How would Malcolm X's message be received today?
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Which Malcolm are we talking about? Pre or post trip to Mecca?
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feelosofer
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The same way he was received back then, with fear and trepidation. Malcolm was too many years ahead of the curve with what he was asking Blacks to do.
Put down that His Story book.
Imma leave this hear for you good brothers
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/omowale-malcolm-x.238288/
Isaiah Bradley
Banned
I did not know this. Dap/Rep
Put down that His Story book.
Imma leave this hear for you good brothers
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/omowale-malcolm-x.238288/
Mr. Somebody
Friend Of A Friend
HISTORICALLY people have always been angry with the truth..
Put down that His Story book.
Imma leave this hear for you good brothers
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/omowale-malcolm-x.238288/
I mean I'm down to ride with either version (where do you think my name comes from?) but his changing stance on certain things was a reflection of progress being made on the ground. A good leader adapts.
Early civil rights era I could the potential of self-segregation. Late civil rights era I could see a need to integrate without assimilating and building up a community.
All of this was before the Internet and cheap readily available travel.
So taking those things into mind, I don't ascribe to any segregationist philosophy because the world has gotten smaller and there are very few places to withdraw to to avoid people of any color.
It's just less feasible now and will be even less so in the future.
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'Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open.' - Ellison
I've always been partial to this strategy. We love in the belly of the beast on a modern day Babylon. The gains we've fought for here to tear it down have translated into the greatest era of freedom for people in history. If we aren't here fighting this fight who will?
Our struggle is tough because we have the strength to overcome it.
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you wrote all that but didn't even bother to click my link 
@Washington_Red
Knowledge is power man, don't sleep in the name of pride.
@Washington_Red
Knowledge is power man, don't sleep in the name of pride.
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Rell84shots
Veteran
He would be welcomed with open arms by most, because despite all the c00ning we see on tv there are a lot of us who believe in what Malcolm preached.
mcdivit85
Superstar
I believe he would be shunned by the masses and accepted by the few. No different than he was in his time. Then after he was killed, blacks would act like they were down with what he was saying and post Malcolm X memes on their social media.
Not much has changed in the general psyche of the black population.
Peace
Not much has changed in the general psyche of the black population.
Peace
you wrote all that but didn't even bother to click my link
@Washington_Red
Knowledge is power man, don't sleep in the name of pride.
Lol. I'm at work. Will peep it on my way home.
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
Right the OP needs to be more specific with which Malcolm era you referring too??
-Conk Malcolm would be the Jidenna of the time, a hip hop promotoer, making guest appearances in a J. Cole video, and doing interviews on the Breakfast Club
-Black Militant Muslim Malcolm would be floating through a bunch of youtube videos, cameos on Hidden Colors, barking at Bill O'Reilly in Fox Studios, protesting in Ferguston
-Post Mecca Malcolm would be trying to figure out why Saudi Arabia is fuucking with fellow Muslims in Yemen, why black Muslims in northern Nigeria are decimating populations, and probably going on Alex Jones show.
