As Malcolm X said

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meaning, and some are not well meaning. Black community is so high. This keeps published in the book "Malcolm X: The This is true. You got some that are not the Black community in the image of a Last Speeches," edited by Bruce Perry and well meaning, and some are well mean- criminal. It makes it appear that anyone Wing. And usually those that are not well in the Black community is a criminal. meaning outnumber those that are well And as soon as this impression is given, meaning. You need a microscope to find then it makes it possible, or paves the They accuse us of what they them- those that are well meaning. [Applause] way to set up a police-type state in the So they don't like to do anything with- Black community, getting the full criminal always does. They 'Il bomb you, out the support of the white public. The approval of the white public when the then accuse you of bombing yourself. racists, that are usually very influential in police come in, use all kind of brutal They'll crush your skull, then accuse you the society, don't make their move with- measures to suppress Black people, crush of attacking him. This is what the racists out first going to get public opinion on their skulls, sic dogs on them, and things have always done-the criminal, the one their side. So they use the press to get of that type. And the whites go along who has criminal processes developed to public opimon on their side, When they with it. Because they think that everybody a science. Their practice is criminal want to suppress and oppress the Black over there's a criminal anyway. This is community, what do they do? They take what—-the press does this. [Applause] you victim look like the victim is the the statistics, and through the press, they This is skill. This skill is called-this criminal, and the criminal is the victim. feed them to the public. They make it is a science that's called image making" community. They don't want to be appear that the role of crime in the Black They bold you in check through this sci- around Black people themselves. ..They take the press, and through the community is higher than it is anywhere ence of imagery. They even make you [Applause] else. look down upon yourself, by giving you It's a science that they use, very skillthe white public. Because the white pub- is a very skallful message used by the Black people have eaten this image them- victim, and to make the victim look like What does this do? This message-this a bad image of yourself. Some of our own fully to make the criminal look like the some don't mean good. Some are well racists think that the rate of crime in the themselves don't want to live in the Black SOCIALIST ACTION JUNE 1992 racists to make the whites who aren't selves and digested it-until they

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An elderly Black man, carrying an heard several different stories from the exhibit of the Rodney King beating, also CODs concernine what they were goine to no time did they ask us to disperse, tried to keep us from feeling afraid. Final.