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Salute 🫡 To Our Great Grand Warrior Malcolm X
Very simple answer to one question Do you hate all white people? I don't think it's a fair question. The white man doesn't even come into my attitude. Mr Muhammad teaches us to love our own kind and let the white man take care of himself. For a white man today, sir, after kidnapping millions of black people from Africa, after kidnapping millions of black people from Africa, stripping them of all human characteristics and relegating them to the role of chattel or cattle or animals, commodity merchandise that could be bought and sold at will, and then, 100 years since the Emancipation Proclamation, using every type of deceptive method to further us into slavery, called second-class citizenship, I think that it would take a whole lot of nerve for the white people today to ask Negroes do they hate them?
Speaker 2:Peace. Welcome back to Freedmen's Affairs Radio, the Freedmen's Network. I'm your host, vaughn Black. Today, today, may 20th, 2025, for the focus in our math Wisdom Cipher 2025. For the focus in our math wisdom, cipher, wisdom, cipher is the focus for today. That is the math for today. And, as you heard in the opening yesterday, may 19th was the would have been the 100th year birth anniversary of our great, great, great grand warrior, el Hodge Malik Shabazz, otherwise known as Malcolm X, and today well, yesterday and today, and on into next week and maybe the week after that, we're going to be honoring and celebrating our great, great grand warrior. So we're going to go into a quick advertisement and then, when we come back, it's going to be no interruptions. We are going to celebrate this brother and his talk to the grassroots. But before we go, before go, should I even go into a commercial? I don't think so. I think we will just skip the ads for today. We'll skip the ads because we got a lot, a lot here and I'm working feverishly up here to bring this to you real quick.
Speaker 2:Before we go into into that, I want to address a few things. That's that's been trending and buzzing in the, in the circles online and in the internet, streets and in our communities, and that is this, this thing that they. They have hijacked this term black fatigue and it's been hijacked by uh, I believe it's maga behind it, really and they've took the term. The term was was used in a book that was published in 2020 by a mary francis winters. She wrote the book Black Fatigue. However, and it's been used before that, it was another person that I can't that doesn't come to mind right now the name, but it was another person that used the term. But this woman, mary Francis Winters, used the term to publish the book. She used that term in the publishing of that book and it was talking to our mental and physical state of being after enduring so much, and they told that white supremacy takes on our physical and mental well-being. Now they have since then, because there's a lot of desperation. Now they have since took that term and hijacked it, and they're talking about black fatigue.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm going to say to you, to whoever encounters that type of talk in any kind of conversations in the workplace or in social settings, here's what you say to that, if white people are so sick of us because you hear a lot of the bootlicks, and we're going to get to them too. We're going to get to them too, the bootlicks and the coons. You'll hear them say well, I'm sick of black people, I'm sick of black people, I'm black and I'm sick of black people. Well, you and those white folks that are sick of us and got black fatigue, guess what? Good, that's what I say. Good, you tired, you sick of us. That's what I say. Good, you tired, you sick of us.
Speaker 2:White society is sick of us, and they sick of tired of us complaining and being perpetual victims, as the bootlicks love to say. Perpetual, no accountability. And we got ratchet and gutter behavior and we're violent. Guess what you created that we didn't make the ghettos now referred to as the hoods. We didn't make that. That came from your hands. Now that it's engulfed you, you're tired.
Speaker 2:Sounds kind of personal to me, because guess what? I live right in the middle of the hood and I never have problems with ratchet people, gutter, ratchet, dusty Negroes. I never have problems with them and I live right amongst them. So that sounds personal to me. You had decades to fix the problem and you refused to do it. You're still refusing it. That governor down there, what is his name the Tether dude, wes Moore. Governor Wes Moore just now vetoed the reparations, a bill to study reparations. Not that we need another study, because we don't, and all that's a bunch of cap coming from the left, from the democratic left. Now, all of a sudden, they gung-ho on reparations. It's a desperation move because they've lost control, their grip on on on the black society. The democrats have lost their grip that that, that tight grip they had on us. They've've lost that. So now they talking about reparations.
Speaker 2:You had everything, you had every chance to do it, and you refused and y'all still refusing All these studies and all that, the study's already been done. This is American history. So to our folks over there, to the folks over there, in white society if you're so sick of us.
