Word: malcolms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Malcolm X had been a plmp, a cocaine addict and a thief. He was an unashamed demagogue. His cospel was hatred: "Your babies will get pollo" he cried to the 'white devils'." His credo was violence: "If ballots won't work, bullets will...
...dismiss Malcolm X with such facility is to do him an injustice. His was an extraordinarily elusive personality; his volatility and suspicion of all white men combined to give him the reputation of being the "angriest Negro in America." His character demanded total commitment, and so, when introduced to Muslim teachings and to Elijah Muhammed, he devoted himself almost compulsively to the religion and its leader...
...with the Black Muslims was a result of his ill-timed statement on the assassination of President Kennedy ("The chickens have come home to roost"), but really the break was based on ideological and practical differences over how the Black Muslims should be led. The fissure grew out of Malcolm's intellectual independence, not his dogmatism...
From the day of his excommunication early in 1964 to the day of his death, Malcolm spent more than half of his time abroad, making a pilgrimage to Mecca and visiting religious leaders and heads of state in Africa and the Middle East. There his beliefs moderated considerably. In Mecca he had been impressed with the genuine brotherhood between people of different colors: "I never would have believed possible--it shocked me when I considered it--the impact of the Muslim world's influence on my previous thinking." He no longer indicted the race of "blue-eyed devils...
This was the side of Malcolm X that has been largely overlooked or contemptously dismissed. The new edition of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and the collection, Malcolm X Speaks, are valuable because they both provide information on these crucial last months of Malcolm's life...