Democracy Is Hypocrisy’ speech, 1960 - el-Haj Malik Shabazz

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Democracy Is Hypocrisy’ speech, 1960 - el-Haj Malik Shabazz
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El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X), one of the most influential African American leaders of the 20th Century.
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You don’t scare Negroes today with no badge or no white skin or no white sheet or no white anything else. The police the same way; they put their club upside your head and turn around and accuse you of attacking them.
Every case of police brutality against a Negro follows the same pattern.
They attack you, bust you all upside your mouth and then take you to court and charge you with assault.
What kind of democracy is that?
What kind of (uh) freedom is that?
What kind of social or political system is it when a black man has no voice in court?
Has no nothing on his side other than what the white man chooses to give you?
My brothers and sisters we have to put a stop to this and it will never be stopped until we stop it ourselves.
They attack the victim and then the criminal who attacked the
victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice.
This is American democracy and those of you who are familiar with it know that in American democracy is hypocrisy.
Now if I’m wrong put me in jail, but if you can’t prove that in democracy is not hypocrisy then don’t put your hands on
me. …
Above excerpt from
Knowledge Session: Democracy is Hypocrisy By Malcolm X
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