Wake up, clean up and stand up. Wake up means that our people have to be taught what time it is. Wake up also means our people must be taught who we are, something concerning our cultural past, what contributions our forefathers made to science, to civilization, to art, to everything.
Our people have to be made aware of the fact that we weren’t savages in the jungle when the white man caught us and brought us here. Our people have to be taught the true history of the black man and it has to be made known to them that at a time when Europe, before America was discovered or even at the time that America was discovered, the white people in Europe were living in a savage state. But even at that same time, the black man in Africa was living in palaces, the black man in Africa was wearing silks, the black man in Africa was cooking and seasoning his food at a time when the people in Europe were still eating raw meat, eating the bark from trees, were living in caves, were living in hillsides. The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and the sciences to such extent that he could plot the course of the stars in the universe when the people in Europe didn’t even yet know that the earth was round.
Malcolm X
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Photo: Urban street art graffiti mural of Malcom X by artist Luqman in Chinatown in Oakland, Ca (▻http://www.dragonschool99.com/#guest-artists)