Your browser does not support the audio element. We are all black people!” – Malcolm X “Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. You don’t disappear. He had those people so scared they had to kill him. Why, this man can find a missing person in China. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.”. Everyone was there and despite their differences, they were able to sit down and form what was known as the Organization of African Unity, which has formed a coalition and is working in conjunction with each other to fight a common enemy. And what pleases us won’t always please them. It’s hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Our culture and our history are as old as man himself and yet we know almost nothing about it.”. Big shots who are respected, who function in high circles those are the ones who control these things. In fact, the President is from a cracker state. So this is our first objective and all we need is your support. A small donation would help us keep this accessible to all. The following number of signatures are required to place a candidate to vote in the primaries: for assemblyman it must be 350 signatures; state senator, 750; countywide judgeship, 1,000; borough president, 2,250; mayor, 7,500. In the eleventh assembly district, only 29,000 out of 90,000 eligible voters exercise their voting rights. And I must point out right there, when I was in Africa I met no African who wasn’t standing with open arms to embrace any Afro-American who returned to the African continent. The purpose of our organization is to start right here in Harlem, which has the largest concentration of people of African descent that exists anywhere on this earth. You’ll agree that you can’t run a number in your neighborhood without the police knowing it. But they can’t find them whenever the criminal is white and the victim is black, then they can’t find them. “The Board of Education’s integration plan is expensive and unworkable; and the organization of principals and supervisors in New York City’s school system has refused to support the Board’s plan to integrate the schools, thus dooming it to failure before it even starts.”The Board of Education of this city has said that even with its plan there are 10 percent of the schools in Harlem and the Bedford Stuyvesant community in Brooklyn that they cannot improve.” So what are we to do? As many of you know, last March when it was announced that I was no longer in the Black Muslim movement, it was pointed out that it was my intention to work among the 22 million non-Muslim Afro-Americans and to try and form some type of organization, or create a situation where the young people – our young people, the students and others – could study the problems of our people for a period of time and then come up with a new analysis and give us some new ideas and some new suggestions as to how to approach a problem that too many other people have been playing around with for too long. The task or duty of the cultural department will be to do research into the culture, into the ancient and current culture of our people, the cultural contributions and achievements of our people. And in Harlem you have everything else in that apartment with you roaches, rats, cats, dogs, and some other outsiders disguised as landlords. where the black man has been free to create. Johnson knew that when he sent [Allen] Dulles down there. They act a little different, but they’ve got the same kind of ideas, because they’re catching the same hell we’re catching. History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.” When you have no knowledge of your history, you’re just another animal; in fact, you’re a Negro; something that’s nothing. The Afro-American veteran must be made aware of all the benefits due to him and the procedure for obtaining them.”. Malcolm X: Visits Abroad: April 1964 – February 1965. They were suffering all forms of colonization, oppression, exploitation, degradation, humiliation, discrimination, and every other kind of -ation. It’s not morally equipped to solve it. We won’t organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. The Afro-American schools are the poorest run schools in the city of New York. I do everything I can to avoid that because there’s no benefit in it. We must teach them that their greatest responsibilities are to themselves, to their families and to their communities. And when these schools in our neighborhood are controlled by Afro Americans, we will then return our children to them. “And we must provide constructive activities for our own children. Get The Editor's Picks Newsletter From Our Editor's! By the time he was gunned down, Malcolm X - who was at one time seen as a public face of the Nation of Islam but then left the movement - had moderated his … And that we would have some kind of meeting and determine at a later date whether to form a black nationalist party or a black nationalist army. You become somebody. No organization that is financed by white support can ever be independent enough to fight the power structure with the type of tactics necessary to get real results. Malcolm resumes.]