What is your attitude toward this philosophy? A hundred years ago they used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan by teaching them to love their enemies or pray for those who use them despitefully, today Martin Luther King is just a twentieth-century or modern Uncle Tom or religious Uncle Tom, who is doing the same thing today to keep Negroes defenseless in the face of attack that Uncle Tom did on the plantation to keep those Negroes defenseless in the face of the attack of the Klan in that day.
Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years. MALCOLM X: The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God now is about to establish a kingdom on this earth based upon brotherhood and peace, and the white man is against brotherhood and the white man is against peace.
His history on this earth has proved that. Nowhere in history has he been brotherly toward anyone. The only time he is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he will oppress you, when you will submit to him, and since his own history makes him unqualified to be an inhabitant or citizen in the kingdom of brotherhood, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God is about to eliminate that particular race from this earth.
We are not going to integrate with that which we know has come to the end of its rope. We are trying to separate from it and get with something that is more lasting, and we think that God is more lasting than the white man.
Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with the Pharaoh, and we look upon these other organizations that are trying to get Negroes to integrate with this doomed white man as nothing but modern-day magicians, and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is a modern-day Moses trying to separate us from the modern-day Pharaoh.
Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D. Are you willing to complete the analogy and say the American white establishment will come to a bitter end, perhaps be destroyed?
But since we are on record I will—as they sometimes say in Harlem—make it plain. Now, sir, God is going to punish this wicked devil for his misdeeds toward black people. Just as plagues were visited on Pharaoh so will pestilences and disasters be visited on the white man.
Why, it has already started: God has begun to send them heat when they expect cold; he sends them cold when they expect heat.
Their crops are dying, their children are being born with all kinds of deformities, the rivers and lakes are coming out of the belly of the earth to wash them away. Not only that, but God has started slapping their planes down from the sky. Last year [] God brought down one of their planes loaded with crackers whose fathers had lynched your and my brothers and sisters.
They were from your state, Lomax, down there in Georgia where both you and Mr. Muhammad come from. Now, long before that plane crash I predicted [in Los Angeles] that God was going to strike back at the devil for the way white cops brutalized our brothers in Los Angeles. I said much the same thing when that submarine—the Thresher —went down to the bottom of the sea. Now for this I was called—names some of these Uncle Tom Negroes rushed into print to condemn me for what I had said.
But what was wrong with what I said? Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies! That is not what I meant at all. Rather I meant that the death of Kennedy was the result of a long line of violent acts, the culmination of hate and suspicion and doubt in this country.
The assassination of Kennedy is a result of that way of life and thinking. America—at the death of the President—just reaped what it had been sowing. LOMAX: But you were disciplined for making these remarks; The Honorable Elijah Muhammad has publicly rebuked you and has ordered you not to speak in public until further notice. I was wrong; the Messenger had warned me not to say anything about the death of the President, and I omitted any reference to that tragedy in my main speech.
But during a question-and-answer period someone asked about the meaning of the Kennedy assassination, and I said it was a case of chickens coming home to roost. The radio is still there, but it makes no sound. You can cut it back on when it pleases you. Now, you talk about separation from the white man.
Am I correct in that? You spend much of your life getting on and off aircraft. I know that I will not die until my time comes. But if I am aboard one of these vessels I will be happy to give my life to see some of these white devils die. What do you think will be the results of the current demonstration against segregation? MALCOLM X: Lomax, as you know, these Negro leaders have been telling the white man everything is all right, everything is under control, and they have been telling the white man that Mr.
But every thing that Mr. Muhammad has been saying is going to come to pass, is now coming to pass. Now the Negro leaders are standing up saying that we are about to have a racial explosion. Just like King is asking Kennedy to go to Alabama to stand in a doorway—to put his body in a doorway. The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in this country.
The President has power. The only time he sent troops into Birmingham was when the Negroes erupted, and then the President sent the troops in there, not to protect the Negroes, but to protect them white people down there from those erupting Negroes. All of this hypocrisy that has been practiced by the so-called white so-called liberal for the past four hundred years that compounds the problem, makes it more complicated, instead of eliminating the problem.
MALCOLM X: Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed. Muhammad and me is a lie. How could there be any difference between The Messenger and me? I am his slave, his servant, his son. He is the leader, the only spokesman for the Black Muslims.
But I will tell you this: The Messenger has seen God. He was with Allah and was given divine patience with the devil.
He is willing to wait for Allah to deal with this devil. The younger Black Muslims want to see some action. After long and prayerful consideration, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad allowed us to announce the possibility of Muslims voting. Muhammad is the only one who can explain that fully.
However, I can say that we may register and be ready to vote. Then we will seek out candidates who represent our interests and support them.
They need not be Muslims; what we want are race men who will speak out for our people. We have had enough of Negroes running against and fighting with each other. The better bet is that we would put a Muslim candidate in the field against a devil, somebody who is against all we stand for. Muhammad can answer that. But let me tell you something: Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions.
This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true. The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed. The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white devil was crawling around the caves of Europe on his all fours.
