WORLD WIDE ARRICA THE VOICE OF THE PAN AFRICAN MOVEMENT

MYTHS ABOUT MALCOLM X by, Reverend Albert Cleave
SPEECH DELIVERED IN DETROIT FEBRUARY 24, 1967

"I am not a Marxist  I don't pretend to be, I don't even preTend to know anything about it. I am a black man in a world dominated by white oppression, and that is my total philosophy.  I would like to get rid of that impression, and that is my total objective.  Son I bring to this occasion rather a simple approach personal reflections on the significance of Malcolm X.
I can remember a number of occasions when I talked to him, when I was with him, when I was with him, when I spoke on platforms with him; and so I am not indebted to printed material for my impression of Malcolm X .  I remember the last time he was in the city --not so much the speech, which was not one of his best by any means; it reflected, I think, much of the tension that he was under so much pressure .t
Hat he was under, much of the confusion, the constant living on the brink of violence.  But I can remember him backstage, in the Gold room, I think they call it, of Ford Auditorium. Recently he had suffered smoke inhalation, the doctor had given him an injection, when trying to sleep, he was irritable.  But he was there because he had promised to be there, because he thought some people were concerned about what he had to say."