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Malcolm X on Front Page Challenge, 1965: CBC Archives (Original Post) whirlygigspin Feb 2016 OP
what a tragic loss captainarizona Feb 2016 #1
Think of the great conversation Americans could have begun... MrMickeysMom Feb 2016 #2
Brother Malcolm spoke eloquently in that hot seat. (How odd, by today's norm to FailureToCommunicate Feb 2016 #3
 

captainarizona

(363 posts)
1. what a tragic loss
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 05:04 AM
Feb 2016

He gave black americans hope when they had precious little. Dr. King spoke too the south and Malcolm X spoke to the north. What a cost to this country.

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
2. Think of the great conversation Americans could have begun...
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 12:47 PM
Feb 2016

... With both Malcolm and Martin at the podium.

Clearly, they both threatened the wall that began to counter what it WAS to be a black American, and what this country COULD be.

The next step is to understand the fortification of what they (and we) have been up against. That industry of prisons for seditionists, and militarization of American "values" got them WELL OUT OF THE WAY after Kennedy was removed.

Will people be interested enough to take the step of following history to truly understand? Yes, Malcolm X was a great man, right along with John Fitzgerald Kennedy. But unless you're willing to see what lengths power and global dominance squashes people like this, you'll never understand the point of WHY we must achieve their goals.

FailureToCommunicate

(14,019 posts)
3. Brother Malcolm spoke eloquently in that hot seat. (How odd, by today's norm to
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 03:22 PM
Feb 2016

see only old white men on the "journalists" panel of questioners.)

Thanks for posting this.

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