I respect that. The Nation of Islam did suffer from elements of fascism (and still do) back then. They were no more or less trash at diplomacy and choice of alliances than the USA. To think that the African American condition can be summed up by the bad choices the Nation of Islam made is plain dumb. Kanye (who is not a fascist) can kick rocks along with fascist black people for all I care. Malcolm X didn't get everything right nor did he get everything wrong. I just disagree with repoman's focus on the negative making it seem as if Malcolm (and the Nation of Islam) only got it wrong as well as the unsupported claim that Malcolm didn't change shortly before his life was taken. He was actively in a war with the Nation of Islams fascist elements before he died.
This is a speech a week before he was killed.
This sound like a warning with zero signs of antisemitism
This part is about the Nation of Islam.
Lots of gems. Like this one that's relevant to the Black Lives Matter movement.
And in closing
Get outta here with treating Malcolm X like he's was just a run of the mill black fascist. He wasn't.
This is a speech a week before he was killed.
This sound like a warning with zero signs of antisemitism
they’ll be building gas ovens, and before you wake up you’ll be in one of them, just like the Jews ended up in gas ovens over there in Germany. You’re in a society that’s just as capable of building gas ovens for Black people as Hitler’s society was.
This part is about the Nation of Islam.
I might say this before I sit down. If you recall, when I left the ‘Black Muslim’ movement, I stated clearly that it wasn’t my intention to even continue to be aware that they existed; but that I was going to spend my time working in the non-Muslim community. But they were fearful that if they didn’t do something that perhaps many of those who were in the mosque would leave it and follow a different direction. So they had to start doing a take-off on me, plus, they had to try and silence me because of what they know that I know.
Lots of gems. Like this one that's relevant to the Black Lives Matter movement.
A very good example was the riots that took place here during the summer: I was in Africa, I read about them over there. If you’ll notice, they referred to the rioters as vandals, hoodlums, thieves. They tried to make it appear that this wasn’t–they tried to make it–and they did this. They skillfully took the burden off the society for its failure to correct these negative conditions in the Black community. It took the burden completely off the society and put it right on the community by using the press to make it appear that the looting and all of this was proof that the whole act was nothing but vandals and robbers and thieves, who weren’t really interested in anything other than that which was negative. And I hear many old, dumb, brainwashed Negroes who parrot the same old party line that the man handed down in his paper.
And in closing
I say again that I’m not a racist, I don’t believe in any form of segregation or anything like that. I’m for the brotherhood of everybody, but I don’t believe in forcing brotherhood upon people who don’t want it. Long as we practice brotherhood among ourselves, and then others who want to practice brotherhood with us, we practice it with them also, we’re for that. But I don’t think that we should run around trying to love somebody who doesn’t love us. Thank you.
Get outta here with treating Malcolm X like he's was just a run of the mill black fascist. He wasn't.