p
Briefs
m e
orp' Ire t
an Ie h r holder nd ive
it a portion of the $l.S bil­
lion in c pit I it need
r i e. The prince, ho quiet­
ly bou ht 4.9 percent of
Citicorp' common to t
the clo c of 1990, could
eventu lIy own mu h
14.9 percent of the comp ny
if he convert th ne
preferred uoc to c mmon
toe , ccordi ng to the
Yor Time .. The Time al o.
reported that W Iced h
promiscu not to try to J
control ot the company.
b n r cl tin
n ,uit ch rg
A federal appe I court
p nel ha reinst ted law-
uit gainst Domino' Pizza,
ci ting B skin di order that
prevent. many Black men
from worki ng for the
nation's largest pizza­
delivery busine .The
court has ordered judge in
Omaha, cb raska, where
the lawsuu originated. to
determine the busmc ss
validity for the Domino ban
on beards. An African
American driver for
Dorni no suffer from pscu­
dofoll icul i ti barb c. or
PFB. a skin di 'order affhct­
ing Blacks that prevents
shaving. PFB sufferers can­
not shave wi thout getting
scars and infecti_ons. One
judge greed that "PFB ef­
fectively excludes almost
2S percent of the potential
BI ck male work force from
employment with
Domino' and the white
," I r : )
)W"'� \ �t c,.· �Q I
imilBrJy cxc uded."
,,'
U.S.off r too little,
too late with lead
'poi on plan
The Bush
'administration's fivc year
plan 10 attack lead poi on­
ing is "too Ii rue, too late"
according to testimony
during congressional hear­
ings last week. The plan
calls for HUD to develop
screening programs for
chitdre n, to te t ways to
clean lead paint from older
homes for the Environmen­
tal Protection Agency to rig­
ten regulations on lead
. released into the envir�n­
men.t. Estimates are that up
to 17% of U.S. children
under age six may have
levels of lead in their blood
high enough to cause men­
tal, neurological and other
phy ical problems .. Experts
say it would cost up to $974 .
million in five years to rid
. the countrY"'of lead. The
Bush plan se ts aside $41
million. providing "lip ser- .
vice" to lead eradication.
children's advocates claim.
Ron Dant I to run
for pr Ident
Columnist. activist and
former Je e Jackson deputy
campaign manager, Ron
Daniel.s, has tepped up his
campaign for president of
the United States. During a
February 21 trip to Detroit,
Daniels said hi plan in­
cludes the organization of a
third, independent party to
push the progressive agenda
including: univer al health
care, American reinvc ·t­
ment effort. moratori um on
prison con'truction and af­
firmative action. Daniels
wants to "create a new
political truclure ... that
will eriou ly raise issues
that our constituency repre­
sents." .Daniel is trying to
raise $5,000 in each of 20
state in order to qualify for
federal matching funds.
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Q for purpose of a ystem that w bent
• •• upon in M profit. So thi is the c tegory
Inl ory : � or level of which I peak. I may, not peak it
Tbe remark t t follow were made t the in the language many of you would use, but
Unive ity of G in Le on t. meetin I thi you will understand the meaning of
sponSORd by the Marxi Forum. The oris- my lenn .
inal title of the w '1be Plilht 0 22 When I w in lbadan (in Nigeri ) at the
Million Afro-Americ n in the U ii . Unive ity of I Fri night. the
State ." Tbe . udience, which filled the -.,. there ve me a '. hich I
university's G at Hall. a' the , es that JO for - meaning I like it. (Laught,r) "Om-
Malcolm X IIddressed in Africa. . I 0 Ie," which they y means in Yorub -
• The tal w pan of a -Ion tour in if I am pronouncing th t correctly, and if I am
Ghana that was organized by the Malcolm not pronouncing it correctly it's because I 'Re torin African image'
X Commitlee, made up of Afro-Amcrkans haven't had a chance to pronounce it for four Pre ident Nkrumah i doing something
livin in thiat country. Durin h' visit, Mal- hundred years (Lauglrttrj - which mean in there that the government in America doe
colm X met with Ghanaian presidenl K wame thal dialect, "Tbe child has returned." It w not like to see done, and that is he's restoring
Nkrurnah and poke with of an honor for me to be referred to a child the African image. He i making the African
lcoc fifteen countrie of Afria. Asia. and who had sense enough to return to the land proud of the African . mage; and whenever
. . ���==="l; to hi f therland and to the' African become of �e Ali . can
� t sent here by' thet' • ;rn this positive Image i projected
De .... 1JDenI, fLouRhttr) but come back abro d then the Bl ck man in America. who
will. lAPP/OilS,) up to now has had nothing but a negative
- image of Africa-automatically the image
'Here to tell the truth' that the Black man in America h of hi
I am happy and I imagine, since it is the African brothers change from negative to
policy that whenever a Black.man leaves po itive, and the image that the Black man
America and travels in any part of Afnca, or in America has of himself will also change
• Asia. or Latin America 'and say things con- from negative to positive.
