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CONTROVERSIAL “MALCOLM X” AFTER HIS SPIRITUAL
REJUVENATION? HIS TRIP TO “MECCA” GAVE HIM A NEW
BIRTH AND A DEEPER CONCEPTION OF TRADITIONAL
ORTHODOX ISLAMISM.
Malcolm’s last years were important not only in terms of a new
birth, but because it was a major transformation for both Black
and white perspectives. It was certainly this former con man and
pimp’s tragedy, and also his many contributions that will stand
for Black awareness at a time when integregation was the mood
and hope of Black America.
Now, since he and his song have faded, Malcolm X can be
analyzed for what he basicly was, - neither politician, nor
revolutionary, nor smart talker, nor dogmatist, but prophet.
Every major group in the world tried to woo Malcolm.
Integrationists, Nationalists, Marxists, Trotskyists, Maoists,
Nkrumists, Garveyites, Muslims and many others vied for his
favor. The truth was as Malcolm himslef kept on saying, “that he
didn’t know where he belonged or where he was going, except to
be flexible.”
He thought of himself as a teacher, a minister, a Muslim, an
African, an internationalist, and in the most general terms, a
revolutionary; and before any of these things just simply Black.
Civil Rights organizations from the Urban League to CORE, and
Adam Clayton Powell all chased this elusive rebel. The Muslim
leader’s life-style was vague and improvisational, and his rhetoric
in speech was subject to change from speech to speech, also he
could not be nailed down in interviews on radio and television
panels.
Malcolm X was always searching for his ideological bearing. He
would tell friends that he rides with the wind, changing his mind
and even his point of view as circumstances changed around him.
Where are you headed, he was often asked? “I have no idea”, he
told a group of new York writers. “I’m for freedom for the near
30 million Afro-Americans, I am also for a society in which my
people are given recognition and respect as total human beings.”
He paused for a moment and added slowly: “Isn’t anything
wrong with that, is it?”
Malcolm came home from Africa in late 1964, tired and weary.
He arrived home to find his organization in disarray, its programs
had failed, and the cash was so short that some weeks they had to
borrow money to pay for a meeting hall. This condition forced
Malcolm to hurry off on an extensive speaking tour he was in no
physical condition to go on, but he wanted to save his
organization.
He lived in a climate of flight, his enemies were close on his
heels. His buring desire was to internationalize his politics that
flowed between Pan-Africanism and a wider identification with
the “Third World”, from Cuba to Vietnam, against the white
West. This restless Black man not only wanted to let his
ideological friends help bring international law down upon
America, but the entire African Continent.
MALCOLM X HAD SOFTEN CONSIDERABLY SINCE HIS
TRIP TO MECCA-His brotherliness had begun to show in the last
few months, his compassion was the composite small concessions,
painfully and haltingly yeilded. He would consider limited
alliances with whites, so long as they knew their place.
He accepted the willingness to die as a credential, though he
thought whites would go on dominating. He even modified his
stand on interracial marriages, a position for him as difficult as
any Southern segregationist. He finally made this statement in
public: “ Interracial marriage is just one human being marrying
another human being, nothing more.” These were earth-shaking
changes, considering his dogmatic past.
Some of his followers said he was opting out on his Black
revolutionary friends. He met white Muslims in Mecca, and Black
revolutionaries in Africa, had met a few white Americans that he
really liked, and had even found and enjoyed a capacity for
relaxing with. Those few white friends who seemed to be able to
relax with him were welcomed whole heartedly.
In Malcolm’s last days, he was attempting to codify his vast
experience into a “new politics”, it was visible, that the cold and
pragmatic man of destiny, was indeed thawing out just enough to
satisfy his delicate sensibility and justify his idea of leadership, I
which meant in America arm-length friendship with the right kind
of whites. I
It is often said that because of his friend James Farmer, the
former director of CORE, who had the finest white wife in all the
world, mellowed Malcolm away from his obdurate stand on
interracial marriages. What he never retreated from was his first
premise, that white American society was deeply and perhaps
irretrievably racist. That our past and present had so poisoned all
of us, both Black and white, that we could not even look at one
another independently of color and all that it meant between us.
Mecca remained one thing for him, America another. When he
got back into this Amercian society, he said he was not in a
society that practices brotherhood.
“AMERICA IS A SOCIETY THAT PREACHES
/< BROTHERHOOD ON SUNDAY, BUT IT DOESN’T PRACTICE
IT NO DAY.”
He had a hard time selling even his modified co-existence
philosophy to his beloved Harlem, which was the audience that
really counted with him. The vague brotherhood that he spoke of
among liberal, and radical whites took on a “we-know-better edge
of cynicism in the Black communities.
