Malcolm X Called Out White Liberals 60 Years Ago — It’s STILL True

liberals who have been posing as our friends have failed us.

And once we see that all these other sources to which we’ve turned have failed, we stop turning to them and turn to ourselves.

We need a self-help program.

Acts friendly toward the lamb.

And usually the fox is the one who ends up with the lamb chop on his plate.

The wolf doesn’t act friendly.

And therefore, the wolf has more difficulty in getting the lamb chopped in his plate.

That was Malcolm X explaining the difference between a fox and a wolf.

The wolf doesn’t pretend.

The wolf shows his teeth and you know what you’re dealing with.

But the fox, the fox smiles.

The fox acts friendly.

The fox invites you closer.

And the fox is the one who ends up with the lamb chop on his plate.

Malcolm said this in 1964.

60 years later, the receipts are in on both sides and the fox is winning.

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Malcolm was not making a theoretical argument.

He was describing a pattern he had observed in every political interaction between black people and white institutions in America.

The conservative, the wolf, tells you to your face that he does not want you in his neighborhood, his school, or his country.

He is open about it.

His hostility is visible.

You know where you stand with the wolf because the wolf never pretends to be your friend.

The liberal, the fox tells you he loves you.

He marches with you.

He puts a sign in his yard.

He shares your posts on social media.

He cries at your funerals.

He says all the right words.

And then when the cameras are off and the legislation is being written, he does the same thing the wolf does.

He protects his property, his neighborhood, his schools, and his power.

He just does it with a smile and a donation to the NAACP.

Malcolm’s genius was in identifying that the outcome is the same regardless of which animal is doing the eating.

The lamb ends up on the plate either way.

The only question is whether you saw it coming.

Let’s look at the record.

Let’s see which party, the wolves or the foxes, has actually delivered for black people over the past 60 years.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were signed by Lynden B.

Johnson, a Democrat.

This is the accomplishment that the Democratic Party has been running on for 60 years, and it is real.

Those laws changed the legal framework of American life.

But Johnson himself told an aid, according to multiple accounts, that signing the Civil Rights Act would lose the South for Democrats for a generation.

He was right.

The South flipped to the Republican party and has stayed there ever since.

Johnson knew that signing the bill was a political calculation, not a moral awakening.

He traded the South for the black vote and he got it.

Then came the 1970s and 1980s.

Richard Nixon, the Wolf, launched the war on drugs.

His domestic policy adviser, John Erlickman, admitted on the record in an interview published in Harper’s Magazine in 2016 that the entire purpose was to criminalize black communities.

He said, “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black.

But by getting the public to associate hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.

We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

That is the wolf.

Open, documented, confessed.

You can see the teeth.

Now, the fox, Bill Clinton, the Democrat, the man Tony Morrison called the first black president, signed the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act.

This single piece of legislation did more damage to black communities than anything Nixon ever conceived.

It allocated $9.

7 billion for new prisons.

It introduced mandatory minimum sentencing.

It expanded the death penalty to 60 new offenses.

It created the three strikes rule that sent people to prison for life for non-violent offenses.

And it maintained the 100 to1 sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine.

the disparity that Nixon’s people had designed specifically to target black users.

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The result was catastrophic.

The US prison population exploded from roughly 500,000 in 1980 to over 2.

3 million by the early 2000s.

Black men were incarcerated at six times the rate of white men.

One in three black men born in 2001 was projected to go to prison at some point in their lifetime compared to one in 17 white men.

And once incarcerated, the consequences cascaded.

Felony disenfranchisement stripped the right to vote.

Employment discrimination followed.

Released prisoners for life and family structures that had survived slavery.

Jim Crow and redlinining were shattered by the mass removal of fathers, brothers, and sons.

The man who signed this into law was not a Republican.

He was not a wolf.

He was a Democrat, a fox.

He played saxophone on our senior hall show.

He put his office in Harlem.

He was so beloved by black Americans that a Nobel Prize-winning black novelist called him the first black president.

And he signed the most destructive piece of anti-lack legislation since the black codes of 1865.

Then came Barack Obama, the actual first black president.

And what happened? Black wealth collapsed during his tenure.

The 2008 financial crisis wiped out 53% of black household wealth.

The recovery overwhelmingly benefited white households.

By the time Obama left office in 2017, the median white family had 10 times the wealth of the median black family, a gap that was wider than it had been in the 1960s.

Obama did not cause the financial crisis, but the recovery programs his administration oversaw.

The bank bailouts, the quantitative easing, the housing market interventions disproportionately rescued the assets that white families held.

While black families, who held their wealth primarily in home equity, watched their homes get foreclosed.

Obama deported more immigrants than any president before him.

He expanded the drone program to levels that exceeded Bush.

He prosecuted more whistleblowers under the Espionage Act than all previous presidents combined.

And he did all of it while being the most eloquent, most dignified, most admired symbol of black achievement in American history.

The fox smiled, the lamb felt loved, and the plate was set the same way it always is.

Malcolm’s point was never that conservatives are better than liberals.

His point was that neither of them is working for you.

The wolf tells you he’s your enemy, so you stay alert.

The fox tells you he’s your friend, so you let your guard down.

And that is precisely why the fox is more dangerous, because you don’t see the teeth until they’re already in your neck.

The liberal establishment has controlled black political loyalty for 60 years.

In that time, the black white wealth gap has grown.

Mass incarceration exploded under a Democratic president.

Black maternal mortality remains three to four times higher than white maternal mortality.

Black unemployment remains consistently double the white rate regardless of which party holds the White House.

Black home ownership has declined since the 2008 crisis and has never recovered.

And the single most quoted defense of the Democratic Party’s record on black issues remains a law signed in 1964, 62 years ago.

Every four years, both parties come to black communities and make promises.

The Wolf says he will be tough on crime, meaning tough on you.

The Fox says he will fight for justice, meaning he will pass a bill that sounds good in a press conference and produces nothing in your neighborhood.

And four years later, the wealth gap is the same.

The schools are the same.

The policing is the same.

And the only thing that changed is which animal is smiling at you from the podium.

Malcolm X saw this in 1964.

He called it what it was, the fox and the wolf.

Different methods, same appetite, different manners, same motive.

And 60 years of data, from the crime bill to the wealth gap to the prison population to the foreclosure crisis have proved him right with a precision that even he might not have predicted.

The wolves never hid what they were.

The foxes never stopped pretending.

And the lamb is still on the plate.

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