Malcolm X: Black Leaders Cannot Please Both Whites & Blacks, Choose One (1964)

"The 'Negro' leader in America today is on the spot when he thinks he can satisfy the white man and the black man too. If you're gonna lead black people, fight for black people, fight for the satisfaction of black people, you can't always do it and please white people. Can't please both, you have to please one or the other."
The clip begins with a crowd of interracial demonstrators standing in front of a building. Other demonstrators walk down the street chanting "Jim Crow must go." What appears to be an effigy is thrown among the crowd as they walk down the street. Later a reporter interviews Malcolm X who is dressed in warm clothes and wears sunglasses. Malcolm X, who earlier that month had announced his departure from the Nation of Islam, criticizes the African American leaders of the Civil Rights movement who try to please both African Americans and whites. He asserts that African American leaders should lead, fight, and work for the satisfaction of African Americans, because "you have to please one or the other."

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