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Americans. Everything that came out of
Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American. And as long as
you and I have been over here, we aren't Americans yet.

Well, I am one who doesn't believe in deluding myself. I'm not going to
sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call
myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless
you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make
you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an
American. Why, if birth made you American, you wouldn't need any
legislation; you wouldn't need any amendments to the Constitution; you
wouldn't be faced with civil-rights filibustering in Washington, D.C.,
right now. They don't have to pass civil-rights legislation to make a
Polack an American.

No, I'm not an American. I'm one of the 22 million black people who are
the victims of Americanism. One of the 22 million black people who are
the victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. So, I'm not
standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a
flag-saluter, or a flag-waver -- no, not I. I'm speaking as a victim of
this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim.
I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

These 22 million victims are waking up. Their eyes are coming open.
They're beginning to see what they used to only look at. They're
becoming politically mature. They are realizing that there are new
political trends from coast to coast. As they see these new politica