Malcolm X

[Gulalai]

so what is your opinion of Malcolm X?
Favorite quotes? Favorite speeches? etc.

YouTube - Malcolm X after his pilgrimmage to Mecca (1 of 2)

[Gulalai]

YouTube - Malcolm X - A Person's Deeds

Well, i liked his glasses.

lol
malcolm x glasses - Google Search

[کیش]

Huge inspiration, one of the people who inspired me to read and write the dictionary, as well as being an autodidact.

His book is real good, has anyone else read it?

[BarakzaiAbdali]

so what is your opinion of Malcolm X?
Favorite quotes? Favorite speeches? etc.

YouTube - Malcolm X after his pilgrimmage to Mecca (1 of 2)

What a wonderful and beloved individual who truly fits the definition of martyr versus what we hear out of other countries regarding Shahid so and so (e.g. the sick fact that some folks call Benazir Bhutto Shahid Bhutto or Najib, Shahid Najib). He understood pragmatic and political realities and was really the one to voice the necessity of taking physical action for the defense of his people. Folks praise Martin Luther King for all his accomplishments, but it was truly Malcolm X who embodied an evolution of thought. MLK on the one hand plagiarized his thesis and subsequently had many affairs with white women nonetheless. I once asked an African American collegue why folks were attempting to subvert X's memory. He said simply: They want us to be docile.

[Gulalai]

i agree, Malcolm X is underrated
if we have an MLK day we should have a Malcolm X day too
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YouTube - MALCOLM X SPEECHES Malcolm X on Dr. Martin Luther King
YouTube - Martin Luther King Jr. on Malcolm X

[randolph85]

YouTube - MALCOLM X: Chickens Coming Home To Roost

[emkhan]

A truth teller

[طالب]

A cool guy. Definitely prefer the after-Hajj Malcolm to the pre-Hajj Malcolm though. Preaching seperation was wrong, as he later realised. His thoughts were in constant development and that is to be admired. Too bad he was killed off by the NOI so early.

By the way, a new biography of Malcolm X has just been released. It seems to be a huge work, taking 12 years to write and includes all aspects of his life both good and bad. Definitely something to look into if you're interested in Malcolm X and want a more nuanced perspective than the one his autobiography draws. You can read about the book here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...an-behind-myth

Oh, and favorite speech? The one at Oxford Union hands down:

YouTube - MALCOLM X: OXFORD UNION DEBATE (December 3, 1964)

[Gulalai]

"It doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time, I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence."

[Haris]

The Malcolm X film, part 1 of 20.
The rest can be seen on youtube.

[Janana]

Favourite quotes:

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

[faye]

i was just reading that on martin luther king day, there was a protest in tucson, at/near the base where drones are manipulated from, against drones and depleted uranium. some people were arrested. americans are waking up. good sign.

[Random visitor]

Malcolm X was a lost soul who suffered under racial discrimination in the USA. So he became a muslim, forgetting that it was muslim Arab traders who stole his ancestors from the villages in Africa and sold them to the slavers. Had his ancestors been muslims in Africa, they would not have been sold as slaves.

Pity Malcolm X didn't bother to read African slave history.

I certainly did not spill a tear when he was assassinated, though I am still mourning the assassination of the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King.

My second ex-husband is African-American, he too suffered under racial discrimination and segregation and, like the majority young black American men, he was drafted for service in Vietnam. I think he is a Baptist, like MLK was.

I must say, however, that Denzel Washington was hot as Malcolm X in the movie. Of course, he's hot in every movie.

[Bengal_Tiger]

forgetting that it was muslim Arab traders who stole his ancestors from the villages in Africa and sold them to the slavers.

Ignorance.

The Arab "slave trade" (in Islam, "slavery" is very different to what is practised in the west) was in east Africa, just on the eastern side of the Red sea and further south.

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The captured slaves of the Americas were from West Africa.

Had his ancestors been muslims in Africa, they would not have been sold as slaves.

Ignorance, many of the slaves of West Africa taken to the Americas were in fact Muslim.

Many of the slaves brought to colonial America from Africa were Muslims.[37][38] By 1800, some 500,000 Africans arrived in what became the United States. Historians estimate that between 15 to 30 percent of all enslaved African men, and less than 15 percent of the enslaved African women, were Muslims. These enslaved Muslims stood out from their compatriots because of their "resistance, determination and education".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States

"Slavery" in Islam is different and allowed social mobility which is why for instance Muslim Bengal was at one point ruled by black African former slaves, i.e. military officers from Ethiopia. In the Muslim world "slaves" (both white and black) held prominent positions. The Mameluke dynasty were white slaves of Turkish/Circassian blood

I certainly did not spill a tear when he was assassinated, though I am still mourning the assassination of the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King.

Why the need to vent your hostility towards a dead man and tell us this on this thread?

My second ex-husband is African-American

Irrelevant personal details, this thread is about "Malcolm X" and not "about the marriages and divorces of Random visitor".

I must say, however, that Denzel Washington was hot as Malcolm X in the movie. Of course, he's hot in every movie.

Irrelevant.

Stop polluting this thread with irrelevant nonsense. This is a forum which attracts thousands of visitors every day so many may read this thread which a moderator has started to focus on a great intellectual, thinker and activist and irrelevant comments on the physical appearance of Hollywood performers spoil the thread.

Stay on topic.

[Bengal_Tiger]

Malik Shabazz (rahmatullahi alaih) was a truly inspiring individual who is one of the iconic figures of the 20th century. He was a man far ahead of his time and his greatness is such that he appeals to a wide audience, ranging from radical leftists to practising Muslims.

Another key quality of his was his intelligence and articulate nature, this in itself was a huge missile which caused devastation to the dehumanized image of African-Americans of the 1960s and showed they were as intelligent as anyone else. He is a man who is not seen purely as a Muslim figure, but a universal figure.

Whereas Turks have Muhammad Al-Fatih, Kurds have Salahuddin, Bengalis have Maulana Bhashani, African-American Muslims have their own Islamic hero, and that hero is Shaheed Malik Shabazz (rahmatullahi 'alaih).

We ask Allah to forgive him his sons and give him the highest jannah, that of jannatul firda'us. May his lofty ideals of racial equality, education and human decency be realized.

Ameen.



Shaheed Malik Shabazz (rahmatullahi 'alaih) performs salah (Islamic prayer).





Two great African-American Muslims, Muhammad Ali and Malik Shabazz.





With Fidel Castro.



Shahid Malik As-Shabazz (rahmatullahi 'alaih) a legend who continues to inspire millions across the globe to this day.