Its just like when youve got some coffee thats too black, which means its too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you wont even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now itll put you to sleep. This is what they did with the march on Washington. They joined it. They didnt integrate it; they infiltrated it. They joined it, became a part of it, took it over. And as they took it over, it lost its militancy. They ceased to be angry. They ceased to be hot. They ceased to be uncompromising. Why, it even ceased to be a march. It became a picnic, a circus. Nothing but a circus, with clowns and all. You had one right here in Detroit — I saw it on television — with clowns leading it, white clowns and black clowns. I know you don’t like what Im saying, but I’m going to tell you anyway. Cause I can prove what Im saying. If you think Im telling you wrong, you bring me Martin Luther King and A. Philip Randolph and James Farmer and those other three, and see if theyll deny it over a microphone. Malcolm X, Message to the Grassroots, 1963. What were witnessing right now in Ferguson, Missouri. Nothing but a circus! See, once white people join your protests by integrating it, they take it over and you lose your power. You lose your militancy, your anger, your strength and you become happy as though nothing has happened! Now I see young black folk on TV, smiling, talking to the media and not calling for the arrest of the murdering officer who in cold blood shot down our young brother Mike Brown!
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 01:03:38 +0000
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