DS, one onionskin page, 8.5 x 11, no date. One page of a partial letter sent to Malcolm X in the wake of his Alex Haley-conducted interview with Playboy Magazine in May 1963. The initial four lines consist of Malcolm X's explanation of the inferior quality of the white race, "ask for dark flour, whole wheat flour. But if you ask for white bread, you want something that has no nutritional value. All the good that was in it has been bleached out of it, and it will constipate you. If you. If you want pure sugar, you want dark sugar." The following text serves as a rebuttal to Malcolm X's advocacy of race separation, in full: "Mr. Malcolm, consider this. Stop and think a moment seriously. What kind of a religion can you have whose entire basis is hatred. You talk about separating the blacks from whites to form an all-black nation. What kind of success could a nation have, any nation, whose very founding principle was hatred? Sir, Moses taught separation. Moses told the slavemaster Pharoah 'Let my people go to a land flowing with milk and honey.' No one said that Moses taught hate. Noah taught separation. Lot taught separation. Jesus said that when he comes it will be harvest time, and in the harvest the wheat will be separated from the chaff, the goats separated from the sheep, the righteous separated from the wicked, the oppressed separated from the oppressor. No one said that Jesus or Noah or lot taught hate. In fact, Jesus said that as it was in the days of Noah and Lot, so shall it be in the last day. Judgement Day is harvest time, and the good then will be separated from the bad. Never integrate at harvest time. You separate what you want from what you don't want. That's religion, that's not hate. Mr. Malcolm, I am sure you know that there is considerable discussion about a Congressional probe of your organization…Sir, it's a rumor is all I know." Signed at the conclusion in black ballpoint by Macolm X, who draws a bracket around text indicating that he indeed looked over the content. In fine condition.
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