Speaker 2:hey, sounds personal. You got black fatigue. Good, because you created it. You created the black fatigue, right? So don't? I don't want to hear it. I don't care how tired of us you are, you ain't that tired of us because you're still worrying about what we doing. You're in our spaces, you know, on our live chats. You're in the x spaces and you're following what we do online and where, what we saying and what we thinking, where we voting, who we voting, you classes, y'all doing the line dance, the boots on the grounds, dance. You even got classes for that in white society. But you so sick of us. You turn on the NBA playoffs and you look in the audience and you see nothing but white folks coming to see Negroes bouncing a basketball up and down the court and sweating, and you cheering and screaming and slobbering and falling out at the top of your voices.
Speaker 2:Same thing in the NFL stadium full of white folks to come see the Negroes play. So how tired of us are you? You tired of us? Okay, then do something about it. Of us, okay, then do something about it. And in another note, the knot away plantation in Louisiana, new Orleans well, not New Orleans, but in the state of Louisiana has burnt down and maybe, if we get a chance, we'll come back and circle back to that. But this, this, this um celebration of of brother malcolm's life, is going to take up most of the, the program and I'm getting ready to shut up and and get get the, get it the plane.
Speaker 2:But that the ancestors have finally heard our cry. Well, they've been hearing it, but now they move, and family they move, and this know. It's a great time for us to start unifying. It's a great time, on the heels of the Sinners movie, connecting our roots back to our music and our spiritual practices. Those ancestors are talking and they making their presence known.
Speaker 2:Burnt down that plantation. They bust open it in the same state of Louisiana. Bust open that prison for them, brothers, and let them run out of there. One of them brothers, in there for a double homicide, and he might be. He's been on trial for the last five or six years and they keep hanging jewelry, hanging jewelry, and the brother might be innocent. So the ancestors open the gates and let them brothers out of that prison, eleven of them, three of them been caught because they goofies. But yeah, family and ancestors are talking. Then the other day I believe it was last Saturday another drowning in Lake Lanier. You know the story with Oscarville and Lake Lanier, right, another drowning. And now all this is happening inside of a week. You think the ancestors are talking.
Speaker 2:And here it is, yesterday, malcolm's birthday. But without any further delay, without any further delay, let's try to get on with the program. Hold on, I want to pull it up here and we're going to get to it. No, that's not what I want. I'll come back to that. Okay, because we're about to heal something and there's going to be a little bit of partying going on and we're going to just do this thing and celebrate our brother, okay, okay. So, without further ado, let's get to it.
Speaker 5:We want to have just an off the cuff chat between you and me us. We want to talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand. We all agree tonight all of the speakers have agreed that America has a very serious problem.
Speaker 5:Not only does America have a very serious problem, but our people have a very serious problem. America's problem is us. We're her problem. The only reason she has a problem is she doesn't want us here. And every time you look at yourself, be you black, brown, red or yellow a so-called Negro, you represent a person who poses such a serious problem for America because you're not one.
Speaker 5:Once you face this as a fact, then you can start plotting a course that will make you appear intelligent instead of unintelligent. What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences when we come together. We don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell because you're a Methodists. You don't catch hell because you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell because you're a Methodist. You don't catch hell because you're a Methodist or a Baptist. You don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk, and you sure don't catch hell because you're an American, because if you was an American you wouldn't't catch hell, cause you're an American, cause if you was an American you wouldn't catch no hell. You catch hell cause you're a black man. You catch hell. All of us catch hell for the same reason.
Speaker 5:So we are all black people, so called negroes, second class citizens, ex-slaves. You are nothing but an ex-slave. You don't like to be told that, but what else are you? You are ex-slave. You don't like to be told that, but what else are you? You are ex-slave. You didn't come here on the Mayflower. You came here in a slave ship, in chains, like a horse or a cow or a chicken, and you were brought here by the people who came here on the Mayflower. You were brought here by the so-called pilgrims or founding fathers. They were the ones who brought you here.
Speaker 5:We have a common enemy. We have this in common. We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter and a common discriminator. So once we all realize that we have this common enemy, then we unite on the basis of what we have in common. And what we have foremost in common is that enemy, the white man. He's an enemy to all of us. I know some of you all think that some of them aren't enemies. Time will tell.
