Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org In his
autobiography, Malcolm X fleshed out the modern Negro who thinks
like the massa. He is black, brown, red or yellow in skin color,
but is pure white in mind color: ‘Today’s Uncle Tom doesn’t wear
a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle
Thomas now often wears a top hat. He’s usually well-dressed and
well-educated. He’s often the personification of culture and
refinement. The twentieth-century Uncle Thomas sometimes speaks
with a Yale or Harvard accent. Sometimes he is known as
Professor, Doctor, Judge, and Reverend, even Right Reverend
Doctor. This twentieth-century Uncle Thomas is a professional
Negro … by that I mean his profession is being a Negro for the
white man.’ — (Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1964,
1999 hardcover edition, Chapter Black Muslims, page 265) Well,
that description of the colonized mind turns out to be not all
that modern, even though it accurately captures the modern Uncle
Tom among all peoples. Witn