Ever met a man who didn't read the auto bio of Malcolm X?

[Uncle Hotep]

I'm not even gonna lie, I've never read it.

 

[Uncle Hotep]

I never read, most dudes I know never read it either. Most people ain't just reading books in they spare time. People life to busy for that, this ain't the 80s where the world was a lot slower

 

[Uncle Hotep]

Cant believe all you coli militants havent read this...if you want to hide something from black folks put it in a book

 

[Ski Mask]

Reading books? In 2017

 

[intruder]

For African men worldwide, I don't think I've ever known of a more common reference point than the Auto Bio of Malcolm X. The ONE book that EVERYBODY read...across nationality, socio economic background,etc

Have you ever personally known another Black.man who hasn't read at least part of the book?

Spoiler: for those who have read it

I found the FULL unabridged 15 hour + audibook version of the Auto Bio. This is NOT the abridged Joe Morton narrated version with the skips,cracks,etc.

Somebody uploaded it in 2 parts on youtube. You know what to do.

part 1 here



part 2 here



It's going to be taken down sooner or later,I'd guess

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ALSO.....for guys who are currently college age range....is there a new common reference point? A book, film, album, play or whatever that you'd say is gonna be the ONE thing that African men your age globally have in common?

Never read it. Honestly didnt even know it existed. But I hear ya

 

[Primetime21]

coli hyperbole went a little too far on this one. The Autobiography of Malcolm X is one of my favorite books, one I'll be revisiting the rest of my life, but most people for better or worse are not book readers. Just going off my own observations. In a conversation about books I would recommend it to somebody but I'm not looking at someone differently just because they said they haven't read it.

 

[Shorty K]

Shid it's on the list. Just gotta find time when I can give it the proper focus

 

[Geek Nasty]

It's a work of fiction, people can't accept that this many years later

 

[Texas2step]

I've read it but I felt it was a lil overrated and i think he embellished his criminal history some. It didn't give enough detail about how he meet his wives and how they develop a relationship. The 2nd half of the book could have been better

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

It's a work of fiction, people can't accept that this many years later

who are you to say his autobiography wasn't grounded in reality

 

[Geek Nasty]

who are you to say his autobiography wasn't grounded in reality

Don't trust my word, go look it up. Staring point, the full title includes "as told by Alex Haley" who ripped off Roots word for word in places from another author.

 

[get these nets]

great thread....but can you do us a favor
can someone please provide an amazon/ebay/etc link of the version with the 3 missing chapters

The brother who purchased them never released them as a book.

 

[get these nets]

It's a work of fiction, people can't accept that this many years later

You're off base with the comment. You can leave it alone or I can show you how.

 

[get these nets]

I enjoy the forward from his daughter. It’s a powerful statement to make right before reading her father’s words. It set the tone for the whole book for me.

I've had the same 3-4 print copies for over 20 years. The forward from his daughter must be in a recent printing.

 

[get these nets]

A Digital Review of ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X’

Spoiler: Marable

I ARRIVED at Butler Library on the Columbia campus last week, showed my ID and was directed to a fifth-floor room where I could examine in person a trove of documents related to Malcolm X.

That the documents were in digital format, and I would be viewing them on a Web site, made the exercise seem a bit extraordinary. Can’t you just send me a link? I asked.

But there was a reason that I had to be invited there. The Malcolm X Multimedia Study Project was created by the late Prof. Manning Marable, whose new “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention” was published last month, days after the author died of lung disease. The material I would be viewing was largely constructed around the earlier, more famous book, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” as told to Alex Haley, who died in 1992. While Columbia may have permission to share a digital version of the original copyrighted book within its campus, they certainly didn’t have permission to share it with the world.

There was another reason that it seemed fitting that I was entering a library with columns and names like Homer and Cicero inscribed above the entrance to click on a computer and open a Web browser: the brilliant online project I was viewing was slowly disintegrating, like so much parchment.

In the biography, which reached No. 3 on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list, Professor Marable argues that the famous autobiography overstated Malcolm X’s past life of crime before joining the Nation of Islam and failed to discuss his political evolution toward political organizing after leaving the Nation.

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Book Review - Malcolm X - By Manning Marable JUNE 17, 2011

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  ‘Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention’ by Manning Marable - Review APRIL 7, 2011

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  Manning Marable, 60, Historian and Social Critic APRIL 1, 2011

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And so the multimedia project — containing F.B.I. and New York Police Department files on Malcolm X, photographs, interviews with scholars and hundreds of detailed descriptions of important people, places, ideas and themes in his life is built around the autobiography.

There were a few books written which challenged and debunked things written in Marable's book.

I own his book and 2 of the ones written as a response to it.