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Malcolm X was killed by other blacks. Not surprising that the average ignorant savage running lose on the streets doesn’t know that.

Not only blacks, but mooselimb blacks at that. You are correct. #historydon’tmatter.

Oh. Then I suppose that “dance” BeyoncÃ© & the gals did
while in an “X” formation was a tribute to Malcolm X.
I suppose also that us “whiteys” aren’t supposed to know
that. (Make that the vulgar dance - hardly a “tribute” to
anyone. I would wonder if Malcolm’s wife & kids would have
appreciated that vulgarish display of BeyoncÃ© & Friends.)

Bravo!

Farrakhan Admits Role in Murder of Malcolm X

Nation of Islam leader—who had called Malcom X ‘worthy of death’

NEW YORK, May 10 (AP) Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan admits his complicity in the 1965 murder of Malcolm X while seated across the table from the civil rights leader’s oldest daughter in a “60 Minutes” interview to be broadcast May 14.

Attallah Shabazz later issued a statement thanking Farrakhan for acknowledging his role and said: “I wish him peace.”

Shabazz, then 6, saw her father gunned down in the Audobon Ballroom in New York’s Harlem area on February 21, 1965. Three men with ties to the Nation of Islam were convicted in the slaying.

A year earlier, Malcolm X’s criticism of Nation of Islam spiritual leader Elijah Muhammad had caused a bitter split with church leaders, including Farrakhan. Farrakhan called Malcolm X a traitor and wrote, two months before the killing, that “such a man is worthy of death.”

Farrakhan has denied ordering the assassination but previously admitted to having “helped create the atmosphere” that led to it.

His four-hour meeting with Shabazz and “60 Minutes” correspondent Mike Wallace, organized at her request, took place at Farrakhan’s home in Arizona.

Farrakhan told them that he “truly loved” Malcolm X and carried his picture after his death. Shabazz’s body visibly stiffened, arms crossed over her chest, when Wallace quoted from Farrakhan’s writings about Malcolm X before he died.

During the interview, Farrakhan said that the U.S. government spied on black leaders and were concerned about a “black messiah” who could unite the community. “This is bigger than the Nation of Islam,” he said.

Shabazz, struggling to keep control of her emotions, said it was young black men who shot her father. “You can’t keep pointing fingers,” she said. “My father was not killed from a grassy knoll.”

Farrakhan said: “Yes, it is true that black men pulled the trigger. We cannot deny any responsibility in this. Where we are responsible, where our hands are a part of this, we beg God’s mercy and forgiveness.”