Reply #9: On page 368

[H2O Man]

of Malcolm X's autobiography, we find these two paragraphs:

" When the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn't demonstrating any 'non-violence.' In fact, the very man whose name symbolizes non-violence here today has stated:

" 'Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which has tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations'."

I like Malcolm quoting Martin.