. trary to what the American propaganda rna- And the American racists know that they
I intend for my talk to be very informal, chine turns out, usually he finds upon his can rule the African in America, the African-
because our position in America is an infor- return home that his passport i lifted} Well. American in America. only as long as we
mal position. lLaughttrl nd I find that it i if they had not wanted me to say the thing have a negative image of ourselves. So they
very d�fficult to use. �onnaI terms �� describe Iam say ina, they should never h ve given keep u with a negative image of Africa. And
a very mfonnal POSition. Notondisaonofany. mc a P',ssport in the first place. The policy they also know �t the day that the image
people on earth i more ��Ic than ' .. usuall)'. is.the lifting of the passport. of Africa is changed from negative to po ,.
condition. or plight, of the twenty-two million Now I am not here to condemn America. tive, automatically the attitude 0 twenty-two
Black people in America. And our'condition I am not here to make America look bad, but million Africans in America will also change
i so deplorable because we are in a country I am here to tell you the truth about the from negative to po itive,
that professes to be a ;dCmocncy and pm- situation that Black people in America find And one of the mo t important effort to
fe to be striving to pve justice and free- themselves confronted with. And if truth change the image of the African i being
dom � equality to everyone who i born condemns Americ , then she rands con- made right here in Ghana. And the Ghanaian
under its constitution. If we were born in . demned. (A ails,] personality can be picked right out of any
South Africa or in Angola or some J*fOf' 11li. . most beaut1ful contine.nt that group of Africans anywhere on thi planet,
eanh where they don't pro� . to be for free- I've ever seen; it's the richest continent I've because you ee nothing in him that reflect·
dem,2 th would be another thinl: but when ever seen, and strange as it may seem, I find any kind of feeling of inferiority or anything
we are born in a COURtly that stands up and many white Americans here smiling in the of that sort. And a long as you have a
represents itself me leader of the Free . faces of our African brothers like they have pre idcnt who teaches you that you can do
World, and you still have to beg and crawl been lovinl them all of the time. [lAughter anything that anybody else under the sun can
just to get a chance to drink a cup of eoffee, and applaN_] 1be fact is, these same white do, you got a good man. (App/ause] .
then the condition i� very deplorable indeed. who in America sPit in our faces, the same Not only that, we who live in America
So tonight. so that you will understand me whites who in America club u' brutally, the have learned to mea ure Black men: the
and why I . pe as I do. it should probably same whites who in America ic their dogs object we use mea ure him is the attitude
be pointed out at the outset thai I am not a upon us, just because we want to be free of America toward him. When we find a
politician. I don't know anythinl about pol- human beings, the same whites who tum Black man who's always receiving the prai e
itic . I'm from America but I'm not an Amer- their water hoses upon our wotnen and our of the American , we become u piciou of
ican. I didn't go there of my own free choice. . babies because we want to integrate with him.' When we find a Black man who re-
(Applause) If I were an American there them. are over here in Africa smiling in your ceives honor and all kind of plaque. and
would be no problem, there'd be no need for face trying to integrate with you. [lAughter] beautiful phra es and words from America,
legislation or civil rilhts or anythin else.' I had to write l letter back. hQme yesterda we immediately begin to uspect that pe.rson.
So I just try to face the fact it actually is and tell some of my friends that if American 8ecau e it ha been our experience that
and come to this rneetinguone o(thevicti Ncgroc want integration. they should come the American don't praise any Black man
of America. one of the victims of American- to Africa, because more white people over who is really working for the benefit of th
. ism. one of the victim of democracy. one of here - white Americans. that is - look like Black man. because they realize that when
the victim� of a very hypocritical system thaI they re for integration than there is in the you begin to work in eame t to do things that
is oing all over this today.epiuendn entire American country. [La". hter) But ac- are good for the people on the African con-
itself being qualifaed to lell other people tually what it is. they want to integrate with tinent. all the good you do for people on the
how to run their country when they can't act the wealth that they know· i here - the African continent ha got to be against me-
the dirty thinls that are JOin, on in their own untapped natural resource which exceed the one el e, becau e meone else up to now
country straiah ned out lApp/ailS'] . wealth of any continent on this earth today. has benefited from the labor and the wealth
When I was coming from Lagos to Accra of the people on thi continent.
Sunday. I was riding on an airpla� with a So our yardstick in measuring the e vari-
white man who repre ented some of the ou leaders i to find out what the American
interest , you know, that are interested in think aboutthem. And these leaders over here
Africa. And he admitted - at least it was hi who are receiving the prai and pa on the
impression - that our peop� in Africa back from the American • you can ju t flu h
di . 0 measure wealth. that they the toilet and let them go right down th
worship wealth in term of gold and ilver. drain. (Laughter]
not in lenns of the natural re, ource that are
in the earth. and that a. long as the American
or ()(her imperialists or lwentieth-century co­
loniali t could continue to make the Afri­
cans measure wealth in tenn of gold and
silver, they never would have an opportunity
to really measure the value of the wealth that
is in the soil, and would continue to think
that it is tlley who need the 'Yestem powers
instead of thinking that it is dte We em
powen who need the people and the conti­
nent that is known as Africa. The thing i , I
hope I don't mess up anybody' politic or
anybody'. plots or pi or schemes, but then
I think that it can be well proved and backed
up.
