![]() Haley’s article also included King’s infamous quote about X: “Fiery, demagogic oratory in the black ghettos, urging Negroes to arm themselves and prepare to engage in violence, as has done, can reap nothing but grief.” But Eig found that the quote was taken completely out of context from a question about extremists in general, not specifically X. However, Haley’s article in Playboy included a quote that Eig didn’t find anywhere in the transcript in which King also said, “I feel that Malcolm has done himself and our people a great disservice.” And in his litany of expressing the despair of the Negro, without offering a positive, creative approach, I think that he falls into a rut sometimes.” But I know that I have so often felt that I wished that he would talk less of violence, because I don’t think that violence can solve our problem. “I don’t want to seem to sound as if I feel so self-righteous, or absolutist, that I think I have the only truth, the only way. “I totally disagree with many of his political and philosophical views, as I understand them,” King said, according to the transcript Eig found. ![]() In the 1965 interview for Playboy magazine, Haley, who later interviewed X as the ghostwriter for his autobiography The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley, asked King how he felt about X’s fight for civil rights and criticism of nonviolence. Marion S.Trikoskor/Universal History Archive/Getty Images ![]()
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