Smiley and West on Malcolm X

Excerpt from remarks by Dr. Cornel West and Tavis Smiley at Harvard Law School, Dec. 1, 2006. Full video available at: http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org/Events/Event.aspx?id=100032

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[thesplendid1]

No Dr. West. It is not courage to put your women and children in front of the line of fire to be hosed down and beaten. Malcolm x at that time did not advocate we shall overcome someday. He advocated the time is now black man to stand up straight and protect your community and do for self

[infox1000]

@timetochilli To say King was far better than Malcolm would ignore how ahead of his time Malcolm was. All the failures of intergration were things Malcolm was pointing out towards the end of his life.

[327Jhigh]

@alanawsome yourself but you can't speak for all blacks

[327Jhigh]

@alanawsome from the same water fountain and using the same toilets as whites. If I want water bad enough I can get it from my faucet. Martin was perpetuating black subservience and submission to whites while Malcolm was telling us to love ourselves and have pride in our appearance. Stop worshipping the same God as the man who is killing you and raping your women and children. If you accept being mediocre and submissive to whites then I guess Martin did do alot for you. But you can speak for

[327Jhigh]

@alanawsome Martin Luther King didn't do anything for black people. You call being able to eat and drink from the same establishments as whites doing something? Intergration was the worst thing that ever happened to black people. Equality only exist when the economical playing field is level. Blacks still have to work for whites and that is not being equal. Malcolm was talking about having your own community, having your own businesses and schools and hospitals. Martin was talking about drinking

[327Jhigh]

why he was killed.

[327Jhigh]

the same since. They have never replaced him and the closest they came was Khalid Muhammad and he was killed also. Just as Martin was censored and not permitted to stir up trouble you are under the same boundaries. You take your stipend from the white man to keep negroes in line just as he did. It is your duty to downplay what Malcolm did just as it was King's. The part that you won't admit is that Martin went to visit with Elijah Muhammad and was on the verge of converting to Islam. This is

[327Jhigh]

Cornel West you're an uncle tom idiot. Everybody knows that Martin Luther King, Jr. was financed by the same people who finance YOU!!! The reason he was going to jail was so he could be moved out of the way for the beatings that we being handed out to his followers. That's courageous? No he was being PROTECTED!! Why did you never see him getting beaten or his wife and children?? To say Malcolm wasn't a leader is proposeterous because the Nation fell apart after he left and hasn't been

[alanawsome]

Many have tried to compare Martin Luther King to Malcom X and say King did more for black people than Malcolm did. However, Malcolm’s goal wasn’t to do for us. He wanted us to do for ourselves - and think for ourselves. So, if we still insist on making such a comparison we simply have to look in the mirror.

Google, Malcolm / inner civilization

[mookeychase0907]

@infox1000 Yeah I hear you but anytime you can get people to bond and think and that bonding goes against the hierarchy or tradition you will be declared a threat and arrested or murdered whether your lane is politics religion or whatever...

[infox1000]

@mookeychase0907 That's because most NOI members stay out of politics. The NOI was a religious movement, not a political one, but Malcolm couldn't stay out of the politics.

[mookeychase0907]

There was 3 Malcolms; Malcolm Little,Malcolm X and El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz,the last was executed bcuz people of all races were listening to him,after he left the NOI he began to attract different followers. As long as he was with the NOI Blacks and even the Gov was able to call him a racist thus discounting and limiting those who would follow him. If he would've stayed with the NOI I doubt he would've been targeted how many NOI members have been killed since?El Haj was more dangerous