Message To The Grass Roots - Malcolm X

November 10, 1963
Malcolm X delivers speech Message to the Grass Roots
Northern Grass Roots Leadership Conference
Detroit, Michigan

[@aliissa6739]

“When it’s time to bleed for your own kind, you ain’t got no blood” I’ll never forget this line.

[@CustomFitted]

That was way too real

[@shax3403]

Still applies today unfortunately smh

[@mocancer8485]

Where did this self hate curse come from?..post traumatic slave disorder or what...someone smarter than me educate me

[@karriemburton9024]

He is right....blackman check yourself!

[@karriemburton9024]

If you not gonna be violent when its justified how could u be violent when it is not justified...? He is spot on!

[@TheRealnigga1ify]

listening to malcolm x is better than listening to hip hop!

[@bbygrltarot]

eh, they both have a place

[@riflechess7693]

@@bbygrltarot *#FACT**!!!*

[@chinenyeohanehi3674]

Malcolm x epitomized hip hop. Hip means a form of knowledge, while hop, means a kind of movement. So, hip hop means an intelligent movement. Hip hop died with tupac in America.

[@kingdomhelper1937]

What a stupid comparison in my opinion, degrading to the man. He was greater than mlk

[@alivejokesonyoucom3170]

Amen!👏👏👏👏

[@kwameaboagye121]

Baba Malcolm is so dynamic as well as defiant. He told it unapologetically as well as evidently. He was full of wisdom truth knowledge and understanding 100%.

[@CautionCU]

One of the best speeches in American history.

[@akamed183]

World history!

[@muhammadbaksh3572]

By the best man in the history of America

[@Millionz20c]

Malcolm was a beast, he stood on everything he said

[@crunkaholic81]

thats why the establishment got rid of a true visionary he would have been influentual enough to disrupt the system in place and still in place

[@mocancer8485]

@@crunkaholic81 preach

[@ladyt.thompson8992]

The way to be a man of your word like Malcolm.

[@ALIENDNA14]

He was not "a beast." This truly enlightened and refined gentleman, was actually a gift to humanity...

[@michaell8002]

He's not a beast. He's not a defensive tackle.

[@ambilisamson5856]

His speeches are a great cure to my everyday stress. Being an African and now resident in germany 🇩🇪 I listing to his speeches everyday and even recommended it to my many African brothers and sisters. I wished I was born in his time .

[@blackism4everokpeyen871]

You have been born in that era as far you are black you’re still facing the same struggle till today

[@claudejackson1555]

​@KZbininterferes Inelections yeah Xcluded from any form of intelligence

[@billyb4790]

lol Germany let’s you into their country by their good graces and you wish you were born into 1960s America? 🙄 Just goes to show you how people WANT to be oppressed because they think it’s cool or something.

[@maremarechiqk]

Malcolm X, the king of throwing shade. This man was a GENIUS! I stand by everything he says :)

[@Dr_Mjulus]

True

[@d-1beats]

This wasn't shade, this was direct shots with evidence lol

[@theeyeopener4141]

@@d-1beats Yesss he knows how to throw shots.

[@amengrada2568]

True.. And always painfull to us to accept that he is no longer on this earth where we need him the most.

[@brodocbetty4856]

This man was simply Brilliant.

[@mikewhittle9154]

This man's words and voice were impressed upon my mind when I was 13.

[@kwameaboagye-cl9me]

Baba Malcolm X is the man. Honest bold selfless and unapologetic.

[@charlesstevens6705]

This is who I follow and have been since 1970 because the truth if it changes only evolves, and Malcolm's words ring true even today in 20 now now,and is still current at this writing,and his speeches and writings still are quenching we babies with the pablum of truth and righteousness ! I listen to Malcolm at least once a week and have it around my Grandchildren, this is the rap they need to hear !! I am 64 years of age and I have seen a few things and we are a loving people, be not deceived, just dont give up .

