Malcolm's
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Malcolm X, unlike MLK Jr., didn’t think America had a conscience. He had no hope that those who managed the empire would ever get in touch with their better selves to build a country free of exploitation and justice. He argued that from the arrival of our first slave ship to the appearance of our first group of prisons and our extremely dirty, urban internal colonies where the poor are trapped and abused, the American empire was unrelentingly hostile to those Frantz Fanon called “the wretched of the earth.” This, Malcolm knew, would not change until the empire was destroyed. “We’re anti-evil, anti-oppression, anti-lynching,” Malcolm said, “You can’t be anti- those things unless you’re also anti- the oppressor and the lyncher. You can’t be anti-slavery and pro-slavemaster; you can’t be anti-crime and pro-criminal. In fact, if the present generation of whites would study their own race in the light of true history, they would be anti-white themselves.”