○  malcolm x: the ballot or the bullet  ○

e one nation -- one vote, everyone has an equal vote. and when those brothers from asia, and africa and the darker parts of this earth get together, their voting power is sufficient to hold sam in check. or russia in check. or some other section of the earth in check. so, the ballot is most important.

right now, in this country, if you and i, 22 million african-americans -- that's what we are -- africans who are in america. you're nothing but africans. nothing but africans. in fact, you'd get farther calling yourself african instead of negro. africans don't catch hell. you're the only one catching hell. they don't have to pass civil-rights bills for africans. an african can go anywhere he wants right now. all you've got to do is tie your head up. that's right, go anywhere you want. just stop being a negro. change your name to hoogagagooba. that'll show you how silly the white man is. you're dealing with a silly man. a friend of mine who's very dark put a turban on his head and went into a restaurant in atlanta before they called themselves desegregated. he went into a white restaurant, he sat down, they served him, and he said, "what would happen if a negro came in here? and there he's sitting, black as night, but because he had his head wrapped up the waitress looked back at him and says, "why, there wouldn't no nigger dare come in here."

so, you're dealing with a man whose bias and prejudice are making him lose his mind, his intelligence, every day. he's frightened. he looks around and sees what's taking place on this earth, and he sees that the pendulum of time is swinging in your direction. the dark people are waking up. they're losing their fear of the white man. no place where he's fighting right now is he winning. everywhere he's fighting, he's fighting someone your and my complexion. and they're beating him. he can't win any more. he's won his last battle. he failed to win the korean war. he couldn't win it. he had to sign a truce. that's a loss.

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