[@thelastshallbefirst6531]

Dick Gregory was at his from the 60s to the early 2000s. Pull up some of his speeches posted by UCLA. Dr Francis Cress Welsing, Neely Fuller, Tony Brown, and the list is so exhaustive. Their generation had to know what they were talking about, and how to articulate around the sticky tricks of the racists of their day. They didn't sugar coat or use flowery words. They stated facts that to this day I have been able to research and get better understanding since I came of age in the 90s around the drug epidemic, high black incarceration, downturn in the economy, Persian Gulf War, and a widowed mother raising four teenagers. Those were some bleak days, we could not even talk about slavery and the repercussions without hatred and anger building up. Generation X had to grow up quickly while exhibiting reckless behavior. It is only by the grace of God I even survived that Era- so many obstacles and racists older whites in the workplace was one such thing.

[@fasteddie9055]

I eye witnessed Malcolm X preaching on Harlem's West 125th St in 1962. I also had visited the St. Theresa Hotel during the 1960 Castro/Malcolm X reunion there. I was a young teenager and I never realized that I was seeing all this history with my own 2 eyes. TY Malcolm X for being a lifetime role model and mentor. I read AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X by Alex Haley in 1968 and I've used it my personal motivational publication ever since. BTW. I don't eat any swine either.

[@JayTheAdviceGuy]

0:19 to 0:32. Any 80's baby who wasn't yet born when Malcolm was alive recognizes the words spoken in those 13 seconds. In case you don't know, it was the intro to the CLASSIC song by the Stop The Violence Movement called "Self Destruction."

[@voicecommunities4810]

100%!

[@HatesRacists]

Everyone in 2020 needs to listen to this

[@voicecommunities4810]

100% You stated my exact thoughts... Everybody in 2022 should listen to this video!

[@travistommy8864]

My favorite part is that when he stopped speaking and acting hatefully, he was killed by black nationalists.

[@ChristopherLee1002]

2023 and beyond...as well😊

[@SaiyanGamer95]

Most people know about it because it was used in Sonic Rush. It was also used in Bebe's Kids for the SNES.

[@HatesRacists]

@@SaiyanGamer95 Way to tell your age

[@deneengrant2086]

As brilliant as any PhD, yet he had a 9th grade education. This man was the truth!

[@kwameaboagye940]

Malcolm is a genius he can give an Oxford, a Harvard and a Princeton student a run for their money. Malcolm was too good

[@muhammadbaksh3572]

This proves that education is not a measure of how educated a person is

[@Koketso_Gololo]

School doesn't make you intelligent

[@luimilnegron428]

There is a difference between education and schooling. Malcolm X may not have completed high school but he educated himself and was a voracious reader.

[@zillionpowers7495]

Considering he had a white teacher tell him he shouldn’t want to be a lawyer when he grows up and should instead be a carpenter or work with his hands, I’dve dropped out too.

[@Mylife_107]

Man listening to this brother gives me encouragement

[@denniselly7867]

This is one of the best informative speeches I’ve heard. X was truly a great leader.

[@obadiahhotep5010]

I've Followed Bro. Malcolm X All My Life Me And My Dad Used To Listen To Him On The Radio And Watched Him On Television.

[@kwameaboagye-cl9me]

My favourite Baba Malcolm's speech the Black Revolution fifty years ago.

[@cuzallen9323]

I'm ready for a revolution

[@tiptoe38]

Start with taking your community back.

[@RileyFreeman_]

tyrone sanford or the country that we built

[@brodyb1985]

Let's do it! FreedomWhere? I love all my brothers Let's get together and not let our brother Malcom die in vain.

[@keithwilliams180]

my idol my hero peace and blessings to all of mankind

[@andersonarmstrong2650]

Try not to idolise him.His words come from God and are filled with love.

[@AlmerJean]

This man speaks the truth

[@kwameaboagye-cl9me]

Ase

[@robertwalker7010]

Don’t give me a gun and tell me to go kill the enemy I won’t have that far to go. Priceless.

[@donrichardson2829]

I still have this album on vinyl. "Message to the grass roots". Priceless!

[@lahomerwashington5269]

Rip to a for ever Legend.Malcolm X.

[@justmyopinion9883]

Minsister Malcolm's words are still true today. RIP, Minister Malcolm. October 16, 2022.

