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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.
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And saying it out front on the devils own airwaves.
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And that was an acto of war.
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When he came off the stage I jumped off the ???, walked up to him
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and of course when I got to him the Bodyguards moved in front.
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And he just pushed them away and I went in front of him, extended my hand
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and said: "I like some of what you said. I didn't agree with all what you said, but
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I liked some of what you said."
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He looked at me, held my hand in a very gentle fasion and said: "One day you will, siter". And he smiled.
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To make his message clear, Malcolm used his own life as a lesson to all black americans.
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He preched it in fables and parables. And later in writing his autobiography with Alex Haley,
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he sought some control in how his life would be interpreted in the future.
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I would be rather ??? taken by a statement that he made of himself.
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He would say: "I am a part of all I admit." And by that he meant that all the things
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he had done in his earlier life had exposed him to things, that taught him skills of ???
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...all of which had synthesized ??? into the Malcolm who became the spokesman for the
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Nation of Islam.
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You were born in Omaha, is that right? - Yes sir.
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And your family left Omaha when you were about one year old? ???
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I imagine about a year old.
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Why did they leave Omaha? - To my understanding the Ku Klux Klan burned down one of their homes in Omaha.
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This made your family very unhappy I'm sure. - Well, insecure if not unhappy.
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So you must have a somewhat prejudiced POV, a personally prejudiced POV.
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You cannot look at this in a broad academic sort of way. - I think this ain't correct.
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Because despite the fact that that happened in Ohama and then when we moved to
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Lansing, Michigan our home was burned down again. My father was killed by the Ku Klux Klan.
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And despite all of that no one was more thoroughly integrated with whites than I.
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No one had lived more so in the society with whites than I.
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We were the only black children in the neighbourhood.
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On the back of our property we had a wooded area.
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So the white kids would all come to our house and they'd go back and play in the woods.
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So Malcolm would say: "Let's go play Robin Hood." So we would go back there and play
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Robin Hood and Robin Hood was Malcolm.
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And these white kids ???.
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Malcolm said he was the lightest skinned of the seven children born to Earl and Louis Little.
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A reminder, he said, of the white man who had raped his mothers mother.
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In 1929, when Malcolm was 4 years old his father, a carpenter and preacher moved the family
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to Lansing Michigan.
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Lansing was a small town and the west side was the side of town the blacks lived on.
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Malcolm and his family lived outside of the city.
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And they had a four acre parcel with a small house on it.
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So they were sort of considered as farmers.
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Three months after the Littles moved in white neighbours took legal action to evict them.
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A county judge ruled that the farm property was restricted to whites only.
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But Earl Little refused to move.
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Here in Michigan, Klu Klux Klan Membership was at least 7.000.
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Five times more than in Mississippi.
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For Malcolms family white hostility was a fact of life.
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Everybody was asleep in our house and all of a sudden we heard a big boom.
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And when we woke up fire was everywhere.
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And everybody was running into the walls and into each other, you know?
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What I recall about that was my mother telling us: "Get up, get up, get up! The house is on fire! Get out!"
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That's what I actually recall.
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I could hear my mother yelling, I could hear my father yelling.
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And so they made sure they got us all rounded up and got us out.
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The house burned down to the ground. No fire wagon came. Nothing. We were burned out.
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Malcolms father Earl Little accused local whites of setting the fire. The police accuse Earl and
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arrested him on suspicion on arson. The charges were later dropped.
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In the city where we grew up whites would refer to us as "Those uppity Niggers" or
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"Those smart Niggers who live outside of town."
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In those days whenever a white person refered to you as a "Smart Nigger" that was their way
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of saying a "Nigger you have to watch" because he's not dumb.
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My father was independent. He didn't want anybody to feed him.
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He wanted to raise his own food. He didn't want anybody to exercise authority over his children.
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He wanted to exercise the authority and he did.
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He was always speaking in terms of Marcus Garvey's way of thinking and trying to get black
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people to organize themselves. Not to cause any trouble but just to work in unity with each other
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toward improving their conditions.
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But in those days if you did that you were still considered a trouble maker.
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In the 1920's Marcus Garvey, a black nationalist preached that black americans should build
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