This speculation is probably more appropriate for the Comic, but since I use Stripcreator and don't have a lot of control of how the drawings look, I'll put it as a scenario in written form.
You are an affluent black man walking down the street in an upscale shopping district on your way to get dinner. Twice in three blocks you are approached by other black men down on their luck who ask for 'spare change'. You have a standard answer for the times you don't give, because sometimes you do. It is 'Not Today'. After saying it the third time in ten minutes, you begin to wonder what's up, but after it's too late the question pops up in your head. What would Malcolm X say?
Of course I think he would reiterate the following:
The platform that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, our religious leader, stands on is the platfrom of complete freedom, justice and equality for the 20 million black people or so-called Negroes here in America. And he teaches us that because of the seriousness of the condition that our people now find themselves in that it is absolutely impossible to solve our problems with means other than religion. And he teaches us that the religion of Islam is the only religion that will instill within our people the incentive to stand on our own feet. And instead of trying to force ourselves upon whites or force ourselves into the white society or blame the white man for our predicament and constantly beg him for what he has, he says that the only way that we can solve our problem is to unite together among ourselves, among our own kind, clean ourselves up, rid ourselves of the evils that we've become addicted to here in this society and try and solve our problem ourselves.
Which begs the question: "Who you you mean 'ourselves'?"
Would Malcolm entreaty the begging stranger to join Islam and clean himself up, or is he putting the burden on affluent blacks in a socialist way?
Of course Malcolm is dead and it doesn't really matter much, but it's an interesting question to ask.
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