[@duckwideman3166]

Malcolm x the leader we need today

[@alphathefirstone1222]

Why wait,,be the leader today !!!

[@mocancer8485]

@@alphathefirstone1222 yup

[@kapambwekapambwe4131]

The sad thing about todays generation is we have plenty of individuals just like Malcolm x still preaching about uniting but get zero support.

[@claudejackson1555]

Amen to that, the man who arranged the platform for this meeting was Rev.Albert B Cleage he spoke earlier on the program, Malcolm encouraged those who were Christian to join his church he mentioned Rev.Cleage a few times in this speech, Rev.Cleage dedicated his life to the liberation and salvation of black people, developed the institutions and black people weren't ready then and aren't ready today, there is a lot information coming out on Rev.Cleage on line here lately, if you want to hear an intelligent and courageous black man speak research this giant

[@Chalando.9431]

Nah they aren’t just like him, their like themselves. And they don’t have the power of the people like him.

[@ALIENDNA14]

@@Chalando.9431 Bingo!!! Plus, just because you have a bunch of people out there fussing about this or that, that still doesn't also equate to the oratory skills, of Malcolm X. LOL!

[@jacqulinnepoulard9843]

The evil government kill is body but can't kill his soul that is in heaven and they sure can't kill his truth i was born in 1968 most of this great man prophesies was before I was born but am listening in December 2019 and I will listen till I take my last breath for sure rest with the angles brother malcolm x the great we love you forever amen

[@mocancer8485]

Amen

[@cherriesheppardclemons375]

Amen

[@rutgersmarine2065]

Malcolm, Malcolm, Malcolm!!! Outstanding!!!

[@kwameaboagye121]

"IF VIOLENCE IS WRONG IN AMERICA, WHEN WE ARE DEFENDING OURSELVES, THEN AMERICA IS WRONG BY DRAFTING US, IN DEFENCE OF HER". Baba Malcolm X

[@melokulekumalo2225]

This one amazingly intelligent Brother. I make sure my children understand him and his goals of true freedom for us as a people. Ubuntu Ma'at Ase'🙏🏿

[@JBrown2222]

Love this man!! You will never be accepted into America society.

[@nomibe2911]

This is Malcolm alright. The sound is a little distorted but that is him.

[@69RedRooster]

this is such an important speech in the lives of african americans. because it represents the time before malcolm breaks with the nation of islam and converts to true islam. this grassroots message is necessary for its time, yet still rings true today-

[@elrededwards863]

We Africans know our history because of mx we all can learn and be better know self

[@donrichardson2829]

I am almost 70,. My sister's boyfriend would take me with him to the mosques around Detroit. Heard Malcolm once. Too young to understand then.

[@vojake100]

"They wanted some land, not some France" omg can't get over this guy.

[@mattbunts7513]

I Love Malcolm X. So intelligent well spoken with Meaning.

[@kerronscottflippin3014]

Be Aware of Being Called "Well Spoken." It's Subliminal Sarcasm.

[@code-breakers4211]

we must remember our leaders and not forget or pick sides but remember they time and what they did for the people and keep it pushing teach the youth because they are broadcasting one and not the other or separating the truth not supporting all the master leaders in todays society and schools so we must keep the good word going my brothers and sister FORREEAL! WE MUST BLEED FOR OUR CHILDRED

[@williamdillard5060]

Malcolm X was DIVINE. TTHATS why he was taken from us. NONE of us were around during Jesus time so we don't know FOR SURE if that's how it went down. But we or someone in our own family, KNEW MALCOLM X. Like right now we HEAR the melodic beauty of his truth. We can read what Alex Haley, Manning Marable and other great writers have written. Malcolm X is A Prophet. That's how I study this brilliant, disciplined, passionate GENIUS.

[@karriemburton9024]

"I hate to say this about us, but it's TRUE! How u gonna be non-violent in Mississippi as violent as you were in Vietnam?"

[@presidentmeeks1656]

We need our own schools because Every single Black boy and Black Girls needs to learn who Malcolm X was it is unacceptable how many Black people don't know who Malcolm X was

[@shafondasheppard6543]

I agree with Mr. X, our people do have a very serious problem!!

