Speeches of Malcolm X
Speeches of Malcolm X
The Speeches of Malcolm X, interspersed with historical, civil rights and lifestyle footage of African-Americans in the 20th century. EXCERPT FROM THE BULLET OR THE BALLOT SPEECH, APRIL 1964
Speeches of Malcolm X
DO NOT USE Still of Malcolm X surrounded by reporters. "I m no politician. I m not even a student of politics. I m not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American and got sense enough to know it. "
Speeches of Malcolm X
Panning MS of white police officer on motorcycle passing by group of black males. Montage of white police officers in South using fire hoses, arresting, beating black civil rights protesters (violence; police brutality). "I m one of the 22 million, black victims of the Democrats. One of the 22 million black victims of the Republicans and one of the 22 million black victims of Americanism."
Speeches of Malcolm X
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Speeches of Malcolm X
(Use catalog # 362184 for complete record) MOS excerpts from 1963 newsreel of Governor GEORGE WALLACE standing at entrance of Univ. of Alabama while federal authorities arrive to deliver cease and desist orders; armed police officers stand at the ready. "When I speak, I don t speak as a Democrat, or a Republican, nor an American. I speak as a victim of America s so-called Democracy. You and I have never seen Democracy, all we see is hypocrisy."
Speeches of Malcolm X
Excellent MOS COLOR shots of smoldering, destroyed buildings after riots in Chicago after MLK assassination, 1968. MS signs at intersection of Roosevelt & Spaulding. MS National Guard on patrol; TLS Nat l Guard in army transports. MS Chicago police officers kicking black men off the street, away from locked & gated stores. TLS contingent of young black men walking in street under el tracks. "When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don t see any American dream; we ve experienced only the American nightmare. We haven t benefited from America s Democracy. We ve only suffered from America s hypocrisy, and the generation that s coming up now can see it and are not afraid to say it. If you go to jail, so what! If you re black, you were born in jail. If you black you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South, as long as you South of the Canadian border, you re South. Don t call Governor Wallace a Dixie governor, Romney is a Dixie governor. Twenty two million black victims of Americanism are waking up and they re gaining a new political conscious. They re becoming politically mature and as they develop this politically maturity their able to see the recent trends in these political elections."
Speeches of Malcolm X
(Use catalog # 237435 for complete record) B&W CU Presidential seal, diss to MCUs dignitaries like HUBERT HUMPHREY & MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. sitting in White House at signing of Civil Rights Act in 1964. "They see that the whites are so evenly divided that every time they vote, the race is so close that they have to go back and count the votes all over again. Which means that any block, any minority that has a block of votes that stick together, is in a strategic position, either way you go that s who gets it. You re in a position to determine who goes to the White House and who stays in the doghouse. You re the one that has that power."
Speeches of Malcolm X
President LYNDON JOHNSON speaking to Joint Session of Congress in 1965. "You can keep Johnson in Washington DC or you can send him back to his Texas cotton patch."
Speeches of Malcolm X
MS/TLSs JOHN F. KENNEDY & JACQUELINE KENNEDY riding in convertible after 1960 election; MSs John F. Kennedy arriving at White House, being greeted by Dwight Eisenhower. "You re the one who sent Kennedy to Washington. You re the one who put the present Democratic administration in Washington DC. The whites were evenly decided; the fact that you threw 80% of your votes behind the Democrats that put the Democrats in the White House."
Speeches of Malcolm X
MS/TLS large group of African-Americans gathered to protest the beating death of Rev. James Reeb. "When you see this you can see that the Negro vote is a key factor. And despite the fact that you are a position to be the determining factor, what do you get out of it? The Democrats have been in Washington DC, only because of the Negro vote. They ve been down there 4 years."
Speeches of Malcolm X
More shots of LBJ speaking to Joint Session of Congress. "All the legislation they wanted to bring up, they brought it up and gotten it out of the way and now they bring up you. And now they bring up you. You put them first and they put you last. Because you re a chump. A political chump."
Speeches of Malcolm X
Cut to TLS Capitol Dome. Cut to various shots LBJ speaking at a press conference, signing of Civil Rights bill. Cut to TLSs/MSs large integrated crowd waving American flags outside the White House. "In Washington DC in the House of Representatives there are 257 who are Democrats, only 177 are Republicans. In the Senate there are 67 Democrats, only 33 are Republicans. The party that you backed controls 2/3 of the House of Representatives and the Senate and still they can t keep their promise to you. Because you re a chump. Anytime you throw your weight behind a political power that controls 2/3 of the government and that party can t keep the promise they made to you during election time and you re dumb enough to walk around continuing identifying yourself with that party, you re not only a chump you re a traitor to your race."
Speeches of Malcolm X
MOS excerpts of newsreel of 1948 Democratic National Convention: great shots of the delegate floor; elated delegates hold placards bolstering Truman nomination. "And what kind of alibi do they come up with? They try and pass the buck to the Dixiecrat. Now back in the days when your were blind, deaf and dumb, ignorant, politically immature, naturally you went along with that but today as your eyes come open and you develop political maturity your able to see and think for yourself and you can see that a Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise. You look at the structure of the government that controls this country; it s controlled by 16 senatorial committees and 20 congressional committees. Of the 16 senatorial committees that run the government, 10 are now in the hands of Southern segregations. Of the 20 congressional committees that run the government, 12 of them are now in the hands of Southern segregationists. And they're going to tell you and me that the South lost the war. You today are in the hands of a government of segregationists, racists, white supremacists, who belong to the Democratic Party but disguise themselves as Dixiecrats."
Speeches of Malcolm X
(Use catalog # 425291 for complete record) MOS excerpts from 1964 newsreel of signing of Civil Rights Act: LBJ, MLK Jr., etc. "A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat. Whoever runs the Democrats are also the father of the Dixiecrats, and the father of all of them is sitting in the White House. I said, and I say it again, you got a President who s nothing but a Southern segregationist."
Speeches of Malcolm X
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Speeches of Malcolm X
LS of KKK march in Washington in 1925. "They ll lynch you in Texas as quick as they lynch you in Mississippi."
Speeches of Malcolm X
KKK rally, night, 1960s: hooded Klansmen hold Dixie flags, light cross. "Only in Texas they lynch you with a Texas accent in Mississippi they lynch you with a Mississippi accent. And the first thing the cracker does when he comes in power "
Speeches of Malcolm X
MS MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. and associates walking into undisclosed building. " he gets all the Negro leaders and invites them for coffee. He s all right."
Speeches of Malcolm X
DO NOT USE Still of MALCOLM X. "I say you ve been mislead. You ve been had. You ve been took."