. The man that controls the drug traffic sits in city hall or he sits in the state house. The Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) was a Pan-Africanist organization founded by Malcolm X in the Hotel Theresa in Harlem, NY, in 1964. “If these proposals are not met, we will ask Afro-American parents to keep their children out of the present inferior schools they attend. Figure 2. "Malcolm X: The Man and His Times" edited by John Henrik Clarke, published by Africa World Press (p. 304), 1990. We also are going to have our own newspaper. ADVERTISEMENT. When you tell this black man in America who he is, where he came from, what he had when he was there, he’ll look around and ask himself, “Well, what happened to it, who took it away from us and how did they do it?” Why, brothers, you’ll have some action just like that. They’ve passed a law that gives them the right to knock down your door without even knocking on it. “Through these steps we will make the 10 percent of the schools that we take over educational showplaces that will attract the attention of people from ail over the nation.” Instead of them being schools turning out pupils whose academic diet is not complete, we can turn them into examples of what we can do ourselves once given an opportunity. Negroes can’t bring drugs into this country. And we’ll be able to announce at that time the officers of the Organization of Afro-American Unity. So, it does not come as a big surprise that a brother set Malcolm X up to die just as Malcolm released plans for the Organization of Afro-American Unity. I’ve seen it happen. You have some leaders that are considered Uncle Toms, some leaders who are considered very militant. They can help in the white community, but they can’t join. We’re going to try and follow his books. The department of political action. “The Organization of Afro American Unity will wage an unrelenting struggle against these evils in our community. It’s beyond the ability of the United States government to solve it. Those who formed the organization of African states have differences. In essence it only means we want one thing. He can come up with a philosophy that nobody has heard of yet. Where this police brutality also comes in the new law that they just passed, the no knock law, the stop and-frisk law, that’s an anti Negro law. When I was in Ghana I was speaking with, I think his name is Nana Nketsia, I think he’s the minister of culture or he’s head of the culture institute. We can never have peace and security as long as one black man in this country is being bitten by a police dog. Because you would be surprised how many of them. They send the FBI anywhere and find somebody. For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the … Malcolm X: Because 1964 threatens to be an explosive year on the racial front, I have called this press conference this morning in order to clarify my position in that struggle. “We must recapture our heritage and our identity if we are ever to liberate ourselves from the bonds of white supremacy. Be nonviolent only with those who are nonviolent to you. He campaigned in Europe, Middle East and Africa against the scourge. I can prove it. He describes Malcom X up front and in person with the power and influence Brother Malcom had in Harlem, New York in the 1960’s. If you have a dog, I must have a dog. We must launch a cultural revolution to unbrainwash an entire people.” A cultural revolution. They represent probably every segment, every type of thinking. It’s the only area on the American scene I know you don’t like what I’m saying, but I’m going to tell you anyway, because I can prove what I’m saying. This is our aim. have expressed sympathy and support in our efforts to bring this situation confronting our people before the United Nations. We just hope that you stay with us. We don’t have to ask the man downtown what tactics we can use to demonstrate our resentment against his criminal abuse. In jail, the library became his sanctuary where he read vigorously, … For all of you who are interested in political action, we will have a department set up by brothers and sisters who are students of political science, whose function it will be to give us a breakdown of the community of New York City. But most of them are. Malcolm X - By Any Means Necessary - Organization for Afro American Unity - YouTube. Afro-Americans will be free to create only when they can depend on the Afro-American community for support, and Afro-American artists must realize that they depend on the Afro-American community for inspiration.”. “The Organization of Afro-American Unity will organize the Afro American community block by block to make the community aware of its power and its potential; we will start immediately a voter registration drive to make every unregistered voter in the Afro-American community an independent voter.”. A newspaper is not a difficult thing to run. He asked our people for help. Malcolm X: Press Conference on Black Nationalism and the Advent of Muslim Mosque, Inc. And they don’t. So to get right with it, I would like to read you the “Basic Aims and Objectives of the Organization of Afro American Unity;” started here in New York, June, 1964. And the only thing this law is designed to do is make legal what they’ve been doing all the time. We’ll get every black man in this city; the Organization of Afro-American Unity won’t stop until there’s not a black man in the city not on strike. If they don’t want you and me to get violent, then stop the racists from being violent. The whole city will come to a halt. While in Ghana in May, he decided to form the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). [A short passage is lost here as the tape is turned.]