Lot 72
MALCOLM X CLAIMS JEWS AND BLACKS ARE "THREATENED BY THE SAME ENEMY"
(1925 - 1965) American civil rights and Muslim leader, a brilliant orator who preached black separatism and nationalism, assassinated while giving a speech in Harlem. Excellent, especially illuminating content typed signed document, 1p. 8 1/2" x 11" [n.p., ca. March, 1963], a page of the typed transcript of the famous May 1963 Playboy magazine interview between Malcolm and author ALEX HALEY (1921-1992). In part: "... But I don''t want to use up all the time talking about the Jew calling the Honorable Elijah Muhammad''s followers anti-Semitic. But I want to tell you what I always think about every time I hear that. I think about the Jews changing their names - trying to become exactly what''s the worst anti-Semite there is, the Anglo-Saxon Christian. The Jew ought to stop wasting his time investigating the black man. We''re both threatened by the same enemy. The answer for the black man that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is teaching is - separate! From everything white..." Haley next poses the question: "...Mr. Malcolm, one has almost no choice but to infer that you feel that no white man on earth can be trusted by what you term the ''black man'' ?" Malcolm responds: "...I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence. And if any man will study the entire history of the relationship between the white man and the black man, no evidence will be found that justifies any confidence or faith that the black man might have in the white man today..." Haley again: "... We don''t have to go away back into history, Mr. Malcolm. Behind every Negro advancement somewhere has stood the sincere efforts of white men to help them advance. To mention just one area of these efforts, the tens of thousands of scholarships -" Malcolm interrupts: "Sir, a man who tosses worms in the river isn''t necessarily a friend of the fish..." Malcolm signs his approval at the bottom of the page in pencil, making only one change: the deletion of the phrase "We''re both threatened by the same enemy." Malcolm insisted on reviewing and editing every page of the transcript, and signed his approval to the corrected copy. The document is set into an approx. 23" x 25" gilt frame, with a photographic portrait of Malcolm and an explanatory plaque. The document itself is in fine condition.
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