[@blazinghot99]

Damn, this man was way ahead of his time. I wonder if the black race would be better off had he lived. Smh

[@Kerisa.Aleman]

Indeed!

[@iluvpac804]

blazinghot99 definitely

[@isiahmatthews]

You can never be ahead of time for justice equal rights equality freedom

[@robertwalker7010]

Malcolm was ahead of our time try and catch up.

[@demetricewilliams5232]

He wasn't ahead of his time. He was RIGHT ON TIME!!! 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾

[@ibi4all]

The Quran teaches Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. Malcolm X

[@mikethomas5231]

ibi4all: 👍👍👍👍👍.

[@randyff850]

The Great Malcom X.

[@franktalk5037]

*Happy birthday, Malik Shabazz!*

[@TraitofSiNN727]

his words united everyone. this Malcolm was strong with words. like a warrior weld a sword of strength.

[@XzavrZiied]

U LEFT YOUR MIND IN AFRICA...A CLASSIC JUST LIKE HIM.

[@laylaali5977]

Another great speech by great Malcolm X

[@thehottake8197]

My bro Malcolm had a way with words 💕

[@debracecchi]

If Only We Could Clone this Man! 👑 B1-FBA Grassroots

[@pamelagreenlee6134]

The date of this speech is phenomenal.

[@necolehill9235]

America has developed an Empire on the idea of "race", a falsehood that damages all people but tends to fall heaviest on the backs of black people. An awakening needs to happen amongst us. There is a very good book I'm reading that puts this into prospective entitled "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

[@gking407]

Anyone can listen to this to learn, heal, and come together. The need is great and the time is short

[@bigmag77]

Malcolm X was brilliant!

[@teshuvahemmet3036]

🔥 TRUTH IS 🔥 TRUTH I'M TIRED OF WORDS AND NO ACTION I'M READY TO DIE FOR WHAT IS RIGHT ARE YOU? THE SAVOR GAVE HIS LIFE 🤔 FOR THE TRUTH

[@namelesszazen301]

im white ..he was right. such a intelligent man...i love hearing his speeches.

[@qqqcalls]

You are the enemy to the black people and you know it?

[@rashad5360]

R 😂😂😂😂😂

[@rashad5360]

nameless zazen Are you admitting the fact that you are the devil?

[@pepieverage6788]

So much respect for this man,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[@ericVH38]

In the first thirty seconds of this two of these sound bits are used in gigantically popular songs. Crazy

[@raehik]

Too black, too strong. Too black, too strong. Too black, too strong. Thanks Hideki Naganuma for sampling this speech and making it some reasonably epic final music!

[@ronancurtis2616]

Also Living Color and Gang Starr

[@blackseedfoundation7078]

FIGHT THE POWER #Public Enemy

[@jabberwocky534]

This is at the beginning of Bring the Noise by Public Enemy. Peace

[@Bdavis06516]

That's the intro to self destruction

[@getinetkifle3341]

It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it’ll put you to sleep. This is what they did with the march on Washington.

[@sachi2k]

Listening to this is hard. Because it's like we're dealing with the same problems today. We've awakened again!

[@rashida60cb]

Brother Malcolm All Day.. Always on Time...Blessings

[@user-ry5ls8mg7v]

Listening to the message’s over and over is a good shot of information for the soul!

[@jrjoseph9213]

It is strange that on this specific topic even the great Malcom X did not mention the Haitian revolution...The West make sure to silence one of the best revolution in the history of mankind.

[@motherofdragons33]

1804

[@SleepyNeo]

I think he was getting there towards the end of his life. In another speech he mentions that revolution is hitting Latin America. I can only imagine what would have been had Malcolm and Che joined forces, plus the red brothers.

[@calioumarx4289]

Facts 💯

[@Dalize2006]

Thank you Malcolm X ❤

[@damonte6821]

my idol and spiritual teacher

[@mafundi421]

It is acknowledged that this is Malcolm's voice. If you listen to the original vinyl recording of this speech you will hear this same tone. It is the recording devise that was used...remember we didn't possess the recording technology as we have today.

