brombie:

““For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, ‘Do you hate me?’ The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! “Why, when all of my ancestors are snake-bitten, and I’m snake-bitten, and I warn my children to avoid snakes, what does that snake sound like accusing me of hate-teaching?””

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Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (263)

So, children, what we’ve learned today is that even intelligent, historically deified figures such as Malcolm X were capable of surprising ignorance, and there are a handful of folks on Tumblr who lack the intellectual capacity to realize the stupidity inherent in the argument he’s making.