Speaker 5:In Bandung back in I think 1954, was the first unity meeting in centuries of black people. And once you study what happened at the Bandung Conference and the results of the Bandung Conference, it actually serves as a model for the same procedure you and I can use to get our problems solved. At Bandung, all the nations came together. They were dark nations from Africa and Asia. Some of them were Buddhists, some of them were Muslim, some of them were Christians, some of them were Confucian Confucianists, some were atheists. Despite their religious differences, they came together. Some were communists, some were socialists, some were capitalists. Despite their economic and political differences, they came together. All of them were black, brown, red or yellow.
Speaker 5:The number one thing that was not allowed to attend the Bandung Conference was the white man. He couldn't come. Once they excluded the white man, they found that they could get together. Once they kept him out, everybody else fell right in and fell in love. This is the thing that you and I have to understand.
Speaker 5:And these people who came together didn't have nuclear weapons, they didn't have jet planes, they didn't have all of the heavy armaments that the white man has, but they had unity. They were able to submerge their little, petty differences and agree on one thing that, though one African came from Kenya and was being colonized by the Englishman, and another African came from the Congo and was being colonized by the Belgian, and another African came from Guinea and was being colonized by the French, and another came from Angola and was being colonized by the Portuguese, when they came to the Bandung conference, they looked at the Portuguese and at the Frenchman, and at the Englishman, and at the the other Dutchman, and and learn or realize that the one thing that all of them had in common they were all from Europe.
Speaker 5:They were all Europeans blonde, blue-eyed and white-skinned.
Speaker 4:They began to recognize who their enemy was.
Speaker 5:The same man that was colonizing our people in Kenya was colonizing our people in the Congo. The same one in the Congo was colonizing our people in the Congo. The same one in the Congo was colonizing our people in South Africa and in Southern Rhodesia and in Burma and in India and in Afghanistan and in Pakistan. They realized, all over the world, where a dark man was being oppressed, he was being oppressed by the white man. Where the dark man was being exploited, he was being exploited by the white man. So they got together under this basis that they had a common enemy. And when you and I here in Detroit and in Michigan and in America, who have been awakened today, look around us, we too realize here in America, we all have a common enemy. Whether he's in Georgia or Michigan, whether he's in California or New York, he's the same man Blue eyes and blonde hair and pale skin, same man. So what we have to do is what they did. They agreed to stop quarreling among themselves Any little spat that they had. Stop quarreling among themselves any little spat that they had. They'd settle it among themselves. Go into a huddle. Don't let the enemy know that you gotta disagree.
Speaker 5:Instead of us airing our differences in public. We have to realize we're all the same family and when you have a family squabble, you don't get out on the sidewalk. If you do, everybody calls you uncouth, unrefined, uncivilized savage. If you don't make it at home, you settle it at home, you get in the closet, argue it out behind closed doors and then when you come out on the street, you pose a common front, a united front, and this is what we need to do in the community and in the city and in the state. We need to stop airing our differences in front of the white man. Put the white man out of our meeting number one and then sit down and talk shop with each other. That's all we gotta do.
Speaker 5:I would like to make a few comments concerning the difference between the black revolution and the negro revolution. There's a difference. Are they both the same? And if they're not, what is the difference? What is the difference between a black revolution and a negro revolution? First, what is a revolution?
Speaker 5:Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word revolution loosely, without taking careful consideration what this word revolution loosely, without taking careful consideration what this word actually means and what its historic characteristics are. When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution and the result of a revolution, the objective of a revolution and the result of a revolution and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words, you may devise another program, you may change your goal and you may change your mind. Look at the American Revolution in 1776. That revolution was for what? For land. Why did they want land? Independence? How was it carried out? Bloodshed Number one. It was based on land, the basis of independence, and the only way they could get it was bloodshed. The French Revolution what was it based on? The landless against the landlord. What was it for Land? How did they get it? Bloodshed Was no love lost, was no compromise, was no negotiation.
Speaker 4:I'm telling you you don't know what a revolution is.
Speaker 5:Because when you find out what it is, you'll get back in the alley, you'll get out of the way. The russian revolution what was it based on? Land, the landless against the landlord. How did they bring it about bloodshed? You haven't got a revolution that doesn't involve bloodshed and you're afraid to bleed.
