hanky1 said:
"The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have. If the Negro wasn't taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. I only cite these things to show you that in America, the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems."
Does this sound familiar?
It should.
It sounds a lot like the leading black conservative intellectuals today. You know...the same conservatives people on this board call Uncle Tom like Thomas Sowell and Larry Elder
I love it when white guys quote Malcolm X like he is their hero. If Malcolm X was alive I'm sure he would love to have a beer with you while at a baseball game. The full quote is needed for context so feel free to read the actual quote in its entirety.
Which one are you hanky! the wolf or the fox?
When Conservatives Quote Malcolm X
You are the wolf who became the fox.
By Mark Thome
When a conservative quotes Malcolm X using that one line about liberals (butchered or not), what they are doing is taking the spot of the fox. They claim they are the black person's true friend because they don't make an issue about race.
"I don't see color.""More white people are killed by cops than black people.""You're blowing it out of proportion.""Black people commit more crimes, it's just a fact.""Not all cops are bad. There are just some rotten apples.""They shouldn't force diversity.""All lives matter."and the list goes on.
The modern-day conservative wants to stop talking about race and just get on with their lives. They say that there is no racial inequality, but don't you dare force diversity into my television shows! Why is the black guy the hero and the white guy the villain? Are you virtue signaling? It's not racism until "woke" people start trying to make issues about "not enough colored people in this movie!" The idea seems to be, leave things as they are because nothing needs to change.
If we search back through history and we decide to learn about it without trying to twist it, the amount of injustices white people have done towards black people is astonishing. Not only that though, many, if not most, if not all, of those crimes have not only gone unanswered for, but we've also whitewashed many of them from our history books and tried to forget it ever happened.
I didn't learn about
Black Wall Street as a child, in school, or anywhere else. I didn't bother to notice that the majority of people on my television screen were white, that "nude" color in cosmetics meant the natural skin color of white people.
I refused to believe that my skin color gave me the privilege, I believed that Martin Luther King Jr single-handedly won civil liberties through peaceful protests and didn't learn of the
riots and chaos that followed his death before change happened. I didn't know about the Black Panthers peacefully protesting with guns only to be villainized and the ever pro-second amendment NRA suddenly became pro-gun control.
The honest truth is, I believe many of us white people have a fox in us. It's probably not many people's intent to oppress someone, but we do it. Both sides tell black people that
we are the ones that are really on their side. When in reality, I wouldn't blame them for not believing any of us.
I don't think Malcolm X was wrong to say what he said, and I don't think someone would be wrong to say it again today.
If I'm standing beside a black person in a protest and they tell me that I really don't care, I wouldn't agree with them, but I wouldn't disagree with the sentiment, the pain, and anger they likely hold towards me and people who share my whiteness. It's understandable, it's probably even justified.
In fact, because of that, I believe that black people are the key to make the change that's needed. A white person shouldn't be the one on the bullhorn calling out injustices, it should be those who have experienced it, the people that can tell their story and share their pain.
They should be the ones at the head of change, the ones directing how our new world of inclusion looks like for them, not us trying to pretend we know what they need. But that doesn't mean they have to do it alone.
I'm still learning every day what it means to be an ally, or better yet, an accomplice.
https://medium.com/@Marcus_Thorne/when-conservatives-quote-malcolm-x-2fb664f38106