Ladies and gentlemen meet a house negro want a be n a speech delivered to Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee workers in Selma, Ala., on Feb. 4, 1965, Malcolm X, in one of his most memorable, humorous and devastatingly effective rhetorical performances, defined the difference between The House Negro and the Field Negro: Back during slavery, Malcolm begins, there were two kinds of slaves. There was the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negroes -- they lived in the house with master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good cause they ate his food -- what he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near the master; and they loved their master more than the master loved himself. They would give their life to save the masters house quicker than the master would … Whenever the master said we, he said we. Thats how you can tell a house Negro. Then, with devastating rhetorical effect, if not full historical accuracy, Malcolm breaks down the difference in how these two types of slaves behaved in relation to the master: If the masters house caught on fire, the house Negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would. If the master got sick, the house Negro would say, Whats the matter, boss, we sick? We sick! He identified himself with his master more than his master identified with himself.
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