“The time when white people can come in our community and get us to vote for them so that they can be our political leaders and tell us what to do and what not to do is long gone”
– Malcolm X | The Ballot or the Bullet
Tag: Race Relations
White Saviors: Fantasy Vs. Reality
True white saviors understand that the only way to rid this nation of the sickness of racism is to confront it directly in their own communities.
Timeless Teachings: Martin Luther King Jr. | Letter from Birmingham Jail
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial “outside agitator” idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.
Culture Vultures
“Everybody wanna be a nigga but nobody wanna be a nigga” – Paul Mooney
Timeless Teachings: Malcolm X Pt. III | Extremism Vs. Moderation
Oxford University Student Union in the United Kingdom – December 3, 1964
Timeless Teachings: Malcolm X Pt. II | The Ballot or the Bullet
“The government itself has failed us. And the white liberals who have been posing as our friends have failed us. And once we see that all of these other sources to which we’ve turned have failed, we stop turning to them and turn to ourselves. We need a self-help program, a do-it-yourself philosophy, a do-it-right-now philosophy, a it’s-already-too-late philosophy.”