Sept. 7, 1964 - Malcolm X, a former leader of the Black Muslims who now heads a Black Nationalist group, has expressed the view that American Negroes would fare better if Senator Barry Goldwater were elected President than if President Johnson should be reelected.
Most Negro leaders and organizations are committed to President Johnson and have registered strong opposition to Goldwater.
Malcolm X, writing in this week’s Saturday Evening Post, said that the two candidates were quite similar, but that with Goldwater “the black people at least know what they are dealing with.” He said Goldwater was like a “wolf,” and Johnson was like a “fox.”
“Since these are the choices, the black man in America, I think, only needs to pick which one he chooses to be eaten by because both will eat him,” he said. With the Senator, he noted, “they would at least know they were fighting an honestly growling wolf, rather than a fox who could have them in his stomach and have digested them before they even knew what is happening.”
If Goldwater became President, according to Malcolm X, the Negro would know he had to fight harder and would be “more positive in his demands, more aggressive in his protests.”
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