white-liberals

Whether in private debate or in public, any attempt I made to explain how the Black Muslim movement came about, and how it has achieved such force, was met with a blankness that revealed the little connection that the liberals' attitudes have with their perceptions or their lives, or even their knowledge__evealed, in fact, that they could deal with the Negro as a symbol or a victim but had no sense of him as a man.

White liberals are always saying, "What can we do?_ I mean, they__e always coming to help black people. I thought of an analogy. If you were walking down the street and a man had a gun on another man _ let__ say both of them were white _ and you had to help somebody, whom would you help? It__ obvious to me that if I were walking down the street, and a man had a gun on another man, and I was going to help, I__ help the man who didn__ have the gun, if the man who had the fun was just pulling the gun on the other man for no apparent reason _ if he was just going to rob him or shoot him because he didn__ like him. The only way I could help is either to get a gun and shoot the man with the gun, or take the gun away from him _ join the fellow who doesn__ have a gun and both of us gang up on the man with the gun. But white liberals never do that. When the man has the gun, they walk around him and they come to the victim, and they say __et me help you,_ and what they mean is __elp you adjust to the situation with the man who has the gun on you."If indeed white liberals are going to help, their only job is to get the gun from the man and talk to him, because he is a sick man. The black man is not the sick man, it is the white man who is sick, he__ the one who picked up the gun.