'GUERRILLA WARFARE IS NEXT'

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 14, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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MALCOLM X SPEAKS:
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By CLARENCE HUNTER ?
Star Staff Writer
Malcolm X sat in a ?Harlem
restaurant and . spooned up a
banana split as he talked about
reciprocal dying, guerrilla
!fighting, revolution and his new.
IPari African organization.
1 Malcolm, the former chief
'spokesman for Elijah Muham-
mad, head of the Black Mus-
lims, a black supremacist sect,
said he has discarded the un-
yielding "hate white" philosophy.
of that group. -
His conversation; however,
indicated that he still regards
the white man as the Negroes'
No. 1 enemy and that his future
course will, be to fight that
enemy with every ounce of his
'energy.? -
"I ;reserve the right to do
whatever, wherever, whenever
and however is necessary to get
results," he said... He was not
No "metamorphosis" resulted'
from his pilgrimage to Mecca,
Malcolm said. He remains in-
:flamed over the American Ne-
gro's condition and thinks only
:a revolution will correct it.
. Freedom for Negroes
"Take a duck, for" example,"
:Malcolm said. "Ducks can't lay
chicken eggs unless a revolu-
'tionary change makes it possible
for them to do it: When, you have
,a political system which is not
:capable of producing freedom
"for Negroes because it was
:founded .to produce freedom for
whites, then you must change
it and you don't change it by
getting on your knees and sing-
ing "We Shall Overcome" for
!NO years."
His political group, separate
'from his exclusively-black Mus-
lim Mosque, Inc., so that it can
tattract other black peoples as
;well as American Negroes, will
'not advocate, nor will it initiate
.violence, Malcolm premised.
"The last thing . the Negro
wants to do is violence, but he
must protect himself," Malcolm
said. "When you start talking
freedom, you have to talk about
dying ,a little, too. Reciprocal
I mean. When a black
,'man dies, a 'white man should
idie. Suffering is all right and
!non-violence is all right, toe,
las long as they are reciprocal."
! Malcolm insisted that Negroes
1. 'should. form vigilante commit-
!tees, Mau Mau . . . anything to
protect themselves.", He said
,"people aren't using much fore-
MALCOLM 71
sight if they don't see guerrilla
warfare as the next step in the
civil rights struggle." There are
evidences of this in Cambridge,
Md., "where ? Negroes shot a
Negro National Guardsman,"
Malcolm said. ?
Devil and Double Devil
As a Black Muslim, Malcolm
was known to view ail whites
as "devils." Now after a 12-
day visit to the world of;
Islam, he said he is 6onvinced;
that "blacks and whites" can;
solve their problems amiably if
they approach; them in a spirit:
of "brotherhood, and tolerance.
between peoples of all colors
and national origins."
: As a result of this tempering,
he still speaks of devils, but in
this fashion:
"Anyone .,. mind you, I am
saying anyone . who overtly, ,
intentionally, and knowingly de- ,
prives another man of his human!
right is a devil: I said anyone
who' does this is a devil. And;
if he consciously, knowingly!
and intentionally deprives the,
man of knowledge that willi
enable him to ' correct his con-?:,
dition, he is a double devil. And ?
this devil' has ? to go:"
? The Afro-American Freedom','
Fighters,' Malcolm's new politi-;
cal group, is envisioned by him
as the vehicle 'which will ex-
terminate, the "devil" ? thatu
haunts him.. It also is -the or-1
ganization Malcolm hopes
. ?
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link the American Negro's cause
with the independence drives of
African nations.
Take Fight Before U. N.
"You have never heard of a'
Negro organization with the
word fighter in it, have your;
Malcolm asked. "The first aim,
of the AAFF will be to lay the,
groundwork to get the American'
Negro's case before the United
Nations to make it an inter-
national issue. I want to take
the whole Negro struggle to the
Human Rights Commission ,.,of
the U. N. and charge the United!
States with the same thing as
South Africa and Portugal are
charged with there."
Forces like the Algerian Free-
dom Fighters and the Mau Mau.
"were people trying to throw off.
the yoke of colonialism .. .'and.
this is the task facing the
American Negro," Malcolm:
?said.
Malcolm, who became a Black
Muslim while he was in prison
in 1948, said he has no idea
how many followers he will at-
tract to his mosque or Freedom
Fighter organization, both head-
quartered in Harlem. ?
Having just returned from Al-
giers, he said he must work to
create an organization that will
follow the tenets of Islam in
"the best way we can in a
Western and highly mechanized
society."
Sees Mosque Prospering
Malcolm is confident his
mosque will prosper. He will
attract converts as well as de-
fectors from the Black Muslims,
he predicted.
"Many are leaving the Black
Muslim movement, especially
the militant and young ones
who have gone out because of
the lack of activity," Malcolm
said. "When I entered the Na-
tion of Islam in 1952 in Detroit,
there ,were not over 400 active
Continuo
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