Speaker 5:I said you're afraid to bleed Long as the white man sent you to Korea, you bled. He sent you to Germany, you bled. He sent you to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese, you bled. You bleed for white people. But when it comes time to seeing your own churches being bombed and little black girls murdered, you haven't got no blood. You bleed when the white man says bleed. You bite when the white man says bite and you bark when the white man says bark. I hate to say this about us, but it's true. How are you going to be nonviolent in Mississippi as violent as you were in Korea? How can you justify being nonviolent in Mississippi and Alabama when your churches are being bombed and your little girls are being murdered and at the same time, you're going to get violent with Hitler and Tojo and somebody else that you don't? If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad.
Speaker 5:If it's wrong to be violent, defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it's wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. The Chinese Revolution they wanted land. They threw the British out along with the Uncle Tom Chinese. Yeah, they did. They set a good example. When I was in prison, I read an article in. Don't be shocked when I say I was in prison, you're still in prison. That's what America means prison. When I was in prison, I read an article in Life magazine showing a little Chinese girl, nine years old. Her father was on his hands and knees and she was pulling the trigger because he was an Uncle Tom. In China, when they had the revolution over there, they took a whole generation of Uncle Toms and just wiped them out and within 10 years that little girl became a full-grown woman.
Speaker 5:No more Toms in China.
Speaker 5:And today today is one of the toughest, roughest, most feared countries on this earth by the white man, because there are no Uncle Toms over there. Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward all research, and when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who had problems similar to yours, and once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight, please. There's been a revolution, a black revolution going on in Africa, in Kenya. The Mau Mau were revolutionaries. They were the ones who made the word Uhuru. They were the ones who brought it to the fore. The Mau Mau they were revolutionaries. They were the ones who made the word Uhuru. They were the ones who brought it to the fore. The Mau Mau. They were revolutionaries. They believed in scorched earth. They knocked everything aside that got in their path, and their revolution also was based on land, a desire for land.
Speaker 5:In Algeria the northern part of Africa, a revolution took place. The Algerians were revolutionists. They wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France to hell with France. They wanted some land, not some France, and they engaged in a bloody battle.
Speaker 5:So I cite these various revolutions, brothers and sisters, to show you you don't have a peaceful revolution, you don't have a turn-the-other-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution. Only thing, only kind of revolution that's nonviolent is the Negro Revolution. The only revolution based on loving your enemy is the Negro Revolution, the only revolution in which the goal is a desegregated lunch counter, a desegregated theater, a desegregated park and a desegregated public toilet. You can sit down next to white folks on the toilet. That's no revolution. Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice and equality. The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the black revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The black revolution is sweeping Asia, sweeping Africa. It's rearing its head in Latin America. The Cuban revolution. That's a revolution. They overturned the system.
Speaker 4:Revolution is in Asia.
Speaker 5:Revolution is in Africa and the white man is screaming because he sees revolution in Latin America.
Speaker 3:How do you think he'll?
Speaker 5:react to you when you learn what a real revolution is. You don't know what a revolution is. If you did, you wouldn't use that word. A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a nod on these folks, no matter how much they hate me? No, you need a revolution. Who ever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Clegg was pointing out, beautifully singing we shall overcome. Just tell me you don't do that in a revolution. You don't do any singing. You're too busy swinging. It's based on land. A revolutionary wants land so he can set up his own nation, An independent nation. These Negroes aren't asking for no nation. They're trying to crawl back on the plantation. When you want a nation, that's called nationalism.
Speaker 5:When the white man became involved in a revolution in this country against England, what was it for? He wanted this land so he could set up another white nation. That's white nationalism. The American Revolution was white nationalism. The French Revolution was white nationalism. The Russian Revolution too. Yes, it was white, white nationalism. You don't think so? Why do you think Khrushchev and Mill Can't get their heads together? White nationalism? All the revolutions that's going on in Asia, in Africa today, are based on what Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a black nationalist. He wants a nation. I was reading some beautiful words by Reverend Clee pointing out why he couldn't get together with someone else here in the city Because all of them were afraid of being identified with black nationalism.
Speaker 5:If you're afraid of black nationalism, you're afraid of revolution, and if you love revolution, you love black nationalism. To understand this you have to go back to what young brother here referred to as the house Negro and the field Negro. Back during slavery there was two kind of slaves. There was the house negro and the field negro. The house negro they lived in the house with master. They dressed pretty good, they ate good because they ate his food, but he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near their master and they loved their master more than the master loved himself. They would give their life to save their master's house quicker than the master would the house.
Speaker 4:Negro. If the master said we got a good house here, the house.
