[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Malcolm X’s philosophy was simple but beautiful: get off your ass and change the world YOURSELF! He knew that the libs were devestating the black community. He embraced black nationalism. Quit waiting for a hand out! Here’s a great quote:
“MALCOLM X: When the black man in this country awakens, becomes intellectually mature and able to think for himself, you will then see that the only way he will become independent and recognized as a human being on the basis of equality with all other human beings, he has to have what they have and he has to be doing for himself what others are doing for themselves so the first step is to awaken him to this and that is where the religion of Islam makes him morally more able to rise above the evils and the vices of an immoral society and the political, economic, and social philosophy of black nationalism instills within him the racial dignity and the incentive and the confidence that he needs to stand on his own feet and take a stand for himself.”
THAT’S a MAN speaking.
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I would have given you some credit for at least making the attempt to understand his philosophy, but then you did exactly what I expected you to do. You mixed his message with your own political ideology and hatred. You are now trying to pass that off as something you are about. Truly sad, really.
The liberals and the policies that you have such a hard-on of hate for weren’t even a factor in the black community at the time that Malcolm was alive. Don’t hand me that shit about FDR and the New Deal either. All that crap was geared to benefiting poor whites in this country. Black people were still riding the back of the bus, using separate sub-par facilities and being lynched. Those New Deal policies didn’t do anything for black community during Malcolm’s time. I have WAY too many family members (I am only 1 generation removed from them) that were adults during that time for you to try to argue with me about this either.
You know absolutely NOTHING about the black community, past or present, so you need to stop acting like you are such an expert. You are a 50-something, white male from Ohio that was only about 10-12 years old when Malcolm was killed. You have no clue what things were affecting the black community then, and only a FOX news version of what affects the black community now. Give it a rest.
Had you made a real attempt at explaining his philosophy, free of your own political agenda, I wouldn’t have written the previous paragraphs. But you just could help yourself.
Malcolm did believe in self-reliance, but so does the entire Nation of Islam that you hate so much. That is a core belief in the Nation of Islam. You will never truly understand Malcolm and his philosophy because the very thing that is the core and essence of it is the very thing that you have demonstrated willful ignorance of and hatred, fear, loathing and intolerance towards. It was his deep religious beliefs. His ISLAMIC religion. It was what helped him in prison, sustained him when he first got out and changed him after his pilgrimage to Mecca. He was a Muslim, the very group of people that you have demonstrated on this board to have a problem with.
His pilgrimage to Mecca made him realize that he had to let go of all the hate and accept all people as brothers. Your intense hatred of liberals and other groups that you fear will never allow you to truly understand him. You will just continue to cut-and-paste quotes, mix those with your warped viewpoint and act like a fanboy.
I’m curious, are you really like this? Or is this just some internet persona you like to put on for fun?
Never mind, don’t answer it. In fact, don’t even respond. You, once again, have made a mockery of what could have been a decent discussion.