CTKA chimes in on Marable's Malcolm X

[Jim DiEugenio]

http://www.ctka.net/reviews/Manning_Mara...Green.html

Joe Green on Manning Marable's last book, published posthumously.

[Phil Dragoo]

"I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being."
Malcolm X (The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley)




Malcolm called out Elijah on the latter's corruption, hypocrisy, sin. Among the in-crowd circling the wagons and sending the winged monkeys to attack was Farrakhan.


The contrast is not insignificant: the philosophically pure and disciplined heart-mind is murdered while the hate-spewing soul-cripple is rewarded by the establishment.


So, too, the uniting prophet of the color-blind society, King, was cut down, with a military intelligence/CIA agent checking his vitals and a race-merchant Jesse Jackson to assume the focus.


In each case the true prospect of liberation was aborted in favor of the continuation of strife, a very real parallel to the twin efforts of CIA and CPUSSR to change out the corresponding doves Kennedy and Khrushchev for the hawk-puppets LBJ and Brezhnev.


Zhao Ziyang was tolerant of the student demonstrators in Tiananmen Square; they were massacred in their thousands, he placed under house arrest while the Gettysburg Address was recited from memory by the now-dying Jiang Zemin.


As the late John Lennon, would say, "Imagine." The world of Martin and Malcolm where the color was no longer caste.


Malcolm's greater consideration for the role of women would force the reformation of Islam.


Malcolm's anti-war sentiments would focus a hotter spotlight on the Libyan farce than the tulip-tiptoeing Congress.


Oceania, Eurasia, Eastasia: only Hollow Men need apply.