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American Black rights activist (1925–1965)
Malcolm X’s 1964 speeches, especially “The Ballot or the Bullet,” deliver a forceful, sustained critique that by promising reform without delivering substantive change, and by preserving structures th...
Malcolm X castigated a specific category he called in his 1964 rhetoric, charging they posed as allies while undermining Black self-determination and political power. Contemporary transcriptions and l...
Malcolm X’s 1964 “The Ballot or the Bullet” speech clearly criticizes as unreliable allies who often make false promises, play a “political con game,” and treat Black people as expendable pawns in bro...
Yes — Malcolm X repeatedly criticized "white liberals" in his speeches and writings; a commonly cited line is "The white liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the Black man," a ...
Malcolm X portrayed in the Civil Rights Movement, arguing they posed as friends while perpetuating systems of racial control; he urged Black self-reliance and political independence instead of trustin...
Malcolm X argued that , describing them as more dangerous than overt racists because they deceived and deflected Black demands for self-determination . Contemporary summaries and primary quotes trace ...
Malcolm X did not use the exact formulation "It was the liberals who killed the black man's spirit by convincing him he was still oppressed" in the provided sources, but he repeatedly and explicitly c...
Malcolm X drew a sharp distinction between white liberals and white conservatives to warn Black Americans that well-meaning rhetoric could mask political manipulation — arguing that conservatives are ...
Malcolm X drew a sharp distinction between , portraying liberals as the more insidious obstacle to Black freedom because they disguised domination behind rhetoric of sympathy, while conservatives expr...
During his years as a Nation of Islam (NOI) minister (roughly 1952–1964), Malcolm X publicly embraced NOI teachings that characterized white people as oppressive and even as “devils,” arguing whites w...
Malcolm X’s critiques of “white liberals” remain to debates inside contemporary social justice movements, because they foreground tensions between rhetorical allyship and substantive power sharing, an...
By 1964 Malcolm X had publicly shifted from categorical denunciations of all white people toward a more targeted critique: he continued to condemn "white liberals" as hypocritical and harmful to Black...
Malcolm X initially argued for Black rather than integration, rejecting the premise that African Americans should merge into what he called a corrupt white nation and instead urging self-determination...
Malcolm X repeatedly portrayed white liberals after leaving the Nation of Islam as , arguing they posed as friends while ultimately protecting the white establishment. Contemporary analyses of his 196...
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, 1925–1965) rose from a troubled youth and prison sentence to become the Nation of Islam’s most visible minister and national spokesman, articulating Black nationalism, ...
Malcolm X’s public stance toward white conservatives moved from categorical rejection of white-led reform and a focus on racial separation to a more complex, internationally framed critique that opene...
Malcolm X spent much of the 1950s and early 1960s publicly excoriating “white liberals” as dangerous, hypocritical actors in the struggle for Black freedom, and the reporting provided records those su...
Malcolm X’s 1964 denunciations of “white liberals” — calling them false friends who “have failed us” and even “the worst enemy to the Black man” — were explicit and recurring themes in his speeches . ...
Malcolm X argued in the 1960s that the than overt racists because liberals pretended friendship while preserving a system that kept Black Americans disenfranchised and dependent. His remedy emphasized...
Malcolm X’s Nation of Islam (NOI) years (roughly 1952–early 1964) contain multiple speeches and published remarks that explicitly cast “the white man” as the principal enemy of Black people and that a...