○  malcolm x: the ballot or the bullet  ○

-rights filibustering in washington, d.c., right now. they don't have to pass civil-rights legislation to make a polack an american.

no, i'm not an american. i'm one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of americanism. one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. so, i'm not standing here speaking to you as an american, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver -- no, not i. i'm speaking as a victim of this american system. and i see america through the eyes of the victim. i don't see any american dream; i see an american nightmare.

these 22 million victims are waking up. their eyes are coming open. they're beginning to see what they used to only look at. they're becoming politically mature. they are realizing that there are new political trends from coast to coast. as they see these new political trends, it's possible for them to see that every time there's an election the races are so close that they have to have a recount. they had to recount in massachusetts to see who was going to be governor, it was so close. it was the same way in rhode island, in minnesota, and in many other parts of the country. and the same with kennedy and nixon when they ran for president. it was so close they had to count all over again. well, what does this mean? it means that when white people are evenly divided, and black people have a bloc of votes of their own, it is left up to them to determine who's going to sit in the white house and who's going to be in the dog house.

lt. was the black man's vote that put the present administration in

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