Malcom X || Warning Black America About Liberals
CREDIT:
Speaker: Malcom X
Venue: New York City
Date: Wednesday, December 4th, 1963
Title: God’s Judgment of White America or ("The Chickens Come Home to Roost")
DESCRIPTION:
When this speech was delivered, Malcolm X was at the height of his influence as a minister and spokesman for the Nation of Islam (NOI). He was largely credited with increasing NOI national membership to 30,000 from an estimated 500 in 1952, the year Malcolm left prison as a follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
Shortly after making this speech, Malcolm was asked his opinion on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the previous month. Malcolm replied that Kennedy “never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon". This is the reason some call this Malcolm’s “Chickens Come Home To Roost” speech. The remark set off a firestorm, leading Elijah Muhammad to sentence his spokesman to 90 days of silence. Malcolm formally broke with the NOI in March 1964, to found the Muslim Mosque, Inc.
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VIDEO QUOTE:
"In this crooked game of power politics here in America, the Negro..namely the race problem, integration, civil rights issues..are all nothing but tools used by the Whites who call themselves liberals against another group of whites who call themselves conservatives. Either to get into power or to retain power. Among whites here in America the political teams are no longer divided into Democrats and Republicans. The Whites who are now struggling for control of the American political throne are divided into liberal and conservative camps. The white liberals from both parties cross party lines to work together toward the same goal. And white conservatives from both parties do likewise. The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful [and] more hypocritical then the conservative. Both want power. But the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negroes friend and benefactor. And by winning the friendship and support of the Negro, the white liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or a weapon in this political football game that is constantly raging between the white liberals and the white conservatives. The American Negro is nothing but a political football and the white liberals control this ball through tricks or tokenism..false promises of integration and civil rights. In this game of deceiving and using the American negro, the white liberals have complete cooperation of the Negro civil rights leaders who sell our people out for a few crumbs of token recognition, token gains and token progress."
