Josh Clark

So Malcolm X was inside essentially negotiating that the guy should get care and take him to the hospital with the police officials and managed to get them to agree to that.

But the crowd was still angry, wouldn't disperse.

And the cops were trying.

It wasn't very effective.

So Malcolm X went outside and apparently didn't say a word, just waved his hand.

And the crowd stopped yelling and just dispersed.

And apparently the I think the police commissioner witnessed this and was like, that's too much power for any one man to have, especially somebody who believes that the black race is going to take over from the white race and that the white race is all devils like that.

That scared them tremendously.

And it also really caught their attention.

He it put him on their radar essentially forever.

Yeah, I saw that, too.

And not just the FBI, but also the NYPD.

Just let it happen.

So just real quick, Chuck, I say we take a break in a second and talk about his break with the Nation of Islam.

But I just wanted to kind of give a thumbnail sketch of like what he was saying.

You can go listen.

You should start with maybe the ballot or the bullet is a great speech that gets his point across from this era.

But essentially what he was saying is black people have to learn to do for themselves everything.

Integrating and then saying like, you know, hey, let's all just share from the same pot with white people isn't going to work because white people will always hang it over you.

So we have to figure out how to do it ourselves using the Nation of Islam.