In Cleveland, (Federal enclave of) Ohio, el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (a.k.a. Malcolm X) delivers his “The Ballot or the Bullet” address to the Cory Methodist Church, urging United States enemy citizens of African heritage to stop voting for the Democratic (socialist/fascist) Party:

       If we don’t do something real soon, I think you’ll have to agree that we’re going to be forced either to use the ballot or the bullet. …

       Don’t let anybody tell you anything about the odds are against you.  If they draft you, they send you to Korea and make you face 800 million Chinese.  If you can be brave over there, you can be brave right here.  These odds aren’t as great as those odds.  And if you fight here, you will at least know what you’re fighting for.

       I’m not a politician, not even a student of politics; in fact, I’m not a student of much of anything.  I’m not a Democrat, I’m not a Republican, and I don’t even consider myself an American.  If you and I were Americans, there’d be no problem. …

       Well, I am one who doesn’t believe in deluding myself.  I’m not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner.  Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate.  Being here in America doesn’t make you an American.  Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American.  Why, if birth made you American, you wouldn’t need any legislation, you wouldn’t need any amendments to the Constitution, you wouldn’t be faced with civil-rights filibustering in Washington, D.C., right now. …

       No, I’m not an American.  I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism.  One of the 22 million black people who are the victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy.  So, I’m not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver—no, not I.  I’m speaking as a victim of this American system.  And I see America through the eyes of the victim.  I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare….

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       It was the black man’s vote that put the present administration [of Democratic President Lyndon Johnson] in Washington, D.C.  Your vote, your dumb vote, your ignorant vote, your wasted vote put in an administration in Washington, D.C., that has seen fit to pass every kind of legislation imaginable, saving you until last, then filibustering on top of that.  And your and my leaders have the audacity to run around clapping their hands and talk about how much progress we’re making. …

       [added 10/9/2022]