Uptown, where it really counted, white people were still the
,<• “Man”, the snake, the enemy. Uptown, Malcolm had to apologize
for his talk of disclaiming of racism. “I’m not blanketly
condemning ail whites”, he made this statement at the Audubon
Ballroom rally in the heart of Harlem.” All of them don t
oppress. All of them aren’t in a position to. But most of them are,
and most of them do.” Malcolm was reaping the whirl-wind of
wild rhetoric of ghetto politics; he had created himself as a leader
by attacking whites, and he could not quit just like that.
Malcolm made one trip to the Southland, he joined Dr. Martin
Luther Kind in Selma, and made one speech; he had to rush off
to keep some commitments in England and France. He didn’t
believe in street marching any way. He never was able to come
South again; some people from the Mississippi Freedom
Democratic Party booked him for some speeches, two weeks after
die Selma trip, but he had to postpone going at the last minute
and did not live to keep the new date. Malcolm’s victories, as it
happened, had to wait until history caught up with him. He lived
during the romantic flowering of the Civil Rights movement and
to die before it spent itself.
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AUGUSTA GETS ANOTHER NATIONAL T.V. BOOST
VIA EMERSON BOOZER
A few days ago Emerson Boozer, Augusta’s great backfield star
of the New York JETS football team, gave his hometown,
Augusta, Ga. and some of his former teachers a wonderful boost
on national NBC television.
May I share two items from the Daily Defender:
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
There is an inseparable link between jobs and transportation
for the average person who does not own an automobile. A job
becomes a contradiction to the worker who has it cut can’t get to
it. And the Black worker, who is at the lowest rung of the
economic ladder, who is at a painful disadvantage.
The working class depends on some form of public conveyance
to gain access to their work. Any suspension of that kind of
public service not only places in jeopardy the future of the
common man, but plays havoc with the nation’s economy. For,
unemployment ties up Uncle Sam’s money in ways that do not
yield adequate returns.
This matter resolves itself into a three-part disaster: no
transportation, no work, no money. These are social conditions
that produce only one alternative in the minds of the wretched
poor - crime. It is the decent ones among them who would rather
be on relief than in police lineups.
By making it easy for people to get to their jobs, those who
administer urban centers and within whose powers lie the
authority to provide an adequate public transportation system,
help to shrink the crime market or reduce its dimension. The
public must not remain apathetic and silent on this important
issue. The people, the taxpayers must demand a good
transportation system.
Other cities in other states have transit problems too, but they
have managed to cope with them without the threat of a
complete or partial breakdown. Let’s hope our city too can solve
its transportation difficulties.
BLACKS COMING TOGETHER
The Third Annual Fund-Raising Dinner of the Congressional
Black Caucus in Washington last Saturday evening was a
heart-warming display of new sophistication in politics by Blacks.
Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, the lone Black
Republican in the Senate, was the main speaker. It was significant
not only because the 16 Black members in the House are all
Democrats, but it was a coming together which rises above
partisanship to unite on issues of common concern to the nation’s
largest minority group.
Senator Brooke is an able and attractive politician. He has great
personal charm. It is not mere fancy to predict that he could
become either a replacement for Vice president Spiro Angew if he
is forced out of office or a candidate for the second spot on the
GOP presidential ticket. His future looks very bright.
The Congressional Black Caucus has grown in stature since its
inception. We concur with the estimate of Rep. Charles Rangel of
New York, a member of the group. He thinks it is the most
cohesive political body in Washington. Says he, “There isn’t a hell
of a lot we can do with the conservative Nixon Administration.
But 1 can definitely say that we have been able to successfully
hold the line in the gains made by Blacks.”
The dinner’s proceeds will be used to underwrite the research
activities and programs of the caucus’ staff which has as its
objective the utilization of the legislative process to bring about
full equality in American society. It is that strategy which saved
the office of Equal Opportunity from instantaneous death.
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' LETTERS TO
Dear Editor:
The Southern Regional
Council and the National
Committee Against
Discrimination in Housing,
Inc., are pleased to annouce
that speakers for the October
15-16 Southereastem Regional
Housing Conference in Atlanta
will include:
-Julian Bond, Georgia
House of Representatives
-Howard Lee, Mayor,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
-Samuel J. Simmons,
President, National Center for
Housing Management
-William R. Morris, National
Director, Housing Programs,
NAACP
We urge you and your
readers to come and share your
experience and understanding
with men and women from
throughout the Southeast who
are involved, as you are, in the
daily struggle for equal access
to housing.
Representative Bond, whose
topic will be “The New Urban
South”, will be the luncheon
speaker on Monday.
