This is so on point ........ he gave this speech
May 5, 1962
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The white press, inflames the white public against black people. The police are able to use it to paint the black community as a criminal element.
The police are able to use the press to make the white public think that 90% or 99% of the people in the black community are criminals.
And once the white public is convinced that most of the black community is a criminal element, then this automatically paves the way for the police to move into the negro community, exercising gestapo tactics, stopping any black man on the sidewalk, whether he is guilty or whether he is innocent, whether he is well-dressed or whether he poorly dressed, whether he is educated or whether he is dumb, whether he is a Christian or whether he is a Muslim. As long as he is black and a member of the black community, the white public thinks that the white policeman is justified in going in there and trampling on that man’s civil rights and on that man’s human rights.
Once the police has convinced the white public that the so-called negro community is a criminal element, they can go in and question, brutalize, murder, unarmed innocent black people, and the white public is gullible enough to back them up.
This makes the black community a police state. It is the most heavily patrolled neighborhood, it has more police than any other neighborhood, yet it has more crime then any other neighborhood. How can you have more cops and more crime? Why? It shows you that cops must be in cahoots with the criminals!
- Malcolm X
Whole Speech .... check it out.