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MALCOLM X: A PROBLEM OF HUIMAN RIGHTS

In July 1964 Malcolm X attended the second meeting of the Organization of African Unity, which had been formed in 1963 to bring about joint action by the independent African governments. 

The OAU conference was held in Cairo July 17--21, and was attended by nearly all the heads of the thirty-four member states. Malcolm X appealed to the delegates of the thirty-four African nations to bring the cause of the twenty-two million black people in the United States before the United Nations. He distributed a press release on OAAU letterhead on behalf of twenty-two million Afro-Americans in the United States.



REPORTER: Malcolm, what is your purpose here?



MALCOLM X: Well, my purpose here is to remind the African heads of state that there are 22 million of us in America who are also of African descent, and to remind them also that we are the victims of America's colonialism or American imperialism, and that our problem is not an American problem, it's a human problem. It's not a Negro problem, it's a problem of humanity. It's not a problem of civil rights, but a problem of human rights...




Source: ‪http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/mxp/v...‬


Link: ‪http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/mxp‬



For more information on Malcolm X: ‪http://www.koranselskab.dk‬/profiler/malcolmx.htm



Here is the entire speech he gave at the OAU Summit in Ethiopa on july the 17 1964



THE ORGANIZATION OF AFRO-American Unity has sent me to attend this historic African Summit Conference as an observer to represent the interest of 22 million African-Americans whose rights are being violated daily by the racism of American imperialists.
The Organization of Afro-American Unity has been formed by a cross-section of America's African-America community, and is parterned after the letter and spirit of the Organisation of African Unity.
Just as the OAU has called upon all African to submerge their differences and unite on common objectives for the common of all Africans, in America the OAAU has called on Afro-American leaders to submerge their differences and find areas of agreement wherein we can work in unity for the good of the entire 22 million African-Americans.
Since the 22 million of us were originally Africans who are now in America, not by choice but only by a cruel accident in our history, we strongly believe that African problems are our problems and our problems are African problems.
We also believe that as heads of the independent African states you are the sherpherds of all African people everywhere, whether they are still at home here on the mother continent or have been scattered abroad. Some African leaders at this conference have implied that they have enough problems here on the mother continent to take on the problems of those who have been scattered abroad. With due respect to your esteemed positions, I must remind all of you that the Good Shepherd will leave 99 sheep who are safe at home to go to the aid of the one who is lost and fallen into the clutches of the imperialist wolf.
We in America are your long-lost brothers and sisters, and I am here only to remind you that our problems are your problems. As the African-American "awaken" today, we find ourselves in a strange land that has rejectded us and, like the prodigal son, we are turning to our elder brothers for help. We pray our pleas will not fall on deaf ears.
We were taken forcibly in chains from this mother continent and have now spent over 300 years in America, suffering the most inhuman forms of physical and psychological torture imaginable.
During the past 10 years the entire world has witnessed our men, women and children being attacked and bitten by vicious police dogs, brutally beaten by police clubs, and washed down the ewers by high-presure water hoses that would rip the clothes from our bodies and flesh from our limbs. And all of these inhuman atrocities have been inflicted upon us by the American government authorities, the police themselves, for no reason other than that we seek the recognition and respect granted other human beings in America.
The American government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of your 22 million African-American brothers and sisters. We stand defenceless, at the mercy of American racists who murder us at will for no reason other than we are black and of African descent.
Last week, an unarmed African-Amercan educator was murdered in cold bloodin Georgia: a few days before that three civil rights workerss disappeared completely, perhaps murdered also, only because they were teaching our people in Mississipi how to vote and how to secure their political rights.
Our problems are your problems.We have livedfor over 300 years in that American den of wolves, inconstant fear of losing life and limb. Recently three students from Kenya were mistaken for American Negros and were brutally beaten by the new york police. Shortly after that two Ugandan diplomats were also beaten by he new york city police, who mistook them for Amercan Negros.
If Africans are brutally beatenwhile only visiting in America, imagine the physical and psychological suffering received by your brothers and sisters who have lived there for 300 hunderd years. Our problem is your problem. No matter how much independence Africans get here on the mothercontinent, unless you wear your national dress at all times when you visit America, you may be mistaken for one of us and suffer the same psychological and physicalmutilation that is an everday occurence in our lives.
Your problems will never be fully solved until and unless our are solved. You never be fully respected untill and unless we are also respected. You will never be recognised as free human beings untill and unless we are also recognised and treated as human beings.
Our problem is your problem. It is not a Negro problem, nor an American problem. This is a world problem, a problem for humanity. It is not a problem of civil rights, it is a problem of human rightss.
W e pray that our African brothers have not freed themselves of European colonialism only to be overcome and held in check now by American dollarism. Don't let American racism be "legalised" by American dollarism.
American is worse than South Africa, because not only is America racist, but she is also deceitful and hypocritical. South Africa preaches segregation and practices segregation. She , at least, practices what she preaches. America preaches integration, and practices segregation. She preaches one thing and deceitfully practices another.
South Africa is like a vicious wolf, openly hostile toward black humanity. But America is cunning like a fox, friendly and smiling, but even more vicious and deadly than the wolf.
The wolf and the fox are both enemies of humanity, both are canine, both humiliate and mutilate their victims. Both have the same objectives, but different in methods.
If South Africa is guilty of violating the human rights of Africans here on the mother continent, then America is guilty of worse violation of the 22 million Africans on the American continent. And if South African racism is not a domestic issue, then American racism is also not a domestic issue.
We besech independent African states to help us bring our problems before the United Nations, on the grounds that the United States government is morally incapable of protecting the lives and the property of the 22 million African Americans. And on the grounds that our deteriorating plight is definitely becoming a threat to world peace.
Out of frustration and hompelessness our young people have reached the point of no return. We no longer endorse patience and turning the other cheek. We assert the right of self-defence by whatever means necessary, and reserve the right of maximum retaliation against our racist oppressors, no matter what the odds against us are.
We are well aware that our future efforts to defend ourselves by retaliating-by meeting violence with violence, eye for an eye and tooth for tooth- could create the type of racial conflict in America that could easily escalate into a violent, worldwide, bloodyrace war. In the interest of world peace ans security, we besech the heads of the independent African states to recommend an immediate investigation into our problems by the United Nations Commission of Human rights.
One last word, my beloved brothers at this African Summit: "No one knows the master better than his servant." We have been servants in America for over 300 years.We have a thorough inside knowledge of this man who calls himself "Uncle Sam". Therefore, you must heed our warning. Don't escape from European colonialism only to become even more enslaved by deceitful, "friendly" American dollarism.
May Allah's blessings of good health and wisdom be upon you all.
 
River; please look at it this way, everyone has a computer with an operating system, all in different locations and the majority of us use Windows, does not mean we need to sit with each other or communicate with each other to do that, we just let that system solve the problems we face on the computer. the charter and principles are a guideline without conformity, or organization, but point to a unity in purpose and focus! As stated we have had little ad hoc committees since reconstruction doing different things here and there yet our situation has gotten worse, much worse inspite of that. Take a good look at the principles; they seem to cover most if not all of what you mention; http://www.malcolm-x.org/docs/gen_oaau.htm



At this point, its going to be hard not to network in order to sell the "charter and principles" as a "guideline" to participating groups and/or individuals.
 

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