○  malcolm x: message to the grass roots  ○

once they formed it, with 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 they're nothing but frank james and jesse james and the what-do-you-call-'em brothers.

[as] soon as they got the setup organized, the white man made available to them top public relations experts; opened the news media across the country at their disposal; and then they begin [sic] to project these big six as the leaders of the march. originally, they weren't even in the march. you was [sic ] talking this march talk on hastings street -- is hastings street still here? --  on hasting street. you was [sic] talking the march talk on lenox avenue, and out on -- what you call it? -- fillmore street, and central avenue, and 32nd street and 63rd street. that's where the march talk was being talked. but the white man put the big six [at the] head 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 reuther, 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; [the] same clique that put kennedy in power, joined the march on washington.

it's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. what you do? you integrate it with cream; 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 weak. it used to wake you up, now it'll put you to sleep. this is what they did with the march on washington. they joined it. they didn't i

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