Panelists will share with you
their considerable experience
and participate in free-flowing
question and answer sessions
that will delve into every
aspect of current metro
housing activities and the
future for organizations
concerned with open housing
and open communities.
The program is designed to
include analyses of legal and
administrative remedies and to
help us all become better
equipped to assist Southerners
in their quest for equal housing
opportunities.
The Conference will be held
at the Sheraton-Biltmore in
Atlanta, on October 15-16,
1973.
For further information call:
(404) 522-8764.
Sincerely yours,
George H. Esser, Jr.
Executive Director
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HOUSING CRISIS DEEPENS
The Administration’s long-awaited housing program has finally
been unveiled and while it contains some constructive elements it
falls far short of the kind of comprehensive building and subsidy
package that would finally lick this country’s ever-deepening
housing crisis.
On the same day that it was annouced, the Commerce
Department reported that new housing starts fell again in August,
as they have almost without a break since the start of the year. At
the very least, this nation has to build two million new homes
each year just to keep a bit ahead of a serious housing shortage. It
is now doubtful whether as many as 1.5 million new homes will
be built this year.
Part of the reason for this is the credit crunch. Interest rates
have sky-rocketed putting a damper on housing construction and
pricing housing beyond the reach of most people. The
Administration proposes to deal with this by extending a tax
credit to lending institutions, primarily savings and loan
associations, as a reward for investing in the housing market.
This may ease the credit crunch but it doesn’t do anything to
bring housing money into Black neighborhoods or into many
central city areas. The Urban League’s study of S&L’s in Bronx
County, New York showed a persistent policy of disinvesting in
areas where Black and other minorities are residents. Elsewhere in
the country too, there seems to be a pattern of pulling in deposits
from ghetto areas and investing them elsewhere. It seems to me
that along with further incentives to such institutions must go
stricter regualtion.
The Administration offers other suggestions aimed at
increasing access to tight money by builders and developers but
offers little new in the way of housing the millions who have been
priced out of the market by spiraling costs, inflation and
discrimination.
It seems to be leaning in the direction of a housing allowance -
a rent subsidy that would allow poor people to rent houses or
apartments at the market rentals with the federal government
picking up the tab.
As the President recognized in his message, this is an idea that
needs a lot more testing than has been done to date. So he
proposes the plan for the elderly, with its expansion to
low-income faimilies later, perhaps not until 1975. This means, in
effect, that housing for poor and moderate income families will be
placed in limbo for at least two years and maybe more. What are
people supposed to do in the meantime: live in the parks?
TTie problems connected with housing allowances are serious
ones. Unless a housing allowance program has a strong counseling
element built into it, a lot of people are going to be cheated and
the government will lose millions. Previous housing sudsidy
programs floundered on this very point as unscrupulous people
took advantage of house-hungry buyers and left the government
with unpaid mortgages running into the hundreds of millions of
dollars.
Any housing allowance plan must also be accompanied by rigid
code enforcement or face the probability of exploitation by
slumlords. We’ve had enough experience with welfare
departments paying exorbitant rentals to landlords running
slumholes to know the dangers.
And without a 1 permanent high rate of building, a housing
allowance scheme may just drive the market level of rentals up,
leaving everyone in a worse condition. This is not to say the
allowances won’t work; they very well might work and further
tests may show us how to overcome these problems.
But the basic flaw in the housing message is that it does
nothing to overcome the critical housing shortage facing
moderate income families and doesn’t even promise anything to
relieve their plight beyond an “iffy” proposal that may start two
years from now.
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1 Ella's Beauty Salon Kwlckie Food Store No. 38
1104 Ninth St Golden Camp & Gipson Rd.
5 Leßa's House of Fine Millinery Greenway Curb Market
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Hill's Food Store 104 Capital St
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, Sarah's Place 839 East Boundary
1702 BroadSt Van's Package Shop
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226 Sixth St The Corner Store
Tommie's Market 336 Sand Bar Ferry Rd
202 Telfair St Kentucky Fried Chicken
Strickland Grocery 425 East Boundary
422’/a Third St Clean-Rite Cleaners
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220 Walker Grocery Culpepper Supermarket
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1708 15th St Kimberly Grocery
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1019 Gwinnett St Hephzibah Pharmacy
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1398 Gwinnett St Aiken Drugs
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Quality Record Shop Hwy No. 1- Wrens, GA
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Jim's Supermarket Bowman's Grocery Store
2056 Milledgeville Rd. Cherrykee St - Thompson GA
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Nu-U-Hopkins Wigs & Beauty Salon Connor's Grocery
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