#louis lomax

[oldshowbiz]

Forgotten talk show host Louis Lomax

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Louis Lomax Interviews Malcolm X 1959

[disciplesofmalcolm]

The system in this country cannot produce freedom for an Afro-American. It is impossible for this system, this economic system, this political system, this social system, this system, period. It's impossible for this system, as it stands, to produce freedom right now for the black man in this country.

Malcolm X. Taken from “To Kill A Black Man” by Louis Lomax pg 174.

[oldshowbiz]

1968.

Louis Lomax was a pioneering Black broadcaster with his own current events talk show on KTTV in Los Angeles. He was probably the first broadcaster to explicitly call the LAPD a racist organization.

Lomax said, "The right wing has infiltrated the Los Angeles police department to a tremendous degree ... details about the next John Birch society meeting were posted on the police bulletin board.” Lomax warned of many racist infiltrators in the LAPD who were "deadly serious and will blow out brains."

[oldshowbiz]

1966.

Same old debate.

[disciplesofmalcolm]

On the Monday after the Watts rebellion Martin King came to Los Angeles and convened some fifty black spokesmen. 'What caused Watts to explode?' Martin asked us. We gave him a list of complaints running from joblessness, to rats, to hopelessness. I realized then that Martin did not fully understand in his guts the madness induced by ghetto life. Few of the middle-class blacks who attended that meeting understood it. in my brief statement to the group I quoted a line from my book, 'The Negro revolt,' 'if you find  a Negro who is not schizoid he is crazy.' The flip nature of the comment aside, the serious message I was attempting to convey was that the American experience, particularly in the ghetto, is designed to drive black people insane. Several months later, in Chicago, Martin came to understand what I meant. To make his identity with the black ghetto dwellers of Chicago, Martin packed up his family and moved into a rundown Chicago apartment building. After a month there Martin noticed a chilling change in his children; they became sullen and hostile; they would not obey. His son became outright defiant. With no place to play, being constantly surrounded by hopelessness and despair, the King child absorbed the syndrome of the ghetto. It was only a matter of time before they too would begin throwing bricks and fashioning Molotov cocktails. The children were shipped back home to the fresh air of black middle-class America.

Louis Lomax. Taken from “To Kill A Black man” pgs 162-163

[disciplesofmalcolm]

I once asked Martin (Luther King jr.) during a television interview what he would do if someone, white or black, entered his home and menaced his wife and children. He replied, "Louis, I don't know what I would do; my advocacy of nonviolence is as a tactic during demonstrations, not as a total private way of life.

“To Kill A Black Man” by Louis Lomax pgs 82-83