The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches By Malcolm X Paperback – May 31, 1989

This book, as its subtitle indicates, contains four speeches by Malcolm X. What makes this volume unique is that all four were delivered during the time Malcolm was a minister with the Nation of Islam, a period overlooked in all other collections of Malcolm X speeches with a single exception. Therefore, this book, unlike other the other collections, presents an important aspect of Malcolm’s career not available elsewhere.The Introduction points out that all speeches collected in the volume were drawn from the last year Malcolm was a minister with the Nation of Islam. This fact is important because it was during this period that Malcolm began his slow distancing from the Nation of Islam after he learned of the sexual improprieties of the sect’s leader, Elijah Mohammad. This distancing can be seen in these speeches by Malcom’s frequent use of phrasing similar to “As the Honorable Elijah Mohammad teaches ...” Malcolm seems to be passing on the ideas of someone else out of a sense of duty rather than expressing his own beliefs.In the first speech, “Black Man’s History,” the most prominent aspect is its expression of Elijah Mohammad’s account of how the white race, as well as the brown and yellow races, were devolved from the black race, thus making the black race superior to all others. This belief was a core component of the Nation of Islam ideology, and it is helpful to have it detailed in this speech.The second speech, “The Black Revolution,” delivered at Adam Clayton Powell’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, describes the difference between integration, segregation and separation. Malcolm states that the objective of the Nation of Islam is neither integration nor segregation, but separation. He advocated either a return to the African homeland or the designation of an area to be wholly dedicated to blacks, accompanied with twenty to twenty-five years worth of material support as reparations for nearly four hundred years of slavery.The third speech, “The Old Negro and the New Negro,” primarily deals with the issue of racism, white supremacy, and how blacks are portrayed in the media in particular. He speaks about the differences between the “House Negro” and the “Field Negro” during the slavery period, and how those same attitudes were still prevalent in the contemporary world. Finally, he takes the issue of racism to an international level, pointing out that while blacks may be a minority in the US, when combined with blacks internationally, this demographic forms a global majority.In the fourth speech, “God’s Judgment of White America,” Malcolm complains about how the civil rights and black liberation movements had been co-opted by whites. For example, the March on Washington began as a grassroots movement. However, the political establishment in Washington were disturbed by this development, and called on the leaders of the six major black civil rights organizations to exert control over the march. Whites were subsequently added to the march organizers’ leadership and excercised an inordinate level of control.For example, John Lewis, then chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and now a member of the House of Representatives, planned to deliver a militant speech, but it was censored even though he was one of the leaders of the six major civil rights organizations supposedly in control of planning the march. What could have been a powerful expression of black discontent, Malcolm condemned the resulting March on Washington as a circus.This book is very important for the student of Malcolm X. Many of the ideas expressed here were reformulated and attenuated in his speeches after his break with the Nation of Islam. The genesis of some of his later ideas can be found, and some tropes, such as the concepts of the “House Negro” and the “Field Negro,” were lifted in their entirety. This volume provides insight not only into Malcolm’s thought during his period as a minister for the Nation of Islam, but also for his subsequent thought after he broke away from the Nation of Islam in favor of orthodox Islam.

I cannot tell you how much this book brought it home for me, it was like Minister Malcolm X was speaking directly to me. There is so much truth in the words that Minister Malcolm X have said and what he have said is still very true today even after over 50 years after his death. America should understand his true words after carefully previewing what he spoke about you'll see the truth from his perspective. Excellent book please get it and read it from cover to cover it will open your mind about this country.

I Purchased This Book In Germany 1978. It Helped Me To Understand The Cause And Affect Of Lies Told To The Black And White Citizens Of America!

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This book has it's moments, such as "God's Judgement for White America" which speaks of divine revenge for the crimes against Black Americans, but too much of this reflects the period when Malcolm was parroting (his own admission) the cuckoo-patch teachings of Elijah Muhammad for the benefit of the ignorant. "The Black Man's History" is filled with utter madness about Blakc mad scientists creating White people, ad nauseum. Good only for historical purposes. Read the real, sensible stuff from when Malcolm had the sense to cut loose from Elijah's mess, such as "Malcolm X Speaks,' "By Any Means Necessary" etc.

When I was reading this excellent piece, I wondered whatever happened to the fever of the '60? America seems to have too few militant black leaders who are able to articulate possible solutions to our race problems in America. The problems are manifested daily and only the symptoms are newsworthy, never the underlying causes.

This book is sooo good and if you get mad then thats a personal problem, i learned alot from him i believe he was telling the truth about it all and some people will never be able to face those facts ever until its too late