Even then, as when California cops shot and killed his friend Ronald X Stokes outside the Nation of Islam mosque in Los Angeles in 1962 (an incident discussed in more detail in the next chapter), the Messenger would not allow the Fruit of Islam (FOI) to move against white transgressors. As he boiled over the Stokes incident, Malcolm began recounting his secret Atlanta meeting with the Klan. It likely moved him to question the contradiction of Muhammad’s policy of nonengagement with other Negroes while he worked out business deals with murderous Southern racists.
