As a matter of fact, yes right.
Perhaps you should familiarize yourself to the slightest degree with African American history. It is not to the least degree a pretty story. Hate is a perfectly rational, human response to people who have treated you with deliberate evil. It does not need to be excused.
Then please explain why Malcolm would take a liking to Islam, the religion of the people that sold most of his people into slavery? Based on what you say, I would expect a good deal of hate directed to the slave sellers as well as the slave buyers.
An astounding apology for hate and sin, Sham.
I never thought I'd read the likes of your comments on a conservative website like FR, but kudos to you for having the....um...'courage' to let it all hang out.
I have a couple of questions for you, though. What happens when the evil (i.e. the lynchings and institutional racism) disappears? Is the old hatred still justified? If so, is this why Malcolm X is more popular today (among you and others) than he was in his heyday?
Also, I take it you aren't a Christian, but please correct me if I'm wrong about that. The reason I say this is that you obviously don't have much use for the "love your enemies"/MLK /Jesus Christ school of thought.
I'm also curious to know if you think that MLK was a weenie? Since he didn't hate whites, did that make him "perfectly irrational?" Finally, would you prefer it if we honored Malcolm with a holiday instead of him?
Ah, but that's not what you're talking about, is it? Correct me if I'm wrong.
You're talking about hate of persons with the same color skin as those who have treated one with deliberate evil.
Back to this comment of yours once again.
Let's see what MLK had to say about that:
There’s another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. You just begin hating somebody, and you will begin to do irrational things. You can’t see straight when you hate. You can’t walk straight when you hate. You can’t stand upright. Your vision is distorted. There is nothing more tragic than to see an individual whose heart is filled with hate. He comes to the point that he becomes a pathological case. For the person who hates, you can stand up and see a person and that person can be beautiful, and you will call them ugly. For the person who hates, the beautiful becomes ugly and the ugly becomes beautiful. For the person who hates, the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That’s what hate does. You can’t see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost. Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater. And this is why Jesus says hate [recording interrupted]. . . that you want to be integrated with yourself, and the way to be integrated with yourself is be sure that you meet every situation of life with an abounding love. Never hate, because it ends up in tragic, neurotic responses.
So much for the alleged rationality of hatred.