“You’re out of your mind if you don’t think that there’s a racist element in the State Department. I’m not saying that everybody in the State Department is a racist, but I’m saying they’ve sure got some in there - a whole lot of them in there. They’ve got them in powerful positions in there. This is the element that became worried about the changing Negro mood and the changing Negro behavior, especially if that mood and that behavior became one of what they call violence. By violence they only mean when a Black man protects himself against the attacks of a white man. This is what they mean by violence. They don’t mean what you mean. Because they don’t even use the word violence until someone gives the impression that you’re about to explode. When it comes time for a Black man to explode they call it violence. But white people can be exploding against Black people all day long, and it’s never called violence. I even have some of you come to me and ask me, am I for violence? I’m the victim of violence, and you’re the victim of violence. But you’ve been so victimized by it that you can’t recognize it for what it is today.” — Malcolm X
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 03:38:19 +0000
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