“‘The white man is a minority in the world who is fast losing his power, and it is better for him to get his business settled now before he loses all his power and his enemies decide to settle his business for him,’ Malcolm X told a capacity crowd in Pendleton Hall yesterday afternoon.

“In his speech on ‘Integration and Separation,’ the disciple of Messenger Elijah Muhammad, spiritual leader of the Black Muslims, attempted to explain the goals and motivating forces of the movement.

“The doctrine of the movement advocates separation as opposed to integration. However, separation is distinguished from segregation, the force of a superior over an inferior. Separation, according to Malcolm X, is agreed upon by equals. 

White Man Hypocrite

“The doctrine of separation is deemed necessary by the followers of the Honorable Elijah Mohammad [sic] because integration is only evidence of the white man’s hypocrisy. Malcolm X exclaimed that this was true because ‘if they (the white Americans) were for it (integration), they would have it’ since this government rules by the will of the majority.

“The American Negro, according to Malcolm X, is on the whole against integration ‘which at the best is merely token integration.’ The Black voice of dissent, he claimed ‘is quieted by those Negroes who speak as puppets of the white power structure.’

Integration is Token

“‘This token integration,’ he elaborated ‘doesn’t solve any problem for the mass of the Negroes, only for the handpicked “bourgeois” Negro.[’]

“The Black Muslim Movement, though, is an accurate reflection of the opinions of the mass of the Negroes in America, according to Malcolm X. This is evidenced by two facts: 1) it is the fastest growing Negro organization in the country and 2) the strength of all other Negro groups is decreasing. For example the NAACP allegedly lost 15,000 in membership in the past year.

Membership Masked

“But nevertheless, despite this large and increasing following ‘You don’t Know who is a Muslim and who isn’t. Your maid, your butler may be one.’ The Muslims do not always reveal their affiliation with the group since it may endanger their position if they are working for a white establishment. 

“The movement is not only a reform group. It is quite definitely a religious group according to Minister Malcolm. They are followers of Islam, which was defined by Malcolm X to mean ‘complete submission to one God.’ They accept all the prophets as prophets of God and believe that we are now living in the days of the final judgment.

Days of Judgement

“This is further reason not to integrate with the white man. ‘We don’t want to unite because we feel that God is going to destroy those white societies and governments because they are corrupt.’ The Muslims strive to ‘bring about a moral reformation through a complete elimination of crime.’

“Malcolm X calls this reformation ‘cleaning up the mess made by the white people.’ In the Black Muslim community, he claims, there is no dope addiction, adultery, fornication, or juvenile delinquency.

“‘All we want is a chance. If we have it there can be peaceful relations between the black and white man,’ he concluded. ‘All of the immorality in every city exists in our community. The Black woman has no respect. We want to restore self pride in the Negro,’ who has been deprived of it by the white society.”