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li nd pro rty of your 22 million
African-Americ broth nd i ters. e tend de-
fen I , t the mer y of American r ci who murder
u t will for no re n oth r than e ar I d of
African d nt.
Two Bl ck bodi were found in Missi ippi River this
w ; I t w k n unarmed African-American educator
w murdered in cold blood in Georgia; a few day before
that thr civil rights wor ers di appeared completely,
perhap murdered also, only because they ere teaching
our people in Mi i ippi how to vote and how to secure
their political rights.
OUR 0 L your problem . We have
lived for over 300 years in that American den of racist
wolv in constant fear of losing life and limb. Recently,
T 22 LLIO of us w re originally
Africans, who ar now in America not by choice but only
by a ru I accid nt in our history, w strongly It v
that African probl m ar our prob1 ms and our proh
lems ar Afri an pr blems.
Your Ex ellencies:
We also li ve th t as h ads of the ind pend nt
African sta you are the shepherd of II African peoples
everywh r , wh her they are still at home on the
mother con in nt or h ve n sc ttered abroad.
om frican I ad r his conf r n e h av implied
that they hav enough probl rns her on th mother
contin n with u adding h Afro-American problem.
With lldu r p t to your est medp itions,Imust
remind all of you that the good sh pherd will I ave
ninety-nin sh ep, wh� ar safe at home, to go to th aid
of the on who is 1 t and has fallen into th clutch of
the imp rialist wolf.
We, in Am ric ,ar your long lost brothers and sis
ters. and I am h r only to rind you that our pro lem
are your pr 1 ms. th African-Am ri n "awaken"
today, w find our lve in a strange· land that has
rej ted u, nd like th prodigal son, we ar turning to
our elder bro hers for help. We pray our pl as will not
fall upon d f ar .
from this
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MALCOLM X
three students from Kenya were brutally beaten by New
York police. Shortly after that, two diplomats from
Uganda were. also beaten by the New York City police,
who mistook them for American Negroes.
If Africans are brutally beaten only while visiting in
Am rica, imagine the physical and p ychological suffer
ing r eived by your bro h rs and is r who have lived
th re for over 300 y ar .
Our problem is your problem. 0 m tter how much
independence Africans g t h re on th mother continent,
unle you wear your, nati nal dr at all tim ,when
you vi itArnerica, you m y mi aken f r oneof us and
suffer the same p ychological humiliati n and physical
mutil tion that is our hves,
Your probl m will n v r fully b sol until and
unl ss ours ar solved. You will n v r fully respected
until we are also r d. ou will n v r r ogniz
fr hum an ings until and unl re also ree g-
niz d and tr at fr human in .
ur probl m is yourproblem. I i no egro prob-
I m, nor an American probl m. It is not problem of
civil rights bu a pro I m of human rights.
T T A uprem ourt Justice,
Authur Goldberg, ,a f w w ks ago, could find legal
grounds to thr at n to bring Russia before the United
ations and charg h r with violatingth human rigbts
of I that thr million Russian Jews, what rna our
Afric broth r h ita bring the United States gov-
rnment fore th ni a ions and charge her with
viol ing the hum n rights of 22 million African-Ameri
c n .
W pray that our frican broth rs have not freed
h m lv s of Euro an olonialism only to be overcome
and held in ch k n w by Am rican dollarism. on'r 1
American racism "1 g lized" by American dollarism.
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