Appendix III
Al-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz
“Malcolm X”
On the Occasion of Hajj
“. . . EVERYWHERE I GO I AM WELCOMED
AS A REPRESENTIVE OF OUR PEOPLE.
OUR STRUGGLE IS KNOWN AND RESPECTED WORLDWIDE.
Coincidentally, there are two white men who follow me around wherever I go. I wonder who they are working for. If I was a betting man I’d say the CIA. What’s your guess?
“. . . Today I arrived in Arabia. I
have never witnessed such sincere hospitality and true brotherhood as practiced
here in the ancient home of Abraham, Muhammad and the great prophets of the
scriptures.
“. . . Today with thousands of
others I proclaimed God’s greatness in the sacred city of Mecca. Wearing
the ihram garb I made my 7 circuits around the KABA. I drank from the well of Zam
Zam. I prayed to ALLAH from Mount Arafat. It was the only time in my life
that I stood before the Creator of All and felt like a complete human being.
“Now you may be shocked by these words, but I have eaten
from the same plate, drunk from the same glass and prayed to the same God with
fellow Muslims whose eyes were blue, whose hair was blond, and whose skin was
the whitest of white and we were all brothers, truly. People
of all colors and races believing in one God, in one humanity.
“Each hour here in this sacred land enables me to have a
greater spiritual insight into what is happening in America. The American Negro
can never be blamed for his racial animosity. He is only reacting to 400 years
of oppression and discrimination. But as racism leads America up the suicidal
path, I do believe that the younger generation will see the handwriting on the
wall and many of them will want to turn to the spiritual path of the truth. The
only way left in this world to ward off the disaster that racism must surely
lead to.
“Once before in prison the truth came
and blinded me. Well it has happened again.
“. . . In the past I have made sweeping indictments of all
white people and these generalizations have caused injury to some white folks
who did not deserve this.
“. . . Because of the spiritual rebirth I was blessed to
undergo as a result of my pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, I no longer
subscribe to sweeping indictments of one race.
I intend to be very careful not to sentence anyone who has not been
proven guilty. I am not a racist and I
do not subscribe to any of the tenets of racism. In all honesty and sincerity it can be stated that I wish nothing
but freedom, justice and equality; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
for all people. Now my first concern of course is with the group to which I
belong, for we more than any others are deprived of our inalienable rights but I believe the true practice of Islam can remove the cancer
of racism from the hearts and souls of all Americans and if I can die having
brought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help destroy
this disease, then all the credit is due to Allah, The Lord of all the Worlds,
and only the mistakes have been mine.”
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