[Chi-townChief]

Malcolm X on the Kennedy assassination: "President Kennedy never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon... Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they always made me glad."

You have to wonder if Malcolm, when he himself got capped about 15 months later, had the final thought of his own chickens coming home.

[Osage Orange]

Stanley Crouch....better have his armor on.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Muslims 40 years later..................

Muslims......intolerance.....murder.....the religion not of love and peace.

[Clemenza]

I have more respect for militants like Malcolm who wanted NOTHING from the government than a Socialist charlatan like MLK who demanded handout after handout.

Of course, when Malcolm left the NOI, he started hanging out with Trotskyites, but that's another story.

[wardaddy]

Most black heroes are unknown.

Most so-called black heroes are not heroes...certainly not X and not King either at least not to the diety level he's been elevated.


Why do we have to have "insert color-religion-ethnicity" heroes anyhow?

Doesn't it sound silly to talk about white heroes?

Washington and Churchill are my favorite white heroes...John Wayne too....yes I know he was fictional but what's the difference.

[ladyjane]

President Kennedy never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon..

Didn't our friend Ward Churchill have something to say about chickens coming home to roost?

[Fido969]

[AlbionGirl]

I respect Malcolm, found his biography interesting and moving. He lost his Father, IIRC, at the hands of some nasty whitefolk. His Mother pretty much went insane after that, and was finally institutionalized. Can't remember if he and his siblings went to foster care or just how they were cared for, but by the time he was a teenager he had suffered immensely.

He may have hated whites, who could blame him? And his 'either by the ballot or the bullet' is worthy of memorializing. I can see a Founding Father issuing the same proclamation.

Whatever his sins, many are mitigated by the absolute extreme left-of-the-bellcurve mentality of the white power structure that helped plot the course of events of his life.

In 1962 his black brothers had already fought and bled for this Country, willingly though they could have justifiably refused. Their moral ascendancy was unassailable.

P.S. And, to the best of my knowledge, he wrote his own stuff, too.

[wideminded]

The Autobiography of Malcolm X is a very interesting book. There are a number of aspects of Malcolm X's life and character that are extremely admirable and impressive.

[wtc911]

Malcolm knew what was coming and why. Once he jumped off the hate whites plantation he had to go...by order of Calypso Louie. I believe that had he lived another decade X would have become great.

[Bommer]

the white man was a devil invented 6,000 years ago by a mad black scientist

So then how is it always "whities" fault? We didn't ask to be invented just like blacks didn't ask to come to America!

[psipsistar]

You have to wonder if Malcolm, when he himself got capped about 15 months later, had the final thought of his own chickens coming home. The man always said he knew he'd die young and accepted the fact. A year or two before his murder he told Alex Haley (his biographer) something to the tune of how if he was alive a year or two from now it'd be a miracle. But he kept his course. So I'd imagine the answer is "yes."

[N. Theknow]

Malcolm X?

What happened to the first 9 Malcolms?

[Chi-townChief]

For further discussion:

Black History Month's lessons are lost on some whites

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I thought you may find this interesting.

[Zeroisanumber]

Malcom X is an excellent example of what happens to a person of high intellect who fails to recieve a primary education. Burning charisma, and the ability to inspire followers didn't mean anything because he was constantly sidetracked by the crank theories of Elijah Muhummad. Only after he was alienated from his power base and shrugged off his provinciality during a long pilgrimage to Mecca did he start to show signs of being a real leader in the Black community. Then "Calypso" Louie Farrakhan had him killed.

As an aside, The Autobiography of Malcom X is one of the best books that I've ever read. As written by Alex Halley, it's one of the best stories of the rise and fall of a great American personality.

[185JHP]

"Detroit Red" - crazy, nasty, and stupid.

[mhking]

I think the esteemed Mr. Crouch had better don his flame-proof suit this morning...

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[sauropod]

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[Rockingham]

WOW! Stanley Crouch hits another home run!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

"I'm a muslim brother, I dun been manifested by a miracle, I doun eat no swine, I doun drink no wine!"