Speaker 5:Negro said yeah, we got a good house here. Whenever the master said we, he said we. That's how you can tell a house Negro. Whenever the master said we. He said we. That's how you can tell a house negro. If the master's 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 what's the matter, boss, we sick, we sick negro would say what's?
Speaker 4:the matter, boss. We think, we think he identified himself with his master more than his master identified with himself, and if you came to the house negro and said let's run away, let's escape, let's separate.
Speaker 5:That house negro would look at you and say man, you crazy. What you mean separate. Where is there a better house than this? Where can I wear better clothes than this? Where can I eat better food than this? That was that house negro. In those days he was called a house nigger and that's what we call him today, because we still got some house niggers running around here.
Speaker 5:This modern house negro loves his master. He wants to live near him. He'll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near his master. He wants to live near him. He'll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near his master. And then brag about I'm the only Negro out here, I'm the only one on my job, I'm the only one in this school. You're nothing but a house Negro. And if someone comes to you right now and says let's separate, you say the same thing that the house Negro said on the plantation what you mean? Separate From America, this good white man, where you going to get a better job than you get here. I mean this is what you say. I ain't left nothing in Africa. That's what you say, why you left your mind in Africa.
Speaker 5:On that same plantation there was the field Negro, the field Negro. Those were the masses. There was always more Negroes in the field than there was Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers In the house. They ate high up on the hog. A negro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left of the insides of the hog. They call them chetlins nowadays in those days they call them what they were guts.
Speaker 5:That's what you were a gut eater, and some of you all still gut eaters. The field Negro was beaten from morning till night. He lived in a shack, in a hut. He wore cast-off clothes. He hated his master. I say he hated his master. He was intelligent. That house Negro loved his master, but that field Negro remember they were in the majority and they hated the master. When the house caught on fire, he didn't try and put it out. That field negro prayed for a wind, for a breeze. When the master got sick, the field negro prayed that he died.
Speaker 5:If someone come to the field negro and said's separate, let's run. He didn't say where are we going. He said any place is better than here. You got field negros in amer today. I'm a field Negro, the masses are the field Negroes when they see this man's house on fire. You don't hear these little Negroes talking about our government is in trouble. They say the government is in trouble. Imagine a Negro, our government. I even heard one say our astronauts they won't even let him near a plant. And our astronauts, our Navy? That's a Negro, that's out of his mind. That's a Negro that's out of his mind.
Speaker 5:Just as the slave master in that day used Tom the house Negro to keep the field Negroes in check, the same old slave master today has Negroes who are nothing but modern Uncle Toms, 20th century Uncle Toms to keep you and me in check, keep us under control, keep us passive and peaceful and nonviolent. That's Tom making you nonviolent. It's like when you go to the dentist and the man is going to take your tooth. You gonna fight him when he start pulling. So they squirt some stuff in your jaw called Novocaine to make you think they're not doing anything to you. So you sit there and cause you got all that Novocaine in your jaw. You suffer peacefully, blood running all down your jaw and you don't know what's happening, because someone has taught you to suffer peacefully.
Speaker 5:The white man do the same thing to you in the street when he gonna want to put knots on your head and take advantage of you and don't have to be afraid of you fighting back. To keep you from fighting back, you get these old religious uncle toms to teach you and me. They're just like novocaine suffer peacefully, don't stop suffering, just suffer peacefully. As reverend clee pointed out, let your blood flow in the streets. This is a shame, and you know he's a christian preacher. If it's a shame to him, you know what it is to me. There's nothing in our book the Quran, as you call it Koran teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent, be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone, but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That's a good religion. In fact, that's that old time religion. That's the one that Ma and Pa used to talk about an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and a head for a head, and a life for a life. That's a good religion. And then anybody no one resents that kind of religion being taught, but a wolf who intends to make you his meal, wolf who intends to make you his meal. This is the way it is with the white man in America. He's a wolf and you're a sheep. Anytime a shepherd, a pastor, teach you and me not to run from the white man and at the same time, teachers, don't fight the white man. He's a traitor to you and me. Don't lay down our life all by itself. No, preserve your life. It's the best thing you got, and if you got to give it up, let it be even steeper.
Speaker 5:The slave master took Tom and dressed him well and fed him well and even gave him a little education. A little education. Gave him a long coat and a top hat and made all the other slaves look up to him. Then he used Tom to control them. The same strategy that was used in those days is used today by the same white man. He take a Negro, so-called Negro, and make him prominent, build him up, publicize him, make him a celebrity, and then he becomes a spokesman for Negro and a Negro leader. I would like to just mention one thing else quickly, and that is the method that the white man uses, how the white man uses these big guns or Negro leaders against the black revolution. They're not a part of the black revolution, they're used against the black revolution.