Ghan i one of the m t progre ive
nations on the African continent primarily
bee u it h one of the most progre ive
leaders and most progre ive pre idents. (Ap­
plouse) The pre ident of this nation h do
something that no American, no white Amer­
ican, wants to see � -well, I hould ay
"no American" becau all the American
over there are white Americans.
'An America ftl htmare'
So if someone else from America comes
to you to speak, they're probably peaking'
Americ� and they speak as people who
see America throulh the eyes 0( an Ameri­
can.l\nd usually those types of persons refer
to America, or that which exists in America.
the American Dream. But for the �ty
million of us in America who are of AfriQn
deacent, it is not an American dream; it's an
Amcric:an niahtmare. (La."hI�r)
I don', feel that I am a vi iter in Ghana or
io any put of AfricL I feel that I am horne.
I've been away for four hundred yean,
[Loughttr] but not of my own volition, not
of my own will. Our people didn't 10 to
America on the Quttn Mary, we didn't '0
by Pan American, and we didn't ao to Arner­
ic on the Mayj1oM'tr.
We went in slave hips, we went in chain '.
We weren't immi.ran to America. we were
'Pretend to have free pre '
Thi president here i di liked. Don't thin
that it' ju t th American pre .. it' the
government. In America when you find a
�oncened effon of the pres to alway peak
m a bad way about an African leader. u ually
that pre s i actually reflecting govemme t
opinion. But Americ i a very hrewd gov­
ernment. If it now' that it own govem­
tal po ition will cause a negative reacti9n
from the people that it wants to continue to
exploit, it will pretend to have free pre s
and t the . time sic that free pre s on a
9
Am rica. po
America is a colonial power. She' •
much a colonial power in 1964· PrInce,
Britain, Ponupl,andall 1heseocherEurqaD
countrie were in 1864. She'satwc"'· �ceD
tury colonial power. she's a modem colonial
power, and she has colonized'twenty-two
million African-Americans. While ate
only eleven million Africans coIonizrd in
South Africa, four or five million c:oIoIUed
in Angola. there are twenty-two million AI­
rieanscolonized inAmericari noworiMay
13, 1964. What is second citizenship if
nothing but twenlielh-cenbD'y colonialism?
They don't want you to bIO*that slavery IIiII
exists, so rather than call it slavery they call
it second-class citizenship.
Either you are a citizen or you are not a
citizen at all. If you are a citizeQ. you ate
free; if you ale not • citizen, you are a llave.
�ihe' •
adrill �t he nCV jav
Black man in America and wen'tcven
that the Black man in America is nor he. is
not acitizen, and doesn't have his ri . She
killfully camouflages it under these pretty
terms of second-class citizenship. It's colo­
niali m, neocolonialism, imperialism ..•
jlnaudible] (Loughltr)
One of our brothers just landed here today
from New York. He told me that when he left .
New York, the police were walkina in Harlem
ix abreast. Wby? �IUIe HarIenJ is �
to explode. You know what hnean by "Har­
lem"? Harlem is the IDOIt famoua city on this
earth; there is no city on the African conbnenI
with as many Africans as Harlem.
In Harlem they call it little Africa, and
when you walk through Harlem, you're in
Ibadan, everyone there looks just like you.
And today the police were out in force,
with their clubs. They don't have police
dogs in Harlem, 'cause.these kind ofpeo­
pie who live in Harlem don't allow police
dogs to come in Harlem. [Lau,hter] That's
the point, they don't allow police.dolS to
come in Harlem .... [/1Uludib/�]
'Liberty or death'
They 8re troubie(t with the existence of
little gangs-who have been SOl", around
killing people, killing white people." WeD
now, they project it abroad as an anfiwhi
, gang. No, it's not an antiwhite gang, it·s an
antioppress;on gang. It's an anti/rwtralion
gang. They don't know what else to do.
They've been waiting for the government to
solve their problems; they've been Waitin,
for the president to solve their problema;
they've been waiting for the Sen te and the
Congress and the Supreme Coon to solve
their problems; they've been' wainnl for
Negro leaders to solve their problems; and
all they hear are a lot,of pretty words. So
they become frusttatcd and don't know whir
to do. So they do the only thin they know .
how: they do the same thing the Americana
did when they ot frustrated wi the British
in I n6 - liberty or death.
This is what the·Arne . did; they didn't
tum the other cheek to the British. No. they
had an old man named Pabick Henry who
said, "Liberty or death!" never heard them
refer to him as an advocate of violence; they
say he's one of the Founding Fathers, becluse
he had sense to say. "Liberty or death!"
And there is a growing tendency amona
Black Americans today, who are ble to
that they don 't �ve freedom - they are
. reaching the point now where they are ready
to tell the Man no matter what the odd are
against them, no matter what the COlt is, it's
liberty or death. If thi i the Jand of the free,
then give u some freedom. Ifthia· the J.nd
of ju tice, then give us some justice. And if
thi i the land of equality, 've us some
equality. .
Am 1 just' led in talking like thi ? Let me
see. I wa in Cleveland, Ohio, j two
months ago when thi white clergyman w
killed by the bulldozer.5
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