Malcolm X Page #40

REPORTER #8

Malcolm, are you prepared to go to

the United Nations at this point and

ask that charges be brought against

the United States for its treatment

of the American Negroes?

MALCOLM:

Oh yes.

The AUDIENCE applauds.

MALCOLM:

The audience will have to be quiet.

Yes, as I pointed out that during my

trip that nations, African nations,

Asian, Latin nations look very

hypocritical when they stand up in

the UN condemning South Africa and

saying nothing about the racist

practices that are manifested everyday

against Negroes in this society. I

would be not a man if I didn't do

so. I wouldn't be a man.

REPORTER #3

Are you prepared to work with some

of the leaders of some of the other

civil rights organizations?

MALCOLM:

Certainly, we will work with any

groups, organizations or leaders in

any way, as long as it's genuinely

designed to get results.

REPORTER #1

Does the new beard have any religious

significance?

MALCOLM:

No, not particularly. But I do think

that you will and black people in

America, as they strive to throw off

the shackles of mental colonialism,

will also probably reflect an effort

to throw off the shackles of cultural

colonialism. And then they'll begin

to reflect desires of their own with

standards of their own.

REPORTER #2

One of your more controversial remarks

was a call for black people to get

rifles and form rifle clubs sometime

back. Do you still favor that for

self-defense?

MALCOLM:

I don't see why that should be

controversial. I think that if white

people found themselves victim of

the same kind of brutality that black

people in this country face, and

they saw that the government was

either unwilling or unable to protect

them, that the intelligence on the

part of the whites would make them

get some rifles and protect

themselves.

REPORTER #2

What about the guns, Malcolm?

MALCOLM:

Has the white man changed since I

went away? Have you put up your guns?

The day you stop being violent against

my people will be the day I tell

folks to put away their guns.

REPORTER #3

Then you're still an extremist?

ANGLE - MUSLIM MALE

BENJAMIN THOMAS:

Git your hand out of my pocket!

Everyone turns around to the back to see what the commotion

is about.

The man who yelled out leaves quickly, we will see him later

on, very soon.

INT. MALCOLM'S HOUSE - NIGHT

Malcolm looks out the living room window, he has a rifle in

hand.

(NOTE:
This is the same pose as the famous photograph of

him.) He doesn't see anyone and closes the curtain. The phone

rings.

CLOSE - PHONE

Malcolm picks up the receiver.

VOICE:

You're one dead n*gger.

ANGLE - BEDROOM

Betty has picked up also and she's listening.

VOICE:

You're days on this earth are

numbered, brother.

CLOSE - MALCOLM

CLICK!

He hangs up.

ANGLE - BEDROOM

Malcolm enters the room and gets into the bed with Betty, he

puts his ear down on his wife's pregnant stomach.

She kisses him.

BETTY:

Get some sleep.

MALCOLM:

You have to sleep for three.

Malcolm pulls Betty closer to him.

MALCOLM:

I'm sorry. I haven't been the best

husband or father.

BETTY:

Shhh!

MALCOLM:

Families shouldn't be separated.

I'll never make another long trip

without you and the kids. We'll all

be together.

BETTY:

Dear heart, I love you.

MALCOLM:

We had the best organization that

black people ever had and n*ggers

ruined it.

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