http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,839291,00.html
time article 1965.
Malcolm X had been a pimp, a cocaine addict and a thief. He was an unashamed demagogue. His gospel was hatred: “Your little babies will get polio!” he cried to the “white devils.” His creed was violence: “If ballots won’t work, bullets will.”
Yet even before his bullet-ripped body went to its grave, Malcolm X was being sanctified. Negro leaders called him “brilliant,” said he had recently “moderated” his views, blamed his assassination on “the white power structure” or, in the case of Martin Luther King, on a “society sick enough to express dissent with murder.” Malcolm’s death, they agreed, was a setback to the civil rights movement.
Alias John Doe. In fact, Malcolm X —in life and in death—was a disaster to the civil rights movement.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,839291,00.html#ixzz0aO4eatKF
AMERICA NEEDS A MAU MAU
“...I have to take time to mention that because, in my opinion, not only in Mississippi and Alabama, but right here in New York City, you and I can best learn how to get real freedom by studying how Kenyatta brought it to his people in Kenya, and how Odinga helped him, and the excellent job that was done by the Mau Mau freedom fighters. In fact, that’s what we need in Mississippi. In Mississippi we need a Mau Mau. In Alabama we need a Mau Mau. In Georgia we need a Mau Mau. Right here in Harlem, in New York City, we need a Mau Mau.
http://georgehartley.blogspot.com/2009/01/we-need-mau-mau-in-mississippi-malcolm.html
(YOU DON’T KNOW THE HALF OF IT, MORE’S THE PITY!)
MALCOLM X MEETS COMMUNISTS IN CAIRO:
How prescient. We got one.
Have you, by chance read any of the long postings made in the summer of 2008, primarily, about the distinct possibily that Stanley Ann Dunham met Malcolm X in Seattle and that he might be the father of her son?