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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who taught you to hate the color of your skin?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose? And the shape of your lips?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who taught you to hate your own kind?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who taught you to hate the race you belong to?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So much so that you don't want to be around each other.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Befor you come asking Mr. Muhammed, does he teach hate you should ask yourself who taught you to hate being what god made you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of us blacks, or negroes as they call us really thought we were free.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without being aware that in our subconscious all those change we thought we had ??? was still there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there were many ways where what really motivated us was our desire to be loved by the white man.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm meant to ??? that sense of inferiority.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He knew it would be painful. He knew that people would kill you because of it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he dared to take that risk.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was saying something over and above than of any other leader of that day,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While the other leaders were begging for entry into the house of their oppressor he was telling you to build your own house.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He expelled fear for african americans. He said: "I'll speak out loud what you've been thinking."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said: "You'll see. People will hear and they won't do anything to us necessarily. Okay.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But I will not speak it for the masses of people."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he said it in a very strong fashion. ???
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a fashion that said: "I am not afraid to say what you've been thinking all these years."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why we loved him. He said it out loud. Not behind closed doors.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He took on America for us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I, for one, as a muslim belief the white man is intelligent enough.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If he were made to realize how black people really feel and how fed up we are without all that compromising sweet-talk.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,??? you the one that makes it hard for himself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The white man beliefs you when you go to him with all that sweet talk, because you've been sweet talking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ever since he brought you here. Stop sweet talking.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tell him how you feel. Tell him how what kind of hell you been catching ??? and let him know that if he's not ready
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to clean his house up. He shouldn't have a house. It should catch ??? on fire and burn down.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On these harlem street corners, for most of the century, black people had celebrated their culture
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and argued the question of race in america.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was here that Malcolm first joined the street orders who gave voice to harlems hope and its anger.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I fought ???. And that means that I ?? this white man's country, because integration
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will never happen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'll never as long as you live integrate into the white man's system.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,125th Str. and 7th Ave. was the center of activity among the black street artists ??.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Malcolm arrived, technically he had no corner.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he established his base you might say in front of ??? bookstore.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Malcolm would ascend the little platform he couldn't talk for the first four or five minutes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The people would be making such a ??? shout to him. And he was standing, taking his due.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then he would open his mouth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They call Mr. Muhammed a hate teacher. Because he makes you hate dope and alcohol.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They call Mr. Muhammed a black surpremacist, because he teaches you and me not only that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are as good as the white man, but better than the white man.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are better than the white man.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's not saying anything. You don't ?? to be equal to him. Who is he to be equal with?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look as his skin. You can't compare your skin with his skin, while your skin looks like gold beside his skin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a time when we used to drool in the mouth over white people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We thought that they ??? and that we were ??? We were dumb.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We couldn't see them as they are.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since the honorable Elijah Muhammed has come and taught us the religion of islam ?? clean us up
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ?? so we can see for ourselves. Now we can see ?? pale things to look exactly as we look.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing but an old pale thing/face ??
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came away from that rally feeling that with him, once you heard him speak you never went back
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to where you were before. Even if you kept your position you had to re-think it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We weren't accustomed of being told that we were devils and that we were oppressors up here in our northern ???
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was speaking for a silent mass of black people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And saying it out front on the devils own airwaves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was an acto of war.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he came off the stage I jumped off the ???, walked up to him
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of course when I got to him the Bodyguards moved in front.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he just pushed them away and I went in front of him, extended my hand
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and said: "I like some of what you said. I didn't agree with all what you said, but
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I liked some of what you said."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He looked at me, held my hand in a very gentle fasion and said: "One day you will, siter". And he smiled.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To make his message clear, Malcolm used his own life as a lesson to all black americans.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He preched it in fables and parables. And later in writing his autobiography with Alex Haley,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he sought some control in how his life would be interpreted in the future.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would be rather ??? taken by a statement that he made of himself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He would say: "I am a part of all I admit." And by that he meant that all the things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he had done in his earlier life had exposed him to things, that taught him skills of ???
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...all of which had synthesized ??? into the Malcolm who became the spokesman for the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nation of Islam.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You were born in Omaha, is that right? - Yes sir.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And your family left Omaha when you were about one year old? ???
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I imagine about a year old.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why did they leave Omaha? - To my understanding the Ku Klux Klan burned down one of their homes in Omaha.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This made your family very unhappy I'm sure. - Well, insecure if not unhappy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you must have a somewhat prejudiced POV, a personally prejudiced POV.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You cannot look at this in a broad academic sort of way. - I think this ain't correct.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because despite the fact that that happened in Ohama and then when we moved to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lansing, Michigan our home was burned down again. My father was killed by the Ku Klux Klan.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And despite all of that no one was more thoroughly integrated with whites than I.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one had lived more so in the society with whites than I.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were the only black children in the neighbourhood.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the back of our property we had a wooded area.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the white kids would all come to our house and they'd go back and play in the woods.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Malcolm would say: "Let's go play Robin Hood." So we would go back there and play
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Robin Hood and Robin Hood was Malcolm.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these white kids ???.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm said he was the lightest skinned of the seven children born to Earl and Louis Little.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A reminder, he said, of the white man who had raped his mothers mother.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1929, when Malcolm was 4 years old his father, a carpenter and preacher moved the family
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Lansing Michigan.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lansing was a small town and the west side was the side of town the blacks lived on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm and his family lived outside of the city.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they had a four acre parcel with a small house on it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they were sort of considered as farmers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three months after the Littles moved in white neighbours took legal action to evict them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A county judge ruled that the farm property was restricted to whites only.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Earl Little refused to move.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here in Michigan, Klu Klux Klan Membership was at least 7.000.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five times more than in Mississippi.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For Malcolms family white hostility was a fact of life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody was asleep in our house and all of a sudden we heard a big boom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when we woke up fire was everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And everybody was running into the walls and into each other, you know?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I recall about that was my mother telling us: "Get up, get up, get up! The house is on fire! Get out!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what I actually recall.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could hear my mother yelling, I could hear my father yelling.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so they made sure they got us all rounded up and got us out.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The house burned down to the ground. No fire wagon came. Nothing. We were burned out.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolms father Earl Little accused local whites of setting the fire. The police accuse Earl and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,arrested him on suspicion on arson. The charges were later dropped.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the city where we grew up whites would refer to us as "Those uppity Niggers" or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Those smart Niggers who live outside of town."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In those days whenever a white person refered to you as a "Smart Nigger" that was their way
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of saying a "Nigger you have to watch" because he's not dumb.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father was independent. He didn't want anybody to feed him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wanted to raise his own food. He didn't want anybody to exercise authority over his children.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wanted to exercise the authority and he did.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was always speaking in terms of Marcus Garvey's way of thinking and trying to get black
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people to organize themselves. Not to cause any trouble but just to work in unity with each other
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,toward improving their conditions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in those days if you did that you were still considered a trouble maker.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the 1920's Marcus Garvey, a black nationalist preached that black americans should build