On Malcolm X's birthday, here is a reminder of what he said in his famous speech The Ballot or the Bullet:
"What do you call second-class citizenship? Why, that's colonization. Second-class citizenship is nothing but 20th [century] slavery."
"What do you call second-class citizenship? Why, that's colonization. Second-class citizenship is nothing but 20th [century] slavery."
Today, a people demand an end to their second-class citizenship in their own lands. What started as violent expulsions from Sheikh Jarrah has escalated into carpet bombing of a blockaded city.
Read about Palestinian resistance to Israeli colonialism here:
Read about Palestinian resistance to Israeli colonialism here:
https://twitter.com/project_polis/status/1393187269905879040
What does second-class citizenship looks like? It looks like this.
Source: visualizingpalestine.org/visuals/the-ga…
Source: visualizingpalestine.org/visuals/the-ga…
It also looks like this:
https://twitter.com/ShehabiFares/status/1261380781017980929
On Malcolm X's birthday, here is a reminder he said this too:
“The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world."
“The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world."
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