LadySimone
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People on the coli will compare Tariq to Malcolm X and then get all bent out of shape when people accuse them of putting Tariq on a pedestal.
I've been reading your posts and I still don't get it. Tariq said some off brand shyt. Has a history of rapping about booty and pimpin. As a black woman he has thrown us under the bus too many times but I'm not going to ignore his rather convincing and thoughtful deconstruction of racial politics and white supremacy. In that area he doesn't have much competition. Call him a broken clock but you can't ignore his diagnosis of how it has affected the black body politic.
Malcolm x was an even more morally troubling figure than tariq and that's something MANY of his contemporary both black and white detractors used against him but dammit you couldn't front on his appraisal of white racism and the state of negroe people in America.
The parallels are apt. Don't act people like you didn't exist 60-70 years ago saying the same shyt about Malcolm X. Tariq will never be a great figure like Malcolm. Times are different. We need to move away from persona politics and move into a different phase of activism.