MALCOLM X: It was the fact that you threw 80% of your vote behind the Democrats that put the Democrats in the White House. What do you get out of it? You put them first, and they put you last . . . because you're a chump

Anytime you throw your weight behind a political party,  and that party can't keep the promise that it made to you during election time and you're dumb enough to walk around continuing to identify yourself with that party, you're not only a chump but you're a traitor to your race.  --Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech, April 12, 1964, given at the King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan. 

Trump went to bat for wrongly convicted black Americans. We should all have his back.  https://t.co/5cEMcStp9I

— Winter_Rewind (@WinterRewind) June 5, 2024

MALCOLM X "When you have a revolution in a country, the first thing you take over is the radio. And then you start telling the people and everybody, the war is over . . . and so all of them surrender"

a desperate activist tells Malcolm X that the situation is hopeless as there are too many powerful interests and too few to oppose them. Malcolm's response is as important today as it was then: "Never let your enemy tell you how many of you there are." pic.twitter.com/zwQmCVauSn

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