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On this day in 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated while speaking at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, NY.
Edit: In a conspiracy that involved federal, state and local officials, on 28 February 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated while speaking at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, NY.
El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X) Speaks on Celebrities and Separation at UC Berkeley (1963)
"I just told you a little while ago these 'leaders' that they called leaders. this
included (laughs) Lena Horne, this included Dick Gregory and this included comedians, comics, trumpet players, baseball players. Show me in the white community where a comedian is a 'white leader.' Show me in the white community where a singer is a 'white leader. Or a dancer or a trumpet player is a 'white leader', these aren't leaders. These are puppets and clowns that have been set up over the white community and- over the Black community by the white community and have been made celebrities and usually say exactly what they know that the white man wants to hear."
I think it says a lot about how Zionism is so deeply entrenched in American culture that Chris Claremont’s model for the politics of Professor X and Magento was not Martin Luther King and el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, respectively, but rather David Ben-Gurion for Professor X and Menachem Begin and Meir Kahane for Magneto. The fact that people claim that MLK and Malcolm X were the inspirations almost feels like a way to cover up that Zionist inspiration, but it’s an ugly truth.
Today is The 104th Anniversary of the Lynching of 8 Months Pregnant Mary Turner.
Today is recognized as the birthday of Malcolm X and rightly it should be. May 19th also marks the day 104 years ago when 8 months pregnant Mary Turner was lynched in Valdosta, Georgia. Unfortunately, she rarely gets similar attention
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Mary Turner, 1919 Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller [Public domain]
The below image of the news article from the 1918 edition of the Atlanta Journal Constitution is the first piece of evidence proving Mary Turner had been lynched on May 19, 1918. That was 100 years ago as of May 19, 2018. Malcolm X was born on that date seven years later in 1925.
Atlanta Journal Constitution…
Stokely Carmichael and the Origins of "Black Power"
By TJ Love
Black Power. For Black folks, the meaning of the term is self evident. Black Power was here before any other rallying cry and it will always be the most relevant, impactful, unimpeachable, and sturdy ideal for us to strive for when all the catch phrases and hashtags in fade away.
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Why do so many people consistently fail to use El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz's real name? we don't use Muhammed Ali's incorrect name, why do we do this to El-Shabazz?
It is not optional.
It is as though we have become fixated upon a specific image: Malcolm X the defiant, Malcolm X the revolutionary, Malcolm X the cold-eyed, grim-faced, angry young man on the popular 1970s poster with his accusatory pointing finger. That portrait of the man has become so frozen in our mind's eye that we don't even seem aware of it. Malcolm's widow, for instance, refers to herself as "Betty Shabazz". But not even that inspires us to re-think how we refer to her late husband.