"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Those of the House and Those of the Field
Malcolm X is the person I respect most in the twentieth century. When I listen to this speech, and I often do, I always substitute statist for “house negro” and those who love liberty for “field negro.” Listen to this speech in the context of today, of who seeks to control and who seeks to shake off that control.
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