Malcolm X (Tha worst enemy)

Black Americans have great respect for Malcolm X. Many schools bear his name, and many streets have been renamed in honor of him, both at home and abroad. But while black Americans honor Malcolm X, one of his basic teachings goes largely ignored. I think it’s an important lesson so I will quote a large part of it. Malcolm X said: “Tha worst enemy that tha Negro have is a man that runs around here drooling at tha mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these so_call  liberals that have perpetuated problems that Negros have. If tha Negro wasn’t taken, tricked or deceived, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. I only cite these things to show you that in America, tha history of liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that these so-called liberalists were going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved

There’s a historical tidbit that those much younger than I (almost 43 years old) are ignorant of. Ya see In black history, we have been called and called ourselves several different names. Among tha, more respectable have been( “colored,” “Negro,” “black,” “Afro-American” and “African-American.”)” In Malcolm X’s day, Negro was a proud name and not used derisively by blacks as it is today.

Malcolm X was absolutely right about our finding solutions to our own problems. Tha most devastating problems that black people face today have absolutely nothing to do with our history of slavery and discrimination. Chief among them is tha breakdown of tha black family, wherein 75 percent of blacks are born to single, often young, mothers. In some cities and neighborhoods, the percentage of out-of-wedlock births is over 80. Actually, “breakdown” is tha wrong term; tha black family doesn’t form in tha first place. This is entirely new among blacks. According to tha 1938 Encyclopaedia of tha Social Sciences, that year only 11 percent of black children were born to unwed mothers. As late as 1950, female-headed households constituted only 18 percent of tha black population. Today it’s close to 70 percent. In much earlier times, during tha late 1800s, there were only slight differences between tha black family structure and those of other ethnic groups. In New York City in 1925, 85 percent of kin-related black households were two-parent households. Welfare has encouraged young women to have children out of wedlock. Tha social stigma once associated with unwed pregnancy is all but gone. Plus, “shotgun” weddings are a thing of tha past. (That was when male members of a girl’s family made tha boy who got her pregnant live up to his responsibilities.)

Tha high crime rates in so many black communities impose huge personal costs and have turned once-thriving communities into economic wastelands. Tha Ku Klux Klan couldn’t sabotage chances for black academic excellence more effectively than tha public school system in most cities. Politics and liberals will not solve these and other problems. Our problems will never be solved by someone else other then Ourselves

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