Josh Clark

So now this is the break.

This is the schism.

And at this point now, the nation of Islam is doing everything they can to mock and discredit Malcolm X and say that he was a turncoat and a Benedict Arnold and a hypocrite.

And Malcolm X just gave it right back.

One of the first things he did was to tell the media that Elijah Muhammad had kids out of wedlock with teenage girls that were around him.

He said that he had eight kids with six teenage secretaries.

And he just told it to the press.

And that was a really big deal.

And I think at that point, he realized like he had just taken his life into his own hands.

Yeah.

He told Martin Luther King, like, I'm all in.

He founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

He was trying to essentially teach Black Americans about their African heritage.

But at the same time, he had also zoomed in on this idea that

He needed to take the struggle for American civil rights to the world like the U.N.

or the African Congress and basically say, hey, this is the same thing.

This is part of the black struggle worldwide.

Like this is part of this global problem.

It's not separate.

It's not its own thing.