Speaker 5:When Martin Luther King failed to desegregate Albany Georgia, the civil rights struggle in America reached its low point. King became bankrupt almost as a leader, plus, even financially. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was in financial trouble. Plus, it was in trouble period with the people. When they failed to desegregate Albany Georgia. Other Negro civil rights leaders of so-called national stature became fallen idols. As they became fallen idols began to lose their prestige and influence. Local Negro leaders began to stir up the mass In Cambridge, maryland, gloria Richardson In Danville, virginia and other parts of the country. Local leaders began to stir up our people at the grassroots level. This was never done by these Negroes whom you recognize, of national stature. They controlled you but they never incited you or excited you. They controlled you, they contained you, they kept you on the plantation.
Speaker 5:As soon as King failed in Birmingham, negroes took to the streets. King got out and went out to California to a big rally and raised about I don't know how many thousands of dollars. Come to Detroit and had a march and raised some more thousands of dollars and recall, right after that Wilkins attacked King, accused King and the Corps of starting trouble everywhere and then making the NAACP get him out of jail and spend a lot of money, and then he accused King and Corps of raising all the money and not paying him back. This happened. I got it in documented evidence in the newspaper. Roy started attacking King and King started attacking Roy and farmers started attacking both of them. And as these Negroes of national stature began to attack each other, they began to lose their control of the Negro masses. And Negroes was out there in the streets. They was talking about. We're going to march on Washington, by the way, and right at that time Birmingham had exploded and the Negroes in Birmingham.
Speaker 3:Remember they also exploded.
Speaker 5:They began to stab the crackers in the back and bust them upside the head. Yes, they did. That's when Kennedy sent in the troops down in Birmingham. So, and right after that, kennedy got on the television and said this is a moral issue. That's when he said he was going to put out a civil rights bill. And when he mentioned civil rights bill and the southern crackers started talking. They were going to boycott it or filibuster it.
Speaker 5:Then the Negroes started talking about what we're going to march on Washington, march on the Senate, march on the White House, march on the Congress and tie it up, bring it to a halt, don't let the government proceed. They even said they were going to go out to the airport and lay down on the runaway and don't let no airplanes land. I'm telling you what they said. That was revolution. That was revolution. That was the black revolution. It was the grassroots out there in the street Scared the white man to death, scared the white power structure in Washington DC to death. I was there when they found out that this black steamroller was going to come down on the Capitol. They called in Wilkins, they called in Randolph, they called in these national Negro leaders that you respect and told them call it off. Kennedy said look, you're all letting this thing go too far. And old Tom said boss, I can't stop it because I didn't start it. I can't stop it because I didn't start it. I'm telling you what they said. They said I'm not even in it, much less at the head of it. They said these Negroes are doing things on their own, they're running ahead of us. And that old, shrewd fox, he said well, if you all aren't in it, I'll put you in it. I'll put you in it, I'll put you at the head of it, I'll endorse it, I'll welcome it, I'll help it, I'll join it. A matter of hours went by. They had a meeting at the Carlisle Hotel in New York City. The Carlisle Hotel is owned by the kennedy family. That's the hotel kennedy spent the night at two nights ago. Belongs to his family.
Speaker 5:A philanthropic society headed by a white man named stephen courier called all the top civil rights leaders together at the carlisle hotel and told them that by you all fighting each other, you're destroying the civil rights leaders together at the Carlisle Hotel. And told them that by you all fighting each other, you're destroying the civil rights movement. And since you're fighting over money from white liberals. Let us set up what's known as the Council for United Civil Rights Leadership. Let's form this council and all the civil rights organizations will belong to it, and we'll use it for fundraising purposes. Let me show you how tricky the white man is. And as soon as they got it formed, they elected Whitney Young as the chairman. And who do you think, became the co-chairman? Stephen Currier, the white man, a millionaire. Powell was talking about it down at the Cobo today. This is what he was talking about. Powell knows it happened. Randolph knows it was talking about. How knows?
Speaker 3:it happened, randolph knows it happened, wilkins knows it happened, king knows it happened every one of that so-called big six.
