Word: malcolms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hate whites, don't you, Malcolm...
...doubt Malcolm X knew the code and the violence which accompanied it, and yet by breaking with the Muslims, he dissented. In the context of black nationalism, he become a "revisionist," a reformer. He once said, "No one can get out without trouble and this thing with me will be resolved by death and violence." At the same time, Malcolm, perhaps unwittingly, introduced a new politics into black nationalism, based on dissent; a politics which also sought alliances with middle class civil rights groups...
...exacted. As a result of the violence, the sons and daughters of the victim and murderers are being initiated into manhood too early and will quickly become heirs to the violence of Negroes and whites which racism has forced upon us and which finally brought an end to Malcolm X. By dissenting, Malcolm was trying to end the tragic cycle...
...Malcolm leaned forward, looking past me at the dead ashes in the fireplace, by his silence forcing me to look at him. "Don't sit near me tonight. You may get hurt," he said simply. He turned to deal with a telephone message. Someone had called to day they would pick him up. He asked who had called and, apparently discovering that an expected password had not been given, informed the jovial group with us with a smile that the caller was not the right person...
Gradually Malcolm became caught up in the rhetoric of black nationalism. He wanted to duel and white students obliged...