In the world of politics, “racism” is less of a threat to the American voter and more of a weapon to cower the competition. If there is a common goal, in the political world you people on opposite sides of the spectrum coming together to make it happen. We call it “Bipartisanship”. While at times this could be celebrated as a good thing, the truth is that in many cases both sides usual end up compromising on the very principles they claim to live by.
Back in 1961, the Nation of Islam and the American Nazi Party agreed to work together to achieve their goal of a Divided States of America. So think about it. While the NOI was blasting away Whites for their racism and Jim Crow laws, they were working with some of the most racist Whites to keep the races separate.
When George Lincoln Rockwell, Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X Shared the Same Stage
William H. Schmaltz
June 25, 1961
One of the most important missions the ANP undertook in the summer of 1961 was an attempt to form an alliance with the Black Muslims and their leader, Elijah Muhammad. From its inception the ANP [American Nazi Party] had referred to African Americans as “niggers” and had affirmed the premise that they were mentally inferior to whites, but Rockwell became enchanted with the idea of a coalition; Nazis and Black Muslims could be allies, since they both sought the same goal—separation of the races. Rockwell told his followers that Muhammad…
‘…has gathered millions of the dirty, immoral, drunken, filthy-mouthed, lazy and repulsive people sneeringly called ‘niggers’ and inspired them to the point where they are clean, sober, honest, hard working, dignified, dedicated and admirable human beings in spite of their color. . . . Muhammad knows that mixing is a Jewish fraud and leads only to aggravation of the problems that it is supposed to solve. . . . I have talked to the Muslim leaders and am certain that a workable plan for separation of the races could be effected to the satisfaction of all concerned—except the communist-Jew agitators.’
Black Muslim cooperation with Rockwell and the Ku Klux Klan went beyond ideology and rhetoric. There were practical implications. Like his white racist counterparts, Elijah Muhammad believed that interracial sexual relations were morally depraved and genetically destructive, for interracial sex “ruins and destroys a people.” Rhetoric aside, he wanted to establish a truce between racists and his Southern mosques. To this end he sent Malcolm X to Atlanta to accompany Jeremiah X, the local Muslim minister of Atlanta, to a secret meeting with members of the Klan. Both sides discussed race relations. Malcolm described the integration movement as a Jewish conspiracy carried out by black stooges. The parties eventually hammered out the main issue: a nonaggression pact. If the Muslims did not aid the civil rights movement in the South, the mosques would be undisturbed.
More where that came from here.
I guess Spike Lee couldn’t include this fit this part of history in this 3-hour flick on Malcolm X.
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