This is from 1963:
In this deceitful American game of power politics, the Negroes (i.e., the race problem, the integration and civil rights issues) are nothing but tools, used by one group of whites called Liberals against another group of whites called Conservatives, either to get into power or to remain in power.
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The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative.
Both want power, but the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro’s friend and benefactor; and by winning the friendship, allegiance, and support of the Negro, the white liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or tool in this political “football game” that is constantly raging between the white liberals and white conservatives.
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The white conservatives aren’t friends of the Negro either, but they at least don’t try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the “smiling” fox.
http://faithinactiononline.com/2008/06/malcolm-x-on-white-liberals/
If Malcolm was alive today and read DU, he would probably be saying the same thing. While I don't entirely agree with him, I do think he was on to something. A lot of discussion of race on this site has relatively little to do with how blacks in America actually live. It's mostly centered around using race as another way to say how much one doesn't like conservatives. I think that's part of what Malcolm was saying here. Too often liberals use the black community as a tool with which to bludgeon the right . . . a tool that is quickly put away and forgotten as soon as the bludgeoning has taken place.
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