I guess that blows the Malcolm Conspiracy
“I guess that blows the Malcolm Conspiracy”
There’s also the question of sexual orientation. Do a search on ‘Was Malcolm X gay?’. His homosexual activities started young and intensified. He carried on one homosexual relationship for a decade. His wife complained [bitterly] that he couldn’t satisfy her. He became impotent in her presence—an issue never reported re: his manifold homosexual liaisons.
One other thing about Malcolm X:
“His passionate assertion that the need to feel masculine is a man’s “greatest urge” indicates someone doubtful of his own manliness.”
That is the sentiment of a closeted homosexual. A heterosexual man doesn’t feel any great urge to be masculine—i.e. he doesn’t long for it, aspire to it or desire it; it’s just something that he IS. Iow, he’s masculine by his very existence, and so his ‘urges’ are directed elsewhere.
By contrast, a man who is homosexual by inclination but not at peace w the attendant attractions may aspire above all to be ‘masculine’. He longs for it because he doesn’t have it. That was Malcolm X. His sexual proclivities involved other men, but at the same time he longed to be masculine. His whole life makes perfect sense, if you organize it around these conflicting urges.
Here’s a FR thread on the subject. It contains the above quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1406254/posts