○  malcolm x: message to the grass roots  ○

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 knot on the wall, saying, "i'm going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me." no, you need a revolution. whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as reverend cleage 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. 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 nationalism. you don't think so? why [do] you think khrushchev and mao can't get their heads together? white nationalism. all the revolutions that's going on in asia and 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 cleage, 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. 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 [the] young brother here referred to as the house negro and the field negro -- back during slavery. there was two kinds of slaves. there was the house negro and the field negro.

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