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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 20:07:43 EST
- From: <RFM@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92348.200743RFM@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.history
- Subject: Malcolm X (Was Re: Remember the Ostend Manifesto!)
- References: <HISTORY%92120713491145@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
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- In article <HISTORY%92120713491145@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>, DGPAZ@CLEMSON.BITNET says:
- >
- >Not every American agreed. Let me quote from an editorial in
- >the _Mission Monitor_, the newspaper of a black Episcopal parish
- >in Omaha, Nebraska (how's that for obscurity?), on the Spanish-
- >American War. That war
- >"brings a pertinent question to the Afro-American: It is
- >this: Should he take up arms in defense of a country which
- >hates him with such an intense hatred as does this land of
- >his involuntary adoption? or, Is there any ground whatever
- >for patriotism upon his part.
- > "Viewed from the standpoint of his treatment yesterday and
- >to-day there can be but one honest answer to the question and
- >that answer is _No_."
- >* * *
- >"The United States has made a total failure in her treatment of
- >subjugated races . . . within her own present territory. What
- >need, therefore, has she, of a vaster domain in both territory
- >and subject people in which to repeat her governmental
- >experiments?"
-
- I've been meaning to reread Malcolm X (but haven't yet), but one
- episode (from MX's early life in Nebraska) struck me while watching
- the movie & came to mind agiin while reading the quote from the Omaha
- newspaper quoted above. Afro-American political alienation (Can one
- blame them?) It's bee eons since I read MX, bt I'm wondering if
- much is made of this in his autobiography?
-