Wednesday, February 27, 2008

The Original Two-State Solution--In The US

I thought this was interesting.
From the conclusion of Malcolm X's introductory remarks in a debate at Rutgers in 1961:
And since no sane white man really wants integration, and no sane black man really believes we will ever get anything more than token integration, the only immediate solution is complete separation. Therefore, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is demanding that several states be set aside for the twenty million ex-slaves, and with the help of Allah he will show our people how to solve our own problems. We won't be forcing ourselves into white communities, into white schools, and into white factories. We will set up and run our own. [Quoted in Winter 2007-08 issue Columbia alumni magazine]
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