[@hassanabdullah5023]

Courtesy of Milton Henry ,,Ed Vaughn and Reverend Cleage in Detroit 1963 at King Solomon Baptist church.

[@syrzelhenderson6269]

He's exactly 💯right!! Can you imagine what he would say about a lot of these idiots out here putting all their business in the street with Facebook and acting a damn fool!! Shameful!!

[@keithdra]

Malcolm X now and than. nuff said

[@AB2Ancient]

We must recognize the American system has never been in our benefit. Once we do as a collective this shit is over with.

[@musamusashi]

A fragment in the beginning was also sampled for the beginning of Living Colour's debut album.

[@utahmay9039]

We can't as people change the environments we live in, but we can control our thoughts and the choices we make we can determine truth and that's all our future generations need in this great race

[@lakeshamcallister]

Love all types of ppl not just one!! There's bad and good and all

[@sankofah9716]

You won't find people like him on the ballot. So ask yourself, who are you really voting for? Did you select your leader or was your leader selected for you?

[@LordLuckyGodspeed]

One of the Great Ones .......🇲🇦

[@_drboyce]

Peace and blessings

[@karriemburton9024]

Truth!!

[@kwameaboagye-cl9me]

In our African educational institutions such as our schools and colleges, we must teach our youths about Malcolm X, especially in Africa.

[@crystalgonzales8826]

Everything he saying is true.

[@King_jernigan]

He spitting that super hot fire

[@noorshaaban4678]

Listening to this dude is down right addictive fr....

[@tafari988]

Words never dies 🙏

[@heywardsanders1680]

Transformation, the mental is greater than the physical transformation. Life is like a highway with vehicles moving different ways knowing their destinations. The body where created with a control center to help navigate towards their destination. Which we understand, but shutdown when life fighting to hold us down. Where something inside us forces a limited movement or a complete stop. Or some let others take control of their movement, not really caring where it going. All my adult life I had some great experiences, riding at the bottom. Fighting hard to get back up, not where I left off, but higher. The education I experience fighting trying not to fall, help bring better insight. Allow me not to quit and let someone else control my destination. Which I will lose all aggression, meaning the mind go dead. And the body be running around like a jackass not having a thought. Of what it is doing to itself because the control center is off. When one set out to hurt themselves their control center is off. When one leave their life in someone else's hand their control center is off. When one thoughts are cloudy allow them to make all the wrong decisions. Their control center is off, but is easy to restart it back up. Like I stated earlier, being down help you see better for your next great move. I remember the system create a mind control behaviors, kept things separated and under full control. During my time it was, Diamond in the Back sunroof top Diggin the scene with a Gangsta Lean. Everyone dive in following the system design, where today we still have some incarcerated from the early seventies, many die inside prison, and a lot taken on different lifestyles, but the new generation forgot the pain people went through. I wonder what the new programmer's future will be. See what some don't realize, those who put in place to promote a new transformation of our personality, is being directed by others who interest is corporate power. Which those lose their minds are under the corporate power pushing the body to perform as they see fit. Believe what I say money is not power because most are under someone else's control. Who will program many as possible to eliminate how some think against them. Program America is a system created all kinds of tools to steal your brain.

[@kwameaboagye940]

So called civil rights doesn’t help Africans at all than human rights. Brother Malcolm is more for human rights than civil rights. Malcolm is either a revolutionary, a nationalist or a Pan African leader

[@kylemerhi1720]

LOOK IN MY EYYYYEEEEESS WHAT DO YOU SEE?

[@ladyt.thompson8992]

Say it loud "I'm Black and I'm Proud"💋

[@brunonyekokochrachkara3049]

Malik El Shabazz an intelligent human being. A blackman very articulate and loves BLACK

[@yellolab09]

