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  1. I'm surprised you caught a flick of that. It only rocked for about a week.
  2. The article was written by Stanley Crouch, a columnist for the Daily News. He's written some other pretty cognizant articles as well as this one. I only stated his race because I know that half of you would immediately repudiate his views as being "racist" had I not. I'm not by any means saying that Malcom X was not a prominent aspect to the imperative civil rights movement, I'm merely stating that lately I've been seeing/reading alot of documentaries in which the media has portrayed him as (practically) a saint. I feel that that is very misleading, that's all. If you're going to tell a story, tell the whole story, not just a biased version of it. There are numberous other illustrious black figures who have proportionately contributed to help make society what it is today, and deserve as much merit as Malcom X, if not more. George Washington Carver, Charles Drew, and Garrett Morgan are just a few that come to mind. As for your comment pertaining to his verve on our community being more than you and I will ever accomplish, you are correct.
  3. "The Truth about Malcolm X" "Forty years ago today, Malcolm X was shot down in front of his family and an audience of followers at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. When he died, Malcolm X had been estranged from the Nation of Islam for about a year and had begun to call Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the cult, a liar, a fraud and a womanizer. Those were mighty hot words to direct at the Nation of Islam, which was feared throughout the black community as a known gathering place for violent criminals of all sorts who had been converted in prison, the way Malcolm himself had. Before his ascent in the cult world of homemade Islam, Malcolm Little had been known as "Big Red," a street hustler with a big mouth, a cocaine habit and a willingness to get rowdy and wild if the occasion called for it. Sent to prison for a series of burglaries, Malcolm turned to Islam, or a version of it, promoted as the "black man's true religion" which held the secrets to liberation from white domination and black self-hatred. A convert, he began the liberation by replacing his "slave name" with an Islamic name or an X. Malcolm X appeared on the national scene in 1959, presented by the media as the face of what white racism had done to black people. He was a minister of hate who used fiery rhetoric to teach that the white man was a devil invented 6,000 years ago by a mad black scientist. White audiences were appalled or darkly amused by this cartoon version of Islam, but more than a few black Americans were influenced by the Nation of Islam and by its dominant mouthpiece - light-skinned, freckle-faced, red-haired Malcolm X, the voice of black rage incarnate. Some Negroes left the Christian church, others changed their names. A number stopped eating pork and demanded beef barbecue, and a good many eventually stopped frying their hair and became more nationalistic and hostile to whites, in their own rhetoric and in the rhetoric they liked to hear. Malcolm X proved how vulnerable Negroes were to hearing another Negro put some hard talk on the white man. The long heritage of silence, both in slavery and the redneck South, was so strong that speech became a much more important act than many realized. Martin Luther King Jr. recognized this, observing that many of those who went to hear Malcolm X were less impressed with his ideas than they were with the contemptuous way he spoke to white power. Since his death, Malcolm X has been elevated from a heckler of the civil rights moment to a civil rights leader - which he never was - and many people now think that he was as important to his moment as King. He was not, and Malcolm X was well aware of this. But in our country, where liberal contempt for black people is boundless, we should not be surprised to see a minor figure lacquered with media "respect" and thrown in the lap of the black community, where he is passed off as a great hero." This was written by a black man, for the record. I guess he's ignorant too, right? Deleting comments because you disagree with someone is on some seriously corny bullshit. Get over yourselves.
  4. Teo is absolutely killing shit right now and I barely ever see anyone mention him on here. He came through with a bunch of fills and now him and Aero are crushing it with tags. Also, reguardless of if you like his shit or not, I probably see Rags up the most out of everyone. That dude puts in plenty of work and you can't front on that.
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