. “This cultural revolution will be the journey to our rediscovery of ourselves. And as Americans, we will not give up a single right guaranteed under the Constitution. We will do it or it will never get done. This was a group which would include the religious and secular segments in the Black community and … Malcolm X, along with John Henrik Clarke, wrote the following into the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) Basic Unity Program: Restoration: “In order to release ourselves from the oppression of our enslavers then, it is absolutely necessary for the Afro-American to restore communication with Africa.”, Reorientation: “We can learn much about Africa by reading informative books and by listening to the experiences of those who have traveled there.”, Education: “The Organization of Afro-American Unity will devise original educational methods and procedures which will liberate the minds of our children. Knock it down and come on in and bust your head and frame you up under the disguise that they suspect you of something. The OAAU pushed for black control of every aspect of the black community. Included are video, audio and text files … And one of the things I learned is they only charge, I think, $2.50 a year for membership, and that’s it. For any of you who are interested in business or a program that will bring about a situation where the black man in Harlem can gain control over his own economy and develop business expansion for our people in this community so we can create some employment opportunities for our people in this community, we will have this department. But as long as they’re looking for white support instead of black support, they’ve got to act like the old white supporter wants them to. “Afro Americans must unite and work together. The government itself isn’t capable of even hearing our problem, much less solving it. So we must take it out of the hands of the United States government. Boston, South End, 1994. There are 100 senators in the United States Senate. On July 17, 1964, Malcolm X was welcomed to the second meeting of the Organisation of African Unity in Cairo as a representative of the OAAU. As I told you before, if it’s a boy I’m going to name him Lumumba, the greatest black man who ever walked the African continent. It costs us more to live in Harlem than it costs them to live on Park Avenue. “Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. In the New York state assembly, there are 150 assemblymen. It’s a system of exploitation, a political and economic system of exploitation, of outright humiliation, degradation, discrimination – all of the negative things that you can run into, you have run into under this system that disguises itself as a democracy, disguises itself as a democracy. On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem as he spoke to members of his new Organization of Afro-American Unity. So we have formed an organization known as the Organization of Afro American Unity which has the same aim and objective – to fight whoever gets in our way, to bring about the complete independence of people of African descent here in the Western Hemisphere, and first here in the United States, and bring about the freedom of these people by any means necessary. Malcolm X saw the OAAU as a way of “un-brainwashing” black people, ridding them of the lies they had been told about themselves and their culture. Those days are over, they’re gone, that’s yesterday. The more cops we have, the more crime we have. We don’t care how tough it is. Shop The World You’ve never seen a nonviolent cracker. “We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians. People registered with the Republican or Democratic parties do not have to vote with their party. So, if it’s a boy, Lumumba. Salaam Alaikum. We believe in the power of the press. We begin to think that they bring some of the crime with them. Thank you. As long as the black artist has to sing and dance to please the white man, he’ll be a clown, he’ll be clowning, just another clown. Malcolm X, Martin Luther King press conference, March 26, 1964. This is what Lumumba said: “You aren’t giving us anything. Not too much difference. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. Each assembly district contains 90,000 eligible voters. We must take pride in the Afro American community, for it is our home and it is our power,” the base of our power. He improvises, he creates, it comes from within. And tonight we are here to try and get an understanding of what it is they’ve come up with. “We must work toward the establishment of a cultural center in Harlem, which will include people of all ages and will conduct workshops in all of the arts, such as film, creative writing, painting, theater, music, and the entire spectrum of Afro American history. We hope that we will be able to give you all the action you need. “I might say right here that instead of the various black groups declaring war on each other, showing how militant they can be cracking each other’s heads, let them go down South and crack some of those crackers’ heads. You’re just a little tool that is used by the man downtown. It is not you who is responsible for bringing in drugs. