therer was going to be a little one talking about Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm having been suspended. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was expecting to pick up the phone and I'd get a quote and that would be it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This case he hold me on the phone for longer than I expected. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he sounded upset, he sounded worried and it was the first time I ever sensed vulnerabilty Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this guy who I've always been accustomed to ??? think of as an extremely strong man. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Will censure of Malcolm X lead to split in muslims? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Newspapers predicted a power struggle within the nation of islam. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was later learned the FBI fed stories to local reporters in an attempt to deepen the rift Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between Malacolm and Elijah Muhammed. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm, isolated and exhausted, accepted an invitation to Miami. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where young heavy weight conteder Cassius Clay was training for his championship bout against Sunny Liston. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,??? member of the nation, Clay had been visiting muslim temples for two years and Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had asked malcolm to help him mentally prepare for the fight against Liston. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well going to Florida for my family was honeymoon. My parents refered to it as a honeymoon. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course its significance of us going as a family was a much stronger and meaningful for them. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For us it was just an opportunity to be with each other. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as my mother and father talked about it it was the first time in their real life as a marital union. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they had time for themselves. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm offered to bring Cassius Clay into the Nation of Islam in exchange for his own Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reinstatement. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the nations hirarchy ignored Malcolms offer. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LIke most of america they saw the young boxer as a loud mouth with little chance of Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beating Lister. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Malcolm watched from ring side the young Clay wore down the older champion. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the beginning of the 7th round a batted Liston could not come out of his corner. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clay had become the new heavy weight champion of the world. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,??? poetry on number seven. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wanted to go to heaven, so I took him ???.