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Malcolm X: Make It Plain (Full PBS Documentary)

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    Who taught you to hate the color of your skin?
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    Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair?
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    Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose? And the shape of your lips?
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    Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?
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    Who taught you to hate your own kind?
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    Who taught you to hate the race you belong to?
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    So much so that you don't want to be around each other.
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    Befor you come asking Mr. Muhammed, does he teach hate you should ask yourself who taught you to hate being what god made you.
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    Most of us blacks, or negroes as they call us really thought we were free.
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    Without being aware that in our subconscious all those change we thought we had ??? was still there.
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    And there were many ways where what really motivated us was our desire to be loved by the white man.
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    Malcolm meant to ??? that sense of inferiority.
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    He knew it would be painful. He knew that people would kill you because of it.
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    But he dared to take that risk.
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    He was saying something over and above than of any other leader of that day,
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    While the other leaders were begging for entry into the house of their oppressor he was telling you to build your own house.
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    He expelled fear for african americans. He said: "I'll speak out loud what you've been thinking."
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    And he said: "You'll see. People will hear and they won't do anything to us necessarily. Okay.
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    "But I will not speak it for the masses of people."
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    But he said it in a very strong fashion. ???
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    in a fashion that said: "I am not afraid to say what you've been thinking all these years."
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    That's why we loved him. He said it out loud. Not behind closed doors.
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    He took on America for us.
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    And I, for one, as a muslim belief the white man is intelligent enough.
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    If he were made to realize how black people really feel and how fed up we are without all that compromising sweet-talk.
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    ??? you the one that makes it hard for himself.
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    The white man beliefs you when you go to him with all that sweet talk, because you've been sweet talking
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    ever since he brought you here. Stop sweet talking.
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    Tell him how you feel. Tell him how what kind of hell you been catching ??? and let him know that if he's not ready
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    to clean his house up. He shouldn't have a house. It should catch ??? on fire and burn down.
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    On these harlem street corners, for most of the century, black people had celebrated their culture
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    and argued the question of race in america.
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    It was here that Malcolm first joined the street orders who gave voice to harlems hope and its anger.
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    I fought ???. And that means that I ?? this white man's country, because integration
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    will never happen.
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    You'll never as long as you live integrate into the white man's system.
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    125th Str. and 7th Ave. was the center of activity among the black street artists ??.
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    When Malcolm arrived, technically he had no corner.
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    So he established his base you might say in front of ??? bookstore.
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    When Malcolm would ascend the little platform he couldn't talk for the first four or five minutes.
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    The people would be making such a ??? shout to him. And he was standing, taking his due.
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    And then he would open his mouth.
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    They call Mr. Muhammed a hate teacher. Because he makes you hate dope and alcohol.
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    They call Mr. Muhammed a black surpremacist, because he teaches you and me not only that
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    we are as good as the white man, but better than the white man.
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    You are better than the white man.
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    And that's not saying anything. You don't ?? to be equal to him. Who is he to be equal with?
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    Look as his skin. You can't compare your skin with his skin, while your skin looks like gold beside his skin.
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    There was a time when we used to drool in the mouth over white people.
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    We thought that they ??? and that we were ??? We were dumb.
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    We couldn't see them as they are.
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    Since the honorable Elijah Muhammed has come and taught us the religion of islam ?? clean us up
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    and ?? so we can see for ourselves. Now we can see ?? pale things to look exactly as we look.
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    Nothing but an old pale thing/face ??
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    I came away from that rally feeling that with him, once you heard him speak you never went back
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    to where you were before. Even if you kept your position you had to re-think it.
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    We weren't accustomed of being told that we were devils and that we were oppressors up here in our northern ???
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    He was speaking for a silent mass of black people.
Title:
Malcolm X: Make It Plain (Full PBS Documentary)
Description:

The 1994 PBS documentary on the life of Malcolm X

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Video Language:
English
Team:
Film & TV
Duration:
02:18:38

German subtitles

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