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Drug addiction turns your little sister into a prostitute before she gets into her teens; makes a criminal out of your little brother before he gets in his teens drug addiction and alcoholism. English Essay Malcolm X is one of the many who fought alongside for the rights of the black communities with justice and order.Malcolm was also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, he was soon converted to Islam after being released from prison for false charges of robbery. And you and I will never strike at the root of it until we strike at the man downtown. This is our first point of business. “Since self preservation is the first law of nature, we assert the Afro American’s right to self defense. We will have a department that will train young men and young women how to go forth with our philosophy and our program and project it throughout the country; not only throughout this city but throughout the country. This event is a prominent recollection because it became the basis for … You’d be surprised how many of them, some of the last ones you would expect, they’re coming around. Malcolm X: You had one right here in Detroit, I saw it on television, with clowns leading it, white clowns and black clowns. The parent at home has just as much responsibility to see that what’s going on in that school is up to par as the teacher in their schools. We accept their help. But Malcolm did find it hypocritical to demand that black people in the United States commit to non-violence when they were perpetually on the receiving end of state violence. Anytime we know that an unjust condition exists and it is illegal and unjust, we will strike at it by any means necessary. This is absolutely necessary. If the United States government doesn’t want you and me to get rifles, then take the rifles away from those racists. Many of them are qualified to receive aid in all forms, but they don’t even know it. Wherever you have organized crime, that type of crime cannot exist other than with the consent of the police, the knowledge of the police and the cooperation of the police. Well, likewise he can do the same thing if given intellectual independence. January 14, 2016 . I’m telling you we do it because we live in one of the rottenest countries that has ever existed on this earth. And they’ve got more power than any white man in the North has. Never let them be brainwashed into thinking that whenever they take steps to see that they’re in a position to defend themselves that they’re being unlawful. Also, our economics department. If he’s heard it, then he can duplicate it or he can imitate it or he can read it But that black musician, he picks up his horn and starts blowing some sounds that he never thought of before. We want equality by any means necessary. Your grandfather was some of the greatest black people who walked on this earth. We must establish a technician bank. You have to pay them off. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.” And to quote a passage from Then We Heard the Thunder by John Killens, it says: “He was a dedicated patriot: Dignity was his country, Manhood was his gov¬ernment, and Freedom was his land. But we’re not trying to put something together that’s smooth. And. Malcolm X: When we realize that Adam Clayton Powell is a Christian minister, he heads Abyssinian Baptist Church. Last week I told you that it would cost a dollar to join it. Economically you’re dead- dead broke. And he his mastered it. In 2015, we Black folks paid a heavy price for our resolute refusal to organize a national unity … On March 8, he left the Nation of Islam. What’s he talking about? We will also have a cultural department. Advisory Board We will have an accountant, a bookkeeping system, which will keep the members up to date as to what has come in, what has been spent, and for what. I didn’t find any hostility at that convention at all. It costs you and me more to live in America than it does anybody else and yet we make the greatest contribution. The only way we can fight the power structure, and it’s the power structure that we’re fighting we’re not even fighting the Southern segregationists, we’re fighting a system that is run in Washington, D. C. That’s the seat of the system that we’re fighting. And I’ve never gone past the eighth grade. Founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the organization was founded to put an end to police brutality in black neighborhoods. Why, what kind of a fool do you look like, living in a country that will go to war at the drop of a hat to defend itself, and here you’ve got to stand up in the face of vicious police dogs and blue eyed crackers waiting for somebody to tell you what to do to defend yourself! And I found the people very friendly. Since these bad police have come to Harlem and have not decreased the high rate of crime, I tell you brothers and sisters it is time for you and me to organize and eliminate these evils ourselves, or we’ll be out of the world backwards before we even know where the world was. This is the thing you need to spread the word about among our people wherever you go.
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