Word: malcolms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...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...
...Malcolm fought back. "I hate whites...
...with most tragic heroes, Malcolm's death was partially rooted in his character, but his life went beyond personal flaws and was even greater because he accepted his own flaws and the dangers which surrounded him. Malcolm's courage was real. Although trapped by his past, he attempted to play a new role of dissent and a halting flexibility. Perhaps these will become his legacy towards a new code and politics for Negroes