Sunday, March 30, 2008

Malcolm X: An Early Interview (blog #3)

By this time in Malcolm X's tragically-abbreviated life, he was a converter to the growing Nation of Islam, a Muslim sect that demanded racial change and was seen by many, at that time, to be the most radically threatening resistance against White America. Mike Wallace was the interviewer. The following statements made by Malcolm X express his viewpoints and the beliefs he has learned from the Nation of Islam:

-Desegregation laws were aimed to change the white man's mind.
-Negroes need to reaffirm themselves, morally, and a knowledge of self needs to be recognized.
-Cure the indoctrinated slave mentality forced upon negroes from whites. This cure will, in turn, lead to harmonious unity which will help the negro prosper just like how the white man learned to prosper.
-Many negroes can only see success only after having been accepted into white society.
-Negroes brainwashed to the point into believing that white supremacy is justifiable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20AWmXOSN-w

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