Josh Clark

And he was worried also that, you know, it would it would scare the white coalition that he'd helped build to support the civil rights movement away from the civil rights movement.

All of a sudden he's like, oh, yeah.

And also this guy's philosophy, too.

We're going to incorporate the race war.

Yeah.

He had every reason to stay away from Malcolm X and frankly, kind of wisely did.

But like you said, this was the media saying, like, you got Malcolm X, you got MLK.

And that was like both of them kind of fostered that idea, because if you had Malcolm X and, you know, you didn't listen to MLK, then we were going to go the Malcolm X way as far as America was concerned in the near future.

So we should probably go the way that Martin Luther King is suggesting.

Exactly.

Yeah.

I think it was kind of like how food companies price fix.

They don't have secret meetings, but they just kind of make signals in the market in public.

And that's kind of what I think they were doing.

They were working together without actively working together.

So, yeah, and I mean, he was like really outspoken about what he thought about Dr. Martin Luther King.

He called him a fool and Uncle Tom.

He also said that he was subsidized by the white man, that the—

essentially, again, that white people had taken over the real levers of power with the civil rights movement and that it was completely useless now.

But even if that weren't the case, he was such a critic of the civil rights movement because he was basically saying like,