The End of White World Supremacy by Malcolm X

Author:Malcolm X
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781628728668
Publisher: Arcade
Published: 2020-01-21T16:00:00+00:00

The Old Negro and the New Negro

In 1963, with Malcolm X already a national figure and the Muslim cause for which he was the most articulate spokesman clearly gaining ground among the black masses of America, The Saturday Evening Post published an article entitled “Merchants of Hate.” It was nothing very new for Malcolm or the Muslims. Four years before there had been a major television program aired about the Muslims called “The Hate That Hate Produced,” and during the intervening years the “hate” image had been promulgated by virtually all the major newspapers and magazines of the country. One of the most frequently asked questions that Malcolm had to confront in those days was: “Mr. Malcolm X, why do you teach black supremacy, and hate?” That question, or its many variants, Malcolm relates, was like a red flag being waved in front of him. But he learned to field it with characteristic wit, such as the example he cites in his autobiography: “For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, ‘Do you hate me?’ The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate!”

It is to this article, “Merchants of Hate” that Malcolm refers several times in the following speech-interview.

MALCOLM X: With regard to The Saturday Evening Post article, it’s just about what you would expect from a nationally circulated magazine that is writing about a group of black people not under the influence or control of the white man. To me the magazine article was, by and large, a great deal of propaganda. The very fact that it is named “Merchants of Hate” gives a clue to the purpose or objective that the people who were responsible for the article had in mind. I think that the white man has a great deal of nerve to refer to any black people as merchants of hate in the face of the hell that black people have caught in this country at the hands of the white man, even at a time when the whites are admitting that they have brutalized black people for four hundred years. They kidnapped us and brought us here; they deprived us of our rights; they made us slaves; they sold our people from one plantation to another, from one auction block to another. And even right now, 1963, they have to confess they are still depriving the black people here in America, not only of civil rights but even of human rights. And behind all of this mistreatment and abuse that whites have inflicted upon the black people in this country, again I say, I think that a white man in a magazine published by white people has a whole lot of nerve charging black people with teaching some kind of hate about them. If black people in this country behind the deeds they have experienced at the hands of the

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