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Malcolm X and John Brown

In a previous article, I discussed the Qur'anic/Islamic obligation of people classified as "white" and who self-classify as "Muslim" to reject the globally operating system of Racism (White Supremacy) and become "race traitors".

In a later piece, I stated that a race traitor who claims to be a muslim must shun/reject/avoid thought, speech and/or action that promotes the maintenance, expansion and/or refinement of the system of Racism (White Supremacy). This is a "negative" statement in that it states what a (Muslim) race traitor must NOT do, rather than what they must DO. The same article also referred to the higher standing with God/Allah of those (Muslim) race traitors struggling in His way which, in the contemporary context, would include those struggling to replace Racism (White Supremacy) with Justice.

However, the article also maintained that it was not necessary for a (Muslim) race traitor to become a John (or Jane) Brown and get personally involved in an armed struggle against the dominant, contemporary manifestation of TAAGHOOT [=Tyranny]; if such race traitors could not "get on board", it sufficed for them to simply "get out of the way." The take home message for non-white victims of Racism (White Supremacy) is: "Don't hold your breath." In short, be realistic in your expectations as to what those who CLAIM to be "good white people" will do in order to RWSWJ (Replace White Supremacy With Justice).

Nonetheless, IMHO, the figure of John Brown should be a motivating example for race traitors, Muslim and otherwise, and so, in this post, I reproduce two brief pieces by the late Malcolm X (Al-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz). The first, "The John Brown School", is a comment on nonviolent white "liberals" and is followed by seminal counter-Racist analyst, Neely Fuller Jr's definition of the term "liberal"; the second piece, "What Kind of Allies?" is a comment on the necessary conditions for a white/non-white alliance.

The John Brown School

There are many white people in this country, especially the younger generation, who realise that the injustice that has been done and is being done to black people cannot go on without the chickens coming home to roost eventually. And those white people, even if they're not morally motivated, their intelligence forces them to see that something must be done. And many of them would be willing to involve themselves in the type of operation that your were just talking about.

For one, when a white man comes to me and tells me how liberal he is, the first thing I want to know, is he a nonviolent liberal, or the other kind. I don't go for any nonviolent white liberals. If you are for me and my problems - when I say me, I mean us, our people - then you have to be willing to do as old John Brown did. And if you're not of the John Brown school of liberals, we'll get you later - later.

Answer to question, Militant Labour Forum, 7 January 1965. Reproduced from Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements. Edited with Prefatory Notes by G. Breitman. New York: Grove Press, 1965, pp.224-225.

Seminal counter-Racist analyst, Neely Fuller Jr., defines a "liberal" as follows:

(1) A white person who speaks and/or acts to maintain White Supremacy (Racism) by using a greatly refined form of deceit. The deceit that is used by such persons is so refined that it is usually very acceptable, comfortable, and satisfying to the Victims [non-white people].

(2) Any white person who seeks to maintain White Supremacy through the use of deceit, greatly refined.

Fuller provides a detailed explanation of this definition which is important and so I reproduce it here verbatim:

Explanation:

In a socio-material system dominated by White Supremacy (Racism), a "liberal" is a "refined" White Supremacists (Racist). The "liberal" Racist, both male and female, is ofttimes characterized by the following:

(1) Handling, lending, and/or granting money for curing "specified" physical and/or "social" ills among non-white people, while making certain that none is used effectively against White Supremacy (Racism).

(2) Moving among non-white people as teachers of subjects that are "interesting", but not effective in helping non-white people to eliminate Racism and/or in producing justice and correctness.

(3) Providing and encouraging various forms of entertainment that have the effect of diverting the attention of non-white people away from serious matters such as economics, education, politics, etc.

(4) Working "closely with" non-white people in a manner that he and/or she can watch and study them, and control their thinking more directly and efficiently.

(5) Making suggestions to non-white people that are "attractive", but are functionally designed to indirectly make non-white people to render better service to White Supremacy.

(6) Using religion as a means of division and deception and to gain greater influence over their Victims [non-white people].

(7) Using sex, an/or anti-sex, in any form that increases the influence of the White Supremacists over the sexual conduct of their Victims.

"Liberal" Racists (both male and female) promote Racism by engaging in sexual activity with non-white people and/or against non-white people.

The "liberal" Racist woman is skilled in promoting damaging influence among non-white people through the lustful presentation and use of her body.

(8) Using non-white people to fight any people, white or non-white, in such manner that White Supremacy is made stronger.

(9) Presenting themselves to non-white people as being people who are "not really white" in a racial sense, but who are "Christian", "Jew", "Moslem" "Marxist" "Aristocrat" "Liberal" etc.

They do this to confuse non-white people. They do this to eliminate the question of whether a so-called "liberal" is, or is not, a White Supremacist (Racist). They do this as a means of evading discussion of Racism as pertains to themselves. The so-called "liberal" Racist uses some non-white people, to do harm to some white people, if he or she judges it to be necessary to help maintain, expand, and/or, especially refine the practice of White Supremacy.

The so-called "liberal" Racist is an "up-to-date" Racist.

"Liberal" Racists avoid "petty" and/or "nit-picking" forms of Racism.

"Liberal" Racists will kill-and/or intimidate those white people who practice more direct and obvious forms of Racism, with the intention of getting all white people to practice Racism in a form that is more refined.

The "liberal" White Supremacist considers him or her self to be "smarter" than "other" White Supremacists.

The "liberal" White Supremacists makes plans for a world in which the Victims of White Supremacy (all non-white people) will come to "enjoy" White Supremacy so much that they will never wish to exist in any way other than as subjects to the White Supremacists (Racists).

What Kind of Allies?

We need allies who are going to help us achieve a victory, not allies who are going to tell us to be nonviolent. If a white man wants to be an ally, ask him what does he think of John Brown. You know what John Brown did? He went to war. He was a white man who went to war against white people to help free slaves. He wasn't nonviolent. White people call John Brown a nut. Go read the history, go read what all of them say about John Brown. They're trying to make it look like he was a nut, a fanatic. They made a movie on it - I saw a movie on the scren one night. Why, I would be afriad to get near John Brown if I go by what other white folks say about him.

But they depict him in this image because he was willing to shed blood to free the slaves. And any white man who is ready and willing to shed blood for your freedom - in the sight of other whites, he's nuts. As long as he wants to come up with some nonviolent action, they go for that. If he's liberal, nonviolent liberal, love-everybody liberal. But when it comes time for making the same contribution for your and my freedom that was necessary to make for their own freedom they back out of the situation. So when you want to know good white folks in history where Black people are concerned, go read the history of John Brown. That was what I called a liberal, a white liberal. But those other kind, they are questionable.

So if we need white allies in this country, we don't need those kind who compromise. We don't need those kind who encourage us to be polite, responsible, you know. We don't need those kind who give us that kind of advice. We don't need those kind who tell us how to be patient. No, if we want some white allies, we need the kind that John Brown was, or we don't need you.

And the only way to get those kind is to turn in a new direction.

From "The Second Rally of the OAAU," 5 July 1964. Reproduced from Malcolm X on Afro-American History. New York: Pathfinder, 1967, p.78.

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