Fools Again... Ballot or the Bullet - Malcolm X (4/12/1964)

                                             The Ballot or The Bullet by Malcolm X 1964

"We see America through the eyes of a victim of Americanism."
"We haven't experienced the American dream, only the American nightmare."

Can it be possible that Blacks in America have been running in place for almost 60 years? I fear we have trusted and continue to trust in a lie, failing to hear the lessons of our Grandparents, Great Grandparents, and their slave parents, because we are too busy trying to believe in an American dream for which we did not realize does not include us. For almost 60 years, we have lived the Miseducation, and the integration of our communities. The theory on the talented 10th, has worked only in theory and only for the talented tenth. Meanwhile, during the best of times for Upper and Middle Class Blacks, we have also seen the largest expansion of the poorest Blacks in America. In 2016, Blacks suffer from the same ills, and are in an even more dire state by sheer number in every city and ghetto in the US. The Black National progress and movement has been hijacked by White liberals, Black cowards and Middle Class Black Intergrationists, who have sold the lot of the black communities to the highest bidder, for a job, house, and a car. This speech by Brother Malcolm X Shabazz, (may his Soul revisit us in our time of need) interprets the state of the Africans in America and the issues we face together. Beginning in the mid 1950s and 1960s, the US Government sanctioned illicit mind altering drugs in Black communities across America.60 years later, the War on Drugs has revealed a sinister scheme of profiteering, prison-industrialism, and CIA covert operations. To  uncover Black Nationalism is not a sin, but a philosophy rejected and denied by the true rulers of the American "White Capitalist Patriarchy Supreme" Government, to Blacks as a viable option of development. Join me, as I politically mature to understand that Blacks should establish and run their own political, educational, economic, and social systems, and reject those who attempt to assimilate, manipulate, or pull the wool over our eyes. 60 years later after this speech, I see we are caught sleeping with the enemy, allowing our communities to once again be run by liberal sympathetic White Democrats (or Republicans) and their Black puppets. Our schools and businesses have been overrun, and we have lost massive wealth in the United States. Stop, look around, study, plan, organize, and go into action. 

-Mr. Cowan Amaye-Obu 2016