Speaker 5:They know what happened once. They formed it, but the white man over it. He promised them and gave them $800,000 to split up between the big six and told them that after the march was over, they'd give them $700,000 more A million and a half dollars split up between leaders that you've been following going to jail for crying crocodile tears for and there's nothing but Frank James and Jesse James and what you call it brothers Soon. As they got the setup organized, the white men made available to them top public relations experts, opened the news media across the country at their disposal, and then they began to project these big six as the leaders of the march Originally they weren't even in the march.
Speaker 5:You was talking this march talk on Haston Street. Is Haston Street still here? On Haston Street you was talking the march talk on Lenox Avenue and down on what you call it Fillmore Street and Central Avenue and 42nd Street and 63rd Street. That's where the march talk was being talked, but the white men put the big six ahead of it, made them the march. They became the march, they took it over. And the first move they made after they took it over, they invited Walter Ruther, a white man. They invited a priest, a rabbi and an old white preacher yes, an old white preacher. The same white element that put Kennedy in power labor, the Catholics, the Jews and liberal Protestants Same clique that put Kennedy in power joined the March on White. It's just like when you got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream.
Speaker 5:You make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot. It becomes cool. It used to be strong. It becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. What used to wake you up, now it'll put you to sleep.
Speaker 5:They joined it. They didn't integrate it, they infiltrated it. They joined it became. They didn't 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, bleeding, white clowns and black clowns.
Speaker 5:I know you don't like what I'm saying, but I'm going to tell you anyway because I can prove what I'm saying. If you think I'm telling you wrong, you bring me Martin Luther King and A Philip Randolph and James Farmer and those other three and see if they'll deny it over a microphone. No, it was a sellout, it was a takeover. When James Baldwin came in from Paris, they wouldn't let him talk Because they couldn't make him go by the script. But Lancaster read the speech that Baldwin was supposed to make. They wouldn't let Baldwin get out there because they know Baldwin liable to say anything. They controlled it so tight. They told those Negroes what time to hit town, how to come, where to stop, what sign to carry, what song to sing, what speech they could make and what speech they couldn't make, and then told them to get out of town by sundown and every one of those toms Were out of town by sundown.
Speaker 5:Now I know you don't like my saying this, but I can bank it out. It was a circus, a performance. It beat anything Hollywood could ever do the performance of the year. Ruther and those other three devils should get an Academy Award for the best actors because they acted like they really loved Negroes and fooled a whole lot of Negroes. And the six Negro leaders should get an award too, for the best supporting cast.
Speaker 2:Man, man, yeah, family, yeah, that was his speech. That speech was entitled speech to the grassroots. He was talking to us. He was reaching out across generations, talking to us, family, and oh man, this is a bit much for me up here today. But in all fairness, in all fairness, in all fairness, family I want to take the time to thank the parents of Elharj, malisha, baz, malcolm X, and that was Earl Little, who was his father, and Louise Little, who was his mother. She was a Ghanaian woman and his father was a foundational, and I want to thank you for giving us this great, great, great grand warrior and family. We not, you know, this speech was reached, like I said, it reached across generations and it's talking to us today.
Speaker 2:Revolution is not without some sacrifice. You know, you got these bootlicks and these coons out here. All of the interested in is likes, views, clicks, paypal Cash App. This is how they make their money off of hustling and they know a lot of that stuff. What they be saying is straight BS. They know that, but it's about the hustle, just like they blame some people for race baiting and playing perpetual victims because that's one of their favorite talking points. You know, you're being a perpetual victim. You know you complain all the time. You know, never take accountability. You know those bootleg negros and those coons, when you hear them, when you ever hear those buzzwords accountability, like of accountability, uh, perpetual victim, and uh, what's the other one, uh, whatever they be saying. But you, you know, you know they, they, what they spit, it's the other one, whatever they be saying, but you know what they spit, it's the same thing. You know it's no racism. Now, you know it was some things.
Speaker 2:America does have a dark past, but it's 2025, I just don't see. I just don't see. You know people don't take accountability for your failures. You know, you know the talk that they talk. You know the talk that they talk family and um, we've been up here a minute and we're gonna get ready to blow out of here in a few, but we, we have to finish the program with our brother. We gotta finish the program and um, I wanna, I wanna direct. Hold on, I'm going to close out with, I'm going to close the Malcolm X part of the program out with the eulogy from another great, great grand warrior, and that was Ozzie Davis, and let's hear from that. Hold on a second. Let me cue that right in.
