#181 - 1948 - Transferred to Norfolk Prison, Massachusetts, Prison Colony, an experimental rehabilitation jail
#183 - Reginald comes to visit him, and tells him about the Nation of Islam. In Islam, God has 360 degrees of knowlege, the sum of total knowledge. The devil only has 33 degrees f knowledge, known as Masonry, [the Freemasons] to rule other people.
- God made himself known in America to a black man named Elijah, told him that “the devil’s time was up”, the devil being white man, especially the Free Massons
#186 - Malcolm came to the conclusion that white people were losing a grip on black people, and that “that white man’s world was on the way out”
- Reginald said that black people had been cut off from their history, didn’t know their family name, [last names being changed, slavery, etc.] becuase of the white man
- Family at this point where all converted, followed a man called “The Honorable Elijah Muhammad”
- Led the NOI from 1934 - 1975 (death), mentored Malcom X, as well as Muhammad Ali
- Muhammad spoke of the “true knowlege of the black man”, basically: History had been white-washed, and back people had been brainwashed for 100’s of years because of it
- The Original Man ws black, as all humans were, started in Africa. The Original black people built great empires, while white people were still living in caves
- “The devil white man all through history, out of his devilish nature, had pillaged, murdered, and raped, and exploited every race of men not white”
- White man had cut off black people from their own identity, thus black people in America where the only race in the world who didn’t know their own cultural identity
- Through slavery, enough half-white black people where made, that they had their own race, “the Negro”, who was taught that their native Africa was full of “black savages”, etc.
- Slave masters also taught Negros a white, Christian God, which taught them that black people where a curse, and “taught them to hate everything black including himslef”, and taught that “everything white was good and should be respected”
- Also taught this “Negro” that the lighter a skin tone, the better you where, and more coser to white-ness, wich was the end goal [colorism]
#195 - Wrote to Muhammad for the first time, and he replyed in a letter saying that the black prisoner symbolized “white society’s crime of keeping black men oppresed, deprived, and ignorant”
#212 - Was moved back to Charlestown prison for his last year
#218 - Started public speaking by participating in open debates that would happen at Charleston prison, got out of prison in 1953, and went to work for NOI
#229 - He adopted the last name “X” as it symbolized a lost part of history, not knowing what ones “original” last name was as it was replaced by the white slave masters
#231 - In the summer of 1953 was named Detroit Temple Number One’s Assistant Minister
#234 - “Do you know why the white man really hates you? Because every time he sees your face, he sees a mirror of crime - and his guilty conscience can’t bear to face it.”
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PART 3 - Activism + Theorem
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#243 - Began by being mentored by Elijah Muhammed, was taught about the Bible and the Quran as well as other things
#247 - 1954 - After successfully organizing Temple 11, got moved to Philadelphia, where he helped establish Temple 12 in under 3 months; because of these successes, he got moved up to be the minister of Temple 7 in New York
#257 - Made first trip to Atlanta to help establish Temple 15
#271 - 1959 - C. Eric. Lincoln chose NOI for his doctorate, wrote: “It [the Christian Religion] has separated beliefs on the basis of color, although it has declared its mission to be a unity of Christ. Christian love is the white man's love for himself -- for [black people] Islam is the hope for justice and equality --”
- Professor Lincoln was encouraged to turn his thesis into a book, so, “through the white man’s powerful communications, our brainwashed black brothers and sisters where going to see, hear, and read Mr. Muhammed’s teachings.”
#273 - 1959 - “The Hate That Hate Produced” was aired on television. The general consensus from white people who saw it was that it [the NOI] was black racists and black fascists
- Malcolm states that the reputation was so poor because white men didn’t expect black people to say that they disagreed with any of it, and that the only reason that slavery would still be excused was becuase there stil would be black people agreeing with whites, and “Uncle Tommying”
#275 - Malcolm said that some of the reasons the biggest Negro leaders of the 1960’s where offended when other black people talked poorly of whites was because back in slavery, the Slavemaster always had a special group of “house” and “field” Negroes that he treated a little bit better, so that they would report back to everyone else, and say how great “massa” was, that still carrys on today
#276 - “The guilty, two faced, white man can’t decide what he wants. Our slave foreparents would have been put to death for advocating so-called ‘integration’, with the white man. Now when Mr. Muhammed speaks of ‘separatism’, the white man calls us ‘hate teachers’ and ‘fascists’”
#280 - Started to go on radio and panel discussions to defend NOI and it’s beliefs of separatism
#282 - Malcolm X wasn’t in support of integration, saying “No sane black man really believes that the white man ever will give the black man anything more than token integration”, and saying that the only solution to the black American’s problem was complete separation
- “A child stays with the mother until the time of birth. When the time of birth arrives, the child must be separated, or it will destroy the mother and itself.”