It's important to keep reading and processing the changing geopolitical developments. Loved this man throughout most of my life...starting with hearing him speak when I was in middle school in racist Boston . Malcolm was our own Black Shining Prince. AND, Malcolm's pronouncements on China do not hold. Having lived inside other cultures, and looking at the arc of history of the Communist powers, I cannot support their practices with regards to their own people's basic welfare, any more than I can the practices of the Euro-centric colonists. Revolutionary China had no Patrice Lumumbas: A true socialist hero of his people. ( Saw him dragged away by western sponsored terrorist intelligence live on the 5 o'clock news. No one never saw him alive again. ) NO: The Russian and the Chinese Communist revolutions produced oligarchs who took all the crumbs off the table and terrorized their own folk. Time proved they ain't no better than the tyrannical powers that enslaved black brown and yellow and red people around the world I'm now an elderly grandmother who speaks several languages and lived in several continents. Do the same kind of reading and educate yourself like Brother Malcolm did. He didn't take no one person's word for truth. He read deep and broad - including books he didn't agree with. RESEARCH and READ.

[@amq148]

REMEMBER WHAT HE SAID.........YOU CATCH HELL BECAUSE YOU ARE BLACK.....NOT BECAUSE YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN/MUSLIM/BUDDHIST/AGNOSTIC/.......OR WHATEVER....BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE BLACK........ AS WE ARE SEEING TODAY.......HE TOLD US THIS 50+ YEARS AGO.....WHAT AN INSIGHTFUL INDIVIDUAL HE WAS......MAY THE MERCY OF GOD BE UPON HIM.....

[@DHeart-bf8fx]

0:18 ... look in my eyes, what do you see?

[@dbzfan30]

The cult of personality!

[@davidtherealthomas1773]

Alexander Bedoya Rico you are a black man Who built everyday you are

[@eddyj1701]

@@dbzfan30 I know your anger I know your dreams

[@biffskywalker4589]

the cult of personality

[@donrichardson2829]

Great messages about "needing to respect our black women".

[@williebrown6]

Thank you.

[@thelastshallbefirst6531]

I have family from the Danville, VA area. I am sure some of those who have passed were part of the grassroot revolution

[@jameswalker5260]

wow! what a story about the big 6 getting funded! I am white, during the pandemia I started watching Ali's fights then his interviews which led me to Malcolm. Recently I told my adult son that you have to (for a white guy atleast) break through something to get Malcolm. That is once you accept the that his anger is justified, then you see him differently. Now its hard to understand why I hadn't understood his anger clearly earlier. And now I love the man. The separation movement of NOI was the answer, the only answerthat was ever likely to work. I wish Malcolm knew something that Elijah Muhammed probably didnt even care about, there is an article in the US constitution called Eminent Domain in which the govt can take private property from individuals and buy them out for the public good, to build a bridge or a highway for example. I became aware of it in a controversial USSC decision 20 years back in which a CN seacoast town used it to buy privately owned land from homeowners to make a business district or a tourist area, I cant remember, under the idea that it would raise taxes for the town. The supreme court denied the challenge of the homeowners. Well if thats public good than so is buying a few counties in various states and setting up and funding black businesses and residence. There is your 40 acres and a mule. If we could rebuild Europe through the Marshall Plan than why not this!

[@ALIENDNA14]

That's exactly how I see... I'm not a racist whatsoever; nevertheless, the injustice which has been done to my people, specifically, must also be rectified. In fact, you could even argue that Eminent Domain is what was first initially used, in order to deprive Foundational Black Americans of economic independence. After doing a great deal of research in this particular regard, I've also come to the conclusion, that it has actually been the White Jews who are behind the targeting of Foundational Black Americans. White Jews perceive Foundational Black Americans to be nothing more than subhuman slaves or their personal property, which they also can do whatever they wish to... This is an extremely toxic mindset, which is only destined to lead to perpetual conflict or genocide. In many respects, the genocide has already long ago been initiated against the Foundational Black American Community; and with this mass migration influx which is occurring, this can only mean the final nail in the coffin...

[@thesamson1091]

This was Indian land before the white man took it away from them they are the real Americans

[@thesamson1091]

Thanks

[@duckwideman3166]

Black people need to hear this now

[@theresafayiahwatkins8491]

I love this brother

[@kennywarren8150]

The audio IS NOT slowed down. In his autobiography he talked often about how his voice would go hoarse a lot during the early years of his speeches and would have to do speeches hoarse. Read the book it’s worth it