MALCOLM X - James Baldwin Debate (September 5, 1963)
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The Black man in America is the only one who is encouraged to be nonviolent, or the Black man in Africa or the Black man in Asia. Never do you find White people encouraging other Whites to be nonviolent. Whites idolize fighters. They idolize the Hungarian freedom fighters who came to this country and right now can work on jobs that the sit-in students can’t get, can live in neighbourhoods that the sit-in students can’t live in, and can go into public places that the student sit-ins can’t go because they are fighters. Everyone loves a fighter, they respect a fighter, but at the same time that they admire these fighters, they encourage the so-called Negro in America to get his desires fulfilled with a sit-in approach or a passive approach or a love-your-enemy approach or pray for those who despitefully use you. This is insane, and we feel, as Muslims, until we see White people practicing this nonviolence…take Pearl Harbor. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the American White man didn’t say pray for the Japanese and let them now bomb Manhattan, or Staten Island, no. They said praise the Lord, but pass the ammunition. And if anybody comes along like Mr. Muhammad and begins to point out uncompromisingly in blunt terms that don’t need interpretation, or diplomatic language that can be misinterpreted, and he begins to point out these atrocities and crimes that have been committed against Black people here in America today, the White man can never deny the fact that he’s guilty, but he’ll always say, “Well, forget the past and let’s look forward.” But the only people who are told to forget the injustices that have been done to them are the Black people.
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