○  malcolm x: the ballot or the bullet  ○

on school boycotts; i don't believe in any kind of integration; i'm not even worried about it, because i know you're not going to get it anyway; you're not going to get it because you're afraid to die; you've got to be ready to die if you try and force yourself on the white man, because he'll get just as violent as those crackers in mississippi, right here in cleveland. but we will still work with you on the school boycotts be cause we're against a segregated school system. a segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, graduate with crippled minds. but this does not mean that a school is segregated because it's all black. a segregated school means a school that is controlled by people who have no real interest in it whatsoever.

let me explain what i mean. a segregated district or community is a community in which people live, but outsiders control the politics and the economy of that community. they never refer to the white section as a segregated community. it's the all-negro section that's a segregated community. why? the white man controls his own school, his own bank, his own economy, his own politics, his own everything, his own community; but he also controls yours. when you're under someone else's control, you're segregated. they'll always give you the lowest or the worst that there is to offer, but it doesn't mean you're segregated just because you have your own. you've got to control your own. just like the white man has control of his, you need to control yours.

you know the  best way to get rid of segregation? the white man is more afraid of separation than he is of integration. segregation means that he puts you away from him, but not far enough for you to be out of his jurisdiction; separation means you're gone. and the white man will integrate faster than he'll let you separate. so we will work with you against the segregated school system because it's criminal, because it is absolutely destructive, in every way

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