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A review by jakeyjake
The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches By Malcolm X by Benjamin Karim, Malcolm X
4.0
Very interesting. Listened on audible Aug 5.2019. well-narrated. Probably better than reading with eyes for this one.
First speech is from 1962. Entitled "Black Man's History." Very intriguing speech that starts with the premise that the difference between African Americans and white people is that African Americans don't know their history. He talks about black being the original color of humans and proposes that Islam is much, much older than all other religions. Spends a lot of time on Islam history and dunks on the Jews for a while.
The most interesting part of this speech to me is his telling of a sort of theological creation and world history in which the Jacob of the old testament is a trickster who six thousand years ago was able to trick the Islamic leaders into giving him his own group of people who were prophecied to take over for a duration of six thousand years before being brought down again. Jacob's people, he says (note: he repeatedly ascribes all of these teachings to "the honorable Elijah Muhammad") were/are the white people. I thought this was fascinating. I think it is in this speech that he talks about how white people (especially white women) love dogs, while Black people don't, and uses this as an example of white people's devil nature. I don't believe this particular account of history, but I find it no less likely than many other religious believers' ideas and, regardless of its historical veracity, very intriguing as a sort of parable/metaphor/or just plain story.
In the second speech, he speaks on the need for African Americans to not integrate or segregate, but separate. That African Americans should be given a space, either back in Africa or at least a 1/7 of the more fertile, mineral rights US land and a 20 year financing to get started.
The question and answer section is really interesting bc he gets asked some pretty pointed questions. He's very charismatic and smart.
In one of the later speeches he lays out how the big six civil rights leaders are just white liberal’s puppets. And also how the March on Washington was controlled by shrewd politicians to be completely compliant (even that white liberals joined in the march and kept it from going to Pentagon and other buildings where they would've caused more problems on the streets). I wonder how much of what he talks about here is still true today. And as a white liberals myself, am I just the same?
First speech is from 1962. Entitled "Black Man's History." Very intriguing speech that starts with the premise that the difference between African Americans and white people is that African Americans don't know their history. He talks about black being the original color of humans and proposes that Islam is much, much older than all other religions. Spends a lot of time on Islam history and dunks on the Jews for a while.
The most interesting part of this speech to me is his telling of a sort of theological creation and world history in which the Jacob of the old testament is a trickster who six thousand years ago was able to trick the Islamic leaders into giving him his own group of people who were prophecied to take over for a duration of six thousand years before being brought down again. Jacob's people, he says (note: he repeatedly ascribes all of these teachings to "the honorable Elijah Muhammad") were/are the white people. I thought this was fascinating. I think it is in this speech that he talks about how white people (especially white women) love dogs, while Black people don't, and uses this as an example of white people's devil nature. I don't believe this particular account of history, but I find it no less likely than many other religious believers' ideas and, regardless of its historical veracity, very intriguing as a sort of parable/metaphor/or just plain story.
In the second speech, he speaks on the need for African Americans to not integrate or segregate, but separate. That African Americans should be given a space, either back in Africa or at least a 1/7 of the more fertile, mineral rights US land and a 20 year financing to get started.
The question and answer section is really interesting bc he gets asked some pretty pointed questions. He's very charismatic and smart.
In one of the later speeches he lays out how the big six civil rights leaders are just white liberal’s puppets. And also how the March on Washington was controlled by shrewd politicians to be completely compliant (even that white liberals joined in the march and kept it from going to Pentagon and other buildings where they would've caused more problems on the streets). I wonder how much of what he talks about here is still true today. And as a white liberals myself, am I just the same?