Malcolm X kind
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(continued from page 9: “['This wasn't a race riot, it was a…]”) much explosive energy within him, that the criminal. Example: In the United exploiting him. But the one who's States during the Harlem riots, 1 was in exploiting him doesn't live in his neighAfrica, fortunately. [Laughter] During borhood. He only owns the house. He these riots, or because of these rots, or only owns the store. He only owns the after the rots, again the press, very skill- neighborhood. So that when the Black fully depicted the rioters as hoodlums, man explodes, the one that he wants to criminals, thieves, because they were get at isn't there, So be destroys the Now mind you, it is true that property ing to steal your cheap furniture or your was destroyed. But look at it from anoth- cheap food. He wants to get at you, but er angle. In these Black communities, the you're not there. [Applause] economy of the community is not in the And instead of the sociologists analyzhands of the Black man. The Black man ing it as it actually is, trying to is not his own landlord. The buildings understand it as it actually is, again they that he lives in are owned by someone cover up the real issue, and they use the else. The stores in the community are run press to make it appear that these people by someone else. Everything in the com- are thieves, hoodlums. No! They are the munity is out of his hands. He bas no victims of organized thievery, organized say-so in it whatsoever, other than to live landlords who are nothing but thieves, there, and pay the highest rent for the merchapts who are nothing but thieves, lowest-type boarding place, [Applause] politicians who sit in the city hall and pays the highest prices for food, for the who are nothing but thieves in cahoots lawert orade nf fod He yea victim nf WH^КА«ОпА|A NC 2** hA MAYChanfe SOCIALIST ACTION JUNE 1992 11 abducting some property. this, a victim of economic exploitation, (Applause] political exploitation, and every other Now, he's so frustrated, so dent-up, so he would like to get at the one who's property. He's not a thief. He's not trySPECIAL SOCIALIST ACTION SUPPLEMENT