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...dude, running numbers and lording it over his white mistress Sophia. In the '50s he finds Allah in jail and becomes a minister of the Black Muslim faith under the sect's founder, Elijah Muhammad. In the '60s, with the encouragement of his wife Betty, he breaks from the racist Nation of Islam and pays for this social enlightenment with his life...
...grossing auteur now than a biopic subject later. Perhaps that is why his movie is so stately, reverent and academic, so suitable for the Oscars with which Hollywood rewards high-minded mediocrity. Some other director will have to find a way to merge the danger of a brilliant, racist orator with the seismic jolt of energized filmmaking. That picture will be worth skipping school...
...Black fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma, cannot possibly be unaware of Jeffries' anti-Semitic proclivities. Black students everywhere have a moral obligation to reject anti-Semitic behavior--an obligation passed down to them by thousands-on-thousands of Black folks whose lives were maimed or snuffed out by America's racist patterns, and an obligation also passed on to them by that noble warrior against America's racist patterns, Dr. Martin Luther King...
...Douglas Greer, president of Phi Beta Sigma, wrote in an editorial that Jewish students' perceptions of Jeffries are unwarranted. Their knowledge, he wrote, comes from the "most racist newspapers in the world...
...absurdity that confronts human beings of African descent in this country--the incessant assaults on Black intelligence, beauty, character and possibility." With his trademark eloquence, West elucidates how that rage served to perform a "Black psychic conversion," a defiant re-evaluation of the self that is free of American racist values. West argues convincingly that it is this anger that makes Malcolm X such a vital figure today...