MALCOLM X: Message To The Grass Roots (audio excerpt)

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I would like to make a few comments concerning the difference between the black revolution and the Negro revolution. There's a difference. Are they both the same? And if they're not, what is the difference? What is the difference between a black revolution and a Negro revolution? First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without taking careful consideration [of] what this word actually means, and what its historic characteristics are. When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution, and the result of a revolution, and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words. You may devise another program. You may change your goal and you may change your mind.

Look at the American Revolution in 1776. That revolution was for what? For land. Why did they want land? Independence. How was it carried out? Bloodshed. Number one, it was based on land, the basis of independence. And the only way they could get it was bloodshed. The French Revolution -- what was it based on? The land-less against the landlord. What was it for? Land. How did they get it? Bloodshed. Was no love lost; was no compromise; was no negotiation. I'm telling you, you don't know what a revolution is. 'Cause when you find out what it is, you'll get back in the alley; you'll get out of the way. The Russian Revolution -- what was it based on? Land. The land-less against the landlord. How did they bring it about? Bloodshed. You haven't got a revolution that doesn't involve bloodshed. And you're afraid to bleed. I said, you're afraid to bleed.

[As] long as the white man sent you to Korea, you bled. He sent you to Germany, you bled. He sent you to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese, you bled. You bleed for white people. But when it comes time to seeing your own churches being bombed and little black girls be murdered, you haven't got no blood. You bleed when the white man says bleed; you bite when the white man says bite; and you bark when the white man says bark. I hate to say this about us, but it's true. How are you going to be nonviolent in Mississippi, as violent as you were in Korea? How can you justify being nonviolent in Mississippi and Alabama, when your churches are being bombed, and your little girls are being murdered, and at the same time you're going to violent with Hitler, and Tojo, and somebody else that you don't even know?

If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it's wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it's wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.




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tefeoesole (November 25, 2008 at 7:25 am)
Malcolm X speaks the truth,nothing wrong with telling people the truth.
prodigalson56 (November 24, 2008 at 1:08 am)
Malcolm X was a real scumbag! If a whiteman said what he said he would be racist, but it's somehow okay because Malcolm X was black??? What a crock! I see no difference between Malcolm X and Dr William Pierce except Dr W. Pierce was a lot more intelligent.
JesusWeeps420 (October 31, 2008 at 2:55 pm)
Actually, you make no sense... I never said I was sickend by black people, only that kid's ideology that white people are going to kill all the black people... Personally I can atest that my family had nothing to do with slavery so really, you cannot hold that over my head.

But essentially you make no sense and have no releivance to anything I have stated earlier. And if white people hate black people so much why are they trying to help people in africa? Why are they giving them food?
ninthwonder57 (October 29, 2008 at 9:11 pm)
you know what i am 14 years of age and I'm really scared that the white people will get so mad when Obama becomes president that they will gun down every black and women and kill us single handley one by one can anyone give me advice that this hurtful thing will not happen please because on Nov 4th and 5th i dare not walk of my house and go to school
JesusWeeps420 (October 31, 2008 at 1:38 pm)
And see... you sir are a racist. I am a person of cacasian decent and I would never commit a crime agasint someone because the colour of their skin. People like you sicken me because you are so brainwashed...

and on the flip side IF I WERE TO SAY this EXACT same speech and make it about black people I would be racist... Why is it that no one else thinks he's a racist? Really the only difference between malcom x and hitler was that he didnt order anyone to be killed.

think about it
korva04 (October 31, 2008 at 2:48 pm)
Just shut ur trap JesusWeeps420. Who cares if ur sicken by black ppl. All white ppl is sicken by black ppl. U need a lil white in u to sneek ur way through. Hint hint, (Barack Obama). Anyway, if u were to say the same exact thing about black ppl. Damn 400 years. What other bad deeds do u want to pile over those amount of years for slavery. If black ppl put white ppl in slavery, would u like dat. I mean i can play devils advocate, because JesusWeeps420, u make no sense.
prodigalson56 (November 24, 2008 at 1:03 am)
LOL. Sounds like someones got a chip on their shoulder! It wasn't you that got taken as a slave so shut up about it! And JesusWeeps420
was talking about an individual and not a race, try learning to read too dumbass!
hoggdawn (October 20, 2008 at 9:37 pm)
I have no tolerance for people who gain their identity from their skin color. The KKK, Black Nationalists, whatever---they are all cut from the same cloth. I guess the bastards who started all this crap were the white slavers. We all bleed red----thats all I care about. God help us all. Maybe Obama can be force for healing in the USA.
franknjess (October 16, 2008 at 1:34 am)
Look up "Black Invention Myths" on the internet. It's shameful the way they've been manipulated into believing fairy tales. Look at Africa. It's the way it is because of the people. Just like Detroit, Atlanta...
ajhnson (October 2, 2008 at 1:11 pm)
A revolution is coming soon and black is not in the equation.