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Post by apaxicana on May 19, 2009 3:01:04 GMT -5
May 19 1925, born Malcolm Little at University Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska
My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black man’s struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth and justice. “I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda,” I had written to these friends. “I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” The American white man’s press called me the angriest Negro in America. I wouldn’t deny that charge; I spoke exactly as I felt. I believe in anger. I believe it is a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. I am for violence if non-violence means that we continue postponing or even delaying a solution to the American black man’s problem. White man hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime that the white man perpetrated on the black man. But let me remind you that when the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn’t demonstrating non-violence.
Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), From The Autobiography of Malcolm Xwww.brothermalcolm.net/
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Post by upfromsumdirt on May 19, 2009 20:06:23 GMT -5
yes, i listened to all his taped speeches when i was 18 and his words (angry and supportive) supplied me with the framework i was missing as an emerging adult.
"if you are afraid to tell the truth you dont even deserve freedom" - i've lived with that as one of only two quotes i can remember... the other is one from george clinton/funkadelic - "freedom is free of the need for being free"...
way too many folks romanticize x's 'by any means necessary' without ever stopping to release that change and growth are both necessary means...
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Post by apaxicana on May 24, 2009 15:02:43 GMT -5
yes, Malcolm X was, and still is, a role model to so many! it's crazy how all these incredible people were just snatched from us. some folks say we wouldn't pay them no mind if they hadna been - but I disagree, I am always checking out other heroes - who weren't killed even though they've tried taking them out in so many ways, so many times - but I don't usually put their pix up or talk too much about 'em - you know lest they too be gone too soon.
thanx Brotha D. for everything
un abrazo fuerte, a big hug
Apaxi
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Post by orchid on May 24, 2009 17:11:12 GMT -5
"when the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn’t demonstrating non-violence."
Tru Dat Laydee.
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