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This is the same call that Gandhi made to Indian beauraucrats who worked for the British: " If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office.""

p. 6/18: " The American has dwindled into an Odd
Fellow-one who may be known by the development of his organ of
gregariousness, and a manifest lack of intellect ..."

That part has not changed, I see.

I didn't realize that he had written this during the Mexican-Amer. War...

Excellent quote of his contemporary (and friend?) Dr. Anna J. Cooper:

"when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me"

Exactly: toxic masculinity hurts men too, while it kills us:

"must pass if we are ever to be rid of the bestiality of free manhood"

" a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins"

Yup

I can understand him not wanting to get his hopes up about the conviction integrity program, cip, vindicating him all those years later.

Archival researcher: that is the kind of job or work that I would love to do.

What is it with human beings? Even if they were highly annoyed or still hated The Killers, why would they not want to make sure that the guys in prison were actually the right guys, rather than just putting any old two people in jail and assuming that they were the killers? Wouldn't you want to have the right people , the actual killers, in prison, rather than saying they were convicted let them rot? Makes no sense.

"...than the sanitized figure of school textbooks."

Exactly, which would be obvious if anyone bothered to read his final book published posthumously.

Again, why do we never hear about Malcolm Shabazz working,  while on his Africa tour with 1964 heads of state, to bring the USA before the UNHCR for the mistreatment of Black Americans?

Oh, wait, it's obvious...

... Malcolm's comments about Black self-help and economic self-sufficiency were made back during a period of segregation, before all the Black elites abandoned poor members of the community and left everyone high and dry, thus unable to help themselves economically, and in desperate need of affirmative action and school bussing, and so the Bourgeois Clarence Thomas is doubly hypocritical.

Much like my also hypocritical grandfather, who criticized the black elites for having moved out of the historically black neighborhoods, which was exactly what he also did by moving the family to Northern Virginia in the late sixties before I went right after I was born, although I was bouncing around with my irresponsible parents in the district, Clarence Thomas is being hypocritical because Malcolm's comments were

Holy shit, well done, Spike Lee.

"The most disrespected, unprotected , neglected person in America is the Black woman," said Malcolm in 1962, and, unfortunately, my experience bears that out as still having been true even recently as in 60 years later. Even, or perhaps especially, for a light skin black woman has a marginalized member of the community, yet sexualized by everyone in some horrible fantasy/"Fancy Maid" idea, especially by white men...

That is a very good point, the Kerner commission report really did say that this is a racist country or rather that America is "a racist society" and no, I guess you can't make the papers calling America racist anymore, even if it is still true.

But this curriculum has absolutely nothing to do with white people or how they feel. It's about filling in the enormous Gap left by the silence around colored authors. And by the way, who is, or was, Claude McKay?

"Nowhere mentioned was the value celebrated in most contemporary white Western culture: the search for individual fulfillment and happiness outside a communal context."

Thank you. This is exactly where Western culture goes wrong, in emphasizing the individual rather than the fact that we are part of communities and of the rest of this world.

Wait a minute, what about the rumor that he had offered to exchange himself for the remaining American men held hostage in the American embassy in Tehran during the Iran Hostage Crisis? Did that ever happen really or was it just rumors?

So, not only did stokely Carmichael essentially destroy SNCC, but he also helped Reagan win california?!

OAAU faced the same problem as every umbrella organization...

Yup, same thing that happened to my great great grandmother with the life insurance company, except that my great-great-grandmother managed to win her lawsuit against the life insurance company after many years, although it was still too late to prevent her death and the loss of my great-grandmother and her sibs to the two Catholic orphanages.

It still clicks.

"You're dealing in fantasy... You've got to deal in facts." I hate to have to admit after all my experience in life, that I suspect that Malcolm was right. The problem with white people who think they're not racist is that they don't know that they really are, because even my most Progressive white friends are shocked every time I say something that they have to admit is intelligent, as if I were always getting above

Okay, so the white folks thought that the problems were all down south, and the essential problem was segregation socially, as in not being able to sit at the front of the bus!? Did they not have a single clue until the Kerner Commission report about how segregation was rooted in economic discrimination? I guess not. And Malcolm wasn't wrong about the need for land, but cooperation has to extend as he said before he

I feel as if I were there myself at the funeral procession, in tears, as his followers bury Hajj Malik El Shabazz, with their own hands.

"... bringing a resolution before the United Nations declaring America's treatment of its Black citizens a human rights violation."

I never heard of this initiative. And now that I think of it, I wonder if and why Dr King or the NAACP never tried this.

Peter Goldman: unknown writers can still be in the process of making a difference...

Between violence and nonviolence, between Malcolm and Dr king, the choice appeared to be obvious, but ironically, the ending of segregation, perhaps as Malcolm had understood earlier as certainly he preached when he was part of the nation of islam, led to the black elites leaving the poor black folks high and dry, to fend for themselves.

Well educated black head of household found dead, accused of suicide, wife loses children to orphanages. This is the same thing that happened to my great-great-grandfather and great great grandmother in oklahoma.