Malcolm X: Blacks are used as a Political Football

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in this crooked game of power politics

here in america

the negro namely the race problem

integration civil rights issue

are all nothing but tools used by the

whites

who call themselves liberals against

another group of whites

who call themselves conservatives either

to get into power

or to retain power among whites here in

america

the political teams are no longer

divided into democrats

and republicans the whites who are now

struggling for control of the american

political throne are divided into

liberal

and conservative camps the white

liberals from both parties

cross party lines to work together

toward the same goal

and white conservatives from both

parties do likewise

the white liberal differs from the white

conservative only in one way

the liberal is more deceitful more

hypocritical

than the conservative both want power

but the white liberal is the one who has

perfected the art

of posing as the negro's friend and

benefactor

and by winning the friendship in support

of the negro

the white liberal is able to use the

negro as a pawn or

weapon in this political football game

that is constantly raging between the

white liberals and the white

conservatives

the american negro is nothing but a

political football

and the white liberals control this ball

through tricks

or tokenism false promises of

integration

and civil rights in this game of

deceiving and using the american negro

the white liberals have complete

cooperation

of the negro civil rights leader who

sell our people out

for a few crumbs of token recognition

token games

token progress

in the new york tribune in an editorial

dated february the 5th 1960

they pointed out that out of 11 million

qualified negro voters

only two million seven hundred thousand

actually

take time to vote this means that

roughly speaking

only 3 million out of the 11 million

negroes who are qualified to vote

take an active part and the remaining

8 million remain voluntarily

inactive and yet it is this small

minority the three million

negro voters who help determine who will

be the next president

if who will be the next president can be

influenced by three million negro voters

it is easy to see why the presidential

candidates of both political parties

put on such a false show with the civil

rights bill

and promises of integration they must

impress

the three million voting negroes who are

the actual

integration seekers and if so much fuss

is made over these three million

integration seekers what would the

presidential candidates have to do to

appease the eight million

non-voting negroes if they ever decided

to become

politically active they hold the balance

of power

who are the eight million non-voting

negroes

what do they want and why don't they

vote

the three million negro voters

are the so-called middle-class

negroes or high-class negroes

or uppity negroes who are referred to

by the late howard university sociology

professor

e franklin fraser as the black

bourgeoisie

who have been educated to think as

patriotic

individualists with no racial pride

whatsoever

who believe in and look forward to the

future integrated intermarried

society that is constantly being

promised to them

by the negro politician and therefore

this integration minded three million

minority

remain an active part of the white

controlled

political parties but it must never be

overlooked

that these three million negro

integration seekers

are only a small minority

of the 11 million qualified negro voters

the 8 million non-voting negroes are the

majority

the downtrodden black masses they have

refused to vote

they've refused to take a part in

politics

because they reject the uncle time

approach

of the clergy politician leadership that

has been handpicked for the

for the so-called negroes by the white

man himself

this clergy politician leadership

does not speak for the negro majority

they don't speak for the black masses

they speak for the black bourgeoisie

the brainwashed white-minded

middle-class minority

who because they are ashamed of their

race

because they are ashamed of being black

and don't want to be identified with

black

they are seeking to lose this black

identity

by mixing and mingling and intermarrying

and integrating

with the white society

the race problem cannot be solved by

listening to the white-minded

brainwashed minority

the white man must try to learn what the

black majority want

the president would be wise to try and

learn what the black masses want

if the three million middle class

negroes are casting their ballots for

integration and into marriage

what do the non-voting black masses who

are in the majority want

find out what the black masses want and

then

perhaps america's grave race problem can

be solved