Malcolm X "Set Up Our Own"
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If you provide fact then I can't argue that.
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Bringing up the concept of changing OUR OWN mentality will get you called a "c00n" quick on the coli"We are not trying to change the mind of the white man and make him accept us...we change the mind of the black man and make him accept himself"
Can't whine/complain about the length of the clip since it's only about 2 mins long
Do you, as a black man, agree or disagree with the honorable Malcolm X?
Ive seen this video before many times and have quoted it. I agree with it on principle, and brother Malcolm is one my heroes. The issue I see is that the black community's buying power is being controlled.
If a person has to ask how, then they may be a bit out of touch with reality.
I respect the video, and agree with it, but i think it does oversimplify the issue a touch. We need men like Malcolm today. He's on point, but when the white community pooled their money together and started businesses they didn't have a a system immediately over them limiting their moves. Before independence, sure there were taxes and unfair treatment among their own, but once they freed themselves of that, they had a blank canvas to design this country how they saw fit. The black community doesn't have that advantage.
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El Poyo Loco
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That was the white man's plan for us to follow Martin on April 5 1968 the day after his assassination. The retoric was to follow his example of non violence to love and forgive our enemy to turn the other cheek. And as Ossie Davis said we where told to not follow Malcolm because they said he was a fanatic a racist a hate monger. We where also told that Huey had a drug problem so everything he said had no merit.
I'm glad the black men I grew up with taught me about Jedi mind tricks
Idk man, honestly I think we've been indoctrinated....and its sad, but many black think the conditions were in are some how normal and continue to live in the matrix when its obvious that were never going to win playing the game solo
BrandonBanks
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Whose not in agreement with this?
I've seen many cats on here who lambaste the "Set Up Our Own" message, breh.
I already figured they would purposely avoid this thread, since it is Malcolm X saying it and not a Coli nikka this time, and they did
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Oh. I'm trying to set up my own comics imprint. shyt gonna take a while though.
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But but but we want a Black James Bond. Plz Mr. White Man give us a black James Bond
Elijah Muhammad had an Economic Blueprint, the issue at hand is people quote Malcolm as if he was a Leader when he was more so a Spokesperson/Representative of a movement, that most Malcolm fans know nothing about.
If you want to talk about whether or not Elijah Muhammads Economic blueprint would have worked on the larger scale thats another topic at hand, but either way I`m not into wasting time debating "shoulda, woulda, coulda" type scenarios.
The NOI had banks, schools, farms, logistics companies, and set up small businesses that were successful.
Elijah Muhammad had an Economic Blueprint, the issue at hand is people quote Malcolm as if he was a Leader when he was more so a Spokesperson/Representative of a movement, that most Malcolm fans know nothing about.
Elijah isn't Malcolm and the NOI's blueprint was very micro and i have my doubts about them obtaining capital needed to do it on a much larger scale.
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Can't whine/complain about the length of the clip since it's only about 2 mins long
Do you, as a black man, agree or disagree with the honorable Malcolm X?
Malcolm X was a racist :malcpls:
Like I said, Malcolm wasn't a Leader of any successful movement, so we have to stop speaking as if he was. Malcolm was a Spokesperson of one, and post NOI the organization he started on his own struggled. Elijah, MLK, and Garvey were leaders of movements so those are individuals you can compare if you want, Malcolm did not build anything he was nothing more than a Representative (an amazing one at that) or "Evangelist" if you want to say of the NOI.
And we gotta define "Micro" in order to determine what we can call larger scale. NOI was in the process of purchasing Planes and Ships to initiate overseas trade prior to Elijahs Death.
The NOI as I said had Infrastructure, institutions, and a "Military", no other movement in US history has done anything close to what they did 1975 and prior.
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The only thing I would nitpick on is his claim that Europeans came to this country with zero skills or any real attributes that would effect social economical outcome. For example, Germans were pioneers in the piano industry before coming to this country, that skillset lead to Germans continuing that tradition in America. And you can make the same observations with Japanese, Italians, Chinese, Jews, Indians and etc, and not just from a skillset perspective but a cultural perspective too. However, I may be looking at this too deep; his objective was most likely to just motivate and change the attitudes of blacks and if that is the case than the details can be over looked.
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Those places had no military to protect what they built.