○  malcolm x: the ballot or the bullet  ○

alism is being taught in the christian church. it's being taught in the naacp. it's being taught in core meetings. it's being taught in sncc student nonviolent coordinating committee meetings. it's being taught in muslim meetings. it's being taught where nothing but atheists and agnostics come together. it's being taught everywhere. black people are fed up with the dillydallying, pussyfooting, compromising approach that we've been using toward getting our freedom. we want freedom now, but we're not going to get it saying "we shall overcome." we've got to fight until we overcome.

the economic philosophy of black nationalism is pure and simple. it only means that we should control the economy of our community. why should white people be running all the stores in our community? why should white people be running the banks of our community? why should the economy of our community be in the hands of the white man? why? if a black man can't move his store into a white community, you tell me why a white man should move his store into a black community. the philosophy of black nationalism involves a re-education program in the black community in regards to economics. our people have to be made to see that any time you take your dollar out of your community and spend it in a community where you don't live, the community where you live will get poorer and poorer, and the community where you spend your money will get richer and richer.

then you wonder why where you live is always a ghetto or a slum area. and where you and i are concerned, not only do we lose it when we spend it out of the community, but the white man has got all our stores in the community tied up; so that though we spend it in the community, at sundown the man who runs the store takes it over across town somewhere. he's got us in a vise.

so the economic philosophy of black nationalism means in every church, in every civic organization, in every fraternal order, it's time now for our people t

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