#305 - 1961 - Elijah Muhammed’s pre-existing asthma worsened, so he had to move to a home in Phoenix, Arizona. Later, he would appoint Malcom as his representative
#308 - Malcolm believed that one of the reasons why white men still had such a strong hold on black men was because the latter has only recently started going to good colleges, and even then it was few and far between, and, the few educated rarely used their knowledge to help their black community. He stated that the white man's spontaneous actions against non-whites would always overpower their higher rates of education, due to what he called a “white supremacy complex”
I.e., before bombs were dropped on Hiroshima, America had thousands of loyal, blind-side Japanese, but afterwards when they were put into camps, the Japanese were much less complacent
Awareness = education = a want for equality
#311 - Didn’t care much for [Northern] liberals as he saw them as hypocritical, the South was more obvious with their black distaste, while the Northerner would say things like “equality” and “integration”
- Malcolm thought the “integration” was made up by Northerners that has no real meaning, and was only used as a smokescreen to cloud the black person of what their goals would be
- One's “goals” would be human rights and respect as human beings, as it doesn't matter if two races can be neighbors if one is regarded as lesser by that neighbour
- “This ‘integration’ image haas millions of white people thinking that black people want to sleep in bed with them--”
#314 - “In many communities, white people have created an image of themselves of having so much good will towards Negroes, but anytime a ‘local Negro’ beggins letting the whites know that the black people are sick of being second-class and disenfranchised, that is when you hear ‘Unfortunatly now because of this, our whites of good-will are starting to turn against the Negro. It’s just so regrettable! Progress was just being made --”
#324 - 1963 - Was made the first National Minister
#338 - 1964 - Malcolm was the second most sought after speaker at colleges and universities
#352 - 1964 - “Divorced” the NOI after disagreements with Elijah Muhammad over the political direction NOI was going in
#366 - Went on a pilgrimage to Mecca because it is a religious obligation for every Muslim to go atleast once in their life, if possible
#388 - While in Mecca, he had a “racial epiphany” about white people, as “people of all races, colors, from all over the world came together as one” at Hajj, so Malcom found a “new sense of brotherhood” through Mecca’s “colorblindness”
#427 - Talked to an African ambassador, and came to the realization that the white man was not inherently racist, it is America’s political, economic, and social environment that fertilized it.
#431 - Had a meeting for the Organization for Afro-American Unity, it was inclusive for people of any faith, although white people were barred from joining, as they needed to make their own organizations to fix their own communities first.
#439 - Correctly predicted that the white man would use Malcom X as a symbol of hatred and “irresponsibleness” post-death, as he thought that only black people that the whites liked where the “responsible” ones, who was the black leader that didn’t do anything sufficient for the community
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Interview - “Malcom X Interview: UC Berkeley, October 11, 1963”
SOURCES -
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Q: Why is the general society’s beliefs that the NOI is violent in order to obtain it’s goals is true or not, and why does this idea persist?
A: The accusations aren’t true, and this idea comes from the guilt complex in the consciousness/subconscious mind of white people, who knowingly have been violent toward black people. They are scared that one day, black people will ‘wake up’ and do to white people what they did to them. But, if someone is violent toward NOI, they have the religious right to retaliate and defend themselves.
Q: Why has NOI not used violence even when black Muslims were being attacked? Is this contradictory?
A: One, NOI doesn't believe in integration, and if they did, they would “fight anyone who got in their way”, and they would know that the law was on their side, although it isn’t. The law is hypocritical because “when Negroes demonstrate for integration, instead of arresting the discriminators, the law arrests the demonstrators”, so NOI doesn't get involved because they see black people who allow themselves to be beaten and brutalized as foolish, and do nothing to protect themselves. They should have “the right to defend themselves against any attack made against them by anyone”
Q: Should other black men help the one who was attacked?
A: First, the black man has to wake up and become intellectually independent and think for themselves, and the black man will then be able to feel for other black men, and once they do, black people will finally be able to stick together and help one another, and in this unity when someone attacks one black man, they are attacking all of them. So this will end the brutality of white people toward black people, “It [racism] is something the black man has to and end to it himself”
Q: One, are the laws that say black people are supposed to have equal opportunities, which are not meaningful to whites, what is your opinion?
A: One, if white people did pass meaningful laws to help non-whites, they wouldn’t need to pass anymore laws now, “There are already enough laws on the law books to protect American citizens. You only need additional laws when you’re dealing with someone that’s not regarded as an American citizen”. Two, speaking through the words of Wyatt Walker, the people in the Civil Rights struggle had been duped into believing that that “the chains have been broken, and that it is becoming harder to keep the black masses non-violent and patient”
Q: What is your opinion on the Freedom Now party in the East Coast, and also that NOI may turn its attention to politics as it is black people have not yet gotten any justice?
A: Wasn’t familiar with the Freedom Now party, but did think that white politicians have been hypocritical where black people are concerned. Elijah Muhammad’s teachings and solutions are religious, but the Freedom Now party is lead by a man who probably means well, but Malcom would like to see who his friends were, if this party leans on white people or not, before forming an oppinion, although wanted to get rid of black political puppets who are used y the while structure to uphold white supremacy
Q: With that, would you include the congressmen from Chicago, like Daveson, as political puppet?
A: Malcolm is suspicious of any black people who are constantly patted on the back by whites, as that means he is aiding them, instead of helping to dismantle the system
Q: Opinion on the white liberal, i.e., Herbert Hill?
A: In Harlem, Herbert Hill and others successfully stopped the building on a much needed hospital in Harlem, which black people had been trying to get built for 10 years; but when people were boycotting the building of a hospital in the predominantly white Brooklyn area, Herbert Hill was not there. So, whenever something stopping is going to affect the white man, white liberals are not there, but when something affects black people, the white liberal will be present.
Q: What has caused the support that NOI has gotten recently, more so than other back nationalists?
A: The “atmosphere” of America has finally made American minds more fertile to the seed of truth that Elijah Muhhamed had been planting, was finally springing up. Black people are becoming more reciporactive because for the past some years, they have thought of Africa as a wasteland of savages, but when the U.N. was established, they began to see men like Lumumba, who could talk to whites intellectually on a national scale, so when they saw this, they took Elijah Muhammads words to heart, now that there was substance, and began to align themselves with the black world and it’s struggles