Speaker 3:It's in the queue and let me bring it up here at this final hour, in this quiet place, harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes, extinguished now and gone from us forever. For Harlem is where he worked and where he struggled and fought. There are those who will consider it their duty, as friends of the Negro people, to tell us to revile him, to flee even from the presence of his memory, as friends of the Negro people, to tell us to revile him, to flee even from the presence of his memory, to save ourselves by writing him out of the history of our turbulent times. Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this stormy, controversial and bold, bold young captain. And we will smile.
Speaker 3:Many will say turn away away from this man, for he is not a man but a demon, a monster, a subverter and an enemy of the black man. And we will smile. They will say that he is of hate, a fanatic, a racist who can only bring evil to the cause for which you struggle. And we will answer and say unto them did you ever talk to Brother Malcolm? Did you ever touch him or have him smile at you? Did you ever really listen to him? Did he ever do a mean thing? Was he ever himself associated with violence or any public disturbance. For if you did, you would know him, and if you knew him you would know why we must honor him.
Speaker 3:Malcolm was our manhood, our living black manhood. This was his meaning to his people, and in honoring him we honor the best in ourselves. However much we differed with him, him or with each other about him and his value as a man, let his going from us serve only to bring us together. Now, consigning these mortal remains to earth, the common mother of all, secure in the knowledge that what we place in the ground is no more now a man but a seed which, after the winter of discontent, will come forth again to meet us. And we shall know him then for what he was and is a prince, our own black, shining prince, who did not hesitate to die because he loved us so Anytime you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free.
Speaker 4:Freedom is something that you have to do for yourself. Just like the white man in America brought about freedom for himself by letting the people who oppressed him and colonized him know that he was willing to pay the price, and until the American Negro lets the white man know that we are really, really ready and willing to pay the price that is necessary for freedom, our people will always be walking around here, second-class citizens, or what you call 20th century slaves. What price are you talking about, sir? The price of freedom is death there, you have it.
Speaker 2:There you have it. Family, there you have it. We're gonna get ready to blow out of here. We're gonna blow out of here and um. Before we do that, we want, we want brother malcolm to know, we want him to know that us in the grassroots, who you talk to, we still going, we still going and we going to keep up the fight, we not going to stop and none of us afraid to die for that. We want you to know that, king, wherever you at, we want you to know that in the universe, and we got boots on the ground here and we this is where we stand and we standing on that Y'all go in peace and keep the peace and remember you must respect life, love, justice and cherish freedom.
Speaker 4:I got my boots on the ground. Yeah, oh, oh, oh, oh oh. I got my boots on the ground. On the ground when them fans at Get up out of your seat, let your body move. Cowboys and cowgirls they feeling the groove Sipping on moonshine Fire barrel rolling. I'ma get behind that thing, girl, and hold it, hold it, hold it, feeling the groove, sipping on moonshine Fire barrel rolling.
Speaker 5:I'ma get behind that thing, girl, and hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Got my booze on the ground. Yes, sir Lord, have mercy. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Got my booze on the ground. Fans, please, I hope you got good knees, cause we gonna giddy up. Everybody's dancing to that Juke. Hold on to your wig, hold on to your man, cause the step is in that building y'all and it's going to fans. Got my boots on the ground, cause the step was in that building y'all and it don't win the fans. Come on. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Got my boots on the ground. Boots on the ground, yeah. Where them fans at. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Got my boots on the ground. Baby Boots on the ground. Where them fans at. Boots on the ground, kicking up some dust. Boots on the ground, kicking up some dust Boots on the ground, kicking up some dust. Wait a minute now. Where them fans at. Where them fans at. Where them fans at.
Speaker 5:Hit me one time, hit me two times. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I got my boots on the ground. Yeah, yeah, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I got my boots on the ground. Yeah, yeah, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I got my boots on the ground. Wait a minute. Let me do that one more time for the ones who ain't hear me, listen here. Boots on the ground kicking up some dust. Boots on the ground kicking up some dust. Wait a minute now. Where them fans at, where them fans at. We'll be right back. Oh yeah, oh, I got my boots on the ground. Y'all know I don't mind. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Boots on the ground, where them fans at. Boots on the ground when them fans at. Where them fans at. Where them fans at. Oh oh, oh, oh, we'll be right back.
