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Malcolm X Movie: Prison Baseball Scene Lyrics by Spike Lee

Malcolm X

1992

[Random prisoner to Malcolm]
The Dodgers are beating them 10-1! We're all celebrating because Jackie Robinson's playing
[Malcolm]
Hey thats alright
[Baines]
White man throws us a bone and we're supposed to forgive 400 years of opression?
[Malcolm]
Well a nigg- (corrects himself) a negro playing in the big leagues, that's something ain't it?
[Baines]
I told you to go behind the words and dig out the truth. They let us sing and dance and smile. And they let one so-called negro into the majors. That doesn't cancel out the greatest crime in history.
When that grafted blue-eyed devil locked us in chains, 400 million of us. Broke up our families, tortured us, cut us off from our language, our religion, our history. Let me tell you about black history. We arethe orginal man the first men on Earth were black, they ruled, and there wasn't a white face anywhere. They teach us that we lived in caves and swung from trees, that's a lie, black men never did that. We were a race of kings when the white man came crawling on all-fours over the hills of Europe. Do they know who they are? Do you know where you came from?
*To Malcolm*
What's your name?
[Malcolm]
Malcolm Little
[Baines]
No that's the name your slave masters owned your family. You don't even know who you are. You are nothing, less than nothing, who are you?
[Malcolm]
Look, ay pshhh
Alright, I ain't Malcolm Little, I ain't red, I damn sure ain't satan
[Baines]
That's right, so who are you?
[Malcolm]
I don't know......
[Baines]
We are a nation, the Tribe of Shabazz, lost in this wilderness called North America
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