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Questions:

• Discuss the annotations members made on the speech.
• What did you star (*) indicating an important idea?
• What unfamiliar or confusing words did you circle? How did you decode these words to gain meaning?
• What did you check mark (√), indicating an idea that you already know or agree with?
• Where did you use an exclamation point (!) to indicate something that surprised you?
• What connections did you make with the text?
• What questions did this speech raise in your mind?
• Allow each member to share the "golden lines" they highlighted from the article and ask them to explain why they chose those lines.
• Discuss the overall impressions of Malcolm X. Can any connections be made between his speech and today?
• Write a short reflection describing the conversation you . What were your main takeaways from this conversation? What was said that surprised you? How is this kind of conversation valuable in your learning process?

Case Study: Malcolm X: Addressing Police Brutality May 20th, 1962 For you and me to devise some sort of method or strategy to offset some of the repetition of the events that have taken place here in Los Angeles recently, we have to go to the root; we have to go to the cause. Dealing with the condition itself is not enough. And it is because of our effort toward getting straight toward the root that people oftentimes think we are dealing with hate. We are oppressed. We are exploited. We are downtrodden. We are denied not only civil rights but even human rights. So the only way we're going to get some of this oppression and exploitation away from us or aside from us is to come together against a common enemy. Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the color of your skin to such an extent that you bleach to get like the white man? Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet? Who taught you to hate your kind? Who taught you to hate the race that you belong to so much that you don't want to be around each other? No. Before you come asking Mr. Muhammad, does he teach hate, you should ask yourself, who taught you to hate being what God gave you? And I, for one, as a Muslim believe the white man is intelligent enough. If he were made to realize how black people feel and how fed up we are without the compromise and sweet talk. Stop sweet talking him. Tell him how you feel. Tell him how or what kind of hell you've been catchin' and let him know that if he's not ready to clean his house up... if he's not ready to clean his house up, he shouldn't have a house. It should catch on fire. And burn down.