○  malcolm x: message to the grass roots  ○

the house negroes - they lived in the house with master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good 'cause they ate his food -- what he left. they lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near the master; and they loved their master more than the master loved himself. they would give their life to save the master's house quicker than the master would. the house negro, if the master said, "we got a good house here," the house negro would say, "yeah, we got a good house here." whenever the master said "we," he said "we." that's how you can tell a house negro.

if the master's house caught on fire, the house negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would. if the master got sick, the house negro would say, "what's the matter, boss, we sick?" we sick! he identified himself with his master more than his master identified with himself. and if you came to the house negro and said, "let's run away, let's escape, let's separate," the house negro would look at you and say, "man, you crazy. what you mean, separate? where is there a better house than this? where can i wear better clothes than this? where can i eat better food than this?" that was that house negro. in those days he was called a "house nigger." and that's what we call him today, because we've still got some house niggers running around here.

this modern house negro loves his master. he wants to live near him. he'll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near his master, and then brag about "i'm the only negro out here." "i'm the only one on my job." "i'm the only one in this school." you're nothing but a house negro. and if someone comes to you right now and says, "let's separate," you say the same thing that the house negro said on the plantation. "what you mean, separate? from america? this good white man? where you going to get a better job than you get here?" i mean, this is what you say. "i ain't left nothing in africa," that's what you say. wh

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