Before the white devil came into our lives we had a civilization, we had a culture, we were living in silks and satins. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us—and who knows, it might make God decide to give the white devil a few more years. Lomax, Louis E. Cold War America. Sinews of Peace Iron Curtain. Inaugural Address. Gideon v. Declaration of Honorary Citizen of United States o Speech on the Challenger Disaster.
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Speech on the North Atlantic Treaty. Speech Explaining the Communist Threat. Whenever and wherever Negroes have pressed their case there has been compliance with the Civil Rights Act. A loosely organized interracial council arrived at reasonable, step-by-step goals.
I think the major preventive act took place when the white power structure yielded to demands for Negro policemen. My town has not made ugly national and international headlines, because the white power structure, led by three key men, took a long look at the turmoil that confronted so many places in the South and decided it would not happen in Valdosta.
Lomax wrote of the late Comer Cherry and his efforts on the bi-racial commission. He is representative of the new thinking among white Valdostans. Once the Negro can earn a respectable pay check, most of the agitation will die down. If you want to see the entire article we have the magazine at the museum.
The Atlanta Airport Layover and Dr. Martin Luther King. I came home to Georgia by jet. The flight from New York to Atlanta was uneventful, but as the plane taxied toward the terminal, I felt slightly uneasy. Georgia had just gone for Goldwater; Georgia was still Georgia. Walking along the corridor to the main lobby, I heard cracker twangs all about me; these, in my childhood, were the sound of the enemy, so that even now I react when I hear them, and I immediately suspect any white man who has a Southern drawl.
Yet I could see no signs telling me where I should eat, drink, or go to the rest room. The white passengers seemed totally unconcerned with me. I could see a change in their eyes, on their faces, in the way they let me alone to be me. I was on my way to the southern Airlines counter to confirm my reservation to Valdosta. Suddenly I saw a brown arm waving at me from a phone booth. There in the booth, was Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin and I stood in the lobby and tried to talk, but to no avail.
We were continuously interrupted by white people who rushed over to shake his hand and pat him on the back. I could hardly believe that I was in Atlanta, that these were white people with twangs, and that they were saying what they were saying.
They were an incredible lot: a group of soldiers, five sailors, three marines, a score of civilians including the brother of the present Governor of Georgia, and three Negro girls. My flight home was several hours away, and I had made a reservation at a motel near the airport. A few seconds later, I saw the white bus driver, and I knew I had reached a moment of confrontation. It seemed an eternity as I glanced up and down, from the white driver to my baggage: I remembered all those years I had spent serving white people as a bellhop, a shoeshine boy, and a waiter.
He picked up my bags and put them in the bus. This is what the Republic has done to me and twenty million like me—I never felt so equal in all my life when I saw that white man stoop down and pick up my bags.
The motel people were the same. They acted as if there had never been such a thing as segregation and I ate and drank where I pleased.
Lomax, who raised him, were both long time pastors of the church. Tribal middle-class pride was running high. Just the Sunday before, Calvin King, one of my younger childhood schoolmates who went on to get his doctorate in mathematics, had been the guest preacher. Uncle James had listened with pride as Calvin told of his travels in the Holy Land, of his work in helping launch a new university in Nigeria. I told the congregation about my experiences in Africa, behind the Iron Curtain, and in American cities where racial troubles had erupted.
White Christianity, I said, had become synonymous with white oppression all over the world, and the black Christians were about all Jesus had left. We were the only ones who could now go about preaching the words of Jesus without being suspected of questionable motives. Uncle James issued the invitation for the unchurched to come up and join. But that was not the hour for sinners. Rather, I think, it was a time for the believers to reassess what they were in for. Lomax Searched for King Case Facts.
His stories about his search were published by the North American Newspaper Alliance chain. This newspaper chain, with papers affiliated is small communities through the northern and eastern U. The Alliance also became involved in the Martin Luther King case and it circulated the syndicated column by the black writer and reporter, Louis Lomax, who had taken an interest in finding out what really happened in the King assassination.
They were trying to find the telephone booth from which Ray had called a friend named Raoul in New Orleans somewhere along the route. Raoul, according to Ray, was the man who actually fired the shot that killed King. Lomax wrote a series of articles depicting Raoul as the killer and Ray as the patsy.
He sent them to the Alliance, a column each day, from the places along the retraced trip he and Stein took. The series which was nationally televised in July as a five-part series on Newsbeat, presented by Wallace and Lomax was the first time many white people had ever seen or heard of the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X and it was the first time a Black man appeared on television to report the news. Lomax became a nationally recognized journalist. He hosted the Louis E. Lomax Show on KTTV of Los Angeles from to , interviewing guests and holding debates on controversial topics of the time with a keen interest in achieving racial justice.
Beyond, being a journalist, Lomax was also an activist, writing novels and teaching at various universities and challenging standards of racial inequality until his death in He died aged 47 in a car crash in New Mexico leaving behind an unfinished three-volume novel chronicling the history of African-Americans.
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